It's going to get worse, not better
I don’t normally blog twice in one day but this is different. I have just heard Suella Braverman throw her hat in the ring to be the next PM.
She is doing what probably every other candidate will do, doubling down on Brexit. She as good as laid out a platform which includes, breaking international law by tearing up the Northern Ireland Protocol, leaving the ECHR, and “seizing Brexit opportunities”.
The first one makes the last one easier, once the new PM gets elected by kow-towing to the ERG and tears up the NIP, the UK’s relationship with the rest of the world changes. No one will trust the UK, hard Brexit will double the economic damage, a trade war will make it even worse.
She, or whoever wins, can then try to fulfil the fantasies of the ERG loons and go for Singapore-on-Thames, because there will be nothing to lose.
Slashed workers rights, wages and business taxes, fewer safety rules and protections, lower standards. All will break the level playing field provisions of the TCA, that means the EU banning British goods, food and services.
The consequences will be dire, this is all going to get worse, far far worse.
Boris Johnson was not the cause of all this, his party has been taken over by UKIP.
The next PM will have to sell even more of their soul to get into No.10.
Some may even be stupid enough to believe these fantasies but the consequences are going to be awful.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.