Boris '**** Business' Johnson has just told a gathering of business leaders that his '**** business' remark was 'taken out of context' (they always say that, they literally have a playbook that tells them to say that) and that, if we leave without the Withdrawal Agreement, he will use the transition period to renegotiate the Irish border issue.
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Mr Johnson's plan appeared to be to defer the negotiations over the problematic Irish backstop till after the UK leaves the EU on 31 October. He proposed extending the transition period till December 2021, which would give everyone enough time to negotiate a free-trade deal and come up with the technology to ensure no physical infrastructure would be required at the Irish border.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48680303
As the BBC predictably fails to point out, unless the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified there is no transition period.
Perhaps I'd better repeat that, because a number of Brexitards, from Davis to McVey, have tried the same con.
Unless the Withdrawal Agreement is ratified there is no transition period.
Johnson then left Liz Truss to answer questions. Liz Truss is a certifiable idiot whose Big Idea is privatising the motorways and getting Burger King to 'sponsor potholes'. (I am not joking. She literally said that, to a journalist in a restaurant, covertly recorded by another journalist at the next table.)
The business audience were not terribly taken with Truss.
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He left Liz Truss, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, to answer questions after he left the breakfast. The attendees who I spoke to found her unconvincing - "she lost the room" according to one. As a long-time Johnson lieutenant she may yet win herself a big job.
Last edited by 57 On Red; 06-18-2019 at 02:11 PM.