Everyone has been desperate for years to get this thing over and done with, but we are still to be subject to the Common Fisheries Policy, probably forever. And we are still to be subject to the State Aid rules, officially forever, with EU disputes panels that had the enforcement powers of the European Court of Justice, and which were made up of people who were on their way to the bench of the ECJ. Supported by Theresa May and Keir Starmer, this is simply not Brexit at all.
The European Communities Act passed handily. So did Margaret Thatcher's Single European Act. And so did Maastricht. So what? Nor will today or tomorrow be the end of anything. The inadequacies of this deal will be universally apparent by 2024, when a party with a commitment to re-joining the EU, complete with Schengen and the euro, is going to contest every seat in Great Britain, having been in government a great deal more recently than the Labour Party had been. This is the bassline of the political soundtrack to the rest of our lives.
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