open for them well maybe he sees what's just around the bend and the fact that the reality is about to become very real right and bear in mind we're now almost halfway through the exit process of a fourteen months only until britain is due to leave the european union and britain is very very little to show from all of that period so far and they remind that whatever deal would have to be ratified the e.u. has said repeatedly it's got to have the framework of a deal in place by october of this year that is an incredibly tight timetable it is and then it brings me back to what we reported last week nigel farrar saying hey let's have a second referendum and let's get this thing solved once and for all that's a very unusual decision by nigel frosh to make that demand and it was met by a confusion on both pro e.u. and c.e.u. sides. i think if i were to paps interpret that as at least aware of how difficult