Boris And His Latest Confidence Trick.

The UK's Clown Prince, Boris the Serial Liar, has today decided to tear up our agreement with the EU over Northern Ireland and, once again, dragged the reputation of the country through the mud. He has tried to explain this away by kidding everyone that the changes he wants to make are "minor clarifications in extremely specific areas". However, as the EU has pointed out "full implementation" of the agreement is a "prerequisite for the negotiations on the future partnership". Of course this doesn't bother Sicknote Boris in the least since he never intended a deal and is quite content to trash the UK's economy to protect the Tory offshore banking scam. Various spokesmen for the Tory Organised Crime Syndicate have toured the news studios today talking about us having the same trade deal with the EU as Australia. Australia, it should be noted, doesn't actually have a trade deal with the EU and does business with it on WTO terms. So it might be a good time to remind readers as to what WTO rules actually means. The WTO is not a trade organization but a set of basic rules by which nations that do not have trade agreements with each can trade without upsetting other countries. It is a framework of tariffs that are recognised by the rest of the world as a minimum restraint on trade to prevent the dumping of goods to undercut other suppliers. Thus China, that would love to flood the world with cheap steel to destroy other nation's steel industries, are prevented from doing so by everyone agreeing to place tariffs on Chinese steal thus putting its price up. For the UK to trade with the EU on WTO terms means that tariffs will be placed on British manufactured goods. Since we have no trade deals with anyone else, apart from Nepal and the Faroe Islands, that will destroy our manufacturing industry and encourage comapnies to shift production from the UK to the EU that does have trade deals with most of the world. Why would the Tories such a thing? Surely that can't be in our interests? Well no, it isn't. It is, however, in the interests of the rich and greedy who are far more concerned with the EU's stance against offshore banking than they are with what happens to the plebs. In any well-run country this would be seen as treason. Unfortunately in the UK economic suicide at the behest of a bunch of conmen is regarded as patriotism while Brexit supporters are probably the most stupid people in the world.