There's Brexit, then there's M&S Brexit

News came this morning that high class grocer and knicker monger, Mark and Spencer, were closing their stores in France due to "Brexit".

Yesterday, their chairman had complained about checks on goods at the French Border.

Apparently, this is France's fault.

But this is due to the brexit Johnson and Frost chose and negotiated. Being outside a trading bloc means that goods entering it is subjected to checks. In leaving the SM and CU the UK became, to use the WTP's terms a "third country", and so the UK is treated by the EU as any other third country.

But that's unfair, apparently.

It is easy to see how upset the UK Government would be had the EU forced us on on the terms we chose ourselves.

As a long-established business, M&S should have realised that once the hard Brexit was chosen, its buisness model built on cross-border supply of short life chilled foods would not survive? The Brexit was imposed with day's notice, but even then, they must have realised what would happen?

Maybe they were hoping common sense would break out from both sides? Some hope.

Just a reminder that the UK is imposing this on UK companies wanting to export, but has suspended any checks at least into the new year on any EU company, like M&S, who could import short life chilled foods into the country without checks or paperwork?

And this is taking back control, apparently.

And self-imposed, self-defeating and set to make us all a lot poorer.