Brexit must have been sabotaged
WHEN things in this life start to go badly wrong, the first port of call in the search for the reason why is usually just bad luck, ill-fortune, hostile fate. But that can only explain so much. If the venture continues to run into disaster the blame will probably be assigned to incompetence. Whoever is in charge of it is a cretinous fool. That certainly is the so-far accepted reason for the utter mess that has been made so far of the project to extricate this country from EU membership, known far and wide as Brexit.
We have been told so many different things, all mutually contradictory or completely untrue, that all we are really left with is the certain knowledge that the EU team in Brussels is sitting slack-jawed with near-disbelief that a supposedly advanced and sophisticated country can make such a dog’s breakfast as the Brexit negotiations have been these two and a quarter years past. They now have complete confidence that they only have to say No to British proposals and slap in yet another demand for London to capitulate.
But there is a third explanation which, though wholly disagreeable, cannot for much longer be rebuffed. This is that pure sabotage must be at the root of the litany of disasters that shroud the Brexit project. Could it really be that at the core of the disaster is a small but skilled coterie of fanatics who have quietly decided that Brexit must be destroyed and reversed? Or at any rate so stultified as to leave GB shackled to Brussels under terms even worse than the present ones?
ALL WE, outside the miasma that envelops Downing Street, really know is that “Brexit means Brexit” was a lie. As for, “No deal is better than a bad deal.” We know that No Deal, meaning a departure on British, not Brussels’, terms to live and trade under World Trading Organisation rules, has been demonised into a living hell when it is nothing of the sort. We can spot that a blitheringly gullible woman at the top has been gulled into every possible capitulation. But how we graduated from the patriotic terms of the Lancaster House speech to the scuttle of the last days of November cannot surely be explained only by incompetence and backbench cowardice. Logic alone demands there must have been human intent in this nation-gutting collapse of will, courage and morale.
As usual old Sherlock got it right. When all explanations bar one have been proved impossible, the remaining one, however improbable, has to be the truth. He said it a hundred years ago and it is still true.