It is all about the 'idea', hey?

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2. Judging by recent articles, it's not (or not only) that they've refused to explain the difficulties,

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it's that they've utterly failed to understand them themselves!

That's been the story all along, from the referendum campaign itself, when all talk of such was airily handwaved away with dismissals of "Project Fear", to David Davis's ignorance of the fact he couldn't just begin to pick off deals with individual EU members as soon as Article 50 was triggered, to Johnson, just the other day reportedly flummoxed during a meeting with Irish officials that the Irish border issues are actually rather complex and none of the ideas his government has come up with so far go any way towards addressing them.

Johnson's also reportedly been unclear (and likely still is) about the difference between the Customs Union and Single Market, and during the last year, a number of backbenchers (who should, I suppose, at least be applauded for pursuing continuing professional development) attended hastily, if belatedly, arranged workshops to learn about various basic aspects of how the EU works.