Do you remember when all you had to be was a ‘remainer’ or a ‘leaver’? Ahhhh, they almost seem like the heady, halcyon days of some sepia-coloured yesteryear of romance and love about Brexit. Because then came hard or soft. Next up was ‘deal or no deal’. And now we have yet another division: long extension or short extension. To article 50. How long to delay. And its all getting more and more confusing as Theresa May stutters and u-turns and manages to add yet more cabinet names to the ever-growing list of ‘those who want her GONE’.

Yesterday morning Mrs May was looking for a long delay. 9 months. To give time for ‘something positive’, because the previous two-and-a-half years have certainly not produced anything that could be even remotely so described. Yet by the time she sent her letter to (the awful, vile and exceedingly foreign) Donald Tusk, she had changed to a short delay of just 3 months.

This is a bit like a football team being 3-0 down after 90 minutes and seriously thinking that they can win it outright in the 3 minutes of injury time.

It’s not that Theresa wanted the short option. She had no choice. She was bullied and cajoled by Rees-Mogg and his ERG band of neo-fascists intent on an isolated, independent and friendless future for stand-alone Britain. They want ‘short’ because it essentially becomes the ‘deal or no deal’ option. And they’d love no deal. It’s what all rampant Brexiteers really want. Just walk away. Fuck Europe. Fuck their 39 billion quid demand. Fuck any possible future. And along with all that, our trading future is also royally fucked for the next decade at least. But we’ll be FREE!!!

So short delay. Europe will not improve, modify or even add one solitary little comma to ‘the deal’. The one which parliament has rejected twice and the speaker has banned from being re-presented. It is THE deal. The only deal that they will accept. And parliament won’t. Yet Theresa wants 90 days to go back on the hamster’s treadmill of trying to get her poxy ‘deal’ approved by parliament to avoid no deal.

Same shit, different 90 days.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx