Brexit means Brexit?

[KKOB]

I wonder who that could be ?

[stoop]

Meanwhile all the economic data shows that the remain scaremongers are total fools.

[Colwyn]

Our Glorious Leader in Downing Street has called for people to come together over Brexit in the new year. So there we are Villain and Stoop: your little challenge for 2017. But somehow I suspect it will be .........








.... business as usual.

[villain]

Who's this?

May's Dog's Brexit?

[KKOB]

[Colwyn]

Slow day in Wrexham?

[KKOB]

Very. Working for the next 12 nights. Really looking forward to it.   

[stoop]

So today is the day we find out if Brexit really means Brexit.

Markets a little nervous. Pound a little nervous - but whatever happens today is going to be interesting.

If reports are correct she will probably say we will actually get what we voted for.

[stoop]

No 'soft Brexit' then. It would never have worked anyway.

Out means out. Now we have to get on with it.

[Colwyn]

Well at least we can agree on the "single market" stuff. This is what I said about it last July. As for 'getting on with it', whatever have they done with Dangerous Davis and Liar Fox? Have they locked up them up in a cupboard in some Westminster cellar?

It strikes me that, over the next couple of years, we are going to see a head-on clash (crash?) between two very different conceptions of what "The Single Market"  means. For Brexiteers it seems to mean being able to sell good & services in the EU without paying tariffs. For EU politicians and bureaucrats it seems to mean a free movement across borders for goods & services, capital and labour. So for Brexiteers it makes some sort of sense to say "We want to be part of the single market, but we want to control immigration so we can't accept free movement of labour". For EU authorities this is ludicrous: "Do you want to join the single market or not? If you do then you get free movement. That's what it is about".

Should provide some interesting negotiations.