Boris to retake charge

Tomorrow the PM is due to regain leadership of the country after his brush with COVID-19.

For the last month the UK has not had a leader, other than the revolving shower of shit that presents the day's virus briefing.

Not even Raab seems to be capable of making a decision, instead repeating that nothing will be decided until Boris is back. Yesterday Raab stated it is the fault of the NHS for not having the right PPE at the right locations. Even now, with 45,000 on the slab, the Government will not take responsibility for the death show that has unfolded.

Yesterday, nearly 800 people died, in hospitals. That is eight Hillsboroughs, or 12 Grenfells, or two Jumbo jets crashing; just no live TV pictures or shots of bodies being dragged out of the burning wreckage.

But the deaths keep mounting up.

And through this, there has been no leadership. No one making decisions. Just the three word mantra "following the science".

And the media just seems to nod along. Last week's about turn by the press, in particular, the Sunday Times who laid out the gross failures of the Johnson Government, but now, "fear not, Boris is returning".

Meanwhile another 336 people died in hospital.

Meanwhile the clock is ticking on Brexit. Yes, its still a thing. And the UK has to show the EU how they are going to make the border in the Irish Sea work, as Johnson's bright plan in stopping the Irish Border becoming a thing was to have a customs and regulatory border between Britain and NI. And the UK seems to be in no rush to explain how it is going to work.

Make no mistake, this border, down the middle of the Irish Sea is a real one, and breaks up the UK single market. If the UK fails to show how it is to be implemented and work, and instead plans not to implement it, would break an international treaty, signed in good faith by the UK and EU, if the UK never planned on honouring it, that would be a very bad look.

The UK has been very slow in releasing texts on sectorial areas, and insisting those it has released are stopped from being published.

There is to be just two more rounds of talks before the end of June when the cut off for an extension to the transition has to be made. The UK says it won't ask for such an extension, but it is madness not to seek one.

But then so is 45,000 dead, and the Government doesn't seem to care.

Brexit and the way the Government has handled COVID-19 are linked. Making something complicated sound as if they can be solved with simple solutions. Always was bollocks.