We told you so

I have written a lot of words about Brexit over the last four and a half years. You might have noticed. And sometimes, something I wrote about, a year or two ago, which was dismissed as "project fear" then pops up as reality.

Te latest of which happened yesterday, when Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, or whatever he calls himself this week, said, he was fairly certain that planes to Europe wouldn't be grounded after Brexit, but he was working to fix it.

Which is nice to know.

TThe UK literally falls out of the Open Skies agreement when it leaves the transition agreement. This has been know for at least a year, and something could have been done. But nothing, apparently has been done. UK aircraft have to be registered, technicians and mechanics have to be registered as does procedures, and all approved. Otherwise no flights to Europe, or the US as the FAA are pretty hot on this kind of thing. And the sort of thing you would have thought those very clever Brexiteers would have thought of and planned for.

But no.

Just add something else to the list.

And the local paper in Ashford has published drone shots of the lovely new lorry park at Sevington, saying the council are looking for comments, but its not to be a chance for remaners to have a go! Well, I think plenty are already making their views made on that point on the paper's twitter feed and message boards. I thought about it, but decided not to add my thoughts, I mean, it was clear a border checkpoint had to go somewhere, somewhere on the motorway between London and Dover, seems to be the best place, really, and there is a lovely new junction Highways England built nad just finished, like they knew it was going to be needed.

Just an idea.