I think the answer is that Johnson can't conclude Brexit.
He's finished if he puts a border in Ireland, he's finished if he puts it in the Irish Sea, and he's finished if he stays in the single market.
Johnson has got a majority only as long as Brexit is still open. As soon as he tries to conclude it his government will collapse.
But if he doesn't conclude it it's going to stink him out like a corpse in the sun
I could be wrong, but Johnson is going to have to resign pretty soon if he can't finish Brexit. And then we get another election because the Tories still can't do Brexit. Or Johnson calls an election himself.
I think it's far more likely than people think that there's going to be another general election in the next six months.
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Set the scene
The Tories are split over Europe, but they keep winning elections. The country won't stop voting for them, and they won't stop squabbling.
Cameron was in coalition with the Lib Dems for five years, so Europe didn't come up much. Then he won a majority of 10.
So far so ordinary
Fuck Up Number 1
Labour elected Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn was, and indeed still is, a crank. The first warning sign the country was sick was the huge number of people who ever thought he was fit to lead a party, never mind plausible prime minister.
I'll tell you what's wrong with Britian's parliamentary system - oh, I'm so glad, I was hoping somebody would.
I've said before that government and parliament should be two separate entities instead of this freakshow we've got where the government is produced from the well of the general parliament.
But why? Oh yes.
It's because there is no restraint. That's what parliament is supposed to be. In its more fantastical moments it even believes itself to be.
You don't understand that England is experiencing a total system failure.
The country is being destroyed by the most expensively educated people you've got.
Your country is failing but you're not interpreting the failure.
Countries don't just destroy themselves overnight. It takes time and effort
Brexit and Botty Johnson, these are not random events that spook out of nowhere. Your country has destroyed itself, but systematically over many many years.
Johnson signed a treaty, forced it through parliament with minimal scrutiny, and then boasted it up to the entire country.
Now he's saying he can't live up to it.
That is a resignation offence.
I want people to start doing their fucking job.
I want the opposition to start demanding Johnson's resignation. I want newsmen to start asking why he hasn't resigned.
Johnson negotiated a treaty, won a general election with it and put it into law. And now he is trying to repudiate what he did.
That is a scandal even bigger than Suez, and I want the opposition and the media in this fucking country to start treating it in an appropriate way
Englishmen, allow me to guide you to the right answer. It's so easy when you see it.
There are two sides in Northern Ireland who really don't like each other. One side wants to be part of Ireland, and the other wants to be part of Britain.
Easy
The answer is to not have a border anywhere. There wasn't one before, so keep there none.
Brexit. Who?
What's the actual answer? With two hostile sides each refusing one of the borders available, the answer is to have no border.
So what's stopping you?
There was an interesting conversation yesterday all about Franz Kafka's metamorphosis, and whether it had any merit.
So I read it again yesterday, and I've been thinking about it overnight. What does it all mean?
I don't think it means anything in the bureaucratic sense. It's not an allegory because it doesn't refer to anything in real life.
You could read ot that way, of course. You can read anything that way. But it doesn't look like it was written that way.
Oftentimes Kafka is in tune with what we know about the 20th century. We know about the secret police, the Mafia, the inaccessible powers.
But I've always wondered about that