Yesterday, the Government announced it had given £108 million in contracts under emergency rules, for several companies to operate ferries for the Government in the event of a no deal Brexit.
That the Government had to do this comes as no surprise to anyone, apparently except the Government.
What no deal should have already been obvious, and the need to mitigate it clear. Only if there was someway of doing that. Whichever port the ferries might use in France, Belgium or Holland, there will need to be freight clearance facilities, and there is little capacity at any potential ports for these.
One of the companies given a £15 million contract is only two years old and own no ferries nor has it ever operated one. It hopes to run ferries out of Ramsgate. Under the emergency powers the Government says it used to procure this, it didn't need to show the reason why this was chosen, but that such a company could even be considered should raise some questions? Or could it be that Chris Grayling is Minister for Transport and in general, Minister for Chaos, it is he who would have had to have signed this off.
And Corbyn this morning is still insisting that he could deliver a better Brexit.
We hare so fucking fucked.
Happy New Year.
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