Boris Johnson is someone who prefers slogans to the slog of policy.
His “Get Brexit done” was easy to say but clearly the Prime Minister cannot be bothered completing the job on the Northern Ireland border.
Whatever his pledge of a “global Britain” was meant to be in his Brexit Promiseland, it was not the sacking of 800 skilled seafarers by Zoom call and their replacement with wage slaves on £1.82 an hour.
Perhaps that was in the small print, or actually on the campaign banners which predicted that a UK adrift on the oceans of capitalism could only forge ahead by undercutting wages and conditions of their workforce.
So it is that the UK has employment regulations to put the captain of a pirate buccaneer to shame.
The ultimate owner of the P&O Ferries, the Dubai-based DP World, already runs two of the biggest shipping ports in the UK.
Given the opportunity to convert these into light-regulation freeports, there is no doubt about which direction they would take employment practices.
But we have a government so craven and desperate to prove the impossible – that Brexit can be an economic success – that it is willing to have its citizens treated like dirt by a company like DP World.
Brexit’s slogan was “taking back control” but Johnson did not say that included giving workers’ rights away to pirate profiteers.
Give Ukraine a Hampden roar
Scotland play Poland on Thursday night at Hampden in a game that looks a long way from being a full house.
Steve Clarke’s side were meant to be playing Ukraine that night in a World Cup semi-final play-off.
But for reasons that don’t need repeating, that fixture has been
postponed until June.
The game on Thursday may be a friendly but in many ways, it’s more important than football.
For each match ticket sold, £10 will be donated to Unicef to support its humanitarian response in Ukraine.
The Unicef emergency appeal raises essential funds to support families and their children within Ukraine and those that have been displaced to neighbouring countries.
It’s for that reason we need as many fans at Hampden on Thursday as possible.
This is a chance for Scotland to send a message of solidarity to Ukraine and raise vital funds at the same time.
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