Chris

The thing that saddens me most about this is the evident glee taken by some of you at the prospect of British exporters losing business. It’s as if your need to feel a sense of validation of your beliefs is the only thing of any real importance to you in this post-Brexit world.

As to the specific case in hand, it has been pointed out innumerable times before that Brexit per se is not the problem here. Sovereign nations the world over do trade deals all the time. That is the normal state of affairs between sovereign nation states. Only those blinded by proximity to the EU and careless as to the cost in terms of sovereignty of surrendering to the EU in order to secure cheap cheese exports fail to see this.

The problem here is that we are saddled with a government whose incompetence knows no depths and which is transfixed by the likelihood of getting wiped out at the coming election. There is a paralysis at the top of the Tory party that is preventing it use what little skills it has to address the boundless opportunities presented by our freedom from the Acquis.

Nevertheless, one of the principal benefits of Brexit is that political accountability ends at Westminster and nowhere else. Parties vying for election in the coming months will have to address these issues in ways nobody has had to since the very early 1970s. That is a good thing.