For me the most worrying aspect is the PM's seeming total inability to say anything positive about Europe, his case mainly seeming to be the UK can deport people easier to our counties.
It can't be said strongly enough, UK needs a very durable majority for accession. This argument won't make it.
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![That, in turn, means that, quite apart from any other ways in which Brexit has failed, it has failed politically. On this blog, I have several times quoted David Frost’s criterion for the success or failure of Brexit because it is perhaps the only time a leading Brexiter has actually articulated any meaningful test. He said that “one piece of evidence of failure [of Brexit] would be if we are still debating this in five- or six-years’ time in the same way. I think [if] it is to succeed it needs to settle in the British polity.” That was in June 2022, and although technically that means there are still six to eighteen months to go, it has been obvious for a while that Brexit would fail this test. With Burnham’s announcement, that is not just obvious: it is certain.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zqz7slgkfgy5srkfebhlp7xx/bafkreigqt75i54zh7s7gmgcvvo74l7zgps3pvl6pmvmyuotw7pjwhwkuwe)
