TTT@ 21.28:
so it was always impossible to leave the EU
Yes. Impossible given the different factions in the Conservative Party, who can't agree on what they want.
Maybe, if we’d had a clear goal and a clear plan before starting down this fantasy road, we could have achieved something positive from the decision to leave. Unfortunately, internal disagreements and plots destroyed any chance of that.
Boris Johnson, a leading campaigner for leaving – snipes from the sidelines, but offers no constructive solution.
JR-M and the ERG failed to persuade enough of their members to trigger a vote of no-confidence. Even the Brextremists within the ERG were unable to agree on a single course of action.
The DUP objects to everything anyone proposes.
Farage has nothing constructive to offer, only destruction and negativity.
Quietly, all the above appear to have realised that the damage caused by a no-deal departure would be disastrous. I no longer hear any of them calling for that.
All we hear is a series of moans that THEY would have negotiated a better deal, given the chance. And with as much credibility as the Monday-morning pundits who claim they would have played a better game than their team
Gove - one of the primary campaigners to leave the EU during the referendum – turned down the job of seeing it through.
No-one could have reconciled all those factions; each of whom has incompatible red lines.
And certainly no-one could have reconciled those red lines while also proposing something the EU could accept.
So yes. Impossible from the start.
The reality is only just starting to sink in at Westminster, as we approach the final few weeks of a 29-month process.
I suspect it might take a lot longer for some of our dear friends in this thread to realise.