Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union

Here’s an outstanding, must-read article from the Guardian/Observer.

Source: Adonis on Brexit: ‘No mandarin backs May. Government has broken down’ – Guardian/Observer

Lord Adonis is a rare politician, with excellent strategic vision and expert level delivery skills. Politically, he’s to the right of the Labour Party.

What’s remarkable about this article is the insights into May’s government and the collapse of the Civil Service. The conclusion is that for May’s government, political idealogy trumps reason, common-sense and rational analysis. If I were a betting man, I’d put a wager on a very hard Brexit and a Marxist Labour Government in the UK.

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Here’s a brilliant editorial from the Guardian. It argues that Theresa May‘s weakness and Conservative divisions mean she can only control her party by concealing basic truths about the Brexit process.

Source: The Guardian view on Theresa May and Brexit: time to get off her fantasy island – Editorial – The Guardian

The Guardian explores the consequences and they are ugly. May and Davis are delusional about a Canada +++ deal with the EU. The UK’s on to a massive loser. On the one hand, Johnson and Gove will crash out of the EU, with a worst case scenaria. But on the other hand, May’s two year transition deal effectively given the EU control, with the UK’s negotiating position destroyed – actually, the Brexiteers might have reduced effective UK sovereignty.

May and Davis’s lies are not sustainable. There will be a pushback, with a hard-Brexit looking more probable. The greater the lies from May, the more the public will swing to Labour in the next election. Conservative Whips terror tactics, contrasting May or a Marxist Labour Government are misguided. It’s Theresa May who’s going to precipitate the UK first Marxist government.

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