Tories a shambles on Brexit
THE Tories promised they were going to start putting flesh on the bones of their Brexit mess this week – at last.
Boris Johnson was first to be let out, with a speech which would start to make things clear.
A full 20 months since the referendum and just over a year now until we are dragged out of the EU against our will – that seemed like a good thing to do.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, what we got from Johnson was a rambling, slightly weird trip starting at the Ice Age and a place in his head called Doggerland, with a bit of “off colour” japing about stag nights.
Then we got the PM on Saturday trying to persuade us that, despite everything she said when home secretary, the UK leaving the cross-border security and intelligence gathering bodies following Brexit will be just fine thanks – as long as everybody does what we want.
If you were nervous about the Tory Brexit shambles before, I imagine these two events will have done nothing to reassure you, and might have left you with more questions to answer.
There are more of these speeches to come from the Tories but I am guessing that the rest will be just as pointless.
We desperately need answers to questions about a disastrous hard border in Ireland, about EU nationals’ rights in the UK, and about whether or not the Tories are really going to take us out of the customs union with all the damage that will do to Scottish firms and communities.
Brexit is thundering down the tracks at us – and the Tories are a dangerous and incompetent joke. Unfortunately, in addition to the Tory infighting and their clueless inability to tell us what Brexit is going to mean, they now have a Labour opposition equally all over the place and just letting it all unravel. The clock is ticking but the SNP will