If you listened to 10 Downing Street, you would think that the agreement it is trying to reach with the EU today is epochal.
It isn't.
It just might reverse some of the enormous damage of Brexit, but nothing but removing trade barriers will ever overcome that harm, as this chart from The Guardian shows:
As usual, Labour does not understand the big issue, is missing the point, and is dealing with the relatively inconsequential issues arising from a matter that it knows is of massive significance but which it refuses to address.
Have people so unable to manage ever run a government? The answer is yes, of course: the Tories were as bad. But all that proves is that we have the wrong people in government altogether now. This is no place for the small-minded, but that is what we get.
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No steer and his team are more “scared, with no mind”.
Thank you and well said, Richard.
As I watched the BBC news at 6 am today, I was tempted to throw my mug of coffee at the tv. @ Richard and readers: I watched, so you don’t have to. Please don’t and keep your blood pressure healthy.
Richard: “Have people so unable to manage ever run a government? The answer is yes, of course: the Tories were as bad. But all that proves is that we have the wrong people in government altogether now. This is no place for the small-minded, but that is what we get.”
At the dog and duck overseas, the calibre of not just British politicians, but officials and hacks, too, is increasingly noticed. They are also increasingly derided. Britain’s soft power is fading fast.
BTW, there’s a link with the departure of Gary Lineker with the BBC’s coverage of today’s EU summit. Robbie Gibb polices not just Palestine, but EU relations, too. His two pet issues.
Lineker is being hung out to dry by the far right at the BBC
Thank you, Richard.
There’s a particular group that was gunning for Lineker. They would be horrified at being called far right, especially as some may have family perish in the 1930s and 1940s. They are liberal on other matters, just not on that. It’s not uncommon.
I have decided that I am going to celebrate today’s news about Europe with a glass of lemonade. The Tories wouldn’t have done it, and Reform certainly wouldn’t. So it’s a step forward, albeit a tiny one. But that’s all we are ever going to get from this administration. It’s not really a government, because governing requires leadership and all Labour has in 2025 is administrators who are reactive rather than pro-active.
So the only way to stay sane until the next General Election is to celebrate the small wins, and that’s anything they do to incur the ire of Tories or Reform.