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Why the hell isn't India on the Red List, that makes no sense with the situation they are in??

Because Johnson is going to be visiting towards the end of the month to talk about a trade deal including Scotch and cars, so he won't want to get on the wrong side of them. Biggest problem is India were demanding freedom of movement to Britain if we did a free trade deal with them.

As much as I don't like the EU and there red tape etc, we still need to trade with them as they are our biggest exporter/importer and visa versa so it would make sense from a economical viewpoint to rejoin the single market to help small business and the self employed.

I don't understand how the Tories are 14 pts clear of Labour in the polls, surely you would think in the last week with all the revelations of the lobbying scandal and sleaze that the electorate would be angry but a lot of people don't seem to care. Then you have Labour who seem to fence sit and flip flop all over the place.

The May elections are going to be very interesting, I think they will tell which way the wind is blowing. If Labour lose the Hartlepool by-election to the Tories then I think Starmer and Labour are in real trouble.