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Donald Tusk has got me thinking what hell might really be like.

For me, it would be sitting in a room, perpetually having to work out how to explain the difference

between a custom union and the custom union, explaining what the backstop is and the backstop

to the backstop, having to explain what the difference is between the withdrawal agreement

and the political declaration.

And as I look around me amidst the weeping and nesting of teeth with the flames of

eternal fly burning, they're giving interviews.

24-7.

A Barry Gardner.

Anna Subry.

An Ian Duncan Smith.

No offense, Anna, Barry, Ian.

Like me, like Donald Tusk, you're just doing your job.

But sadly we are all trapped in the longest running drama, the fast of the Brexit negotiations

that seem never to end.

I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like for those who promoted

Brexit without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely.

No sooner have the president of the European Council uttered those words than the question

arose.

What an earth.

Did he mean by that?

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