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BREAKING: We have a new contender for the "you couldn't write this stuff" stakes

Transport Sec Grant Shapps is on holiday in Spain. He will, therefore, have to quarantine for 14 days when he gets home.
Unless, of course, he gets back before midnight...
In fairness to the govt, on the face of it this decision has been made without political considerations in mind. They would have known where he was when they made it.
Got to feel for Shapps and everyone who went there with the green light now looking at a 14 day quarantine. I know you’ll all judge, say it’s their own fault, they knew the risks etc but maybe for once, I dunno, don’t judge.
Story on the front page of The Observer.
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So much snobbery and smugness round here. Yes some people chose to go to Spain in the pandemic (once worst of first wave was over and were given green light from govt). That is their affair and no-one else’s business. Not everyone has a Cornish bolthole.
Moreover some of these holidays will have been booked last year. Given govt had given green light they may have faced losing the money. A lot of people have worked very hard during this crisis, don’t get much holiday a year and this was it. Who can blame them.
Like, I can’t help but feel there would be a different reaction from some quarters if this were say France and Provence rather than Spain and the costas.
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Simon Hoare (Conservative Chair of Northern Ireland Select Committee) is asked by Ed Stourton On TWTW “whether your colleagues quite appreciate how significant the impact of the NI protocol could be for Northern Ireland’s place within the Union?”

Hoare: “No, I don’t.”
Simon Hoare: “I think there’s always a tendency when it comes to Northern Ireland...if it’s quiet, we can effectively turn a blind eye and ignore it...but there are fundamental questions about the long term viability of the political union of the UK with the protocol in place...”
“...doing as it does...creating effectively a trading border within the UK single market. I think it’s time Westminster as a whole woke up to this issue and thought a little bit more about Northern Ireland.”

That’s the border Theresa May said no British PM could sign up to...
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Panic in No 10 about the union but surprising it’s taken them by surprise. Trying to retain Scotland, after a period where its lack of veto power on fundamental political questions (Ie Brexit/no deal) has been/is being revealed repeatedly, was always going to be very difficult.
This fact was predicted and put to them and advocates of Brexit (who often tend to be strong unionists) but few answers were/are forthcoming. The twin referendums (14/16) gave them false security. But the legitimacy of the 1st was always going to be undrtmined by Brexit...
... (as Scots weretold voting no would guarantee their place in the EU. The legitimacy of the second (a UK wide majoritarian vote) was again always more limited in Scotland by their remain vote. It epitomised the two now v different political cultures in England and Scotland.
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