Saving the rights of the Cornish Pasty is more important to Boris Johnson than saving Nissan Jobs in Sunderland.

Yesterday the Government rolled out what they called a historic ‘Free Trade Deal with Japan’. A deal that should have hailed good news for the North East workforce but how good is it and what does it do for the protection from recession in the North-East?

If your reading the right wing press today even those reporters who are the most ardent supporters of Boris Johnson and his hedge fund administration are not exactly crowing about it and on top of that the deal contains this dark matter: ‘in the car manufacturing and electronics sectors, Japan has agreed to count products with a significant amount of EU components as a UK export’.

The agreement will be spun out by the Government over its current period of administration as ‘brilliant’ but for the North-East of England its certainly a lukewarm future as slippage of car manufacturing or electronic component work to the EU from the UK will be covered off by any stability in the EU export market and job protection on the Continent as a UK success story whilst our skilled workforce languish in the Universal Credit doldrums with the former opportunity of working in Europe closed off to them through the Johnson and Cummings plan to crash out and support the gambling hedge funds and not UK jobs.

As a nation we should be informed how much members of our parliament have locked into hedge fund gambling to see why there’s no enthusiasm for a trade deal with the EU. Is it so that as we the public who now sit muzzled behind our face masks and locked down in a right wing media stretched Covid fear campaign are unable to take to the streets and complain as the Law now stops us meeting in groups larger than six?. We’ve now become the most controlled and watched nation outside China and UK freedom of any sort is fully curtailed.

So as you can see we need different deals to save the majority from future problems of jobs, food and energy shortages and this Governments lack of investment for the last decade will come home to roost when the top Tories have relocated offshore to the Bahamas or the Caymen Islands with their pockets full of hedge fund winnings.

It seems its alright to protect the name of a pasty or a variety of cheese but that won’t fill the shelves in Asda or Aldi and it won’t employ the nations workforce  so Boris change direction now and U-turn on something important for once!