Outpaced by events

As we speed towards Brexit day and that cliff edge, it was always clear that news would come faster and faster, hence that you get three Brexit posts in 24 hours.

But Sky News broke a story this afternoon that Honda is to close its plant in Swindon.

This is not project fear, this is project reality.

3500 jobs will be lost at the factory, and tens of thousands in the supply chain. And all predicted and avoidable, and yet May and Corbyn press on with Brexit.

I actually delivered door panels to Honda in Swindon, earning some extra money when I was at Lyneham. A supplier would receive production plans for the line, load door panels onto racks in the correct order, and I would drive a truck to the factory and deliver them to the workstation. Four people relied on that small process for jobs, all will be lost now, never to return.

On Facebook last year, and an exchange between people who worked at Honda popped on my newsfeed as I was friends with one of them, and workers on the line and parts department convinced themselves they knew more about the global supply business than their employer and voting for Brexit was not going to hurt them.

It gives me no pleasure to be proven right on this, and that this and other areas will be turned into industrial wastelands like in the early 80s. Generation of people with no work and no prospect, and all because some snake oil salesmen promised unicorns that in the end surprised few with a braincell that could not be delivered.

With no deal now the default most likely outcome, more companies will be pulling the emergency lever.

And how is that jobs first Brexit going, Jeremy?