European Union: In or Out ?

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Numerous major food suppliers stating today that there may be food shortages with a no deal Brexit. They will know many of their customers voted for Brexit and face commercial risk in stating this.

No doubt the post 2016 Project Fear/Fake News claiming nutjobs will dismiss this in the usual borish way. Generating short term customer stockpiling or contributions to Tory party funds of leading chains probably will come out top of the Luddite ‘we refuse to listen’ guffspout to which we have now become accustomed.

I don’t understand what is being voted on tomorrow in Parliament other than the amendments. Anyone else? Nothing has changed with her deal other than chinless Conservative MP’s potentially deciding to change their vote. The EU27 have also been fairly clear regarding their position on the deal and also the backstop.

 "Let them eat cake" 

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Chinless ERG lot and Bo Jo the Clown effectively voting for May’s deal plus a request for backstop renegotiation tonight. EU27 swift response. “What the f**k are you lot on?” Groundhog Day.

Anyone remember much public debate on the NI border by ERG, Bo Jo, Gove or Farage in the lead up to the 2016 plebiscite? Clue. You’ll find next to bugger all. Lord Snooty intellectualising to a room full of young Conservatives is about your lot. Troubling the voting public with that was clearly beneath Project Bullshit.

Yet now, your No Deal nutjobs - No Deal now looking much less likely following tonight’s successful Spellman amendment - will accept a deal that received the biggest ever defeat for a sitting Government a couple of weeks ago - including their votes against - if we ask for concessions relating to the NI border. No wonder the EU27 are finding it hard to presently take us seriously.

We go again on or around February 13th, then.

There will be a minor concession that the chinless will say represents a reluctant position of compromise or some such guff at some point. They alone will be responsible for what we as a nation are left with, continuing their buck pass on blame while the AJ’s of this world will merrily play tune to their Establishment pipe.

They alone will be responsible. Not some random Labour MP in a Leave constituency. Or random Tory in a Remain one. Not the voting public. Not some hard right racist on the street. Not even odious turds such as my local MP, Jeremy Hunt. Or the other Jeremy. But slimey Project Bullshit politicians - Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Farage and their ilk.

The Brexit Millionaire Set. Con artists to a man.

Over the last month or so, if it’s been a Saturday afternoon when I’ve not been able to get to Plainmoor, or we’ve been playing away, I’ve spent several hours following the various live streams from France. The scale, extent, and ferocity of the riots has been a real eye opener. The sights, sounds and blood direct from the streets of Paris have been quite something to behold, and the fact that the protests are so widespread throughout the towns and cities of France underlines what a major story has, and is being either concealed or vastly downplayed by Britain’s mainstream media.

While I doubt a full blown D notice has been issued, it’s more likely that the Fleet Street editors (or are they all in Wapping these days ?) will have had a phone call from someone of at least Ministerial rank, advising them to keep reporting to a minimum, half a column on page 9 at most…..and that way you won’t be jeopardising a future knighthood.

E.U citizens getting battered by a tooled up and thuggish armoured police force isn’t what our Government want being portrayed on British TV screens at present. Not at the very time when we’re being told that a close and deep relationship with our E.U Masters is still what we must have, even after Brexit.

But while it was fairly straightforward to work out why our Government would wish us to be kept in the dark as much as possible about the ongoing events in France, I’m finding it much more perplexing trying to understand the tactics of Tusk & Co today. It’s a coordinated Remainiac pre-planned publicity stunt of course, but how does it work ? Is the plan to now paint the E.U Eurocrats as the bad guys, allowing Tezza to get her deal passed in Parliament, helped along by a wave of patriotic fervor, as she valiantly defends Britain in the face of the insults flying our way from Tusk & Co ?

Tusk starts it off, and his officials that run his Twitter feed tweet out the most contentious passages from his remarks. Then Verhofstadt joins in. A few hours are allowed to pass before the next volley is released, this time it’s a ‘Thank you from Ireland card’ with what is described as an ‘inflammatory’ message inside. That Irish chap and Juncker pose for photos reading the card. The European Commission Press Office is then instructed to share the ‘highly contentious’ text of the card, sending it out as widely as possible to the news agencies.

The BBC spend the day giving top billing to the remarks of Tusk & Co, rather than playing them down or not mentioning them at all. Even Laura Kuenssberg includes a revelation about Donald Tusk’s past as a football hooligan within her writings today.

It’s a late change of strategy, and the Remainiac forces must believe it has a chance of working. With an overwhelmingly EU loving parliament, and an overwhelmingly EU loving British Government, and the EU bigwigs themselves, the Remainers continue to have total control over the ‘leaving’ process, just as they have had ever since the day after the Referendum. Playing for time and deliberately making no progress towards us leaving, was an obvious ploy while they were hoping to prevent Brexit entirely. Have they now reluctantly fallen back to a Plan B of having to settle for a totally meaningless Brexit, from which they can engineer our re-entry into the E.U a little further down the line ? I wondering if that could be where we are at the moment, and the current posturing is aimed at getting May’s ‘deal’ accepted by MP's ?  A deal that won’t allow us to diverge much from the EU, but which MP’s will vote through in preference to a proper WTO Brexit. 

There will be one or two big surprises still to be revealed for sure…..including just what it was that the various Remainiac factions were up to today.