Scottish Literature, Borders & the Environmental Imagination
By Julia Ditter
Examining the relationship between #borders & the #environment in #Scottish#literature from the 19th century to the present. For a preview, see Julia Ditter’s article “Reading Scotland’s Borders Through the Environment” – part of the DEBATABLE LANDS issue of THE BOTTLE IMP, May 2022
when Brexit border checks, charges & subsequent import 'friction' met government IT procurement, the likelihood of further delays at the birder for perishable imports was always high; and so it has come to pass.
The Govt. is claiming these are teething problems, but we can assume it will only be a short time before they attempt to shift the blame to importers & freight firms claiming they were insufficiently prepared
"The insistence that #refugees might be left to drown is the kind of thing that used to be confined to the meeting rooms of dodgy pubs & white supremacist marches where the police always outnumbered the protesters."
Well, well, well, now the Tories are saying they won't 'turn on' health & safety checks at the borders when the new post-Brexit border controls finally come into force in 12 days time.... causing more confusion, more disruption (as people now don't know when they will be 'turned on')...
the whole things is a classic example of what happens when idiocy meets reality - and these people are (in their at least) running the country.