YESPatience, I am phenomenally concerned. By 1st July the British government has to give notice to the EU if it wants to extend the transition period beyond 31st December of this year. Yet it is clear that it will not. Boris Johnson is imprisoned both by his own rhetoric of national “independence” and the need to keep the impossible pledges that won him the prime ministership. But within the timescale nothing but the most damaging of hard Brexits, with incalculable economic, political and cultural consequences, is possible.
In these circumstances we have an obligation to call the government out for traducing our interests and its own promises, and to continue to argue that British membership of the EU was, is and would be the best of our national options. In democracies it is vital to carry on making arguments in which we believe: what is happening is bad and avoidable, and the solution is to rejoin.