According to the FT the planned publication of a post Brexit plan by the Tory European Reform Group was about much more than the mere technicalities of border arrangements:
People familiar with the 140-page draft Brexit blueprint overseen by the European Research Group said it included proposals for radical, across-the-board tax cuts to remodel Britain's economy after leaving the EU.
So the Laffer curve driven fantasy persists.
But as they added:
But these people also said the document was of “dubious quality” and contained a number of eccentric ideas
And the plan has been dropped because they cannot agree what to say.
There would appear to be disunity everywhere. But that might, at least, save us from the tax fools. Their dream is undeliverable. I am at the point where I say thank you for small mercies.
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I just wish they would all just bump each other off to be honest.
I would heartily recommend fratricide to our friends in the Tory party.
And please – can we can we chuck Chukka out of the Labour party? I’m tired of him using his position as a career ladder.
Fancy that. A group of people who can’t agree among themselves from one day to the next deciding that it’s best to leave their contradictory ideas in the drafts folder. This is not progress.
On the other hand it would have made explicit the type of society that this group want, which might have alarmed some Leave voters.
“No power on earth can deflect from his chosen path, the man who says nothing!” – Herald Froy.
So there we have it. Each is going his own separate way and not speaking to anyone.
What a way to run a country!
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father William Rees-Mogg co-authored an investment advice book called “Blood on the Streets”. The front cover of the hardback version quoted Nathan Rothschild (once the UK’s richest man in the 19th century) as saying “The time to buy is when blood is running on the streets”.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Streets-Investment-Profits-World/dp/067162735X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536687793&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=blood+on+the+streets+rees-mogg
Inadvertently now a guide to extreme Toryism!
I’m going to quote that!
Schofield says:
Yes you are correct, buy when blood is in the streets, was Mogg Senior. However he just publicised
a long known ” Elite” investment strategy that has been used in practice for a very long time.
The sexy name for it now is “Crisis Investing” which tones down the blood in the streets verbal.
However, many wealthy people use this strategy and no doubt that is young Mogg’s policy too.
So, that shows his reason for wanting a hard Brexit, or indeed a over the cliff Brexit. If it goes that way, he will be rubbing his hands together, ecstatic over the opportunities it will bring him.
The Brexit Conservatives never produce anything. They can’t. They are frightened that if they provided either a description of real Brexit outcomes, or what they want to do they will spook the electorate. They talk; they lecture; they condescend; they display outrage; they pontificate. They produce precisely nothing.
This is why we still do not know what the Government actually propose, in precise and meticulous detail, to the EU. This void is not because they have a negotiation strategy they must keep secret from the EU, although they are desperate to convince you that it is so; but it isn’t. The EU can work out that the British really want all the Single Market and the Customs Union benefits without being in the EU, Single Market or Customs Union. That is the starting point, and it isn’t attainable. Everybody knows this.
The actual, detailed British Brexit plan must remain a secret to the very end (and probably beyond), because the British Government really must keep their Brexit plan secret from politcally very, very dangerous people who are far more important to the British Government, its survival, and even the Conservative party’s survival, than the EU: the British electorate must be the last to know, at least until it is too late to stop Brexit. Nobody in Government believes they can persuade the British people to accept what they actually want to do. If they did believe their wishes would be bought hook-line-and-sinker by the British people May’s Government would reveal its hand, in full. They dare not. Instead, they are now slowly leaking “no deal” contingency planning, in order slowly to condition the British electorate for extremely bad outcomes.
The Scottish Conservatives have been reduced to pointing to Barnier’s latest comments on Theresa May’s Chequers plan as a triumph of negotiation (the EU has blinked), because they desperately hope the EU is going to rescue the British Government from its self-inflicted Brexit policy catalepsy.
The Conservative Party is incapable of rising above its own interests. It is defined by faction: it was ever thus.