Monday 8 April 2019

May's Brexit customs union solution will never work

Theresa May desperately wants Boris Johnson on side to push her Brexit deal through Parliament by April 12. That's just four days away. But the only thing she has come up with is to add the customs union to her old old deal which has been rejected twice, and then sort of a third time. Boris is having none of it. Being a firm Leaver, Boris thinks staying in the EU customs union is a betrayal of the mandate demanded by the majority of those who took part in the 2016 referendum. He's probably right. So why is Theresa May now a convert to the customs union idea? Well it's simple, it's the only idea which Jeremy Corbyn has come up with during his talks with Theresa May. She doesn't want to add the customs union to her Brexit deal but she has little choice if she wants to get Labour to support her Brexit solution. But without Boris Johnson's approval I don't think Theresa has a hope in hell of getting Parliament to approve her Brexit formula. So what is the point of it all? Theresa is living in a world of her own. She is going to be defeated again which means that when April 12 comes along there will be no agreement. So Britain will crash out without a deal. This is exactly what Boris wants, and all the other Brexiteers who think that a no-deal Brexit is a great idea, never mind the warnings of economic collapse. If no-deal Brexit is now the most likely outcome after three years, then Theresa May will fall, and someone like Boris will replace her. I never never thought this would happen but now I'm pretty sure that this is exactly what IS going to happen. Crashing out of the EU and Boris in charge. All I can say is, at least Jeremy Corbyn won't be in Downing Street.

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