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Brexit: an update

  1. The situation in Northern Ireland is intractable. The Protocol is blamed, but the real problem is Brexit itself.

  2. European travellers to Britain are finding their reception by BorderForce unfriendly, and that is an understatement.

  3. Farmers know that they are facing the greatest upheaval in agriculture since the 1870s, directly as a consequence of Brexit.

  4. Below the radar, many companies are either re-locating or are ceasing to trade with Europe.

  5. Many sectors face labour shortages, directly arising from Brexit.

  6. The government is busily attempting to re-build commercial realtionships which it junked as a result of Brexit.

  7. Many Continental Europeans (and Britons on the Continent) face losing their citizenship rights.

  8. Instead of policies on protecting the rights of workers and consumers, or on safeguarding the environment, which we were told would be far better than those of the EU, there is a complete blank.

  9. We were told that, freed from the shackles of the EU's industrial competitiveness rules, we would be able to support those industries which needed subsidy, in a planned industrial strategy. However, the government's 'strategy' is merely a corrupt recipe for 'crony capitalism'.

Will you hear any of this on the BBC ? It cannot avoid mentioning some issues, such as Northern Ireland, but in general it will discuss anything but Brexit. Is that anything to do with the fact that its new Director General is a Tory ?

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