It's now looking quite likely that Brexit will coincide with both a third lockdown and - if the longterm forecasts are correct - severe flooding.
Any one of these events would be a national crisis.
Together they could amount to a national catastrophe.
God help us.

Our government has a track record of:
- ignoring warnings
- leaving the necessary action to the last possible minute
- then bungling it
- using a crisis to enrich its friends and advance its political agenda
- leaving the poorest and most vulnerable to sink or swim
These tendencies, in combination with a possible concatenation of crises, present a severe threat to our wellbeing. We are not in good hands.
So once again we will have to rely on each other. It's going to be a hard grind in early 2021, perhaps the hardest many people in the UK will ever have experienced.
To the greatest extent possible, we'll have to support each other - materially and psychologically.
Of course, there's no complete substitute for good governance. The ideal combination is a strong society and a responsible government. But as we don't have the latter, we'll need to be as strong together as we can.
Look out for your neighbours.
Look out for your friends.
Look out, in particular, for those with no friends.
https://t.co/CIzFBKk21n
In the fifth richest nation on Earth, where scarcely-taxed billionaires build palaces and the government scatters £100m contracts among its friends like confetti, this happens.
https://t.co/gh35xvKx8D
Alongside a class culture of extreme entitlement and a cavalier disregard for other people's welfare ....
https://t.co/e6WGzQNrcO
.... while abandoning any pretence of equal rights ....
https://t.co/7DVRYngMyM
... as the rich use the opportunity provided by another Tory government to enrich themselves still further.
https://t.co/sOFdesB80J
And lobby groups use it to undermine public protections, accelerating the greatest crisis of all: the gathering collapse of our life support systems.
https://t.co/dC6hH1fEhq

More from Brexit

A quote from this excellent piece, neatly summarising a core impact of Brexit.

The Commission’s view, according to several sources, is that Brexit means existing distribution networks and supply chains are now defunct and will have to be replaced by other systems.


Of course, this was never written on the side of a bus. And never acknowledged by government. Everything was meant to be broadly fine apart from the inevitable teething problems.

It was, however, visible from space to balanced observers. You did not have to be a trade specialist to understand that replacing the Single Market with a third country trade arrangement meant the end of many if not all of the complex arrangements optimised for the former.

In the absence of substantive mitigations, the Brexit winners are those who subscribe to some woolly notion of ‘sovereignty’ and those who did not like freedom of movement. The losers are everyone else.

But, of course, that’s not good enough. For understandable reasons Brexit was sold as a benefit not a cost. The trading benefits of freedom would far outweigh the costs. Divergence would benefit all.

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