Sour Grapes of the Year Award

As the hours count down to 2300 GMT so the volume of warnings for the future of the UK outside the EU rises in a predictable avalanche.  “These people” as Rod Liddle says today in the Spectator, are “yearning for failure.”  Mushroom confidently predicts that the sky will not fall in tomorrow morning, nor on 1 January 2021 for that matter.  Meantime, we should brace ourselves for more sour grapes from sore losers.  In mitigation, we could amuse ourselves with the chutzpah of some of the outbursts so Mushroom will be awarding an award for the most outrageous expression of sour grapes in 2020.  Here is one to start us off – you may agree that the tone of superior insight is breath-taking? One might ask Mr Graham Davies, what did the EU ever do for, for example, Teesside  that would be such a loss?