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Brexit. No Deal is No Surprise

Boris sold an impossible solution to the electorate in the General Election last year.The border in the Irish Sea could never work. The alternative (a free trade agreement) would never be accepted by the Tory party because that is what May had negotiated and had been rejected umpteen times by Parliament (not just Tories btw).So it's no surprise that we will leave with no deal.It's also no surprise that we are totally unprepared and will leave with maximum disruption.But that's all ok - Boris can now blame it all on Covid. Every cloud has a silver lining for BJ

Richard Potts ● 2205d23 Comments

Not sure residents in Kent who now need to contend with a giant lorry park will accept COVID as an acceptable excuse.Project fear turns into project truth, we can now sit back and watch project blame and project denial spring into action.

Matthew Swain ● 2205d

Is there anyone who seriously thinks that this isn't what these idiots wanted all along? Bozza will always find something/someone to blame.

Vanessa Smith ● 2205d

come on people, we are going to be ok, trust Boris,we have all these great trade deals already negotiated and things are going to be wonderful, have faith!!! God help us.

James Smith-Jones ● 2205d

The lorry park in Kent will be named Sunlit Uplands.The cafeteria will serve only milk and honey.The Portaloos will be known as Boris Bogs.

Ken Munn ● 2205d

Not entirely sure even the Almighty can help us on this one.

Vanessa Smith ● 2205d

The Farage Garage, surely ?

Stewart Jones ● 2205d

Aren't we going to become a low tax haven?Except they're going to need to raise taxes to pay for Covid.What's betting Boris quits soon and does something where he doesn't have to work so hard. After dinner waffler would seem the mark.

Richard Potts ● 2205d

Not a surprise, I always thought it was the likely result given the pig headedness and bad faith negotiating strategies on both sides.Compared to large chunks of the EU we are already a low tax haven. Given some of the rather strange ideas the EU has on strangling digital businesses (and this is from someone who agrees with most of the GDPR), the UK could with the right laws become the digital hub for the EU but somehow I doubt it will be

Justin Stephenson ● 2205d

"Not entirely sure even the Almighty can help"Careful - it is high treason to speak like that about Cummins!

Steve Taylor ● 2205d

I think this is Johnson grandstanding.  A deal is still possible for the moment.  If a deal is eventually reached Johnson will crow about how it was his tough approach that got us there.  For all but the terminally gullible this will have as much credibility as everything else he spouts.

Alastair Banton ● 2205d

RP > "So it's no surprise that we will leave with no deal."Johnson prefers to call it an Australian-style arrangement.I am rather worried that Johnson and his team have failed to do some basic research using the EU Treaties Office Database.Australia has more than 80 agreements with the EU. Of these, twenty are bilateral covering areas such as trade in wine, cheese, mutton, lamb & goat meat, air services, security of classified information, scientific & technical co-operation and mutual recognition of conformity assessment, certificates and markings.I'd say we are looking at something closer to an Afghanistan-style arrangement.

John Whitworth ● 2205d

Is the UK the first known case of a country imposing economic sanctions on itself?

Ken Munn ● 2205d

Do we even know what Cummings vision is for UK without a deal?We're going to be the new Singapore apparently!What does that mean besides being very hot.

Richard Potts ● 2205d

Perhaps he hopes to introduce caning for vandalism."writing, drawing, painting marking or inscribing on any public or private property without permission and stealing destroying or damaging any public property"

Will Watson ● 2205d

"What does that mean besides being very hot."No spitting?  Jail sentences if you are caught.

Steve Taylor ● 2205d

On the one hand this is a tremendous surprise. We were all promised a very good and easy to attain deal. We were told that “they needed us as much as we need them”. Thus, there should be no worries about leaving the EU. So to find that a deal is both problematic and difficult is very surprising; especially as the negotiator in chief was the promiser in chief. I’m really really surprised. But what I’m most surprised about, more than the above, is that nobody here feels (as yet) able to defend our government. Not one person.

Alan Clark ● 2205d

I cannot help wondering where we would be now, if we had had such a government between 1939 and 1945

Jonathan Bond ● 2205d

Steady the Buffs. Spitting is already an offence punishable by a fixed penalty fine in the London Borough of Hounslow. We had a relatively high incidence of TB in 2019- the third highest infection rate in London. Higher than in Bosnia or Suriname.

Cllr Sam Hearn ● 2205d

This thread was about Brexit and all you can add is spitting and TB! See, this is where you have got me agitated Sam and I appreciate it is hard being a local Cllr, however, I really don’t care too much about spitting or TB at this point of a possible no deal Brexit and the damaging consequences which YOUR party sold a big fat lie to the nation. So let us put TB and spitting aside and concentrate on Brexit. Did you vote for Brexit and do you fully support this Govt? I hope you can be upfront with us because let’s face it, people on here are fed up with politicians.

James Smith-Jones ● 2205d

The residents of Kent will also have bottles of urine thrown down everywhere according to a select committe. As it turns out no proper toilet facilities or showering facilities are provided on this side of the channel. We have the answer though, hundreds of portaloos, I hope these will be cleaned. Dont worry though it will be the hauliers fault, never the government though.

Nicholas Beard ● 2205d

How many fines have been issued though?

Nicholas Beard ● 2205d

Just heard that Moodys have downgraded the UK citing Coronovirus and BREXIT. Strange, I was told, well we all were  that Brexit would benefit us. Pound down food prices up, but farmers still want a subsidy when they lose the CAP payment. I suppose that is why Boris is so strong on state subsidies.

Nicholas Beard ● 2205d

You are right, and the was even an OVEN READY DEAL, all phrases which meant nothing!!!!!!

Nicholas Beard ● 2205d