One aspect of all this I find particularly baffling are those organisations clinging to the line “we are continuing to monitor the position daily” like making that statement automatically elevates them to a higher office. Everyone else is running around setting fire to their hair, biting furniture and inviting wasps around for cocktails and canapés- but they, the wise ones, are studiously monitoring and generally being very clever. Imagine how that played out on the Titanic.:
“ but captain, that large white object just ahead of us does look a bit like an iceberg- here, there is a picture of one in my Observer book of big white dangerous things that are not sharks”.
“Stop being such a ladies front bottom. It’s tiny. Let’s just monitor the situation”
“It is tiny on the surface but this book suggests that it might be just the ti.....”
I seriously don’t know what these people are expecting to discover each new day that they start their monitoring rounds”. Hands up all those that believe all will be sorted by the end of August?