Noticing the notices.

Today, the Government published the first of its technical notices, and in short, the plan is to agree to align with EU standards and laws, and hope the EU reciprocates.

That is it.

It also askes pharmaceutical companies to stockpile 6 weeks of medicines, and also tells companies that export that an extra layer of paperwork will be needed, so might be a good idea to practice with the red tape needed now.

And it also mentions that UK needs to set up its own agencies to replace EU ones. In seven months.

And that is about it, although this is just 20 of the notices, the vagueness of the planning is shocking, and bases some of the planning on hoping the EU won’t implement laws and standards on UK goods it will have to.

“It’s a little risky to have your failed negotiation contingency plan rely on the cooperation of your failed negotiation counterparty.”

And for NI businesses who trade over the border with Ireland? “ask the Irish Government”! You really could not make this shit up.

And at the end, this does is drive the final nail in the coffin of lies that Brexit would bring back control to the UK and mean an end to EU Bureaucracy. The first is killed by the addittance that we would rely on, for an indefinite period, the EUs rules and regulations for the importing of food and drugs, and hope that the EU will do the same for our goods. And the second is killed by the massive amount of forms and red tape, sorry, red white and blue tape, that businesses on either side of the Channel will not have to comply with.

And that might all fine and dandy, were it not for the Chancellor to finally answer Nicky Morgan in writing today, spelling out that the UK economy would be approximately 8% worse off after 15 years than it it would have stayed, but for regions (or countries) like the North East and Northern Ireland, this will be much worse.