Thread by @jonworth

Britain just go.

Go.

Go now.

Enough of the tantrums.

Enough of the histrionics.

Enough of the faux grandeur.

Enough of the disingenuous comparisons with Australia's and Canada's trade relationships with the EU.

Enough of trying to frame all this as the EU's fault, for it wasn't the EU that put forward the Internal Market Bill and want to renege on the NI Protocol.

Enough of the pettiness of Frost, the Chief Negotiator who seems unable to negotiate.

Enough of the smarmy trickery of Gove, saying the opposite now of what he said in 2016.

Enough of the tear-it-all-down radicalism of Cummings. Keep that on your island please.

And, above all, enough of the excruciating waffle and smirks of Johnson, a Prime Minister as inappropriate for these times as it is impossible to imagine.

And yes, No Deal is going to hurt. And hurt the UK in particular.

I don't want things to hurt.

But giving the UK anything more now is itself a danger.

So, sorrowfully, take this as a warning.

Stockpile.

Turn your gardens and fields into truck parks.

Get used to herring with your chips, rather than cod.

Learn that an ill-governed 65 million people country with few friends and allies is not going to have a fun time negotiating with a 450 million people bloc that's well prepared and knows what it wants. Or indeed negotiating with anyone else for that matter.

Only when Britain gets its own politics in order is any of this going to begin to improve. And only the UK can do that for itself - that cannot be the EU's preoccupation. The EU cannot and should not bend to make up for the UK's inadequacies.

Maybe there might be a turnaround of some sort yet, but the chances of No Deal seem to be edging steadily upwards.

If that comes to pass, and you're in the UK, buckle up tight. Brace. Prepare yourself as well as you can. It is not going to be pleasant.

#Brexit

/ends