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Friends in NHS tell me of the pressure, the chaos, the lack of resources. Friends in social care share harrowing stories of shortages and death. So Government's breezy reassurances and false apologies already jarred... But this? This is on another level.

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I have faith in the State's capacity to guide us through this; accept there will be mistakes & lessons; agree there must be scrutiny & viligance particularly against lingering instrusions on freedoms; fully support proper funding to public services & redress inequalities. But...
... as for this Government? Hardly surprising that the leopard hasn't changed its spots: after all, their incompetence & dishonesty over Brexit were actively encouraged & rewarded. But when virus combines with Tory Hard Brexit: that will be an ubercrisis of Johnson's own making.
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As UK prepares to publish its oh-so-reasonable detailed proposals on future EU relations, in apparent effort to pressurise the stubborn foreigners into abandoning their own interests and objectives... let’s just recall a few key facts and considerations:
1) Before Brexit, UK and EU27 agreed joint statement of their negotiating objectives / outline terms. But as soon as UK had left, Johnson Government ripped up significant parts of that mutual understanding. Such duplicity may be rewarded at home, but elsewhere... it has a cost
2) UK asked for & was granted possibility to extend transition period beyond 31 Dec 2020. But Johnson then ruled out doing so, regardless of circumstances, including impact of unforeseen global health & economic crises. The extra time to talk is there - the UK just won’t use it
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Michael Dougan
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Do I think Johnson Government is cynical & dishonest enough, to be deliberately planning to evade responsibility for inevitable damage of own "no deal Brexit", by mixing it all up with economic havoc wrought by pandemic? Of course. How could any sentient being think otherwise...
Remember: us awful experts have been saying since "Florence speech" in Sept 17 that UK's "status quo" transition period isn't just about giving more time for UK to make essential preparations. Is also about creating time & space between act of Brexit & its actual consequences...
For Brexitists seeking to establish "plausible deniability", in order to shift own culpability & evade proper accountability, coincidence of transition period + pandemic + "Yellowhammer Brexit" on steroids = even more convenient "get out of jail free" card than they planned for
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Here they come, the Brexitists in their usual state of fury... Let me spare you the effort, dearhearts, by anticipating a few of your standard heckles:

1) "bumboy" - as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland would say
2) "EU funded traitor" - well, if you want to know what I spend all my non-existent funding on, please see 1) above
3) "ivory tower academic" - because if you want to know about constitutional law, do make sure you don't ask a constitutional lawyer..
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