Apparently Boris Johnson's ready made deal did include a trade deal as it's main point after all...

(It didn't and this is just another example of how Brexit is driven by constant deceit)

For those keeping track, as of this week the rule was:
The EU are negotiating in bad faith because they aren't giving us the trade deal the WA guarantees.

Today:
The WA definitely doesn't guarantee a trade deal.
I don't mind making these notifications, but as Brexit goes on I think we might need a government institution to keep track of what was said, done, and written down as it changes from day to day.
Oh, and in case you missed it, before this week: Everybody knew we were explicitly voting to leave the Single Market take back control of all our laws and the ECJ.

From this week:
Remainers radicalised the leavers into leaving the Single Market, the ECJ and repatriating our laws
Oh, gosh. If only it was as simple as Schrodinger's cat. Once Schrodinger's box is open, and if the cat is dead, the cat remains dead. In the Brexit example, we can close the box up, and still not know if the cat will be alive or dead on opening it again.

https://t.co/Z5VcsZtMVq
We definitely need a Ministry of Moving Facts, preferably with a dedicated History revisionism department.
It's all very well saying that Eurosceptics revised history perfectly well inside the EEC and even before we joined the Common Market, but times have changed.
It was a whole 3 years before Anti-Marketeers were claiming that all the things they had said had come true, even though none of them had come true.
With today's rolling media, the adoption of populism, and a partisan press than ensures politicians don't face accountability, 3 years is just not going to be fast enough.
We really need a modern institution that alerts people when history changes.
How is the modern British person going to know when an indisputable fact known for hundreds of years has now become a politicised opinion? Citizens need to know this.
People keep telling me I should help with Brexit, well there you go. The Ministry of Moving facts.

Get on it, Prime Minister.
I'd also like to point out that it is a fact that we could always have had a ministry of moving facts inside the EU. Or at least we could today, that fact may change tomorrow.
See what I mean? We really really need this ministry!

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