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Government can’t even organise a Brexit traffic jam

This morning 100-150 lorries were supposed to turn up to a disused airport to stage a huge fake traffic jam. The idea was to see how we would cope during a No-deal Brexit scenario and the expected travel (and other) chaos. Unfortunately only around 90 vehicles turned up to the airstrip, at the old Manston airport, in Kent. The convoy of lorries then set off at just after 8am from the disused airfield, on a 20-mile route to the Port...

Piers Morgan hilariously trolled over EU olive tree tweet

Piers Morgan has been hilariously trolled on Twitter after he used a 1400 year-old olive tree in Puglia to give "perspective to Remoaners", only to learn that the EU intervened with €7 million of funding to save the trees in 2015. The outspoken media personality tweeted at the weekend that he had driven past an ancient tree which has survived "over 1350 years longer than the European Union has existed". He added that it should offer "hysterical Remoaners a little perspective",...

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