The Tory party conference simply demonstrates the inability of the party to see the brexit wood for the trees as it continues with infighting rather than dealing with serious negotiations on Brexit. Hard Brexiteers like Rees-Mogg and Boris point out the problems with the Chequers proposal yet ignore the business concerns and real actions by the car industry fearing a no deal exit.
The prime Minister sticks to the Chequers proposal, despite the EU and most of parliament regarding it as a dead duck. In addition, we have hard language and idiotic statements like that by Jeremy Hunt. Claiming that the EU was behaving like the Old Soviet Union, he managed not only to anger fellow conservatives in Germany, he alienated those former Eastern Bloc countries that were most sympathetic to the UK.
A great response by Vytenis Andriukaitis,
Dear @Jeremy_Hunt I was born in Soviet gulag and been imprisoned by KGB a few times in my life.
Happy to brief you on the main differences between #EU and Soviet Union. And also why we escaped the #USSR
Anytime. Whatever helps
The final proposals in negotiations are supposed to be completed mid October and presented to the EU in November. The risks of a hard Brexit continue to rise.
