Monday 19 October 2020

On your word

The 5 anglican Archbishops have asked ' If carefully negotiated terms are not honoured and laws can be "legally" broken , on what foundations does our democracy stand' ? In a letter to one of the once papers of record, the five Bishops who are members of the House of Lords ponder how can this be right.

How can it?

We swear on a Bible many times, an oath that we are telling the truth, or that will will keep our word: giving evidence in court, getting married, taking new citizenship or taking an oath to uphold the law before taking office.

What if those mean northing either?

And what of the moral authority that the Government uses to wield power? If the Government cannot be expected to uphold a treating it signed just nine months ago, then why should we, the public, expected to follow laws that have been passed by the same Government and mostly without scrutiny?

This morning was explained on LBC this morning to explain why Ministers like him use the term Australia type deal to describe no deal, when Australia has no trade deal with the EU.

Yet.

Cue much bluster and in the end argued against sematics, and yet this is very important, as Australia has no trade agreement, as it exports most to Chine in coal and ore for their heavy industries, but has recently highlighted the need for a trade deal with the EU.

All this is shameless lying or hiding the facts by ministers, and yet I am not too worked up, as Brexit is not an event, but a process, and a process that will last until the UK rejoins the EU or becomes so closely linked again, there is no difference.

And it will happen, because the free market dictates that it will, and Brexit goes against any idea of free market economics by increasing costs, reducing profits and slowing trade down. Either industries will fail or common sense will win out and things change.

Certainly no deal is not an end state, just a temporary resting place until those clowns in charge realise and somehow perform a 180 degree u-tern just needing the right words or spin to frame it as a victory for Johnson and British determination.

Reality nd common sense will win out, but it will be a case of how much damage will be done first.

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