Internal Passports? How Very Soviet

Unfortunately I'm not making it up. Boris and his chum Gove have decided that the way to ensure they don't have 7000 heavy goods lorries queuing through Kent to get to Dover is to stop them entering Kent unless they have a "Kent Access Permit". To make it worse, the system to issue them, and do all the other new post Brexit customs stuff, won't go into public beta until late November, or possibly December, despite needing to be live on 1st January. This is all part of their strategy for insuring we won't have an internal border through the Irish Sea come Brexit going live. Whoops.

I'm particularly worried that given Gove's involvement, as Education Minister he expressed a wish for all schools to be 'better than average', they'll have forgotten you can't get to Medway (where I live), without going through Kent, and that they won't have scaled Smart Freight, the new export control software suite, for all the traffic trying to get into Kent without actually wanting to go to Europe.

Twitter is finding #KentBorder a source of great hilarity. My personal contribution was to declare that it was time for the Cinque Ports to reassert their traditional leadership and international dominance.

*Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk*