Johnson’s overcooked ‘oven-ready deal’ has blown up in his face. Why is he happy about it?

From Twitter: the caption was “Get in, losers. We’re driving it off a No Deal cliff.”

It seems Boris Johnson is getting exactly the kind of Brexit his backers wanted: ‘no deal’, meaning disaster for the UK economy.

He is putting on his sad face at the moment but that’s not fooling me, and it shouldn’t fool you.

His claim that Brussels has “abandoned” the ambition of a free trade deal is as empty as his soul:

Sky News has this to say:

The UK’s chief Brexit negotiator has told his European counterpart not to come to London on Monday to resolve stalled talks, after the prime minister warned it was time to “get ready” to leave without a deal.

Isn’t this the same prime minister who said there was an ‘oven ready’ trade deal, only last year?

And didn’t he – also – say that failure to secure a deal would be a failure of statecraft?

So isn’t he admitting that he is a failed prime minister? And shouldn’t we be demanding his resignation and replacement at the earliest possible opportunity?

Johnson is, of course, doing his best to blameshift responsibility for his failure onto the EU:

Mr Johnson said in a dramatic intervention that “there doesn’t seem to be any progress coming from Brussels”.

He told businesses and hauliers to “get ready” for there to be no free trade deal.

But this is clearly nonsense, in the light of what he – and other Brexiters – have been saying since before the EU referendum in 2016.

They have spent years trying to convince us that the EU nations would be desperate to forge a deal with the UK that would put us at an advantage.

Instead, it seems we’re going to have to pay high tariffs to sell into a market that was free before Johnson and his cronies convinced 17 million of us to vote the entire nation out.

And remember, Johnson won last year’s general election on this – claiming that he would “Get Brexit Done” and it would create a golden future for the UK.

Well. At best he was mistaken. At worst he was lying.

This Writer remembers the claims that he was in cahoots with a cartel of wealthy hedge fund bosses who had bet heavily on the UK leaving without a trade deal, and on this causing the end of a large number of major UK businesses.

Doesn’t this seem more likely now – especially as Johnson has intervened personally to stop any further negotiations, a month and a half before the transition period ends?

It all seems highly suspicious to me.

And I’m not the only one, it seems:

(Incredible that Boris Johnson’s selfishness has actually put me on the same side as Dan Hodges…)

https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1317061101989801985

It seems likely the decision to end negotiations and prepare for ‘no deal’ could also mean the end of the United Kingdom as we know it:

Johnson tried to regain some of the credibility he has lost by suggesting that the UK was headed for an “Australia-style deal”…

He said the UK’s relationship with the EU could be more like the one Brussels has with Australia, which will mean tariffs being introduced on goods between the UK and the 27 other EU countries.

… but it seems he’s either badly mistaken (yet again) or trying to pull over our eyes (yet again):

Perhaps this is the most accurate comment of the day:

Source: Brexit: Michel Barnier told to stay home after Boris Johnson says EU ‘abandoned free trade deal’ | Politics News | Sky News

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8 Comments

  1. Hecuba October 17, 2020 at 11:12 am - Reply

    Good work lardy fascist dictator johnson – you’ve achieved what you and your greedy, callous and stupid profit driven fascist tory cronies set out to which is to destroy the UK’s economy and increase your private wealth!

    Now we ‘stupid peasants’ can look forward to thousands more women and men dying from the coronavirus and also suffer from a lack of basic foods and medicines because you fascist serial liar johnson was determined to destroy the UK!

    Scotland will become an independent country and it can’t happen quick enough because little england is doomed!

  2. Roy Haydon October 17, 2020 at 11:49 am - Reply

    HE NEEDS THE SAME TREATMENT AS JFK GOT.

    • Mike Sivier October 18, 2020 at 3:55 pm - Reply

      I’m not sure I’d go that far!

  3. Giritharan Arulampalam October 17, 2020 at 12:16 pm - Reply

    Boris’s deals are not only overcooked but burnt. Boris has been too busy with his “WAGS”(10 or more?).One of his WAGS recently, gave birth to a son. Probably, Boris also has an army of illegitimate children. An accurate description of Boris is that he is a “Henry VIII style” British PM. Many Labour Party supporters have already described him as the worst British PM. The sad fact is that he enjoyed very expensive education(Eton & Oxford)!

    • Mike Sivier October 18, 2020 at 3:56 pm - Reply

      Yes. Doesn’t it say everything about the value of those upper-class establishments that they are unable to turn out anyone better than Johnson?

      • Giritharan Arulampalam October 18, 2020 at 4:32 pm - Reply

        Eton & Oxford were established by a Queen of England. I think it was King Henry VIII’s grandmother(Margaret Beaufort). She was a generous benefactor.

  4. Giritharan Arulampalam October 18, 2020 at 4:22 pm - Reply

    Eton and Oxford were not established as “upper-class establishments. They were originally established for the advancement of clergy and Christian missionaries.

  5. Giritharan Arulampalam October 18, 2020 at 4:45 pm - Reply

    Eton & Oxford were not supposed to be “upper-class establishments”.

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