Brexit: 9 lessons but no carols. Great speech by Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, on the mess we are now in. (HT @DavidHenigUK) news.liverpool.ac.uk/2018/12/13/ful…
This needs repeating often. BBC interviewers, especially, need to understand this so that, every time a Brexter makes stuff up about not needing border checks, they can put him in his place. 
I take no comfort from the thought of Jacob Rees-Mogg being tarred and feathered by an angry mob a few years from now. The damage will have been done by then.
"Well beyond incoherent" - the 'WTO rules' argument in a nutshell.
Trade deals are little more than vanity projects. They won't make up for the loss of our trade with the EU.
Pluses = bullshit. The more pluses, the more bullshit.
A disorderly 'no deal' Brexit would be bad. Really bad. The politicians who led us over the cliff would never be forgiven,
This, this, this! Like pre-WW1 politicians who, after a century of relative peace, didn't believe bad stuff could actually happen.
A knockout right-hook for the Labour Party's delusions.
Theresa May's deal is crap but it's the only one on offer. It's this, 'no deal' crash out or forget the whole thing.
That we would get to where we are now has been inevitable since this time last year.
And finally....
