IN view of the state of the world, you can only conclude there are millions of Brexiteers in the country who have no problem destroying what’s left of UK international trade, for decades to come.

As matters stand now US trade talks are postponed indefinitely. They have stopped. Are not happening. With the Covid 19 pandemic, and in a US election year, no-one has any idea when if ever they will resume.

And we can add to that UK-Japan post-Brexit trade talks have also stalled. As they have world-wide as countries wholesale retreat into self-protection.

As for UK-EU trade talks, they are a shadow of what they should be. No longer are there any UK MEPs (we did have 75) in close communication with the EU. That has all ended.

All we have now is one minister and a shrinking team of exhausted negotiators with Brexit priority within the EU dwarfed a thousand-fold by Covid-19.

Yet within UK government, nothing changes. The hard line Johnson policy is set in political concrete. If no UK-EU trade agreements by June then it is Hi Ho Silver hard Brexit, with last resort WTO terms.

That means border posts and custom tariffs will be set up at all British ports, airports and, horror of horrors for the stability of the UK and Ireland, at Irish borders. This is inescapable: UK becomes a sovereign country, no longer an EU member state. In short everything gets far more expensive with mountains of bureaucracy slowing everything down. Kent we can expect to become a lorry park.

And all this with the UK with no active Prime Minister, not even an experienced deputy Prime Minister. Truly unbelievable. But for faithful Brexiteers that’s all okay. No doubt happy to a man and woman to march over the cliff cheering and clapping their hearts out: “We’ve got our country back”.

JUSTIN WALSH

Bournemouth Road, Poole