David Davis is urging his negotiators (HERE) to"nail down a detailed outline of a future EU-UK trade deal before Brexit day", which really means by October this year. Whitehall apparently thinks this is unrealistic and The Telegraph describes him "clashing" with officials.
But Davis, who is above all of this and has demonstrated time and again a penchant for getting his a**e and his elbow mixed up, thinks he know more than those experts.
There is no better recipe for disaster than pressing the civil service to achieve something they do not believe in and doing so in double quick time while burdened with legislative and regulatory changes as well as practical planning for our exit including new food and agriculture policies, new fishing policy and a new immigration regime. Just limbering up surely?
And while we're at it, how about slipping in a manned landing on Mars by 2022? Whitehall can easily manage that and it would be a fitting way to celebrate our newly independent status.
I'm sure Davis could do it in his lunch break using two tea chests, a bit of copper pipe and a cycle inner tube plus some odds and ends from a box out of his garage. Creative thinking is all that's needed. Good Lord, does superman Davis have to do everything?
