Sunday 7 January 2018

All change at the top

Tomorrow, Monday, the PM will reshuffle her cabinet, and we will really see if she is strong or not, demoting or sacking those who have long deserved it, or letting them be.

As far as Brexit is concerned, it won't change a whole lot, other than maybe promoting more headbangers who think walking away from the negotiation table with the EU is a strong and clever thing, ripping us current trade treaties and showing Britain to be untrustworthy just as we have to negotiation hundreds of new ones.

And what of the institution, the EU, that we are leaving behind. Today it announced an initiative to discover why there is a different of £19.5 billion between VAT receipts issued and the actual amount received in Britain, or put it this way, more than enough money to cover the annual bill tot he EU, the £450 million a week Vote Leave promised for the EU and plenty of change over for other large projects. But that would ruin the lie that immigrants are the root of all problems, not HK Government policy.

THere was serious talk on the political TV show couches about what to do about the NHS and whether parts of it should be paid, but nothing of the deliberate underfunding by May and Cameron to create this crisis.

Then there is always bread and circuses; Over to you Boris.

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