It turns out that, under the terms of the Brexit deal, we cannot ban supertrawlers after all. Expect a lot more of this sort of thing. We tried to tell you.
As for Keir Starmer, he will not be the Leader of the Labour Party in 2029. At that General Election, every party in the outgoing House of Commons will have a manifesto commitment to rejoin the EU on whatever terms that the EU cared to set. Generational shifts will have ensured that there were only tiny remaining numbers of Conservative and Labour dissidents, themselves highly likely to retire in 2034. Voluntarily or otherwise.
Of the 11 parties in the present House of Commons, eight already consist exclusively of Rejoiners. The only party to consist exclusively of anti-Rejoiners is the DUP. But its constituencies, like those of three of the eight, might very well no longer be in the United Kingdom in 2029; indeed, it is difficult to see in what meaningful sense they still were. In any case, the dizzying liberalisation of Northern Irish society will have consigned the DUP to the margins of that polity by then; its likelihood of being the First Past the Post anywhere will be negligible.
Unlike everyone from Nigel Farage to George Galloway, I have opposed this Brexit deal from the start. From the start, I have said that its only purpose was to get us back in within 10 years. Properly in, and without a referendum. I applaud John Redwood and Jeremy Corbyn for having refused to vote for it. But I would have voted against it. And I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?
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