Marcurix wrote:Dumb Ideologies wrote:
Where's the option for it being an unsolicited document produced by a third party without any authority? Or are we discounting that out of hand?
Its like you think you've found a smoking gun but all you have is a banana and an unlit match.
It could well be unreliable.
That said, the central points are:
The government has no top-down, centrally-organized plan for Brexit.
In the absence of a unifying strategy, each individual department is making their own plans as best as they can, as well as prepping a 'worst case' contingency.This is a good idea, but without any sort of unity many of those sub-plans are conflicting with each other.
There are ideological splits taking place, with the most notable one dividing Johnson, Fox and the 'Brexit Secretary' from the Business Secretary and the Chancellor.
Theresa May is developing a reputation for trying to settle all disputes and make all of the final decisions personally, rather than delegating.
Businesses may soon try to force the issue in order to get some kind of clarity.
Given the near total absence of any sort of policy or clear goal from the government it's hard to dismiss this sort of thing out of hand.
We've had a shaky "promise" that article 50 will be initiated in early 2017. And aside from that very little clarity, from little information. Of course this could be twaddle generated and leaked. However the response did not instill confidence.
