So, amid the latest inability to reach a trade agreement between the UK and the EU, France and other EU countries have now closed their borders with the UK. No freight is moving between the continent and the UK.
The public explanation is the "new strain" of COVID found in southeast England.
Or is it just hardball politics ?
Notably, when COVID first arrived in Europe (and tens of thousands died in Italy and Spain), the movement of people was restricted. But not goods. The trucks continued to move and deliver their cargo.
But now, as the French government faces the reality of their access to British fishing waters going away ... well, GAWRSH!, we need to close the borders because something something virus.
It is hard to imagine the EU being fondly recalled in the future. At best, it will be recalled as an unbounded excess of bureaucratic zeal compounded by a fatal disconnect from reality.
Cheers
The public explanation is the "new strain" of COVID found in southeast England.
Or is it just hardball politics ?
Notably, when COVID first arrived in Europe (and tens of thousands died in Italy and Spain), the movement of people was restricted. But not goods. The trucks continued to move and deliver their cargo.
But now, as the French government faces the reality of their access to British fishing waters going away ... well, GAWRSH!, we need to close the borders because something something virus.
It is hard to imagine the EU being fondly recalled in the future. At best, it will be recalled as an unbounded excess of bureaucratic zeal compounded by a fatal disconnect from reality.
Cheers
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