Will people realise the food shortages they suffer in January are due to Brexit?
Grant Shapps: he’s telling us supply chains will remain open after Brexit-imposed border restrictions are imposed from January 1. But he’s the guy who said it was perfectly safe to go back to work, while remaining safe at home himself.
Wasn’t it a stroke of genius to stagger the date the UK leaves the EU and the date any changes to our relationship take effect, so people don’t recognise the connection?
Clearly Boris Johnson wasn’t behind it. We can all agree that a yoghurt has more intelligence than the prime muppet.
So the UK is no longer a member of the European Union at the time of writing – but the Tory government still needs to make preparation for border controls that must be imposed from January 1.
And that isn’t happening.
Rod McKenzie, from the Road Haulage Association, said the government should “act now before it’s too late”.
Mr McKenzie told BBC News: “It is a real case of the government sleepwalking to a disaster with the border preparations that we have, whether it is a deal or no-deal Brexit at the end of December.
“The supply chain on which we are all dependent to get the things we need could be disrupted and there is a lack of government focus and action on this.”
He added: “When we are trying to emerge from the crisis of covid, if we then plunge straight into a Brexit-related crisis, that will be a really difficult moment and we need real pace.
“The difference here is between a disaster area and a disaster area with rocket boosters on.”
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is busy fitting the rocket boosters to this disaster area.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he “could not pre-empt the outcome” of trade talks with the EU, which he conceded created “some uncertainty”.
But, he said the government had kept supply changes going [I think he means “routes open”] throughout the pandemic and “we are absolutely confident we will do that again in the future”.
Let’s take a moment to remember that the Tory government was unable to supply personal protective equipment during the pandemic, meaning many doctors and nurses died of Covid-19 and Covid-related conditions.
The Tory government was unable to supply respirators during the pandemic, meaning tens of thousands of UK citizens died of Covid-19 and Covid-related conditions.
The government did not keep supply routes open – in fact, there is evidence that the Tories consciously shut them down.
And now Grant Shapps wants us to believe in his pie-in-the-sky promise that everything will be fine.
I don’t buy it. And that’s not all that you won’t be buying from January onwards, if your MPs don’t get their fingers out of their collective rear ends.
Source: Brexit: UK ‘sleepwalking into disaster’ over border plans, hauliers warn – BBC News
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Any problems arising from the Brexit fiasco will be blamed on the Covid19 pandemic, it’s going to be their “got me out” clause.
Well the road haulage association (not a particularly liberal organisation) are warning of disruption, and in fact anyone who has worked in international trade has known since the referendum was first suggested that this would be a problem but the government ministers don’t understand the complexities of international trade or Customs procedures so they just sweep it under the carpet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54021421