Boris, with a roll on the drums and a final flourish, materialised not just a white rabbit but also a deal with a faint odour of over-heated
Mrs May’s traditional English fudge. But the all-significant sword-of-Damocles ‘Backstop’ and its restrictive non-Brexit terms and conditions has
sort of been taken out of the mix (and replaced with ‘new improved’ ingredients
). However, what serious Brexit-watchers suspected is NI becomes a piggy-in-the-middle if this deal stands, and there are implications. As George ‘belted’ Galloway said on RT last night, this new arrangement could become the fast-track to a reunified Ireland… and for once the bloke was actually talking sense! I can’t blame the DUP for being up in arms – they and their country they represent are going to be squeezed out of existence
unless some other safeguard is introduced to protect them.
Are we really on our way out of the EU? It’s too early to say, but Boris seems to be jogging things in the right direction. Now, if he’d become David Cameron’s successor all those years ago instead of Mrs May….
No rabbits were harmed in the making of this deal.