Whilst waiting for the UK "technical papers" to be published on how we are to survive a no deal Brexit, I note this morning a small piece on the Politics Home website (HERE) about Greg Clark, the Business Secretary, holding urgent talks with Dublin about energy supplies to Northern Ireland. You may remember there was a plan to use hundreds of portable generators to supply energy to NI if talks broke down because the Republic supplied power across the border in a common energy market.
It turns out there are not "enough readily available generators in the world for what would be needed".
It's obvious the government hasn't got a clue. Brexiteers often talked about how devastating a no deal Brexit would be for Dublin, but it's beginning to look like the breaker is on the other circuit. Well, well, well.
This follows hard on the heels of reports about Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, being accused of a lack of basic knowledge of the haulage industry in The Yorkshire Post (HERE), something also reported in The Telegraph (HERE).
The cabinet is made up of a lot of clever people who think because they're clever they know everything and can reach decisions about the future of the country without listening to those who will be most affected, or properly understanding the complex and far reaching issues themselves.
Intelligence and knowledge are two quite different things - as they (and we) are learning. But what a way to find out.
