BREXIT PAIN GOES ON
EVERY crisis is an opportunity, including a coronavirus that touches on British politics.
Only the naive could believe cunning Boris Johnson, slippery aide Dominic Cummings and his latest chancellor, Rishi Sunak, occupy the moral high ground.
Events, dear readers, shape the fate of parties in power, with years of Tory austerity and cuts weakening the public realm when it has most needed to be strong.
Labour is well aware that, beginning with Wednesday’s Budget, the Tories will use the virus as a smokescreen to cover up economic and Brexit failings.
Outgoing Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, the sharpest of the Corbyn regime’s strategists, is aware of this. So too are Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey as they battle it out for the Labour crown.
The private internal debate in the Opposition is when to highlight the obvious, as
Ending the needless slaughter of 100,000 badgers is a victory for Boris Johnson’s pregnant wife-to-be and animal rights campaigner Carrie Symonds.
One Tory MP whispered that feat alone means she would be a cuddlier Prime Minister than the cold-hearted insignificant other she is marrying. is a vote of confidence ignore the cancellation of the next X-Trail’s production, Honda’s closure, and car industry investment more than halving to £1.1bn a year.
The 100 government negotiators shuttling to Brussels remind us that Boris Johnson didn’t get Brexit done.
US billionaire Michael Bloomberg was wrong to call Brexit the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from elect Donald Trump.
Americans can boot out Trump in November.
Britain is lumbered with Brexit for years to come.
BREXIT preparations which have cost taxpayers £4.4billion already, with 50,000 trade form-fillers required, is expensive red tape that will strangle an economy.
Every week we uncover evidence that leaving Europe is an unparalleled act of HARM Michael national self-harm. Bloomberg
Experts calculate 2% or £40bn has been wiped from economic growth since 2016 and up to 7% is at risk over the next 15 years.
It’s the bad deal of the century.
Desperate Brextremist fanatics who pretend Nissan’s £400m Qashqai spending in Sunderland they are aware they will be accused of playing politics with a crisis. The answer was possibly heard yesterday from NHS medic Dr Sonia Adesara, at the Daily Mirror’s Labour leadership hustings in Dudley.
The health service, Dr Adesara said, is working at full capacity and the spare beds simply do not exist to care for coronavirus patients. Ambulances and A&E units unable to hit targets, and hospital waiting lists growing, are a direct result of Tory policies. The surprise in a Doctors’ Association