Remainer Greg Clark should stop listening to soft Brexit woes and listen to the voices of 17.4m people
It is time the PM backed the 17.4million voices over the cooperate doom-mongers who wish to undermine British democracy
Big softies
YOU would think it would be difficult to drown out the 17.4million people who voted to leave the EU over two years ago.
Yet Big Business seems to be managing it, aided and abetted by their forelock tuggers like Business Secretary Greg Clark.
With no opinions of his own, he’s been listening to the sweet nothings whispered in his ear by corporate lobbyists desperate for the softest of soft Brexits.
And then earlier this week he told bosses that he’d be asking the PM for just that. Who would have thought?
Did he mention that Airbus, who have been warning of plague and pestilence if we dare to leave, have just been found to have received illegal subsidies worth £17billion from . . . the EU?
Did he tell his audience that even Financial Times bosses — a paper so comfortable in Brussels’ bosom it could redesign its masthead as a blue-and-yellow brassiere — think German car manufacturers need a UK trade deal, regardless of what BMW say? Did he heck.
Big businesses have done very well out of the EU for years. They’ll resist every possible attempt to reform it or improve it and in Greg Clark they’ve got a man unimaginative enough to believe everything they say.
There are plenty of other businesses who are looking to the future with confidence and are excited about Britain striking out on their own.
And those outfits who are complaining about Brexit will adjust, just as they did when we (thankfully) didn’t join the Euro, because we’ve got the fifth largest economy in the world and they’d be mad to turn their back on us.
It’s time the PM backed Brexit voters over corporate doom-mongers.
Adam & leave
LOVE Island’s Adam is a nasty piece of work.
How ITV can justify him still being on the show despite being caught sending sleazy messages to a 17-year-old girl is beyond us.
People have been thrown off for much less. ITV’s shameless pursuit of ratings can’t justify him still being there.
Boot him.
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Rather than arguing about decisions in the pub for years afterward, they get sorted out straight away.
Yes, there are niggles. But between Neymar’s ludicrous dive and South Korea’s (wonderful) goal, more decisions are right than ever before.
Dinosaur Premier League bosses should introduce it next season.
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