Beware!
Much smoke and mirrors from №10 and the media on May’s latest #Brexit”breakthrough”. To use her own phrase “nothing has changed”. The real deal, the Withdrawal agreement is STILL botched.
The Withdrawal Agreement, the deal that made Cabinet ministers resign and that no one supports is the ‘real’ deal. That is, it is what is legally enforceable, it’s what both parties, the UK and the EU have said WILL happen.
The Political Agreement, the deal that is in the news now, is an aspirational document. It is what both parties HOPE MAY happen, eg they hope there will some magical new solution to the NI border issue, they hope workers rights will be protected. It’s NOT legally enforceable.
So..The actual deal, the one that will really happen, the Withdrawal agreement is still as botched as it ever was. We still end up stuck in an expensive, powerless limbo land. That’s why Labour will vote against it.
The political declaration is words not actions, no gurantees let alone plans that any of it will happen. It’s doesn’t save the botched deal. The real deal (Withdrawal Agreement) will STILL fail the Commons.
Therefore, in substance, nothing has changed with the Political Agreement. We’re still in chaos, May can’t govern. We can’t go on like this, Labour should be asked to form a government after May’s deal fails and then we can start to get out of this Tory created mess.
