This is exactly the issue. That recent book written about Boris Johnsons time in office said precisely this. He would announce ‘policy’ literally on the hoof without even discussing it with his aides or anyone in the departments tasked with delivering it. The example they gave was when he announced he had a plan to reform social care. he didn’t. He hadn’t given it a seconds thought, hadn’t discussed it with anyone and just blurted it out when he was in a corner. Same with the 40 new hospitals, nuclear reactor every year and the car battery manufacture. Literally verbal incontinence, blurted out with absolutely no substance to it whatsoever.
His ‘oven-ready deal’ was just back of a fag packet stuff, chucked out there to make it go away. No thought at all was given to things like this. It was all just fingers crossed and hope it somehow sorts itself out. That seems to have been the whole principle behind brexit from day one. I wonder how many more of these time-bombs are waiting in the wings? Lots and lots, I’d imagine
And since Johnson its just been one long leadership campaign (as Cruella has continued this week) as a sucession of clueless Brexiteer ****-wits take their turn in the wheelhouse of the Titanic. No time for actual governing, planning, or anythign useful.
Brexiteer numbskull Kemi Badenoch is now tasked with sorting out this particular self-inflicted car crash. I’m sure it’ll work out briliiantly for us all