Don Adamson reports in his unique style from his Brexit Bunker in Barnsley.
Brexit’s bitter taste
… Grease Bogg promised Brexit would bring cheaper food … UK government failed to build the facilities or develop the software … let us park our disbelief that Grease Bogg is owning up … Brexit is not working …. industry is warning that neither it nor government is ready for seismic change … red tape will add £330M to the cost of food imports … figure does not allow for delays … real cost much higher … crisis … lack of veterinary capacity … 8 years on, importers still waiting to hear how much it will cost … potential threat to viability of small and medium sized businesses … long delays … damage to plants … system is likely to collapse on day one … none of this was necessary before Brexit … higher prices and shortages …
Immediate reaction of European leaders to a Labour general election victory would be a sigh of relief
… fears that other countries would copy Brexit have evaporated … Keith Starmer has promised not to reverse Brexit … Johnson’s Brexit trade deal of 2020 massively favours the EU … EU officials are nervous of Labour cherry picking bits of the Single Market that it likes without taking the associated obligations … Wars … tensions with Russia and China underline the need to stick together … None of this would satisfy those around Keith Starmer who want to Rejoin the EU … EU is changing fast … expanding to include eastern neighbours (possibly Ukraine) … New Labour government unlikely to transform relations with EU … post Brexit chaos … lingering effects of Brexit …
Tory Party preaches ‘personal responsibility’but blames everybody and everything else for the failure of Brexit.
Politicians on the right obsess about refugees… current numbers barely represent a trickle …
Worst of Tory created council cash crisis yet to come
… for 14 years Tories have played a cynical game … fiscal austerity … double digit inflation … prices for ‘outsourced’ services got through the roof … same mixture of rising need, reduced central government funding … budget sclerosis and fragility … even small events can lead to sudden collapse … council tax … designed on the back of an envelope when Thatcher’s hated poll tax collapsed … massive arrears building up … until the UK gets real … even the reform of Council Tax won’t work … crisis is only going to worsen … council confronting situations over which they have no control …
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Brexit is a total disaster of our own making
… crisis for British manufacturers about to get worse … Brexit has thrown obstacle after obstacle into our path … added red tape at great cost … pain of UKReach, copycat version of EU regulatory framework … have to test and register all its chemicals both in EU and UK … pointless, massively expensive duplication … makes EU based companies think twice about doing business with Britain … why accept the added costs, why bother? … tip of the iceberg … German firms will not touch Britain with a barge pole … ‘I have said that to this government so many times, it is like talking to a Labrador’ … no idea at all … Brexit is a continuing expense and a continual drain … getting new business is not as simple as it used to be … it does not look like Brexit was a temporary blip … wants a similar deal to Northern Ireland … chances of getting a similar deal are zero … government does not care and will not listen … things are getting worse … UK used to be an attractive staging post for access into EU … UK will fall further behind EU and USA … UK cannot compete … another plea that falls on deaf ears … British government is not interested in the facts … does not listen and does not care … lectures on ‘Brexit opportunities’ that do not exist except in minister’s minds … tells them to adjust to new realities of a harder, harsher life … argue that the pain is worth as the price of sovereignty … his response speaks for us all ‘Ah Jesus’ …
Don Adamson Pip Pip Medway Delta (Retired) Brexorcist and Saboteur First Class