High time failing Grayling sank without trace
JUST when you thought it couldn’t get any more shambolic, the UK Government has announced it has agreed to pay Eurotunnel £33million of taxpayers’ money to settle a High Court case over the Seaborne Ferries debacle.
GetLink, Eurotunnel’s parent company, was suing the UK government after serially incompetent Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling awarded highly questionable contracts to companies for cross-channel freight in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
This included the notorious £14million contract with Seaborne Freight – a company that didn’t even have any ships.
Unsurprisingly, the contract was eventually scrapped, but not before the UK Government wasted £800,000 of taxpayers money on consultancy fees.
My SNP colleagues Joanna Cherry and Alan Brown have relentlessly pursued the issue in Parliament – questioning the legal basis of the contract, while Tory ministers have squirmed and embarrassed themselves dodging the question.
This shambles is the ultimate metaphor for Brexit – it has been a complete farce from start to finish, with the UK Government deluding itself and the public, and it has ended up in total disaster.
Having thrown vast sums of taxpayers’ money down the drain and having repeatedly proven himself to be unfit for office, Failing Grayling must now resign – or be sacked.