Now there is no plan for Brexit except obfuscation
by William Keegan from on (#3SEHB)
Theresa May's endless prevarications are not just infuriating her own MPs, but British business as well
'Neither Labour nor the Tories have a credible plan for Brexit," declared Lord Macpherson, former top official at the Treasury, on Twitter. This distinguished civil servant, who has seen ministers of both major parties grapple with economic crises, went on to ask: "Have the British people ever been so ill-served by the two main parties?"
It is no wonder that the EU negotiator, the estimable Michel Barnier, finds himself, week in and week out, having to point out that all the imaginative solutions with which he is presented by the British have, indeed, to be left to the imagination.
None of the alternative 'soft Brexit' options is anywhere near as satisfactory as the position we are already in
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