Dyears just over a month, Boris Johnson will have fulfilled his mandate. By January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom will, at least symbolically, have left the European Union (EU). The Prime Minister will have accomplished the mission entrusted to him by the voters: ensuring Brexit.
Mr. Johnson will savor this moment. After all, at Eton, the elite school of the British elite, he was taught this: the important thing in life is to win. And have fun. The trouble will start on the 1st February.
Brexit is very much the work of Johnson. If he hadn’t taken the “yes” side -, the referendum of June 2016 would no doubt have been different. The former mayor of London was the catalyst for the divorce vote. A charming politician, he succeeded in performing both trivializing Brexit – it will be easy – and lending him the power to transform the country.
Leaving the EU was going "Liberate" the creative force of the kingdom, to make it a paradise of free trade and free enterprise, an oasis of deregulation, especially fiscal; allow London to "Regain control" from its borders, to escape the immediate enlargement of the EU to Muslim Turkey and to spend huge sums on British public health.
Three years later, what does this litany of campaign bullying matter when, after an eternity of political paralysis, Johnson pockets, Thursday, December 12, a monumental victory in the elections – 365 seats out of the 650 in the House of Commons – and finally fulfill the people's choice by achieving Brexit.
Everything is forgotten. The great man will go down in history as the one by whom Brexit arrived – and, perhaps also, later, as the one who reduced the kingdom, the amputator of Northern Ireland and Scotland, But this is another story.
Everything and its opposite
The calendar is all laid out. The House will ratify the recently concluded divorce agreement with Brussels before Christmas. By January 31, the date set between the two sides, the kingdom will be almost a "third" country, in transition to exit from the EU.
Sad prospect, bad day for Europe, which is losing a heavy weight, moving away from the Thames caused by the English nationalist wave. The hardest part will remain: negotiations on the future relations between the kingdom and the EU. The Johnson government does not want to extend this transition phase beyond the end of December 2021.
