A lot is being said on the breakfast news this morning about how the trade deal the Labour government has struck with the EU effectively mean UK businesses will now have to abide by European rules which we now have no say in setting. I’m sorry, but I just feel compelled to post an entry to state the blindingly, stupidly obvious: we would still be participating in making such regulations if we had remained a member of the EU. This is exactly what the Remain campaign warned would happen! Everyone knew that UK businesses would still have to abide by EU rules, but have no say in setting them. Thus for Pritti Patel to just come on the Beeb breakfast program just now, and for the right wing tabloids to accuse the government of ‘betraying brexit’, when brexit is what caused these issues in the first place, really is too stupid to ignore! If these Outist idiots really cared that we had control over such trade guidelines, they would not have advocated breaking away from the body which sets them. The government is thus undoing the ongoing mess the outists made; for them to complain about it, calling it a betrayal or relinquishment of sovereignty when it was brexit which caused these issues, really is an insult to our intelligence.