EIGHTY SIX DAYS TO BREXIT.

Summer is here and politicians around the western world have gone on their holidays, regardless of the supposedly major issues that confront them. That said, President Trump has still found time to upset the world's financial markets with an escalation of his trade war with China, and Prime Minister Johnson is working hard on what seems to be more of an election campaign than preparations for Brexit. 

Although things have gone a bit quiet, Brexit remains a key issue and those want to prevent it are continuing to make occasional forays into the media with their forecasts of gloom and doom. Prime Minister Johnson appears to be set on sticking to his deadline of 31st October although the Brexit Party has been telling its members that he is less than determined about this; their line is that Johnson is backsliding at a rate of knots and that Brexit at the end of October is far from certain. With less than 3 months to go, we'll find out the truth soon enough.

European politicians are continuing to insist that the deal on the table is the only one possible and it's reported that the European Union has all but accepted that the UK will leave without an agreed deal. However, it's also been suggested that the Irish Prime Minister may be starting to get a little concerned about the effects of a 'no deal' Brexit on his economy and could be beginning to consider alternatives for resolving the Irish border problem. Given that it is this one issue which is at the heart of the UK's dispute with the EU, providing a resolution would be a major step forward.

Where will it all end ? Will the UK leave the moribund straitjacket of the European Union on 31st October or will Parliament and the naysayers find a way to prevent it ? Are we heading for a very early general election and the prospect that Johnson will soon be an ex-Prime Minister ? Will there be a second referendum ? Will we soon have a Marxist government in power, headed by the Corbyn-McDonnell double act ? 

The referendum was held one thousand, one hundred and thirty nine days ago; since then politicians, and others, have hummed and ha'ed, far too many spending their time on looking for ways of frustrating the referendum result rather than ways of putting it into action. Now, in just another eighty six days, all should come to a conclusion.

Or will it ?