09/09/2016
David Davis has paid £268,711
of our money in eight weeks of his department's existence â an average of around £33,500 each week â on legal advice. No doubt he could have got much of his advice free of charge had he looked
in the right place, but that would be far too easy â and cheap.
But if Flexcit is not enough, there are now the
Monographs, of which there are now eleven published. The very latest is
Monograph 11 on Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs) â which explains the illustration (above).
This is not the most gripping of subjects, but it has relevance to Brexit and anyone who wants to call themselves informed needs to know about them. The detail needed is in the Monograph. It's not Janet and John stuff â the material is written uncompromisingly for grown-ups, and we're going to keep it that way.
Each Monograph is ten pages long, running out at just under 3,500 words. I'm aiming at producing an average of eight a month â although that may be a little ambitious â keeping up the production for the next three years, over the main Brexit negotiating period and into (we hope) to the start of the post-Brexit period.
That's on the basis that Mrs May won't invoke Article 50 until after the German and French elections, putting the start of negotiations at the end of 2017. That gives us the three years, making about 300 titles over term. By some strange coincidence, that is a million words in 3,000 pages. That's the target â a million words.
By the end, no one will have any excuse for not being informed â not that they've ever needed one. Some people seem to revel in their own ignorance. But I'll have done my bit. But, for the moment, you'll have to excuse me â I've another 960,000 words to write.
