From Don Adamson, Brexorcist in Chief from Yorkshire.
This week’s quotes: “ Richy Scumbag … softening his line on China … these include Indian IT business in which his wife owns £750M stake … Scumbag omits to declare his wife’s large holdings … large amounts of public money have been funnelled into intentionally opaque corporate structures to hide their beneficiaries … politicians particularly slow to react … Farage UK Independent Wealth Portfolio had substantially underperformed … since it started two years ago … anybody following Nigel Garbage’s investment techniques would be 7% worse off after two years … still not as bad as the 15% that Office for Budget Responsibility calculates Britain is worse off after Brexit … Elizabeth Holmes founder of Theranos, a revolutionary health diagnostic kit that turned out to be a giant scam … R Murdoch invested an eye watering £125M … George Eustice signed Britain up to free trade agreement with Australia … others warned that it would lead to a loss of business and lower safety standards … Eustice now appreciated that he lumbered Britain with a disaster … ‘It is time to admit that Brexit has been a disaster … and have another referendum … would surely result in a majority voting to return to the EU ‘ (Tweet by Piers Moron) … complacent City regulators blindsided by crisis triggered by Kwarteng mini budget … depressing picture … inaction … buck passing … risk modelling … inaccurate … woefully inadequate … nobody anticipated that British government would create such extraordinary instability … complacency … neglect … You are stupid, you are bored, you are drunk … if that sounds like your idea of fun the Tories have much to offer … R&D Row that looms largest for scientific researchers is that row over Brexit … the uncertainty over British participation in Horizon …the opportunities for collaboration that Horizon offers cannot be replace d… the realisation that Britain is not a rich country by North European standards … is rising … no wonder people go elsewhere … all sides are fed up … Labourites despair, Europhiles seethe … Brexiters moan … a recession looms … UK was hideously poorly prepared for the pandemic … one of the worst public health disasters in UK history … Hancock must explain why he did not use all available labs … clear indicator of poor preparedness … how many health and care staff died after contracting the virus at work wearing inadequate or no PPE? … Lack of staff, space PPE and testing…. meant vulnerable patients and staff were sitting ducks for Covid … piss poor pandemic purchasing … shady middlemen … evidence of poor value for money … Hancock could have derailed the vaccine project … Hancock might well still have been Health Secretary steering us through the worst crisis NHS has known … Public and businesses grow more and more convinced Brexit was a mistake and is an economic disaster. Both government and opposition determined to double down against a serious attempt to fix the damage … Brexomerta … a code of silence about criminal activity … lies, crimes, misdemeanours … nobody held accountable… “