What now for Brexit

Brexit was always a stupid idea based on an olde timey world view on trade and where Britain, or more accurately, fits in. Going it alone, in trade terms, at this point in time was just madness. Madness though many in the Conservative Party were all to happy to jump on the bandwagon for.

My question still is, what are they going to get out of it?

Making the country poorer, trashing not just industries but entire sectors, someone, somewhere must think they can make a pretty penny out of all this. Or, it's all about unfettered power. Which is possible, and so the warning on the contents on the cronavirus bill should be a major alarm call, and that is due to be debated and passed tomorrow, and will gve the Government huge increase in powers for two years. Unless it is limited.

In simple terms, there isn't enough "bandwidth" in Government to deal with Brexit and the virus, something is going to have to give.

Raab suggests Brexit should be accelerated as there will be less trade to deal with. This ignores tha fact that companies would be expected to deal with Brexit induced paperwork and increased cots, as well as staff shortages and possible reduced production due to the virus. Even if Raab were right, politically it might be an idea, but getting the fucking thing to work is impossible.

And asked if Brexit would be delayed due to the virus, Johnson said that legislation was in place to ensure there would be no extension. This is UK law, not international law, and anyway, laws can be replealed or changed.

Things we thought impossible two weeks ago are now commonplace, and things the Government said they wouldn't do two days ago, are now policy.

Its not just the Government that has to prepare for Brexit, it is the whole country, and it looks like this crisis will last at least twenty weeks, if not much longer.

And with nothing agreed between the UK and EU, there is nothing concrete to prepare for. And today, the EU's chief negotiator announced he has tested positive for Convid-19. So, no talks, face to face or otherwise, for some time.