Saturday, October 14, 2017

''Peering over the cliff-edge: why Dominic Cummings fears Brexit will fail''

The "brain behind Brexit" fears that it's already turning into a disaster

“Theresa May and David Davis have provided a case study of grotesque uselessness” in their approach to Brexit. This comment was not made to Prospect by one of the usual “Remainer” suspects, but by Dominic Cummings, the Vote Leave mastermind.

Negotiations with the EU are in a dire state. Britain faces its biggest constitutional challenge ever—and is on the verge of cocking it up. Cummings, the official “Leave” campaign’s former director and long-term aide to Michael Gove, is extremely clever—but comes with a reputation for being a little too-clever-by-half.
He has written online treatises, running to many thousands of words, on the careful calculations that inclined him to think that—on balance—Britain was better off taking the punt on Leave, and the thinking behind his ruthlessly effective campaign. He has been withering about David Cameron, ridiculing him as “the guy in No 10 watching Netflix with a glass of red in his paw,” and is no politer about May today. “It was crazy” of her “to trigger Article 50 without preparations first and even more crazy to sit around and still not prepare,” he said. “If there’s no deal, there will be significant problems that were completely avoidable.”..

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