All change in Ashford

At some point I hope that there will be some recognition that all of the people who said that leaving the EU would mean additional cost and bureaucracy for businesses were right and those who spent the past years peddling fantastical solutions that don’t exist were not.

The initial opportunity in January 2021 is that approximately 60% of UK trade will be subject to greater barriers. By contrast the UK is expected to have easier trading terms covering precisely 0% of our trade.

Brexit was won on the lie that the EU is awash with red tape. Brexit will mean having to coly with the existing red tape, but no say in how that red tape is written or applied, and having to comply with an avalanche of new ones.

So much for taking back control.

This morning we drove through Ashford, and witnessed a man doing a live link to camera from a grassy bank in front of a ten acre field full of Common Ragwort. This is not usual. But then these are not usual times, this is where the new freight clearing facility/lorry park is to be built, starting today. Brexity local MP stated this is not what Ashford voted for.

But it is, of course. This has to go somewhere. In Kent. Near the motorway. Near to Dover and the Channel Tunnel.

Ashford makes perfect sense.

Other than it will eat up part of the £703,000,000 the Government is spunking on another campaign to get Britain ready for Brexit. The public and business must prepare. But not told exactly what to prepare for. So, preparing is tricky.

Apparently the WA is remainers fault for pushing against Brexit for so long, making a hard Brexit more likely. This is a lie. Brexiteers have never compromised on Brexit, always wanting more, harder, more divisive version of Brexit. They are now, seriously suggesting breaking an international treaty as, apparently, closing the agreements already made with the EU is so unfair!

But still, another day closer to ending the transition agreement.