Harry and Meghan are just spoilt brats

I HAVE lost all respect for Harry and Meghan – they are behaving like a couple of spoilt brats – determined to do everything they can to embarrass the Queen out of spite for not getting their own way when they decided that they wanted all the perks and privileges of royalty without any of the responsibilities.

Harry’s nonsensical condemnation of the Commonwealth is absurd. The Commonwealth is made up of 54 nations (including four that were never part of the former Empire) who, on gaining independence from Britain, voluntarily chose to maintain close ties with us.

As for Meghan – she is a victim of her own hubris. Despite being warned that by marrying into the Royal Family she would be subjected to restrictions and levels of scrutiny that would eclipse anything she had experienced as a ‘showbiz’ celebrity, she went ahead anyway, with disastrous consequences for herself, Harry and the rest of the Royal Family, especially the Queen – and driving a wedge between her husband and his brother.

For a couple who quit this country to make a private life for themselves – they are certainly doing everything they can to ensure that they remain firmly in the spotlight.

The sooner this selfish pair learn that they cannot have their cake and eat it – the better for them and, perhaps more importantly for us. to do with duty charges on the trade with the EU, post-January 2021. And then take notice the next announcement on NDL is to say that for six months we will not bother to make any tax/duty charges on incoming EU goods until July 2021. Sound good does it not, and then ask why not?

We will have borrowed anything up to £250 billion by January 2021 and need every penny we can get. And we just turn our nose up at six months of Trade tax from the EU imports.

Is it because we will not have the staff or any techy systems in place to make a charge? The clever high techy stuff that will wonderfully do it all for us.... is it still in a cardboard box somewhere?

Liz Truss leaks that the ‘no duty’ charge will almost certainly lead to smuggling. The ‘white van’ operators will have a field day.

There is another little problem. When Britain starts to trade under WTO RULES. I deliberately use upper case so that WTO fans can acknowledge Britain is not independent – January 2021 but subjected to WTO RULES.

And those rules include the stipulation that any tax treatment on trade between two WTO members must also apply to all other WTO member states.

It also breaches WTO rules to give free trade to the EU when no free trade agreement exists between Britain and the EU.

I can only repeat what I and a large number of other contributors to the WDP letters pages have said, that sound economic and social good sense demands that we postpone our exit from the EU.

We are – without a shadow of doubt – heading for the worst recession possible and for all of us it will see the emergence of a word we just hate to even think of... depression.

I will not be surprised if some private pension funds may have to consider reducing pension payments to preserve the fund’s liquidity.

I would be the first to applaud a change of mind about January

2021 by Boris Johnson and the Conservative government.

This is a time when all countries need each other’s support to work together.

This is about the daftest time imaginable to think of canoe paddling on our own. vehicles in order to get into this country illegally.

Once this happens, we will be able to trade with the Commonwealth and countries outside of the EU again.

Without the EU VAT tariff our goods will automatically become cheaper and more competitive so our factories will once again be providing employment.

Our standard of living will be improved and we should then be able to live at the standards we had in the 1960s before we joined the then so-called ‘Common Market’.

Good riddance to the EU, I say! hundreds of miles to Durham during lockdown. One rule for the people and another for government officials. The government are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think it will be easy for schools to return in September. All schools should reopen in September if the virus is under control.

The virus will not go away because children have returned to school. Johnson has been sending out the message that the pandemic is over. It’s not over. Teachers, parents and the pupils of this nation deserve better protection than the present government is providing.