EU must compromise or will count the cost

IN HIS excellent comment piece for this newspaper today, Boris Johnson says that his government has jumped on to the island in the middle of the river and invites the EU to make a similar leap of faith to join him there from its side.

The Prime Minister’s characteristically colourful phraseology sums up the situation we find ourselves in.

If a deal is to be done then difficult compromises have to be made.

The Government under Mr Johnson laid out a wide-ranging and generous compromise to sort out the Northern Ireland backstop.

To their credit, the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionists also compromised in accepting that they would have to agree to some all-ireland regulations.

Even MPS on both sides of the debate in Parliament have compromised to accept this deal.

The only people not compromising to make it work are the Brussels bureaucracy and their federalist political allies.

Among these allies, of course, is Jeremy Corbyn, whom the Prime Minister is right to dub a “serial wannabe Brexit wrecker”.

When Brussels aligns itself with Corbyn then you know it has abandoned the path of reason.

In the end, the Prime Minister is correct.the EU now has to join him on the island in the middle or watch all hope for a deal be washed away as Britain leaves with no deal.

It is worth noting that in Britain’s “packed bags” to which Mr Johnson alludes, will be the £39billion the EU was hoping for to fund its extravagant spending plans.

While Britain starts a new journey of prosperity and freedom, the EU will just be left much poorer.