Beginning to suspect that "highly stressful ever-impending Brexit perpetually deferred to a point in the near future owing to a ceaseless variety of unprecedented circumstances" may actually *be* the suboptimal-but-tolerable-to-both-sides compromise we've been searching for.
Most importantly, it protects the GFA. My Lot retain all the benefits of EU membership except the possibility of mental tranquillity. The Other Lot get to be constantly in measurable distance of Big Ben bonging them out, or a billion new 50p coins, or whatever else they want
while enjoying, of course, all the tangible benefits anyone has identified to date.
The EU27, for their part, get to move on, since their position is well-established and the work of misinterpreting it as having changed every 36 hours can safely be left to the British media.
The EU27, for their part, get to move on, since their position is well-established and the work of misinterpreting it as having changed every 36 hours can safely be left to the British media.
And since no claim in the supposed negotiations needs to be valid, or even comprehensible, the range of pretexts for extension is genuinely infinite.
We could, for instance, go through a series of variants on "litigation to establish whether Jeremy Corbyn and the Queen are the same legal person." But we could just as well hold up a picture of a halibut and say "Delay because halibut." And this works for *any fish*.
