I often say we should learn the lessons of history and it’s at times like these I wonder how we’d have been sorted out Brexit with our European neighbours in years gone by? Quite simple. Either Theresa May’s daughter (I know, but bear with me) would have married Merkel’s or Macron’s son; or we’d have sent the Duke of Marlborough over with an army. As for the Irish question, we’d only have bothered with the latter, I fear. Perhaps we have moved on, after all.
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...
