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I'm just reading some qualified comments from a Euro law expert, Prof M Dougan of the Uni of Liverpool, and they are damning re this Brit govt resorting to "Soviet -style" tactics/propaganda to dupe the population and try to hide the damage being caused by Brexit. He warned the only way that Johnson can make a success of leaving the EU is to "poison minds" into thinking the Europeans are the enemy. They didn't care about the costs from an economic or social point of view for the UK as a whole and didn't give a damn about NI. All expert predictions have been proven pretty much entirely correct. Johnson got his "hard Brexit", it's causing serious economic probs, albeit disguised by the impact of Covid and the effects of the pandemic, and the economic challenges of the pandemic itself. Economic probs will continue for a very long time. "It has also caused huge tension between the Brit govt and its former partners and allies". He also said an equally important factor was the way the Johnson regime was managing responsibility for what it has done by deploying "Trump-style" populist tactics. "You tell gigantic lies, not little ones as people catch those out"; he said, "You tell big fat juicy lies, you sell magic bean fantasies, the more magical, the better. When reality then keeps proving you wrong, you simply double down even harder and even further, deny responsibility or any culpability re the lie that was Brexit all along". How refreshing to read this confirmation to stuff we've been witnessing for a very long time.