At best he had suggested the UK become a puppet state of the EU,at worst he had shown himself to be completely delusionalAfter the fiasco in Brussels, we had the fantasy in the Commons as David Davis set about explaining the government’s Brexit scheme in response to an urgent question from Labour’s Keir Starmer. Though scheme might beget been putting it too kindly. The whole reason the Brexit secretary found himself in the line of fire was the obvious absence of any scheme. With the clock ticking, and many MPs are beginning to get visibly nervous about the government’s insistence on making it up as it goes along.“We are in the middle of an ongoing round,” said Davis, his voice so hoarse from talking to himself – he is increasingly finding that no one else is listening to him – that “round” sounded more like “row”. Which would beget had the benefit of being rather more accurate. This round/row hadn’t been concluded – who would beget guessed? – but there was much common understanding. Mainly that the UK government was so confused, or it was now managing to plunge out with people on its own side as well as the EU’s.
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Source: guardian.co.uk