I’ve had a busy few days, so no time for Brexit posts.
However, from an early stage in the game it has been obvious that Mrs May and
her advisers never wished to make a political success of it.
Had they aimed to do so the project would have a less
ambiguous and politically problematic name than Brexit. The Norway Approach or
the EFTA Option for example.
If we focus on the politics rather than the technicalities
of leaving the EU, then it is easy enough to see that a name such as the Norway
Approach would be much more difficult to attack that the name Brexit. Whatever
the technical difficulties and complexities it would have added an aura of political
solidity and achievability. In addition to that it would have provided criteria for success or failure.
Unfortunately the media debate immediately degenerated into numerous
stories around supposed difficulties in preventing bureaucrats from fouling up
international trade. Apparently Brexit will make it difficult for them to do
today what they did yesterday.
Yet getting the narrative right was so simple. It is easy
enough to understand why the EU would foul up the narrative but Mrs May and co
could have corrected that had she chosen to. But she didn’t and we may as well
assume it was deliberate.
3 comments:
I smell an enormous rat in the room now.
The so-called 'gang of five' can now snowball their efforts, and sideline the guys and gals who really did want a change of leadership, but this probably won't happen now!
The overiding concern is that since the result of the referendum and the "suprise" outcome ! the status quo have had over two and a half yearsto get their ducks in a row.
From the moment May took over from "I am not a quitter" it was obvious that the Brexit that had been voted for would be watered down oer time, and with that time many would under the relentless anti leave propaganda begin to wilt giving the same status quo even more leverae to destroy Brexit or get another vote that would have remain in the EU on the ballot paper but not leave.
What is happeneing now really is the manipulation and trashing of democracy, if leaving does not happen parliament becomes a pointless enterprise we will be governed from Brussels which has been the plan since Monet concieved the whole project, there are an awful lot of people at the top prepared to throw away centuries of building this country into what it untill recently represented.
Scrobs - I'm not sure where the greater risk is now - Brexit fudge or Corbyn.
Wiggia - I agree - they are prepared to throw it away even though the EU seems to have a rocky future ahead of it.
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