The Brexit train crash is getting closer. Every week brings some new problem or set back. The House of Lords has passed an amendment (HERE) giving parliament the power to decide what happens if the deal negotiated by Theresa May is rejected by the Commons. This seems likely to win parliamentary approval since this is surely precisely what taking back control means? It would make a no deal outcome virtually impossible and may well mean remaining in the customs union and the single market.
Meanwhile, the relationship between the two most powerful men in the Brexit saga, David Davis and Ollie Robbins, never a good one, seems to be getting worse with Davis trying to get Robbins sacked (HERE). I can see Davis storming out in the next few weeks and blaming it all on May and Robbins.
Getting on for two years after the vote we still have no idea what Brexit means.
Brexiteers are making all kinds of weird suggestions, like Daniel Hannan (HERE) seeming to want us to emulate Switzerland's deals with the EU and join the Schengen free movement zone! Business through the guise of the CBI are becoming desperate for the UK to remain in the customs union, even though it won't solve the border problems in Ireland or Dover, or indeed anywhere else.
Companies are losing orders from the EU already because customers there don't want the problem of filling in Rules of Origin forms to cover third country goods so prefer EU sourced items, according to a story in The Sunday Times business section.
Mrs May is like a rabbit caught in the headlights, a position Brexiteers seem to want to keep her in for fear of a remainer getting into No 10. So we have paralysis in government because they don't have a plan and seem unable to agree one. Meanwhile the ticking clock gets louder with 331 days to go.
