It’s said Brexit is ‘not going to plan’. Did we ever have a plan? | William Keegan
Your correspondent is not as well up on social media as his wife and children, but I could not help noticing a slogan posted beneath a London traffic light the other day. It claimed to be from the Instagram project Notes to Strangers - new to me, I must confess - and confidently proclaimed: "Having a Plan B will make your Plan A unsuccessful".
This was on yet another day when the press was full of reports about the chaos within Theresa May's hapless government about the Brexit "negotiations" - negotiations that seem to be taking place mainly within her warring cabinet rather than with the rest of the EU. And - surprise, surprise - neither of the proposals supposedly being discussed is in any case considered remotely viable by most, indeed all, of the experts I have talked to.
As for the Irish border problem, I have yet to meet any serious person who thinks it is soluble
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