Brexit, the gift that just keeps giving…
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Wooster-Mogg trying to pretend the inability to implement import controls on July 1st is a choice he has made 
Lies, lies and more lies.
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He’s right of course.
it gets worse…
An analysis of the effect of the Stormont elections on Brexit and the NIP.
Interesting summary…will the worm turn when the truth is out.
Today, 23 June 2022, marks the 6th anniversary of the vote to leave… where are we now?
Phil Moorhouse explores…
This weeks edition of The New European contains a number of good and perceptive articles to mark the sixth anniversaru of Brexit vote …and next week will be the sixth birthday of the paper. It has morphed into quite a good paper with more news about Euope rather than just ranting against Brexit. Bought from the original publishers six months ago (who also pub’ French Property News) it has just had substantial injection of outside funds and reently launched a revamped online app.
Phil Moorhouse’s assessment of the Resolution Foundation Report on how Brexit is making the UK poorer.
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I thought this article by Daniel Finkelstein was quite an interesting read.
Real Brexit is, like real socialism, a sort of abstract, undefined idea, always a little over the horizon, always waiting for someone bold enough, a true believer to guide us to the promised land. All the actual problems with Brexit, as with socialism, are because we haven’t tried the real thing.
This is the reason why you can be, as Dorries and Rees-Mogg seem to suggest, a “real Brexiteer” while actually having thought it a stupid idea, or, like Rishi Sunak, attacked as really a Remainer, having in fact supported leaving the EU. Real Brexit is a symbol, a badge, an aspiration, a dream rather than, as it really is, a way of making it more complicated and expensive to sell sausages.
It’s why David Frost, Johnson’s negotiator, can become a celebrity cult figure on the right, campaigning against the Brexit agreement he negotiated himself. He too has become a symbol of Brexit, despite having argued before the vote that “even the best case outcome [of the vote] won’t be as good as we have now”. Whoever is elected leader of the party (and I’m for Sunak, by the way) will disappoint the right and be regarded as a betrayer for as long as it fails to ground its demands in reality. This is inevitable and only depends on timing. Sunak, Patel and Jeremy Hunt have done it already; Kemi Badenoch, Truss and Penny Mordaunt are waiting their turn.
He refers to a speech given by Truss to the Food & Drink Industry back in 2016. It’s available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/u0cNPM4j1gQ
Brilliant Mr Butcher
My role was only to spot it on Twitter, the artist is Morten Morland from The Times (the attribution had got a bit separated from the image when I found it).
Joking aside, this is what UK politics has been reduced to and what’s worse you could say the same for many major countries around the world.
Bloody hell!
Doom and gloom doesn’t even get close
The current claim on Twitter (unverified) is that the following areas will be charter cities
Solent
Southampton
Portsmouth
Thames
Tilbury Ports
Thurrock
Havering
Barking
Dagenham
Teeside
Plymouth & South Devon.
Liverpool putting in a bid
Makes me think of this
The faster I can move to France the better.
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Critical Incident declared at Dover 
Unbelievable… the UK are blaming the French border guards at Dover for this mess
Surely the simple answer is to withdraw the UK border guards from Calais and Belgium, send them back to work at Dover and recall the French border guards to work on the EU side of the channel?
Any delays thereafter can only be the fault of the UK and nothing to do with France or the EU.
Just add it to the list of things wrong with the UK disrespecting agreements… the EU are now seeking action in the courts over the breaking of the NIP and quite rightly so concerning customs breaches.
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graham, I think you are wrong on this one; I use either the Tunnel or, more recently ferries monthly and there is almost always a hold up caused by FRENCH passport checkers, a problem that never existed by the way pre the EU. They do not have enough staff committed to the actual job rather than a few working and the majority hovering, chattering or walking around.
The problem may be that Paris has deliberately caused problems or simply that the French passport people are just plain bloody minded, bureaucratic and rather unable to respond to changes in traffic.
Remember it is les vacances so they are probably disporting themselves in whatever resort pleases em and fuk the Channel!
Is this another French fiasco? And peeps jumping the gun?
Remember the last one… Violence at SDF before a football match. Many on here did jump the gun blaming the Brits😞
Moral of it is: Let the dog see the rabbit first. And don’t pull the trigger before you have a clear shot, you’ll probably shoot the dog.