Excellent opinion piece ... covers all tracks of a train wreck about to happen. Inevitable as onlookers watch in despair ...

Dominic Raab: the face that says, 'I need to take back control of my sphincter' | The Guardian - by Marina Hyde |

Even for those who've been stockpiling I-told-you-sos for two years, there really is zero satisfaction in watching Brexit secretary Dominic Raab wanly assure a parliamentary committee that, post-Brexit, "there will be adequate food". Just like the al-Qaida number three job used to be, the DExEU gig really is dead men's shoes. Give it a year and it'll be Secretary of State Ray Mears.

Either way, Raab's is perhaps the most inspirational vision of the UK's post-EU future since Chris Grayling explained last October that British farmers would simply have to grow more food. The good news is the uplands are sunlit; the bad news is we all have to till them. Unfortunately, there's a nine-month import hold-up on ploughshares ...

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— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) July 27, 2018

In many ways, though, a no-deal Brexit feels like the next step in Britain's 15-year fetishisation of the Keep Calm and Carry On poster. No-deal will allow the nostalgic populace to inhabit other second world war memes such as Dig for Victory, Prepare Your Tin Cans For War, and Rationing Means a Fair Share For All Of Us. All of these are much more practical than the UK's negotiating strategy hitherto, which has amounted to disagreeing with gravity in Daily Mail comment articles, or screaming "You need to think creatively!" at the tide.

Michel Barnier kills off Theresa May's Brexit customs proposals | The Guardian |

Michel Barnier has warned that attempts to appeal to EU leaders over his head were a waste of time as he rejected Theresa May's proposals on customs after Brexit, in effect killing off the Chequers plan.

On Friday Theresa May travels to Austria to meet Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the Czech prime minister Andrej Babis, before heading off on her summer holiday.

"Anyone who wants to find a sliver of difference between my mandate and what the heads of government say they want are wasting their time, quite frankly," he told reporters at a joint press conference with the new Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, in Brussels.

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○ Theresa May in Austria in attempt to revive Chequers Brexit plan

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