THIS morning the 'fine folks' (or very fine people) of Team UPC decided to tell us "[t]he new complaints could lead to further severe delays" as if it's all just a question of when, boiling down to mere "delays"; this is more of that typical lying from Team UPC, which conveniently (for itself) ignores the very simple fact that UPC/A is not constitutional. As we explained yesterday, those sorts of misleading articles still dominate the so-called 'media' (because no proper journalists or large publishers bother covering the subject, except when Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos pay them to spread EPO talking points).

"To a lot of folks inside Team UPC the delusions are very much "reality"; they're surrounded by people who say the same."It's tempting to just ignore these lies and move on, but we ought to recognise the possibility that many politicians don't know better and endless repetition of lies can be effective and act like a radicalising echo chamber. To a lot of folks inside Team UPC the delusions are very much "reality"; they're surrounded by people who say the same.

In our estimation, the complaints cannot be dismissed, certainly not both of them. Interest in the UPC will continue to wane, the UK will be formally out of the EU very soon (depending on where we set the criteria/thresholds of "exit"), and any remaining arguments about the viability and tenability of the UPC will become so self-discrediting that not even Battistelli's enablers can rear their ugly heads. 2020 ends with a dark chapter about unrest, overpopulation, authoritarianism (the world's sole superpower is still governed by a man who wanted to declare "martial law" in order to undermine democracy and annul an election) and perhaps a lack of credibility for laws and constitutions. We don't expect 2021 to be much better... ⬆