In their increasingly desperate attempts
to get into the final two in the Tory Donkey Derby, the candidates are saying
stranger and stranger things. Michael
Gove wins yesterday’s top placing for an ‘interesting’ take on the way his
party’s internal democracy should work.
Trying to find an argument against letting Rory Stewart through to the
final round, he said
that it would be “a mistake to put forward two candidates into the final
round who will polarise our party”. With five candidates who subscribe to the
fantasy that we just have to shout a bit louder at Johnny Foreigner to get him
to bow down before us and only one who has a vague grasp on at least one element
of reality, he is effectively arguing that the latter should be excluded on the
basis that giving Tory members a choice between reality and fantasy would ‘polarise’
them. Limiting their choices to
different flavours of fantasy is, apparently, a much better way of conducting
the race, and avoids the membership having to make a real choice between
alternatives. It’s a cunning plan, of
sorts, but I think he’s worrying unnecessarily.
All the polls suggest that the chances of an average Tory party member
voting for reality when fantasy is on the ballot paper are close to zero.
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First of all I'd like to say that I'm a regular reader of your blog and look forward to reading your perceptive comments. In the past you've drawn attention to how it would be more difficult for Cymru to become independent if the UK leaves the EU. Your argument convinced me. Painful because accepting it removed an - increased likelihood of independence "silver lining" - to my Brexit cloud.
Years later we still don't know what the future UK EU relationship will be but the UK having the status of a third country to the EU is at least a possibility. If a reality, any movement for an independent Cymru would have to address that reality.
As the narrative - that an independent Cymru is impossible if England is outside the EU is already being applied to this potential reality it needs to be countered now. Later will be too late.
"There's very little point in having, shall we say, market access to the single market and finding we can't export to England."
An independent Cymru whatever it's relationship with the EU could export/import/re-export/re-import to an independent England whatever their relationships with the EU were.
Different and varied relationships with the EU are possible and all can change over time. Some relationships would result in more costs being associated with trade others less.
None outside the realms of dystopian fantasy would mean that Cymru could not export to England.
CapM,
I think this comment was probably intended to refer to a later post, so I've re-posted it there.
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