Brexit: a strategy to fail?
RNorth today posts pretty much what I've been thinking ever since BJ became PM.
WHY this nonsense talking up a new deal* - is it incompetence or enemy action ?*
imo, both:
BJ, Raab and several others in govt are disgracefully ignorant about the EU, WTO & our international trade etc
BUT
imo, there are a tiny handful behind the scenes who are deliberately orchestrating No Deal AND to blame the EU for it all
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87369
it really does begin to look as if the UK government is adopting a strategy which is deliberately intended to fail.
Obviously, the very last thing it would do would be to admit it,
but having the Brexit secretary being threatening and uncompromising in his recent speech,
and then submitting totally unacceptable proposals,
with the ludicrous "secrecy" caveat,
would seem to fit in with such a strategy.
At the same time, one might expect the UK side to be constantly talking up the "progress" in the talks,
claiming that a resolution is close,
leaving the EU to the downbeat denials.
And that is also what seems to be happening.
While all we're getting is chirpy statements from London,
it is left to EU officials to criticise British proposals, making the EU out to be the obstacle to any deal.
Thus, predictably, UK government officials are denying that they have not put forward serious proposals.
"The ideas that we've put forward to avoid a hard border are serious and workable",
one official said, adding that "leaks from Brussels on Twitter are par for the course. You can set your watch by them".
The officials can keep this up for ever,
while Johnson can talk up the mythical "progress",
right to the point where any talks collapse and the UK comes crashing out of the EU without a deal
– precisely the outcome that is being sought by the his administration.^