WTO Is The Deal (!)

Let's see what happens today.

I was half-jokingly thinking about what I would do were I in Boris's shoes last night. We've seen suggestions that he could just ignore the parliament vote to block no deal. Essentially breaking the law potentially. Though I think this would be highly, highly unlikely.

So I was thinking how would I justify going down that route and it occurred to me .."just say we already have a deal". Everyone's already signed up to WTO, that's essentially an agreement. There are rules in place. It's not nothing.

So just start called that a "baseline deal", and insist that the parliament are wrecking any attempts to upgrade that deal by their intransigence.

It sounds a bit odd at first, and it would be stretching things quite a bit, but often in politics if you keep repeating something it eventually becomes the truth - or at least a truth held as true by one side. Just as remainers have done with ideas such as "soft" and "hard" Brexit, etc. They've been repeated into existence. It's a kind of sophistry.


"What are you on about, of course we have a deal, WTO is the deal. How's that not a deal."

"..but the parliament voted to block a "no deal"!"

"The parliament have no idea what day of the week it is. They voted to block an election when they're in opposition. Labour are now planning to campaign to negotiate their own deal to only then campaign against that very deal in a referendum. They're idiots."


Keep repeating that sort of argument for a few weeks and months and suddenly you're shifting the parameters. It's probably a bit late in the day to start doing it now, but worth a try. Of course, I wouldn't do it in reality (I don't think lol). It sets a bad precedent. Plus of course, there's the prospect of jail! In fact, given that remainers use the courts to prosecute people for putting fairly standard political slogans on buses they'll probably be calling for the death penalty if Boris pulls that sort of sleight of hand.

Again, like the "hard" and "soft" swindle, and all the other word games, it's more of a remainer trick.