It’s almost as if the government realised #Brexit isn’t a good idea

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This totally ridiculously incompetent govt is a shambles!

UK will not ‘turn on’ post-Brexit checks of EU goods for fear of border delays

Industry groups say lack of clarity leaves businesses unsure how to manage new rules due to start on April 30

“It is beyond frustrating…

🚨🚨 Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 says that given the conversations with Conservative MPs he’s having, he thinks there will be a leadership challenge to Rishi Sunak after the local elections in two weeks … and the PM might be wise to call one himself

How is business supposed to plan when this keeps happening? Just embarrassing that we can't establish a post-Brexit border, amid repeated claims this time will be different.

It may not warrant the largest of violins, but spare a thought for anyone writing a weekly Brexit blog for publication first thing on Friday morning (admittedly a vanishingly small minority) when a big Brexit news story breaks on a Thursday evening. 😢

Presumably the Conservative plan is to kick this shit show down the road until it becomes Labour’s intractable problem. And by the way, Labour show no sign of having a plan to actually solve it either because they are too frightened of saying the bloody obvious, which is Brexit…

This is incredible. Yet another delay to UK import controls. Many aspects to this saga but they include that Brexiters & the govt denied for so long that Brexit would entail such controls, despite it being obvious since Lancs House speech of 01/17, + refusal to extend transition.

The Tories have serious questions to answer on Mark Menzies.

Is Dan Hodges going to question Mark Menzies or report him to the Police for the £12,000 he dodged in tax by using donations to pay his blackmail and personal medical bills of £21,500?

The Tories have triggered their own “demise” by going ahead with Brexit, says Tory Peer Lord Rose, Chairman of Asda.
And the country along with them.
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Tories for a month: BUUUURN ANGELA RAYNER!!!!!

Grant Shapps this morning to Kay Burley: “There’s a process in this country where one is innocent until proven guilty - not guilty simply because an allegation is made.”

Provided “one” is not a working class woman, evidently.

Last week, my opponent volunteered to go on TV to attack Angela Rayner.
Now he's asked questions about the Mark Menzies story, he says he, 'can't comment.'
This is one of the many reasons Grant Shapps is losing support in Welwyn Hatfield.
People are fed up with such hypocrisy.

Mike Pence on Donald Trump's claim that he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours:

“My former running mate likes to talk about solving it in a day. The only way you'd solve this war in a day is if you gave Vladimir Putin what he wanted.” (2023)

I suspect this is a lot closer to reality than the R&W poll. If Street does win it will be a victory for the kind of Toryism that Sunak has totally disavowed.

Richard Holden, the Conservative party chair, is the Tory attack dog behind the Angela Rayner allegations alongside Lord Ashworth, James Daly and Dan Hodges.

He has known about Mark Menzies’ behaviour for three months.

Has he reported him to the police?

Nikki Haley: “He said that he would stand with Putin and encourage him to invade our allies...Trump is going to side with a madman who’s made no bones about the fact he wants to destroy America.” (Mar. 2024)

Finding out that Mark Menzies was, until very, very recently, Rishi Sunak's trade envoy to Colombia is wild stuff.

This is pretty big news -EU Commission proposing a very ambitious/extensive 'youth' mobility scheme between UK and EU...

Lowest CON % ever recorded in 45 years of Ipsos polling, a record last broken in the previous poll.

Not my expertise but Julian Jessop (once again) highlights a generic Brexit issue:

a) The UK had lots of pre-existing structural problems pre-Brexit
b) Brexit was supposed to help solve them
c) Instead, it's mostly made them somewhat worse
d) this was predictable (& predicted)