Not a good sign

Yesterday, the EU negotiating team walked out of talks with the UK on future arrangements as they felt the UK party wasn't treating them with respect.

In any world, this is not good.

The deadline for requesting or accepting an offer of an extension has now passed, if the Government were to change its mind, it would require the changing of an international treaty and acceptance by all of the EU27, and that is far from a given.

Dover port is not ready for any change from the current arrangements for importing and exporting of freight, any change will have a profound impact on the supply of food and goods to the wider communities, just as we are looking at recovering from COVID.

It is clear now, that not just in Brexit, in everything this Government and administration does, its plan is to blame someone else when it goes wrong. The public will get blamed when there is a spike in cases and deaths after the rush to the beaches two weeks ago, and again after the pubs open, when in the absence of any rules, laws or guidance, the PM calls on the public to not be reckless and "not to overdo it"! There are no actual rules that the police will be able to enforce.

But in an interview on LBC this morning, the PM said he doesn't like ordering people around. Well, I would have thought that what one of the main jobs of PM is to do, creating laws and rules that limit what people and society can and cannot do.

Asked if he would speak to his own Father about his circumventing the regulations, he declined to answer the questions, instead to focus on the fact the, in his opinion, the wider public has obeyed the advice, now rules or laws, though they were, and helped us to get where we are, with 60,000 plus excess deaths, 20,000 deaths in care homes, and with a Government now failing to publish any data at all two days before many more of the economy's functions are to be unlocked.

There is no logic to much what the Government does. Instead of turning taps on one by one to see the effect of each, all are being turned on which will lead, probably, to a spike in infections and deaths, and the government no idea which one(s) caused it, but will still blame the public.

And now pubs can open at 06:00 tomorrow; what could possibly go wrong?

Cricket cannot restart and tennis can because of "teas and balls".

Ball to you, sir.