Brexit: Some End of Year Reflections
Just over a year ago, on 7 December 2017, I noted that the UK faced three possible futures ( http://gordonmckechnie.blogspot.com/2017/12/on-irish-border-question.html ) - a) Hard Brexit, b) Vassal State, or c) EU Member. I also noted that there was probably not a majority in Parliament for any one of these futures. At the end of 2018, we seem to be in exactly the same depressing position as a year ago. Jacob Rees-Mogg and a number of former cabinet members back route a) – now generally called a “no-deal Brexit”; HM Government backs b) – the half-Brexit negotiated with the European Commission; and, having witnessed the utter incompetence of the Government’s negotiation of Brexit, a large portion (possibly a majority) of the electorate would now like to forget the whole thing and have the UK (all of it) remain a member of the European Union, i.e. (c). Liam Fox, one of the Brexiteers still in the Cabinet, is recently reported as saying that the odds of the UK remaining a mem