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
We can count on the poison toads in the Mail, Express, Telegraph etc to croak their masters' tune. They've probably already written the headlines. Hardly much effort: could ask any random hatemonger to do it. Real question is: will opposition parties do better job?
For which purpose, if I were in position of Starmer or Sturgeon etc, I'd be demanding the properly updated "Operation Yellowhammer Report" on basis of which Government has calculated likely consequences of combining pandemic + its deliberate choice of no deal Brexit on 1 Jan 2021
And if no such report exists, because Johnson is planning massive additional disruption to UK through no deal, in midst of already terrible economic mess of pandemic... then I'd be shouting from rooftops: the blames lies squarely with these ideological, incompetent Tory nihilists
Isn't it sad, the depths of cynicism & alienation to which we sentient beings have all been dragged by these grubby purveyors of post-truth populism? The abject debasement of UK political life is surely among the most shameful & enduring legacies of Brexit and Johnson's neoTories
