No surprises

A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired, unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

Radiohead/Thom Yorke.

Nothing in Brexit, COVID or work really surprises any more.

I mean its all so shit, when it gets worse you just shrug and move on.

But, today, it was announced that checks on animal goods (meat.dairy, etc) are to be delayed until July 2022.

At the earliest.

This will be some 73 months after the UK voted to leave the EU. The excuse is supply chains aren't ready, the real reason is the UK wasn't ready.

Each delay costs businesses time and money to prepare for: three no deal deadlines, three regulatory deadlines since leaving. None happened. Is there any real belief that the deadline won't be extended once more? So much so that businesses might just stop preparing, and if it does happen, more shortages of food, raw materias and labour.

None of this is a surprise, as I said earlier, that the UK wasn't ready for the hard Brexit that May defined and Johnson negotiated. Brexit didn't have to mean leaving the SM or CU, but that's what they both wanted, Frost negotiated, and Parliament, with Johnson newly voted in as PM for 5 years on implementing this deal was ratified.

Now they want to renegotiate the very deal Johnson implemented, because neither he or Frost understood what they signed up to. And that leaving a Customs Union and Single Market would mean more, not less, red tape. Only a fool or Brexiteer would have thought otherwise..

It brings me no pleasure in writing these posts, detailing the total failure of policy or leadership from the worst UK Government in history, and there is some stiff competition in that!

So, the new Brexit store of rice and pasta can be eaten again, now we have ten more months to prepare. We will, Johnson nor Frost will.

You won, get over it.