Others have tweeted this story. I just want to link it to two things namely: the Johnson govts’ deliberate decisions to:

• withdraw from the Erasmus scheme &
• not secure favoured access to the EU for British artists (cf. Roger Daltrey bitching .. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55742664
.. yesterday).

How to explain these 3 things? My theory is simple - the idea is to play to the bigoted, UKIP base to whom the EU is a Nazi super state with which we are virtually at war. Among the advantages of this approach, which has nothing to do with the national ..
.. interest, is it provides a platform for the blame game as our chickens come home to roost. Our trade is crippled by petty fogging EU bureaucracy not by our own wilful decisions.

The message is, if they want to play hardball, so can we. Never mind the pettiness, to ..
.. the base it counts as 2 fingers to Johnny Foreigner & that’s all that matters.
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