“No one could have predicted a year ago how 2021 would develop” claims Lord Frost in an opinion piece that he has written for the FT.
It is well worth a read for those who enjoy the sight of a blustering man being pulled away from a fight by his amazingly strong wife.
“Let me at them, you slag”, he yells, trying in vain to break from her vice like grip.
“No Dave love, leave it, they’re not worth it”, she screams, managing somehow, without breaking into a sweat, to pull him backwards.
“This ain’t the end of it Maros, you hear? I’ll be back” Dave yells from the safety of the pavement. “I’ll be back”
Cue East Enders’ theme tune.
Lord Frost seems to think that no-one saw the problems coming with the Northern Ireland Protocol, when in fact nearly everyone including his opponents, the EC, did.
Now having spent a year threatening to invoke Art.16.
“I’ll do it you know, I don’t care, I’m mad enough to bring the whole bleeding house down, Just try me” .
He has backed down but apparently, to try to save face, he is warning it is only until the New Year.
“I never forgets an insult me, never”.
Then, despite effortless victory after effortless victory, the EU will suddenly collapse and admit that the deal he agreed to and negotiated is unfair. They will fall to their knees and admit there cannot possibly be a role for the ECJ in the NIP, even though Lord Frost and the UK government agreed to it.
“Sorry Dave we was right out of order, NI is your manor, you got us bang to rights and no mistake,”
Otherwise he will return to the fight and beat the EU to a pulp (wife permitting).
“Had enough Maros? Let’s hear you beg”.
In East Enders this kind of thing ends with the imprudent use of a sawn-off shotgun, an arson attack on the Queen Vic and the wife trudging to Belmarsh for the weekly visit.
“How did it end like this Dave?”
“Shut it slag!”
How so very different from the home life of our own dear government.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
I wondered what else you were up to -- never dreamt that you'd taken up script-writing for EastEnders. Nice one! And Happy Christmas.