Brexit

For all those who are having trouble finding the draft withdrawal agreement, try typing 'draft' into the Google search box. He then suggests that perhaps what you are after is the 'draft withdrawal agreement'. Click on that and the third hit is a pointer to an HMG website containing a further pointer to the 'Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community - PDF, 1.03MB, 129 pages'. No doubt the chattering classes, led by Corbie the Crow in person, have soaked this up overnight.

Just think of all the money that lawyers and others must have made concocting the successive versions of this fine (and helpfully colour coded) document.

Just wonder how many people can truthfully claim to have read it all the way through. How many of the journalists banging on about it in our morning newspapers have actually read any of it? Given that many of them probably rely on summaries helpfully provided by the likes of PwC - and perhaps PwC has already done rather well out of building the document, so is in a good position to help the rest of us not to read it. Will I go so far as to skim through it - having gone so far as to save my own personal copy where my telephone can see it?

PS 1: it is often said that fancy lawyers are very good at soaking up huge amounts of heavy paper. Which skill would have given the discredited Blair a big advantage over the yet to be credited Corbyn.

PS 2: the address line at the top of the snap above suggests that this document scores as a government asset! A fine bit of facilities management speak.

Reference 1: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-withdrawal-agreement-19-march-2018.