Kent and Brexit

Not only will there be a massive freight handling facility to be constructed on the edge of Ashford, steamrollering over the local council's concerns. But the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps (or whatever he calls himself today), also over-ruled Thanet Council to allow Manston Airport to become a freight hub post-Brexit.

This is a change in plans, as for a couple of years it was to host the UK's largest lorry park on it's 9,0014 feet long runway. For two years it was home to the country's strategic cone store, which were used to mark out parking lanes for truck on the runway.

The Transport Ministry trialled getting 500 trucks from Manston to Dover a year or so ago. Or was it two? Who knows.

Anyway, so what with Ashford and Manston, Kent and its roads will be even busier than before. Of course, one of the ironies is that it was EU money that paid for road improvements that the UK will rely on. Though the port that the roads lead to, Ramsgate, closed before the roads were completed.

Of course, flying in freight is fine, and will work in some amount, but the carbon footprint will be huge, as will the noise pollution for those in the glide path, Ramsgate especially, depending on how many planes in Brexit Airways arrive in a day. Or night.

Kent voted heavily for Brexit. Ashford did too. So, we shall reap what we sowed. I still think we will see migrant camps here soon enough. Don't say you weren't warned.

So it goes, so it goes.

Meanwhile, the UK is to opt out of the EU's future COVID vaccine procurement program, the Government preferring to run it themselves, as the ventilator program was such a success.

This is the latest example of not UK exceptionalism, but English. Everything the Government tries to do is word beating, or world leading. We just need things to work. So lives can be saved. Brexit was the manifestation of English exceptionalism, with the rest of the UK voting to remain, the devolved administrations against, but the Westminster Government dragging all out. Not wanting to be part of anything EU or European, but agreeing to US demands is fine, apparently.

All this exceptionalism then is transferred into not partaking in schemes with our European neighbours to bulk buy PPE, equipment and in time a vaccine.

No we can do it ourselves, to show Johnny Foreigner. To show them that we really can't do anything, just screw things up. This is what happens when all the grown ups were chased out of the Conservative Party, and are left are those with ideas but no idea how to put them into practice. And everything is geared to how Brexity a person is to whether they will stay in a job or be considered for one. Liz Truss is expected to be sacked this week, or as soon as possible, due to her letter highlighting problems remaining with the preparations for Brexit. Even those in place are priced at over £700 million.

So we will have COVID 2nd wave, a great depression sized economic slump, Brexit and Cummings rearranging the pillars of democracy. What could possibly go wrong?