Far be for me to to point this out

But, as I pointed out yesterday, it is four years since May decided Brexit meant leaving the Single Market, and possibly the Customs Union, therefore, anyone who has a most basic understanding of how imports and exports work meant that there would be a massive increase in red tape going both ways, especially if the point of Brexit is divergance.

And therefore, demonstrating the terms of the TCA some 18 days after it came into force is somewhat late.

As I write this, a convoy of HGVs are going round in circles in Whitehall, pointing out the deal done was likely to put them out of business.

Being out of the SM and CU was always going to be a huge problem, and there have been four years to point this out.

Now, there are a couple of reasons for this: for some time, industry leaders could only have access to Ministers if they were pro-Brexit, and when they did get access had to sign comprehensive Non-disclosure Argreements (NDAs) so were unable to speak out.

And yet if the very model your business relies on, and when you realised how dreadful it would be, or what terms you would need to continue to trade, you would have thought they would have said something before now?

Well, we have been tracking the shellfish and fishing industries since the New Year, and things are dire. But what can be done to a treaty whose ink is not yet dry?

I have sympathy with them, but only so much. If I, a simple international playboy and quality expert understood the levels of paperwork and compliance needed, and I don't do any importing or exporting, companies that actually do should have said something.

Blame the liars not the mislead we are told. And yet, these are people who have built up the family business since 1992 when the SM was created, reaping the benefits, opposition to anything that put up barriers to trade, their trade, should have set the alarm bells ringing. And yet, many in the fishing industry were pro-Brexit, some manically so, helping to organise the "Brexit flotilla" down the Thames.

That the person who sat on the prow, Nigel, attended one out of something like 34 fisheries meetings when he was an MEP and on that committee shows how strong his commitment to fishing really is.

Dominic Raab is, apparently, not convinced the problems that industry is facing is down to Brexit. If not, what could it be?

Talk is of financial support for firms, but the money tree in 11 Downing Street's courtyard garden has been already harvested many times over, and there never was a "brexit bonus" to harvest over.

We want to help, Ministers say they want to help, but what can be done?

Barriers are there, and are permanent. And will get worse if the UK further diverges in any number of fields from EU standards and agreements.

Choices to be made, quickly.