To extend or not to extend

Multiple business groups are now calling on a further extension or implementation period after January 1st to allow time for systems and borders get used to the new normal.

It makes sense.

But.

Ever since Theresa May announced that Brexit meant leaving the SM and CU, a border was inevitable.

It was understood by many people I floow on Twitter, experts in trade, international law, customs and so on and on.

But May denied it

Johnson denied it.

Johnson was denying it until a few months ago, and then they had to admit reality and start to build a lorry park in Ashford and customs posts at NI ports.

The EU has understood this since May's speech, and has been preparing: building lorry parks and additional facilities at ports, recruiting and training vets, so that now, some 11 months after the end of the A50 period, nearly three years after that started, the EU is as ready as it can be.

The UK could have asked and got an extension until the end of July.

Johnson said no.

Still says no.

But there will have to be something, otherwise there will be chaos.

But will the EU say yes?

They will only say so if it is in their interest to do so. If it is delaying the inevitable, then why agree?

The failure to be ready lays squarely at Johnson's and his party's door. They have know for over three years, but did nothing. It beggars belief that in order to play either side of the debate off each other, no preparation was done. At all.

The number of customs officals recruited and trained to help run the border is a secret, or the Minister responsible won't say. 50,000 was planned, I wonder how many they did pressgang?

Last week there was talk of their being a shortage of portable toilets for the lorry parks. Let me tell you that Kent's main roads are littered with bottles of stale piss tossed by lorry drivers as there are so few facilities for them. In response, another mInister stated there would be adequate supply of toilets.

That's nice.

Like there will be adequate supplies of food post-Brexit.

If only this Government, the Cabinet and Prime Minister were adequate.

But they're all shit. All of them. Even the Chancellor, who, like the rest, are only in it to make a name for themselves.

Brexit was always going to be crap, but it will be far worse than it was ever needed to be, and will be nationally painful.