Global Britain / small minds

The ERG, European Research Group, has now turned it's "expertise" towards China.

It has found out after an extensive Google search that as the leader in global trade, China likes to make rules.

And it also seems they have heard something about 5G and have been drivers from within the Conservative Party to get Johnson to scrap the Huawei participation. It seems France has taken a sensible course and stopped the Chinese company from participating in sensitive areas of 5G infrastructure. But then it would mean going against what Trump wants.

So, the vision of global Britain is where we take rules and orders from the US. US good, EU and China bad.

Apparently.

Leaks from the EU negotiating team is that the UK has lowered sights on a deal with one being sought now more simple and less comprehensive than previous. This would make an already hard Brexit, harder.

Either way all the red tape, delays, costs and job losses will all the more likely.

But the ERG, in particular, Angela Jenkins seems OK with that as she Tweets thumbs up emojis.

Sigh.

Meanwhile, The Guardian reports that the lesson the Government is taking from COVID is that there needs to be more centralised decision making, not less. Odd as many local authorities are still reporting not being able to get current data on local infection rates. It seems Johnson and/or the Cabinet Offic (Cummings) wants more hands on control of PHE and the NHS, because all they did in the first wave went so swimmingly well.

Infection rates are climbing in Span, Germany and France, as fears that it is the start of a second wave of infections.

And in the Torygraph, Johnson is again looking at Judicial Review (JR) and seeing how intervention of the Supreme Court and others can be eliminated or reduced, as the ruling on the illegal prorogation of Parliament still rankles. Still, the rule of law and all that?