As Martin Wolf wrote this morning in the Financial Times after Theresa May's brave attempt to do something, well anything:
''For Remainers, it is evident that this quasi-permanent halfway house, which will keep the UK inside the EU’s customs area and divide Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK indefinitely, would be far worse than continued EU membership. For Leavers, it is equally evident that this very same halfway house would be far worse than a clean break.
Unity is achieved at last in the midst of Britain’s civil war over its future relationship with Europe: both sides oppose what has been agreed.
There are two possible reactions to this outcome.
The first is to argue that a deal which unites the country in horror is exactly what should have been expected and is, in fact, the least unsatisfactory imaginable outcome. It allows the UK to leave, without crashing out, and leaves room for subsequent negotiations on the future relations with the EU. The very fact that nobody is satisfied makes it the least unreasonable compromise on how to move forward. Nobody wins completely; and nobody loses completely.
The second reaction is that this deal should not and — more importantly — will not be ratified. It should not be agreed, because everybody agrees it is unsatisfactory. It will not be ratified, for the same reason.
If so, a way will need to be found to move forward that avoids a brutal rupture with the EU, with all the damaging economic and political consequences of that outcome. But that way, whatever it turns out to be, must also preserve the UK as a functioning constitutional democracy. "
If you read this far you might be surprised that I, an anti-Tory all my life because of their greed and class rigidity, actually admire May for her hard work and her efforts. Imagine the moron from over there speaking anything like her!
But she is not strong enough to say the truth - Britain will be in a much worse situation with a deal or without. I wish she were arguing that cause to save our country and bring back sanity and, yes, a female Winston Chuchill no less!
Well it is probably not to be and I am off to claim my Irish passport which I wish could be available to all remainers. Ahhhhh what a strong and sympathetic country we would then help Eire to be.