It’s kind of pathetic watching successive senior Tories do their “Chemical Ali” turn over Brexit border chaos.
Suella Braverman denies Brexit to blame for Dover queues of 14 hours
Sovereignty didn’t matter either
The great tragedy of Brexit is that it was just a tactical move by the Tories to win an election and an opportunistic gambit by individual politicians to gain power. Beyond this, there are no goals, no principles, no big ideas. Just cynical optics for the base.
UK joins Asia-Pacific CPTPP trade bloc that includes Japan and Australia
Capturing Hot Air
Tories: The State can’t pick winners. The Mah-Ket will decide our fate.
Also Tories: Shackled to the dinosaur EU we can’t take advantage of the New Economy. We have to Leave!
EU: Okay. Bye!
Tories: Incandescent lightbulbs!
Also Tories: Behold the powerful suction of our vacuum cleaner motors! (Made in Malaysia).
US: Here’s the Inflation Reduction Act, a massive green economy stimulus that’s attracting $billions of private investment, creating jobs and competitive advantage.
EU: Wait! What? We need a committee.
Tories: Here’s our status-quo preserving boondoggle, losers.
Government gambles on carbon capture and storage tech despite scientists’ doubts
I wonder how many terminal prompts the servers at Telehouse support. Here’s a view of Telehouse North Two at the Tower Hamlets side of Leamouth in East London.
