Here’s a post-Brexit revenue-boosting opportunity for Rishi, Boris, Dom & Co. Apparently, selling your country’s passport to any dodgy highest-bidder is a thing in, for instance, Malta and Cyprus; but, bizarrely, frowned upon by the rest of the EU. Come 1st Jan, we’ll be free of those shackles. So, buy a flat in Mayfair or failing football club, bung a few £m in appropriate coffers, and you’re in. If we’re worried any unconvicted mafiosi or former dictators might get up to dodgy stuff, a few tweaks to Track and Trace should surely guarantee we can keep an eye on them..
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...