Your early Brexit present

With ports becoming jammed with containers full of PPE arriving with every ship, pots all over the country are having their capacity reduced, woth Felixstowe and Southampton affected the worst. And on top of that, extra stock ordered prior to January 1st have arrived meaning capacity is further reduced as containers pile up.

Honda's Swondon plant will close today, December 9th, due to parts shortage, as their just in time supply chain fails three weeks before economic Brexit.

INEOS owned by billionaire Brexit backer Jim Ratcliffe officially end plan to build new Grenadier car in UK in Bridgend will be built in Hambach, in France, it announces. this was the plant that Johnonson trumpted just over a year ago to show business had faith on a post-Brexit UK. Wales' loss is Germany's gain, apparently.

Toyota wars it is looking at the ongoing financial of car production in the UK either with no deal or a deal, depending on detail.

And car bosses tell MPs tariffs would see UK car production fall from 1.3-1.6m to 800k.

And this is just one industry, each of these stories would have triggered much shoting of "project fear" a year ago, or less. And is happening deal or no deal. There is no reason to doubt the same story is happening in many other industries, and today Johnson heads to Brussels to have dinner with Van de Layen in order to thrash out a rescue package for a trade deal, while the whole cabinet, apparently, back Johnson's stance and willingness to fall back to no deal. Coming from a group of ministers appointed because they will follow orders and are believers in the Brexit dream.

Who'd have thunk it?

Brexit and reality are nearly touching.

And yesterday the UK accepted that the EU would have offices in NI after all, what with this being an EU regulatory border and all. Cue my wailing from Brexiteers.

BBC news lead with the story that the UK Government was dropping "controversial" clauses in the IMB and tqax bills, without mentioning these would have broken an international treaty, international law and the NI Protocol. Listening to the report, my conclusion, which I think is right, is that the UK Government accepted to abide by the terms in the WA and NI Protocol it signed just 13 months ago. Not too hard, is it?