The intensity is intensifying

On Thursday, after Michael Barnier used the term intensify in a speech to the EU Parliament, the UK said it would allow talks between the UK and EU to resume.

Against some very stiff competition, this has been the most childish of spats, and does little to raise expectations that either side wil be able to pull up their big girl's knickers and be the adult in the negotiating room.

But there are signs that agreement is close, with movement on both sides.

That remains to be seen.

But the thin deal that the UK will have to its largest and closest trading partners will be less than the one that Liz Truss has closed recently with Japan. Though that is a guess as it is secret, there has been no scrutiny, as those clever MPs voted away their own oversight.

So it goes, so it goes.

Hardly anyone is playing attention to Brexit as a 21 year old Manchester United footballer is taking on the Government, and winning, in feeding hungry poor children over the school holidays. Rumour has it that Conservative HQ is looking into digging up any dirt on the young man given an MBE by, checks notes, HM The Queen last month.

Thousands of businesses stated on his Twitter feed that they would step up to fill the gap left by the Government funding, by providing free meals for all who need it next week. A huge own goal by the Government there.

MPs, in trying to justify their Scrooge-like behaviour, have managed to dig themselves into deeper holes by suggesting poor parents use such funding to by crack, becauae poor people can't be trusted to look after their own children. By MPs of a party whose PM once left his child in a pub.

Many people do not realise what the three tiers of lockdowns mean. Sylv thought that the very level for Lancashire was for two weeks and so she could travel back then with no troubles. I told here that the Government was preparing 6 months of financial support for those areas and it would likely be spring before any loosening, she thought I was joking.

If only.

Wales as a 5 tier lockdown structure, and it is likely that England will have to copy this as the second wave gets ever bigger. But as in England, the tier system begins on medium, and then goes to high and ends on very high. The two new tiers will have to be very, very high and very, very, very high.

And then it will be a short time until the 5 tiers are expanded to seven, and the Goombay Danceband will perform thir hit as England's new anthem.

But by then we will all be dead, so no one will join in.

So it goes, so it goes.