Arneb wrote:31 January is actually quite a significant date, because 4 years ago today, the UK left the European Union. Great idea - hundreds of millions a week for the NHS, a Global Britain, great trade relations with just about everyone, cheap produce from all over the world filling supermarket shelves to the brim, only the best of the best foreigners (if there is such a thing) getting into the country - this has turned out just marvellous, right? Right?
And the Government is celebrating it. By imposing similar checks on foodstuffs, etc. coming in from the EU that the EU has done on ours for the last 4 years. Sounds logical, right? Except that Vote Leave, which pretty much the entire current British Cabinet supported (with, ironically, the exception of our current Foreign Secretary), assured us that Brexit would not push up food prices because the UK, although it would be entitled to impose customs checks, etc. on them, could choose not to. And we did choose not to, for 4 years, with the result that trucks coming in were not subject to the same delays that they were going out. And that enabled us to continue to enjoy Spanish strawberries and peaches, Polish blueberries, French and Dutch cheese, etc., etc. in broadly similar quantities and at broadly similar prices to what we did before. Now we're screwing that as well.
And will Starmer commit to even attempting to do anything about that if he becomes PM. No, because don't you see, don't you see, if he does that, the Tories will keep the Red Wall and he won't be PM. So the best we can hope for is a hung Parliament with the Lib Dems calling the shots.
Oh and wouldn't it be amusing if, just as it seems a deal has been done to get the DUP to go back to work, these new checks on EU goods mean that trucks coming off the ferry at Cairnryan have to show whether or not they originated in the Republic?