This blog is about UK politics, but it would be churlish not to given a whole-hearted welcome to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris across the Pond, congratulate them on their tremendous success and wish them  well. That’s more than the British government has managed.

Kemal-Johnson and his merry wo/men are now in serious shtuck, but not half as much as the rest of us.  I doubt if the extent of the mess they have created has really sunk in yet.  With all the bombast of their type they pinned their colours to Trump.  That was folly in the extreme, probably went against the counsel of the Foreign Office, and almost certainly against the advice of more than one former ambassador to the US.

Without US support – arguably with it, but certainly without – Project Brexit is a disaster. It is 7 1/2  weeks until Britain leaves the EU and we still do not know if that will be on WTO terms or with some sort of last minute “deal” cobbled together. It is an unmitigated disaster for anybody owning a business, anybody working for a business, or anybody who buys anything from a business  based either in Europe or the UK.  They have no idea of the regulations they will face, the papers they will need, the duties they will pay, the customers they will have… They cannot plan anything.

Under the “guidance” of Kemal-Johnson, the UK will have turned its back on its largest market-place, trashed its international reputation for honesty and fair play,  wrecked its security,  its health service, and its system of education and opportunity for young people. In return for what ?  The scorn of the incoming US administration, a trade treaty with Japan that is largely repetitious of the one we already had courtesy of the EU and could reduce tariffs on around 9,500 products we don’t sell, and the prospect of future treaties with the likes of Kenya and Ghana.