More Brexit mess
Sep. 8th, 2019 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingerswww.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/08/france-threatens-to-veto-further-brexit-extension
I don't suppose we can really blame the French for this. However, I rather wish they would let us sort out our mess this side of the channel. Boris isn't Britain; but Boris is holding up a mirror to a group of English folk who have never before actually had to face reality. They have existed in their fairytale land and have projected their fantasies onto the rest of us and the EU. I would beg France not to do the ERG's job for them; they can't take the country with them at present - do not give them the gift of what they want. It will be playing into Bojo's hands.
Come on, twist the knife; give us an extension. It will benefit you in the long-term, and benefit us: and a certain sort of Englishman will be forever grateful for you to have pulled our irons out of the fire.
The thing is, if Boris gets his way, we are out anyway - but, and this is crucial, it will be our nation's leadership and politicians at fault, not any external event, nor any other nation. The French are sensible and intelligent enough to understand the present constitutional crisis has to be played out without any additional externalities.
In fact, if the rest of the world would hold us in temporary suspension, with all of our treaties and contracts maintained in present stasis while we work out who and what we are in our new world, it might be for the best. Often when nations do this recalculation you get refugees and stuff. Let's see if the UK can avoid that particular outcome. Externalities will redraw battle-lines, and we really don't need that at the moment.
I don't suppose we can really blame the French for this. However, I rather wish they would let us sort out our mess this side of the channel. Boris isn't Britain; but Boris is holding up a mirror to a group of English folk who have never before actually had to face reality. They have existed in their fairytale land and have projected their fantasies onto the rest of us and the EU. I would beg France not to do the ERG's job for them; they can't take the country with them at present - do not give them the gift of what they want. It will be playing into Bojo's hands.
Come on, twist the knife; give us an extension. It will benefit you in the long-term, and benefit us: and a certain sort of Englishman will be forever grateful for you to have pulled our irons out of the fire.
The thing is, if Boris gets his way, we are out anyway - but, and this is crucial, it will be our nation's leadership and politicians at fault, not any external event, nor any other nation. The French are sensible and intelligent enough to understand the present constitutional crisis has to be played out without any additional externalities.
In fact, if the rest of the world would hold us in temporary suspension, with all of our treaties and contracts maintained in present stasis while we work out who and what we are in our new world, it might be for the best. Often when nations do this recalculation you get refugees and stuff. Let's see if the UK can avoid that particular outcome. Externalities will redraw battle-lines, and we really don't need that at the moment.
