If you'd like to suggest to any of my fellow transport industry journalists that Dover is a container port of any note feel free but they'll laugh at you as much as they would do Sal's ill-informed comments. Probably moreso given your other posts.

OK. Tell us all about what you know about bringing goods into the country from outside the EU and from inside it.
Tell us where the standage areas for inspection and clearance are in Dover, where goods wait whilst they are custom cleared or where they incur demurrage if someone messes up?

On what basis do you claim "goods will move freely". Is this a guess or have you any clue or experience? Or (and I'm being kind because I'm sure the detail is really beyond you) are you suggesting our opening gambit under World Trade Association rules is to disregard WTO requirements for imposing import duties and inspection regimes and just fling our border open? At the very least you can be certain this won't be the case in Calais where they will follow the rules which define the single market.

Whatever happened to strong and stable ?
We now seem to have some kind of Tory anarchy.
Boris and his new henchman, Cummings, seem to have made a slight mess of things

Yes, further irony that the Brexiteers wanted to take back control, then hand it to an unelected "career psychopath". One who believes Britain will be an example of civilised, democratic, liberal self-government.

See you all in January.

Today Boris Johnson turned a majority of 1 into a minority of 20, lost his first ever vote as PM, and sacked the grandson of his hero, Winston Churchill.

It's not going very well is it?

Serious question - what is the 'deal' that MPs have wrecked by the vote?

Just how cool did the Minister for the 18th Century look last night, slouched across the HoC benches? Him & the serial cheat & lying PM come across as the spoiled, narcissistic, petulant school children they have never developed from.

Indeed, I presume in the interest of fairness and balance you will be kind enough to highlight Corbyns history of lying. Starting with the IRA pack of lies.

It's the deal that isn't a deal - based on the negotiations that the EU themselves have said are not taking place, and which Dominic Cummings himself has described as 'a sham.'

Nicolas Soames, still clutching his P45, said on Newsnight that Boris Johnson is deliberately trying to achieve something that he knows can't be achieved, so he can blame the EU and MP's for thwarting him - which leads him nicely into a flag-waving GE that will excite the gammon army.

McDonnel really is a prize one

Thanks for that Andrew Marr - incisive and piquant political insights, as ever.

he stood there like an evangelical lay preacher, unable to look anyone in the eye, like a grumbling old man stood at the bar bemoaning the loss of his prize racing pigeon.

The BBC has their left agenda on show too.

Stood where? What the ruddy bloody heck are you talking about?

"stood where", oh dear, not keeping up are you