The turning point in the sad Brexit saga came when BoJo decided to betray his Irish allies and accept a deal that Theresa May couldn’t stomach. It was unscrupulous, but it worked; with no deal apparently off the table, the government collapsed, but the English Conservatives came together and won the election, assisted mightily, of course, by Corbyn.
But the negotiations to date have barely touched on the future economic relationship between the UK and the EU. Virtually everything is still on the table, the deadline is less than a year away, and Boris is threatening to end the transition period regardless of whether a deal has been reached or not. In short, no deal is effectively still a real possibility, and very little has been resolved.
And that, my friends, is why I’m posting this on Groundhog Day; the British are still living in interesting times. I will have more to say about a proper Brexit deal in a subsequent post.