Deal or no deal

First of all, your regular reminder that the EU has not yet ratified the TCA.

I wrote two things nearly five years ago, the first I learned about trade:

The first being non-tariff barriers are more important than triffs.

And that there is a trade off between trade and control: in that the more control a country decides it wants, the less trade it will be able to do.

And the UK has decided, or the UK Government has decided, that it wanted a whole truckload of of control. THis simply means trade is reduced as red tape, delays and costs all increase, it becomes unviable to export, or to import.

That is the political decision by May and Johnson on top of leaving the EU. Leaving the SM and CU was a decision, a political one, one that had huge implications and consequences.

The majority of the issues seen now will continue as long as the UK is out of the SM and CU, or measures are put in place that align standards, regulations and taxes.

THis is not going away.

And this was always going to happen.

Project reality.

And the Daily Express is already distancing itself from Johnson's deal, asking its online readers shoud Brexit be renegotiated?

The reality is that it can't be, not at the speed needed, and in order to get the things the UK wants, we would have to give up something equal to the EU.

Let's be clear, this deal, the TCA, is not cakey in the slightest. There is no cake. And there will be no eating it.

Only the promise of cake in 50 years time.

Cake for your grandchildren.

The Government is seriously considering introducing legislation requiring all businesses that trade in Britain to offer the same goods and services in NI. The is contro, freakery, and from the top we know that more control will result it less trade. Tis time internal.

THis is not normal.