Brexit is in a mess. As each week passes more problems emerge and more people raise doubts about whether it can even be achieved - like this interview HERE with Matthew Parris and this call from a Scottish Tory HERE. However, raising doubts has become a slightly dangerous pastime. When Vince Cable suggested on television he was hearing such doubts from politicians and civil servants the response from the pro brexit press was swift as you can see from The Express (HERE).
“If there are civil servants who do not believe in the huge benefits that Brexit will bring Britain, they should stop working in the Government. The British people have voted for Britain to leave the EU and expect to see those working in Government get the best possible deal for this country. There should be no place for unpatriotic, EU sympathisers in the civil service.”
I am not sure if Mr Tice is suggesting some kind of lie detector test for civil servants to weed out the unreliable ones but it does slightly smack of Germany in the 1930s or the atmosphere that existed in Russia and still prevails in communist countries like China and North Korea.
And like all of the Brexiteers I have ever heard, Mr Tice did not appear to know what the "huge benefits" actually are.
The government is publishing The Repeal Bill today and no doubt lawyers and opposition MPs are looking forward to seeing it.
