That Christmas Eve deal felt all wrong at the time!

Having rolled blithely through every negotiations deadline set by the UK side, despite all the warning signs, as if by magic, on Christmas Eve, in a festive spirit of mutual Goodwill and cooperation We Allowed Brussels to Screw Us!

I have to admit Barnier played a blinder. He had a game plan and he stuck rigidly to it, never saw him (genuinely) flinch once, unlike the feckless Whitehall and Westminster swamp rats we had to rely on.

So now we have an EU administrative Border down the middle of  the Irish Sea, being enforced by UK Customs no less. We have EU fishing boats continuing to plunder our fishing grounds while our shellfish catch rots waiting to be admitted to the EU