Let's call it by its name - a disaster
It's official - our Conservative government has given the disaster response charity RE:ACT a year's contract worth £200,000 to help lorry drivers stuck in Channel queues caused by Brexit paperwork. The year-long contract will supply food and water to lorries on the approach roads to Dover and channel tunnel at a standstill for two days or more. You couldn't make it up.
Each day that passes exposes the lies that this government has told about the 'benefits' of Brexit. When did we become a nation that can't care for its elderly, has an NHS on its knees, ambulances waiting hours at A&E and normal trade with our neighbours in chaos? Every word that was uttered about how a proud nation would regain its 'sovereignty' when it exited Europe, have returned again and again like an inedible meal. The European workers who came to our shores, worked long hours in our Care system, in agriculture and in our hospitality have left in their droves. Who can blame them?
But this government refuses to acknowledge, let alone utter words of humility, that Brexit has not given Britain any of the lauded benefits. They will keep blaming it on COVID and the war in Ukraine, but it is much worse than that. This government is still tied to a tiny minority of right wing fanatics who would rather see this country on its knees than admit they were wrong. Their vitriol against Europe and anyone seen as not 'us', has led this country into a stultifying quagmire of inertia and ineptitude.
The chaos at Dover, a symptom of the failed policies and crass handling of negotiations with our neighbours in Europe, can only be described as a DISASTER.