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Old 12th Oct 2021, 08:22
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Me too, although one pilot told me during a short flight to our closest trading neighbour that his leave vote would give the CAA more teeth.

The act of voting to leave didn't bring about this situation, It was the fact that Johnson achieved his huge majority by blatantly lying about an amazing oven ready deal when all along he and Frost were planning to get as close as possible to crashing out with no deal. Standard Johnson, throw red meat to his base and the ERG, and then try to kick the problem down the road and fudge and bluster around it later., blaming everyone but themselves for the mess they created. They had no interest in any detail, they just wanted to drag something that wasn't going to damage them politically in the short term, knowing all along that they would later try to break agreements that they negotiated in ban faith This cobbled together strategy might have worked if they had Trump to provide some distracting top-cover but without him we will only suffer more and the EU-US relationship will grow. It is obvious what they are doing but their commons majority just means that they will continue to push ahead on this diplomatic suicide mission causing a huge amount of damage to the UK and its reputation in the world along the way.

So we are screwed and it will all get a lot worse before people wake up and realise that there is more to the story than what they read in the Telegraph and the Murdoch press.
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