Dad's back

Traffic jams are predicted for 14 days after Brexit, says the Gurdnia,continuing the useful work to make no-deal look like Armageddon, just as the EC wants:

there could be chaos until the middle of April if there was a no-deal exit from the EU on 29 March...“We currently estimate it will take up to 14 days to initially bring the M20 junction 8 to 9 temporary solution into action, once the decision to activate it has been taken,” said Highways England.

Whatever shall we do (apart from demand we Remain)? Well how about being sensible:

Paul Carter, the leader of Kent county council, said he had been assured by the government that it would not take as long as a fortnight, adding that the government should avoid delays at all costs or have Operation Brock in place before 29 March just in case it was needed.

It is increasingly difficult even for me to read this stuff for academic reasons, so I am not surprised to find, tucked away in the Graun 

'Brexit fatigue' leaves British businesses unprepared for no deal

BCC survey finds many firms have ‘switched off’ from UK’s imminent EU departure

Some SMEs  '"have switched off from the process because they don’t believe they will be affected”, despite the Grudnina's best efforts:

Businesses that export to the EU will require a suite of changes in their operations, including knowledge of tariffs, rules of origin definitions and the demands of filling in 54 boxes of information for customs declarations forms required for each consignment...[and,repeating the scary stuffrom theNFU] if there is no deal there will be an effective trade embargo in exporting to Europe because of a new layer of certification the EU will have to supply for a “third country”.

Let's counter the effects of banging on and on with -- more banging on and on.

The Times also notes that:

A fractious electorate is already bored and keen to move on from Brexit, a feeling cleverly and successfully channelled by the Labour leadership at its conference this week. Troublingly, there is electoral mileage in the brilliantly spun myth of kindly Jeremy Corbyn [and the rather good policies to reform the economy a bit, but the Times columnist would not agree]

There is some mileage in another Times story too: ' Zeal has entered the souls of some of the Brexit gang and it has inspired an equal and opposite reaction in the second referendum crowd'. The zeal is fuelled by the flexible signifiers of class/identity politics as two tribes go to war? There is little appeal to the uncommitted majority?A familiar ideological way forward beckons:

The prime minister should take the lead by shamelessly borrowing some Churchill. Britain will be, in due course, “linked but not combined” with Europe, “interested and associated but not absorbed” as Churchill said in 1946 of the prospect of a united states of Europe. Then a little Thatcher: “Our destiny is in Europe” as that famous Europhile said in Bruges in 1988....Dressed in the party colours, Mrs May should then yield to the pressure being exerted by her foreign, home and environment secretaries and concede that a Canada-style deal with the EU is a better alternative than no deal at all, should the Chequers plan be rejected.

This is the approach known to students of ideology as 'dad's back!' -- relax, I know I've ignored your concerns for a bit but I'm back now to take charge. I'll stop all the petty squabbling and all will be good again.