More mood swings among Guardianista faithful

 Several ups and downs for the Remainerati in the GHraun.

First a headline

UK may shelve controversial Brexit protocol bill in show of goodwill to EU

But don't get too excited because: 

a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) source denied the law was being paused. ..

the UK government said on Friday it would further delay calling an election in Northern Ireland in order to to give Brexit talks a chance. But senior EU sources said only “slow progress” was being made, with both sides warning there were still significant differences.

Next:

As leave voters’ Brexit regret rises, will political parties dare to follow?

Even leavers might be changing their minds, but there’s little incentive for opposition to revisit issue, say analysts

UK voters’ scepticism about the project has increased through the past 18 months, as the economic outlook has darkened.

As the elections expert Prof John Curtice put it in a blog post last week, “rather than looking like an unchallenged ‘fait accompli’, Brexit now appears to be a subject on which a significant body of voters has had second thoughts...the shift has been mainly driven not by changes in the makeup of the electorate – with younger voters coming of age, for example – but by leavers changing their minds....support for rejoining the EU had increased to 57%, against 43% preferring to stay out, according to a poll of polls by NatCen social research

But discontent appears to politicians rather ambiguously:

“It tends to come in two forms: one sense is, we’ve got all this trouble and we could do without it; and then there’s another sense, which tends to be a bit grumpier, which is that it could have been done well but politicians have fluffed it,” {and] after living through the unedifying political turmoil of 2016-19, when Brexit preoccupied the country’s politicians to the exclusion of almost everything else, many voters were reluctant to see Brexit return to the top of the agenda.

Even the Lib Dems, whose hearts lie firmly inside the EU, believe there is little to be gained from using up precious airtime attacking Brexit, when the public is more focused on more immediate crises – and already very receptive to the argument that the government is to blame.

Ford, who is the co-author of the book Brexitland, about the politics of leaving the EU, argues that any plan to rejoin now would be likely to hit a brick wall in Brussels anyway.

So what do the fuckers want?

 

J Freedland may have the answer...