Let's stop all this inwards navel gazing ... there is a deal, sitting there, waiting to be signed, except that the EU have allowed Varadaker to hijack one portion of it, and have now given him an effective veto.
If the so called "back stop" was removed the deal would fly through ... but Varadaker will not budge, so the EU are allowing the "no deal" simply to appease the Irish.
The EU have been asking what we want since October .. they have been told .. remove the backstop .. but Varadaker simply says "No"
Why, oh Why, do the press not actually report the truth ??
I think truth is a scarce commodity in media circles nowadays , and Trump was lampooned for saying it.
I watched the news ribbon on Sky earlier where they announced that the military had staffed a nuclear bunker below Whitehall in preparation for a no deal brexit. In other words they put some people into use the comms system available and it just so happened that it was a bunker initially designed for use in a nuclear event . A crude play on words for project fear .They are repugnant .
Varadker has used the whole debacle to his and Irelands supreme advantage ,from threatening the return of violance to suggesting that residents with UK driving licenses will be arrested if caught driving on the roads , to even threatening to withdraw the use of airspace to UK flights . His stance is to boost irish nationalism and the feeling of worth and this is his moment.
ireland despises Britain and to a much deeper level than you in UK realise .
I have said before they if they were given six counties they would be absolutely fu**ed . The north is simply ungovernable and the simple southern politicians would be swamped by unscrupulous , deeply devious and bitterly opposed groups that would never accept the change from UK sponsored life to the disjointed and more costly irish one. It would be a long, difficult and indefinate excercise.