I'm No Fan Of Ryanair But....

I'm no fan of Ryanair, but at least I'm not the only one who thinks our political class have no idea!

Ryanair now will base all 50 of its expensive new planes outside the UK because the airline has 'much more political certainty in continental Europe' since the Brexit vote.

Chief executive Michael O'Leary said the politicians who are now working on taking the UK out of the European Union are 'headless chickens' who have 'no idea where they're going to finish up'.
'We're being very cautious about the amount of capacity we're allocating to the UK over the next two or three years until we get some kind of indication of what Brexit will look like,' he said.
'It's not because we're annoyed or anything with the UK, but we have much more political certainty in continental Europe than we have in the UK while they're all running around trying to work out what Brexit looks like.
'None of the new aircraft we take delivery of next year will be based here in the UK and already you can see the Brexit decision is costing real jobs, real visitors are being lost and real investment is being postponed.
'There's a bunch of headless chickens here, they don't know what they voted for and have no idea where they're going to finish up, so we have to be cautious with our expansion next year, which is a pity.'

The airline said it expects lower growth over the next few years as the EU exit negotiations take place, but Mr O'Leary said he would begin investment and expansion 'the following day' if the Scottish Government scraps air passenger duty as planned.

In a way I don't blame Theresa May for not wanting to give a running commentary, but people need to see a plan before too long, does she have one I wonder; there's nothing confidence inspiring so far. One hundred and forty five thousand doctors and nurses in UK hospitals are Europeans unsure of their situation AND hospitals are understaffed still. NHS trusts want to recruit more staff from places like Italy, but no one knows what the status of these people will be, least of all themselves.

A lady doctor from the Netherlands was interviewed last night and told how she asked a patient who voted leave 'why?' The response was 'immigration', the doctor explained that she is an immigrant 'oh I didn't mean you dear'. We are Lemmings.

Malcolm Snook