Shooting the messenger
Control of the border now means reversing policy every five minutes. Now new cabotage rules will allow foreign lorry drivers to work more in the UK, foreign drivers are being desperately encouraged to come to the UK and butchers are being allowed into the UK to work in abattoirs.
At the same time the RHA is being frozen out by the government on the grounds that it has been taken over by remainers and helped cause the fuel crisis. Soon the NFU and the Association of British Abattoirs (if there is one) will get the same treatment, after all GPs are now responsible for a shortage of GPs. I imagine soon the RCN will have caused a shortage of nurses, the Care Homes will be responsible for a shortage of carers and the construction industry will have forced building sites to close down out of pure spite. Don’t get me on those bastards at the Hospitality and Catering Industry.
All these trade bodies are deliberately and cynically trying to undermine the government’s legitimate and democratic agenda by impoverishing themselves. Are there no depths to which they will not sink?
If only there was some evidence that it was Brexit causing these issues not the trade associations then you could ameliorate them by reversing that policy, perhaps by letting in butchers, drivers and farm workers.
Shooting the messenger only works if there is no more bad news on the way, otherwise every one is too scared to tell you that you’re heading for the cliff.
So for instance, if someone doesn’t tell the Cabinet that there is no way the EU will agree to remove the ECJ from the NIP, that too will end in a completely horrendous mess and a national humiliation.
But then that will be the fault of the EU or the Foreign Offices or the Irish.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.