Battles loom in UK over competing Brexit demands

"Britain is heading for long-term de facto membership of the single market and the customs union, even if we are technically in neither, in order to preserve the Northern Irish peace process," Jones wrote.

The UK simply cannot retain long term 'de facto' membership of the single market and customs union and at the same time technically, theoretically , or otherwise be in neither.   

The Lisbon treaty Article 50 process and procedure states , Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification.

The term "maintain full alignment"  has little or no relevance in law, open to interpretation.

Present and future UK governments could just pick and choose the context and method of how to align fully sector by sector.  

This report is a welcome method to indicate concessions and conciliatory gestures to at least begin phase 2 negotiations. The text "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed."...is self explanatory.

Theresa May government is subject to the political stability of a tenuous mandate in a hung parliament.  If a general election becomes necessary to return to the electorate in an attempt to find political consensus. David Davis is one contender that could be leading the conservative campaign.

Soon...

Soon what exactly?

An Austin Allegro in every garage and the Queen flying again on the de Havilland Comet ? The shillings? Child chimneys sweeps?

Britain will never recover from this madness.

David Davis is one contender that could be leading the conservative campaign

Really? David "thick as mince" Davis is a contender for PM? Heaven help us if that's true. This is the man who says he hasn't carried out any impact assessments on leaving the EU. How can he negotiate a trade agreement when he has no idea how much the country stands to gain or lose from the imposition of tariffs on any particular sector? How can he decide which sectors are most important when he has, by his own admission, no clue as to the impact on any sector of the loss of free trade with the EU? The man is an incompetent clown.

I didn't realise I am inadvertently campaigning on behalf of David Davis as the next leader of the conservative party.

I was merely attempting to suggest which would throw their hat into the ring under the current process the conservative party have for electing a new leader.

My opinion is that comprehensive risk assessments have taken place.

What is alarming and worrying is that David Davis has the audacity and effrontery to declare to a commons select committee they haven't. Davis behaviour in many respects is contempt for parliamentary democracy.

Also Scrote, the so called first stage report is fifteen pages is farcically ludicrous, a mirage of dishonesty  open to any form of interpretation, the legality a lesson is double dealing.