The Glitter Ball of Brexit – last chance of a Christmas cheer for the PM?

Is Brexit now Boris’s only opportunity to be loved at Christmas time?

Delivering what people voted for might now be the PM’s only hope of salvation

A Facts4EU.Org Sunday editorial, with a simple suggestion for the Prime Minister

So Christmas is over. We hope you had fun. (Well, planning it, at least.)

Readers will have their own views about the PM’s announcement yesterday that any idea of a traditional Christmas is to all intents and purposes cancelled for the great mass of our society. Cancelled by law – or rather by a statutory instrument which MPs have not been allowed to scrutinise, debate, and approve.

Some readers will accept the notion that the apparently sudden (according to the PM) appearance of a ‘mutant strain’ of the Coronavirus is far more virulent than its common or garden variety. They will believe the words of the Government’s ‘scientific and health advisers’, despite the fact that all of their scariest forecasts have so far turned out to have been less reliable than using a witches’ cauldron.

Forecasting the future

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I

This editorial is primarily about Brexit, so we will only mention in passing that this ‘mutant green turtle’ COVID-variant was in fact identified by UK scientists back in September, and will have been around for some time before that. Even the WHO has admitted that the existence of this and other strains had been known for months. As Professor David Livermore, Professor of Medical Microbiology, commented yesterday: “The delay before it expanded doesn’t fit with super-infectiousness.”

No, instead of the very dubious facts around COVID and the Government’s responses, let’s look at a big Brexit opportunity.

The Glitter Ball of Brexit – a last chance for a Christmas cheer for the Prime Minister

Against a background of hostility and resentment for having cancelled Christmas, having thrown millions of people’s lives into chaos, and having surely put the final nail in the coffin for thousands more businesses, the Prime Minister must now be looking for a way to regain some of his popularity.

Ever the optimists, we at Brexit Facts4EU.Org have the perfect solution for Mr Johnson

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

The Brexit solution to avoiding 'a hell-broth boil and bubble'

Deliver Brexit at 9am on Monday morning
Announce that the trade talks with the intransigent, punitive, ideologically-motivated EU are over for this year
State that we will trade with the EU on WTO terms with effect from 01 Jan 2021
Specify that the UK will obey WTO rules for normal transit at its borders and expects the EU to do the same
Further announce that the UK now rescinds the Withdrawal Agreement, on the basis of the EU’s bad faith and the fact it breaks the Good Friday Agreement
Offer talks with the EU next year: zero tariffs, equivalence for financial services, other terms to be like EU-Canada
State clearly that the UK will proceed as a sovereign country based on international law – for waters, airspace, etc
Propose that UK and EU negotiators spend the next two weeks on some simple side agreements pre-January

The glitter ball of the Blackpool Ballroom might pale into insignificance compared to the sparkling prize of actually delivering Brexit to millions of voters who believed the Conservative Party manifesto on which this Government was elected just one year ago.

Now THAT would be a Christmas present which the Brexit Facts4EU.Org team and millions of voters up and down the country would celebrate in every conceivable manner allowable under the current totalitarian state laws.

Observations

Brexit Facts4EU.Org continues to work behind the scenes - in addition to what you read on our website and in social media - to pressure the Government and MPs to rescind and void the Withdrawal Agreement, and to leave the EU on 31 December on WTO terms.

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Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Sun 20 Dec 2020

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Reader Comments 16

1. William Pentelow , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 08:24:

But he wont , you and i know he wont.
This latest lockdown proves one of two things, either Boris is thick or there is an agenda outside of the Chinese virus.
Personally i dont believe him to be thick.
Boris will heed the advice of Britains last 4 prime ministers, he like them will sell us out.

2. Peter Harrison , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 08:39:

Well, he has betrayed us on immigration, his government has talked Covid as an opportunity to enrich friends of friends with supply, track and trace etc. that were not value to the taxpayer. Just waiting to see the level of betrayal on Brexit!

3. AJ , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 08:57:

Hate to burst your boil and bubble, but Brexit was delivered on 31st January when we left the EU.
Jusr because you don't like where it's going, doesn't mean that you don't have to own the consequences of your vote.

4. Sydney Ashurst , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 09:24:

Fishing rights are being used as a bargaining tool in the trade talks, they must be taken out for environmental reasons
The PM is being a good environmentalist, enacting measures to reduce global warming.
Has he forgotten that in taking back control of our EEZ makes him responsible for the sustainability of fishing in those waters.
Would he be abrogating those duties if he gave in to Barniers demands?
Environmental groups are claiming that CFP is allowing over fishing in our EEZ which is not sustainable
The EU sems to agree. EU action has not led to the recovery of significant marine ecosystems and habitats, according to a special audit report published last week by the European Court of Auditors (ECA).
“Due to their economic, social and environmental importance, seas are a real treasure. However, EU action has so far been unable to restore European seas to good environmental status, nor fishing to sustainable levels”, said João Figueiredo, the Portuguese Member of the European Court of Auditors responsible for the report. “Our audit clearly raises the red flag over the EU’s sea protection.”
Inaction to ensure sustainable fishing levels has created a situation where significant cuts in quotas and even closure of fisheries must now be considered to meet the EU's binding 2020 deadline to end overfishing.
The Pillar - a coalition of national environmental groups - is clear that the Commission's proposal falls short of this objective and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) requirements to restore and maintain sustainable populations offish stocks that must be met by 2020.
However, the EU is not on course to make the final 2020 deadline, with 41 per cent of the catch limits agreed for 2019 exceeding scientific advice.
And there is more I cannot quote here.

5. Bob , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 10:26:

Resist! This tyrannical government tells me I have to wear clothes. I don't believe in clothes and refuse to be oppressed! It's my right as a free born englishman to shop naked! Fight for your rights!

6. Steven , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 10:41:

People who are libertarian extremists and refuse to willingly obey the LAW with respect to the Covid-19 restrictions are potentially putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk or, at least, giving them a serious illness. The law is the law and must be obeyed especially as in this case it isn’t unjust. In a decent country like Singapore they DO obey the law and they have been fining people thousands and even putting people into jail if they willingly flout their strict Covid-19 restrictions. Perhaps that is why they have had just 28 deaths from the virus - a world record low - whilst we have had an absolute national disgrace of 60,000 plus? This country disgusts me at times with people’s disobedience of the law and their utter pigheaded selfishness.

7. Bob Parks , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 11:05:

Is this a deadline? What does that mean? Redefined in dictionary as “deadline = a political joke without humour”

8. Christine K , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 11:14:

Most of us hoped Boris will deliver, but that hope is long gone. Does anyone still think he might?

9. W Alkaway Essex , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 12:25:

Talking of Witches' Brew, I have seen a leaked Canadian Government Document for handling Covid 19, and guess what? The authors apparently knew what course this flu would run in the next two years. How extremely clever of them, or maybe they had a glass ball? And guess what? Our Cabinet Office (Whitty & Co) must have been issued with the same, because we are following exactly the same timetable of shut downs!!! And why is the Winter Flu vaccine changed each year because of the virus mutating, and yet apparently Covid has mutated but the rushed in Covid Vaccine does not need altering? Funny that. The recent Law passed for Tier 4 is as open as a colander. You can go into another Tier, so long as you are looking for a new house, or you can collect food, or go and pay or collect money from any business (so that includes banks). In other words, you can use any, and I quote, 'reasonable excuse' for moving into another Tier. Solicitors would make short sharp shrift of that one. As for shutting down Parliament early, Boris has allowed all MPs to hasten out of London to their loved ones for Christmas. How to win friends and influence. Wonder where Boris is celebrating Christmas, at Downing Street or at Chequers?

10. Steven , Sunday, December 20, 2020, 13:27:

The tiers should be scrapped. Too many people find them confusing and thus don’t obey the restrictions and therefore can put vulnerable people at risk of getting the virus and spreading it still further. Also, we don’t have regional government within England apart from London unlike Germany with regional police forces as well so enforcing these restrictions on a regional basis is difficult to achieve. A national lockdown for England or preferably for the whole UK is better, more easily understood and easier to enforce,

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