Lead by idiots

The Chairman of the ERG, Mark Francois, wrote to Michelle Barnier regarding the forthcoming talks between the EU and UK, and in the last paragraph goes on to waffle about being a free country and other such guff.

That Francois has a position of some political power shows how low the current crop of Conservatives are.

"In summary, all my colleagues at the ERG have ever really wanted, is to live in a free country, which elects its own Government and makes its own laws under them in peace. We have come a long way in securing this objective and have no intentions of abandoning it now or in the future"

So reads the last paragraph reading like someone drunken, arguing with Alexa about which Beatles song was most popular. Barnier is a functionary, given his terms of reference by the EU Council and EU27 leaders.

The EU has long since come to terms with the UK having already left the EU, and is just waiting for the penny to drop on London. If Francois, Johnson, Raab and co want to carry on playing to their domestic audience rather than engaging now with the very serious issue, then its up to us. The EU is ready, and has other more important issues to fry.

Like with Brexit, with COVID-19, Johnson, Francois blame others for their own failings. Nothing is ever their fault. Either the destruction of the UK economy or 60,000 dead, then it is someone else at faul: The EU, The Civil Service, Bank of England, The Courts, Judges, anyone but themselves.

Meanwhile, having shown the current Government doesn't have the bandwidth to cope with either Brexit or COVID, Johnson and Cummings are now trying to re-wire the Cabinet Office and the upper levels. This will not end well. It is obtaining power with no real idea what to do with it. Be not worried about Johnson and Cummings, but who will come after, with all this unfettered power. Three of the most senior members of the Civil Service have either resigned or been sacked since Johnson and Cummings have gained power.

It would be finny of not our very livelihoods and that of our children and grandchildren were not at stake.

History will be damning. Meanwhile I am laughing like a drain.

At the madness of it.