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The border in the Irish Sea is there to avoid a border on the island of Ireland. To avoid this border in the sea May came up with the backstop. Later on the UK demonized this backstop and chose the original solution of the border in the Irish Sea and celebrated it as a huge victory for British diplomacy. But NO - they had a cunning plan.

Now the UK wants to abandon the Irish Sea border one sidedly without coming up with a mutually agreed solution to avoid a border on the island of Ireland. In other words leaving the EU to enforce a border in Ireland. A clear breach of the GFA.

The fact that they are threatening this is an embarrassing low point in British diplomacy (which once was among the best in the world) They are clearly hoping to get concessions or to force the EU to walk from the talks so they can play the blame game - frighteningly I don't think they care which.

This notion of the UK turning into some super IT hub to rival china is absolute fantasia. Whats going to happen is once international jurisdiction is gone with the 'internal market bill' they are going to carve the UK up for Dom and his mates and the rub is you and I will be paying for it because its going to come via 'state aid'. Not the kind comrade corbyn was proposing either where he used the money to try and preserve British industry but the kind that directly pumps public money into the hands of dido harding and co..... Trump has just pulled a similar trick stateside.

Meanwhile calling their handling of COVID shambolic is being kind. Covid cases are doubling every eight days. In other words the disease is going exponential again. Public confidence has been shattered by Cummings little trip to durham - one which may have been done deliberately to damage lockdown strategy.... We've seen evidence of Cummings beliefs in eugenics.

As ever its not Boris and his gang of incompetent, heartless,narcissistic cronies that are the biggest danger, it's the people working them like sock puppets we really should worry about.