Irony is dead. Again.

Wetherspoon's boss, Tim Martin, has called on the UK Government to replax immigration rules to allow EU workers in as his chain is having trouble recruiting staff.

Really.

In 2016 he said, in effect, how dare those Europeans come over here and steal our jobs, and five years later, how dare they stay over there and not work behnd my bars.

We did warn them, in this area, hospitality, and others, that there would be a shortage of staff. Last week many pubs are closed because they can't get staff to run the bars, or have to have reduced tables so the staff they do have can cope. There are hundreds of thousands of vacancies in the Care sector.

But it was project fear, of course.

Heinz is to open a ketchup factory in northern England, not as a vote of confidence in the UK, but because the supply chain from their factory in Holland is broken. It adds extra costs to their business, and creates 50 new jobs, that Liz Truss crowded about. In the FT, it reported at £110 billion pounds worth of financial services business has been lost to the EU and US, but Liz Truss said nothing about that.