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BREXIT CRISIS: Now the Bank Weighs In.

Into the mounting chaos which now passes for government in our country, the Bank of England has tonight added its voice to the chorus of forecasts that any kind of Brexit will cost, so that economically we will be worse off, but with a No Deal Brexit, catastrophically so. Meanwhile increasing numbers of opinion polls are beginning to show that a significant majority of the public think Brexit is not worth the cost.

The prospect of Brexit being abandoned grows stronger every day.

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BREXIT CRISIS: May’s Plan Doomed? And Brexit too?

It now seems clear that however you try to define it, Brexit is impossible to deliver. The whole proposition was from the very start an illusion. It is technically feasible, if everybody is agreed on how it is to be done, under what rules and without regard to the fact that irreconcilable interests are in play.

But if you factor in that the United Kingdom is split, with Scotland and Northern Ireland voting remain and England and Wales voting to leave and that the margins are narrow, you have a split country trying to make the biggest constitutional change since the days of Oliver Cromwell. And in a democracy to do that, you must have a clear and unambiguous majority, at least two thirds. Add to that unity must prevail for each preference. Yes must agree what yes means and No must agree what no means.

Every particle of that is missing in this current Brexit crisis, made worse by the Fixed Term Parliament Act, ending the traditional Prime Ministerial power to go to the country and the Supreme Court Ruling that Article 50 and its consequences must be subject to parliamentary approval. This tinkering with what had been previous practices within our unwritten constitution, has changed the country from one renowned for strong decisive government, to one where, for the moment at least, effective government has collapsed. The executive authority of the PM is hobbled and the executive power of the cabinet is split. If that is not enough we have to face the prospect of new sectarian unrest over the Irish Border and a dash for independence by an angry Scotland caught up in the chaos.

Both main parties are split on the key question and split again within each faction. Everybody is against May’s agreed withdrawal deal, but there is not only no other plan prepared, but no agreement anywhere over what such a plan should be. There is no prospect in sight of unity on what Brexit is and what the benefits will be. Eventually a consensus will emerge from the confusion to back the only known viable option.

To abandon the project and stay in the EU.

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History In The Making: Anger to Follow?

Whatever your view of Brexit, mark my words, this is a moment when history is being made. As I was growing up as a child in the 1940s almost every observation about daily life made by middle class adults was prefaced with ‘of course before the war we could…….’  There was no such thing as maids any more and taxes were much higher as were prices. Life had changed and in the view of most, not for the better. We had won the war but the country was threadbare and tired and the Empire was crumbling. We had become a second class power.

But there was a social revolution going on which rightly advanced the interests of the working class by leaps and bounds with improvements in every sphere. The creation of the welfare state was life changing, so their conversations would be prefaced by  ‘in the bad old days’. There was full employment, wages were very much higher, there was the NHS, pensions, benefits and slum clearance. Hundreds of thousands of affordable homes were being built. The standard of living was rising year by year.

We can now be certain of one thing. Brexit is a before and after moment. There will be winners and losers. What we do not know is who is going to lose. But when we do and those losers find out it is they who are paying the price for this misplaced experiment, they  are going to be very angry. Because unlike world war two, Brexit was not thrust upon us by outside forces. It is entirely self inflicted.

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BREXIT CRISIS: Sovereignty

As it becomes obvious that economically the best option is to stay in the EU, the hard core Brxiteers or nationalists as this blog likes to call them, are more an more falling back on sovereignty as their red line. But that too is an illusion.

Because in the EU we have power over the destiny, economy and future of all Europe. As one of the three great powers of the EU we have the veto over ventures like European armies and more federalisation. Nothing of significance can happen without a yes from GB.

Moreover we can travel live and work in any of 27 countries, move capital, own property, sit on the governing councils, elect EU MPs, the list is long and good. We lose all that to become more sovereign over muddled stuff in our heads while the real world will move on without us.

Surely nobody with their wits about them wants that?

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