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If I may just point out...
Oct. 8th, 2019 02:37 pm...That the EU isn’t against the Good Friday Agreement; Brexit is.
And the fact that the EU aren’t prepared to accept a fudge which either will doom the GFA, or the EU’s single market isn’t the EU’s fault; it is ours. We have been sold an impossibility. Now we have to pay for it and deal with the consequences. This is what happens when you proselytise the mob for decades. Boris is a master of the high demotic form, which speaks to the masses from an indulgent and mutually-agreed superiority. The Brexiters could not have done it without him; but now he has to own it as all his own work.
He’s 15% ahead in the polls. Jezza is a busted flush and the LibDem resurgence can’t be projected properly - it could be momentous; it could just be in three figures. Of course Boris wants an election now. Even if he’s forced into asking for an extension he’d still be massively ahead in the polls, especially if he can scoop up Brexit/UKIP voters.
So this is a political and national disaster playing out in ultra-slow-motion. Boris still has all the cards.
And Jeremy Corbyn, with able assistance from Seamus Milne, by not providing opposition to Brexit as an official opposition ought, has enabled this state of affairs. The two haven’t made good choices, poor loves. Neither has Boris. Nor has England and Wales; but there you go.
And the fact that the EU aren’t prepared to accept a fudge which either will doom the GFA, or the EU’s single market isn’t the EU’s fault; it is ours. We have been sold an impossibility. Now we have to pay for it and deal with the consequences. This is what happens when you proselytise the mob for decades. Boris is a master of the high demotic form, which speaks to the masses from an indulgent and mutually-agreed superiority. The Brexiters could not have done it without him; but now he has to own it as all his own work.
He’s 15% ahead in the polls. Jezza is a busted flush and the LibDem resurgence can’t be projected properly - it could be momentous; it could just be in three figures. Of course Boris wants an election now. Even if he’s forced into asking for an extension he’d still be massively ahead in the polls, especially if he can scoop up Brexit/UKIP voters.
So this is a political and national disaster playing out in ultra-slow-motion. Boris still has all the cards.
And Jeremy Corbyn, with able assistance from Seamus Milne, by not providing opposition to Brexit as an official opposition ought, has enabled this state of affairs. The two haven’t made good choices, poor loves. Neither has Boris. Nor has England and Wales; but there you go.
