What control?

Don’t you know there is a Brexit on? The £100 million spendingofpublicmoneyonadverts, the motorway changes from Monday en route to Dover and Folkestone as preparation for 31 October and the minted 50 pence pieces seem to toll the end of the UK membership of the EU and we are still in the EU with no date for leaving and on terms unknown.

Yet, all has paused. The WAB has been paused, perhaps even pulled, who knows, the new-dawn budget for November has been abandoned and the rumours abound about the motion for the election in December that it has been abandoned now by the PM as no majority for it is likely.

No impact assessments on Brexit are there except those from March and the UK government borrowing is rising faster. The OBR has warned the Government that it is ontrack to overshoot its borrowing target by at least £8bn this year, ironically, the only ontrack target the government now has. The IFS has indicated that the government has even torn up its own tax and spending rules after the splurged of recent spending promises from the PM. His assurances always turn out to be untrustworthy.

The paralysis on the one hand and internal post-may mayhem on the other at Westminster is mind blowing.

In this ever morphing government every Monday is always another unknown as one waits to see what ruse No 10 will have come up with next as it awaits to find out the extension, if any, granted by the EU to enable No 10 to ‘take back control’.

JOHN EDGAR Langmuir Quadrant, Kilmaurs