On the first day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Mobile roaming charges.
On the second day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the third day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the fourth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the fifth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Expensive foreign studies,
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the sixth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Rotting crops in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the seventh day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Shrinking export markets,
Rotting crops in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the eighth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Lower food standards,
Shrinking export markets,
Rotting crops in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the ninth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Harder travel with pets,
Lower food standards,
Shrinking export markets,
Rotting crops in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the tenth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Loss of free movement,
Harder travel with pets,
Lower food standards,
[see above...]
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the eleventh day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Care staff shortages,
Loss of free movement,
Harder travel with pets,
Lower food standards,
[see above...]
Customs delays for parcels,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the twelfth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Desperate fishermen
Care staff shortages
Loss of free movement
Harder travel with pets
Lower food standards
[see above...]
Customs delays for parcels
Horrid sewage discharges
Haulage industry chaos
And mobile roaming charges.
Never too early for a bit of Christmas cheer, especially since the shelves may well be empty and the table bare when the time actually comes.
BTW, every one of the twelve items has already happened, thanks to Brexit. 100% Project Fact.
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Hancock (25 March) "while we are confident that we have broken the link between the number of cases and the hospitalisations and deaths that previously inevitably followed, no vaccine is perfect and take-up is not 100%, so that link, while broken, is not yet severed"
Gibberish!
Important gibberish, because Boris Johnson - as well as many of his Ministers - would go on to variously talk about the link between hospitalisations and deaths being "broken" or "severed", expressions which made it into numerous newspaper articles too.
"Broken" and "severed" are synonymous.
What level-headed commentators said was that the link between cases, hospitalisations and deaths has been WEAKENED by the vaccine.
But "weakened" doesn't mean "broken".
The vaccine lowered deaths, but they're still 120+ a day on average.
An average of 244 people died per day with COVID-19 (using narrow 28-day definition) for every day since Boris Johnson warned us in March 2020 that many families would lose loved ones before their time.
Equivalent to a plane crash a day, every day, for 549 days and counting...
That level of sustained, callous disregard for human life has created an insidious empathy vacuum that may never be filled.
Take the war in Afghanistan, for example. British losses in that conflict added up to fewer than two average days worth of covid deaths.
"Cornwall may only get a maximum of £3million of cash from the Government to directly replace the £100m it could have been eligible for if the UK had remained in the EU"
The Tories go into the next election, but lose it because of the NI hike and breaking the pension triple lock.
Labour scrapes out a narrow win, but their manifesto doesn't mention Brexit because they decided to fight entirely on other issues.
😱
That would leave the UK with exactly the same gaping hole as the Tories created. Brexit would continue to act like a brake on economic activity, and ruin many aspects of daily life. Supply chains would stay broken.
But Labour could tinker with other stuff, ignoring the elephant.
This feels genuinely horrific because, by the time both main parties have gone a full election cycle without acknowledging Brexit, who's going to bring it up again?
So things remain ruined forever, and the actual solution remains unexplored.
"Against all odds: how New Zealand is bending the Delta curve"
NZ's zero covid strategy appears to be working, again. They're close to being able to let life go back to old normal after their short but super duper strict lockdown.
New Zealanders get to live a domestic life free of restrictions. No masks, social distancing, limits on gatherings etc. Meet anyone, do anything.
But international travel is basically out (except in very narrow circumstances).
Total deaths: 27.
Another benefit (beyond the human factor of not killing people, or leaving them devastated by Long Covid): New Zealand is almost unique among advanced economies in that its economy grew in 2020.
Why? Because domestic economic activity wasn't affected, aside from tourism.