Well I am not going to recap up to this point. We now have to wait and see...

Ummm.... I am going to take a side wager on Boris quitting before the end of this week. If he can't get a general election, and has his hands tied to a deal that Parliament can debate, aside from the Prorogation foll d' roll being Un-Prorograted so they can discuss anything.

I am thinking this is like the rules of Cricket printed on a tea towel. Well Boris has already thrown in the proverbial towel for a fight by sayin he would rather be dead in a ditch... and he is being made to pick it up again. Only Right.

Boris is going to explode. He will throw a hissy fit and throw his hands up, saying it's everyone else's fault that Brexit is not happening on the 31st October, and they don't want to play at Elections.

This bit is nothing about Brexit, and everything about Good statesmanship, Government and Parliament working out a solution to the lies we were told in order to bring about a referendum to leave the EU.

The press manipulated the coverage about prosperity, security, and free movement and co-operative working and our MEPs in the EU, and made the leave campaign far more Nationalistic and fought it on hysterical terms.

The front page of our local paper says we will have fluctuating food prices, uncertainty, poor supply of medicines, we will be in all sorts of difficulties on our small Channel Islands. 

It is funny that some of the newspapers went with Jeremy Corbyn as a Chicken. It's the National Bird of France. They certainly sold him to the French.

I would far rather see this alliance that has formed to stop Boris become the next Government if they can work together. Early days to say this but I feel very proud of them getting along round the same table. I am sure more would get done for the country.

The thing that is clear is that each member of Parliament and Government is the Peoples Representative. When a Referendum is called it is advisory. If however in the nature of National Security, and Interest, after much discussion and deliberation the majority of those who are elected representatives vote against the outcome of the Referendum, there needs to be a robust mechanism in place to deal with the ensuing mistrust of disaffected voters.

Perhaps the prudence is not to call Referendums without very clear rules and procedures in the fist place. 

I don't think the United Kingdom would lose face if they decided to stay in the EU. I think if they decided to stay in, they should take their place and be among the Major Players that shape all our futures.

French Chicken is definitely far tastier than anything you can imagine importing with high food miles and chlorine baths from the USA. Welsh Lamb is considered a delicacy on the continent. We already have a good deal in the EU.

The Politics of the EU would be the next thing to grasp with some clarity. What are their long term objectives?

This was funny. The thought of America buying up Greenland...

Still, just goes to show how quickly you get dropped if things don't go the way the Americans want them done. I shudder to think of food standards being dropped. All sorts of things really. Like having sanctions used against us at some point. Anything could happen about now.

It also looks like Boris is begging for changes to the withdrawal agreement, rather than negotiating with actual ideas. This do or die rhetoric is dangerous. The 31st of October is too close and Boris can't get the job done. He is going for the leap off the cliff with the country following closely behind.

For all our prosperity and security we need to stay in Europe. I am sure of it.

Definitely in B movie script territory with this one. So it's nine or so weeks away, and the Conservatives have a plan to crash our whole economy... Just about everything the United Kingdom has stood for, I have to say this is reassuring! (and the Yanks don,t want to give the UK a trade deal if it affects the Irish Border).

I take it there have been many simulations of this 'Conservative' (Kamikaze) driving us over the
cliff like lemmings to a shark feeding frenzy of trade deals going bad. These deals have to be negotiated and the UK will have a crap hand to play with after this Halloween.

​The UK voted to leave, not the EU voted to chuck out the UK... 

Those who do not want the UK to leave the EU are going to be dealt the same nasty fate as those who do want to leave. A long drawn out sort of splat. Bad fruit, a collapsed economy. No meat, no medications and a lot of riots perhaps worse in some areas.

For me it boils down to border restrictions for my dog, an exchange rate that has flat-lined since 2016 and looks as though it will take a further tumble on Halloween. For a lot of other people in the UK about to leave the EU without a deal, things look very bad... not just bad, very dismal. Especially Farming.

There was never clarity in the referendum. Just stay in the EU or out. Not the hard soft or type of Brexit people would want. People didn't know what was going to be on offer.

The more I hear hard Brexit and the damage it will do, the more I dig my heels in and want to cancel it altogether.

Steady on... I don't think many other Politicians would be happy with that choice. 

At least the BBC news are trying to explain what is going on in flow charts which makes it a bit more understandable for me. So the likelihood is a general election. 

This to my thinking just puts new people in the same difficult position of trying to work out an insurmountable issue, that we are genuinely better off, and better placed to be part of the EU. I think we do need another Referendum where remain is an option, and leave with a deal is the only other option.

The ideal situation is a general election where the Conservatives lose a majority Government to all the other parties who want either a deal, or another referendum.

Boris went so far as accusing anyone against him as a collaborator with the EU. It sounds like something out of a terrible movie, where the regime are taking over by coercion. Collaboration is a very strong and emotive word. 

I expect to see Boris stroking a fluffy cat soon, and sporting a monocle. I can't imagine how long it will be before people around him start losing their jobs.

I am not bothered who is in this new initiative, if it is just Women, or a scattering in equal proportions of Men. And how of course to make it Politically correct also, as well as trying to get the job done.

Surely Cross party alliance of the like minded stop Brexit or No Deal and get another referendum on the table the best course of action.  

It seems silly that the Brexit argument was fought on scary immigration news and distortions. Now the UK are having to allow immigration from other countries to fill jobs. It all seems pointless.

What on earth is Boris cracking on about building prisons and locking up more offenders at this moment, surely Boris should be concentrating on that No Deal Cliffhanger. Just another diversion.

No doubt all will become clear in the next few days, I don't think Boris thinks things through on a long term basis. It's about what will keep him in the News, and everyone following him like Lemmings over that Halloween Cliff.

We had a fabulous storm last night, it certainly cleared the air. I think that's what we need for the UK political system which seems to have developed colitis. It needs a proper internal diagnosis and treatment plan to sort it out.

I don't think this is going to go away. It seems the only real conclusion to the different inner wheels of the Governing Bodies of the UK.

I thought a snappy General Election might be called. Even if it is, where does that lead the Governing Bodies.

Sadly the democratic process has failed on this issue of 'Brexit'. It has already more than divided families and friends. North and South of England, and the Union is splitting. 

Leaving the EU  is all too much for so little real gain. Lots of promises but no hard facts to back them up. The UK has been like a ship becalmed since that dreadful vote in 2016. The Government in Mutiny ever since. They well as May, hoist the Jolly Roger under Boris Johnson. He seems to only have His own agenda for this Hard over the cliff to oblivion battle cry of leaving on 31st October.

The Country is informed now. I think the true number of people who would vote Remain may have increased. If it was good enough to put just two questions on the original Ballot Paper, then that is surely the question to ask the Public again.

1) They Have the choice now between a No Deal Disaster for the UK with Boris, as the Deal scenario with Theresa May didn't get through Parliament.

or

2) Cancel Article 50 and stay in the EU... ( it's a lot better than the first option).

I don't think there can be a third option, as over the last three years every angle has been tried out and failed. It seems real people with genuine conscience in Parliament have fought every part of this Leave Deal which is the Deal, and the only Deal.

No use squealing about the Deal. If its not a good Deal, it certainly doesn't mean that a No-Deal is the only option. If it is, then it's for an idealistic Right Wing minority who don't care what damage they do to everyone else.

Personally as far as Trade Deals go, Two in the Hand is better than one possibly in the Bush, and yes I did mean it that way round.

Th UK are mad to leave the EU as a Trading Block, set up huge customs systems and logistics for just about everything just for the sake of being Nationalistic. 

I am convinced that Boris simply wants to be the one to sign up to the American Trade Deal, whatever they are offering. The Bleached Chicken Charter that will cause the UK to Break up, and England, the NHS and the Crown Jewels to be bought up by the Americans like some third rate Wall St.  Film with Leonardo di Caprio playing President Trump.

God Help Great Britain and all it's little islands to stick together and be a united Kingdom over this final demand to leave the EU without a deal. Let sense prevail, and this reckless persuasive idea that Boris has manifest in the public mind to leave recklessly on Halloween.

The public to be made to pay dearly for the insanity of No Deal would be a National disaster. If the Second Referendum voted to leave/stay the EU with a definite majority of 15% then I would accept it.

Then if The UK is to Leave the Next Referendum is how. The Bad Deal, or No Deal.

The EU have done their bit. Negotiated as far as they can to keep the EU project going.

The Brits voted for Brexit. Now they are blaming the EU that they don't want to be nice and chummy and move their red lines to suit the Conservative wish list. Even if they did, does anyone think the leaving the EU would get through Parliament.

I just don't think it is in the National Interest to leave the EU. Change it quite a bit yes, from being part of it.

It's having a Conservative party saying 'We are going to shackle the country in the foot to get us out of the EU', under Theresa May and her predecessors.

Now under Boris and his cronies, it's 'We are going to crash the economy of the country, and the value of our currency to prove a point'. The problem is how much all this affects people who are affected by this strategy, and how our lives will be splattered with the aftermath of some political theater arranged for Halloween this year.

I see a nasty Trick, and definitely no Treats in store for years. 

The hope I have, is that good moderate people with a genuine sense of urgency come together to get the country behind a second thought referendum, or a general election before the season of ghosts ghouls and skeletons in closets is here.

I am sure no one imagined this when they voted for 'Brexit'.

Has everyone gone mad? None of this is funny.

We in Jersey are being told to buy food already, that we can have on hand if there is a no deal Brexit and all the shipping snarls up. 

I am sure Boris has no idea the Hell he is about to unleash. The EU will not budge. The British Union could well be broken, and people will tell him to shred and roll the WT Rules and smoke them, as Boris will have single handedly sunk the pound.

Please let this mania be over, and see us diplomatically sorting things out with the EU. The UK need to stay in... They may want out, but they need to stay in the EU.

This is a possible shake up in the whole vipers nest. At least Labour have have come out with it officially that they would back remain if there was a no deal Brexit. 

Lib Dems look more relative and fresh too. 

The Cronies Boris has chosen seem frighteningly far right. This is like having a Coup over British Democracy. It might have been more of a walk out than being pushed out by many of the previous cabinet. I am betting on two more being axed or swapped in three days. Disagree with Boris and you are out!

I also didn't think Boris did well with his first pompous bluster at the Box, which didn't answer questions.

Now He is fully in the Limelight I think people will start to see him cracking up. He wont be able to bluff for hours, not without people grasping he hasn't said anything relevant, and has no means of delivering his outlandishly gestured promises.

I can't believe so many people would want someone as clownish, and joking about while the whole of Great Britain and the Islands are going to be affected by his reckless attitude and cavalier playing to his own party, leading them over a cliff to financial ruin.

I am not happy about exchange rates now. Crash us out is unthinkable.

I wonder how much Gaffer tape they have bought to keep the Boris 'Gaffs' under control from Number 10 Downing St?

It is unimaginable to have Boris Johnson as the PM of Great Britain. Still it is about to happen as I am tapping away here. They have all messed up The Queens trip to Balmoral. They will all go off for their summer break the political lot.

I don't know if people in Politics will go back to bearing some resemblance of Statesmanship and good manners. It all looks rather like a bad soap opera from every angle.

I still don't want to leave the EU. I want to see some reforms to the EU that smooth out the problems for everyone, and then everyone get along very well again. Well better than before!

I am sick of hearing rhetoric and financial promises that are three years out of date. The UK won't get a better deal than being in the EU.

If the changes that could and have been made in the EU could be described clearly, perhaps some people would think differently about leaving. 

My Gut feeling is that Boris will fail miserably. He has bluffed and gaffed his way to the top. There is only one way to go from here. I have an impending sense of doom that some dreadful new bit of scandal will surface. This might get the UK embroiled in a huge dust up in Parliament over how fit Boris is to be PM. Then there will be a general election. Perhaps Labour will get in.

However my hope is some kind of real move to back LIB DEMS to get another Referendum on the cards. One with Scrap the idea of leaving and stay in the EU as the viable option. The other option of leaving the EU and being subjected to bleached chicken just does not figure in my ability to formulate an alternative!

If Boris does indeed drag the UK out of the EU under any circumstances, I think it will be a very short road to the Scottish deciding to get themselves out of the union and re-join the EU. Boris is the one who is likely more than ever to upset divide and offend, than unite anything, patch up this horrid mess of bad feeling between both sides, and as for being the face of British Government... 

I have an image in mind of a cartoon Hippo in a tutu trying to cross a huge canyon on a high wire with too much slack to be able to stay on it... I don't think anyone can afford to cut Boris Johnson any slack in this job. Part of me wants to be proved wrong about Boris, but I guess that's how he keeps getting away with rising to the top.

​I am betting on the first big Gaff within 24 hours!