May’s Juvenile Tactics

It should come as no surprise that the PM is now saying that the deal she has negotiated is the only one available with the No Brexit as being the alternative if the House of Commons votes down the Withdrawal Agreement. She follows this up with the self serving “people want to get on with it” and “I can bring the country together”. This is complete nonsense and treats the electorate with contempt as it insults their intelligence!

The PM is trying to say that vote this through and Brexit will be done and dusted. Utter rubbish this is only the start of our continuing humiliation. Did it no take 7 years to negotiate a Canada - EU Free Trade Deal which at the last minute was nearly derailed by a Belgium Province. Think what negotiations would be like and how long it would take with France and its demands for fishing access, Spain seeking to control Gibralter and Ireland seeking to annex the North. So vote with the PM and all you get is more negotiating incompetence!

The Withdrawal Agreement must be voted down decisively as something which no self respecting independent sovereign country should stomach. If this means going to WTO terms then so be it. It will be painful but not as painful as decades of humiliation. The UK has the ability to adapt and adjust in business and we shall certainly be more nimble than sclerotic EU Bureaucracy.

We should try for a deal but one which respects our sovereignty. A couple of ideas which should be put to the EU (or at least made public); add to Withdrawal treaty:

1) The provisions of this Treaty shall cease to apply in every respect at the expiry of 12 months notice given, no earlier than 31^st December 2019, by either party (UK or EU) save in the case of specific exceptions, such exceptions being time limited to a maximum period of 12 months from the date on which cessation comes into force. Or

2) The provisions of this Treaty shall cease to have legal force on the payment of 50% of the amounts due and specified in the Withdrawal Agreement but in any event no earlier than 31^st December 2020.

The EU is unlikely to even wish to talk about this but I believe it sets the right tone for an independent Country. However to be straight with the people the PM should say (to use a Football analogy) we are not half way through the first half yet.