Observer -excerpt from editorial
Day after day the Lords of Misrule stumble on, deaf to warnings on every side, blind to hard objective facts - that delusions and jingoistic illusions do not make a plan.
Day after day there is another blow to their hard Brexit. Fantasies.
Here is a report by OBR warning that public finances are in worse shape than befor the 2008 banking crash. Rising debt, plummeting tax revenues and funding cuts loom, rendered more difficult be Brexit uncertainties.
NAO predicts a"horror show" if Britain leaves the customs union without its own fit for purpose customs system in place.
Eurostate - Britain at the bottom of the E28 growth league performing even worse than Greece. Rising shop prices, falling wages and eroding living standards
RICS - declining house values and sales.
CBI - warned that it is impossible to have any credible trading relationship outside of the single market.
Germany says there will be no special treatment for British car makers.
UCAS- foreign student applications down by 4%
Even bigger decline in nursing applications
Japanese industries moving from the U.K. to Europe
City jobs migrating to Frankfurt.
Still, those responsible for all the alternative facts a year ago still continue to treat the British public like fools
Our 4 Brexiters are variously characterised
May -( incompetence) / weak
Davis - arrogant/ (dim)
Johnson buffoonery/(humbug)
Fox irrelevance/(unsound)
Faced by a team led by the resolute and impressive Barnier, who is unflappable, intensely well briefed, lovicalnappeoach presents uncomfortable contrast with the bar- stooping bragging if Davis.
