cars, cheese, chocolate etc - mind you the trade gap is reducing.

And China?

Yet that market is becoming smaller. Italy, Spain and Greece desperately need our trade. Do you think the nations of the Eastern bloc will spurn our money?

There will be an FTA with the EU because it's pragmatic for both sides to do so. Feelings don't come into it - money talks.

What's becoming clear is the more you trade with a country the more hawk-eyed and unsentimental you have to become because the more you pool sovereignty.

China is a scumbag nazi totalitarian jackboot dictatorship. The more trade you do the more compromises you have to do. Now because we're having to clean up their mess we are importing some of their values - hopefully temporarily.

Here's a thought: If you've lost your job, lost your freedoms. lost physical contact with loved ones, lost your business and are being asked to lockdown as a cast iron gold standard insurance guarantee - what to do you think the political ramifications are going to be at the other end?

Making sure Huawei is kicked out. stopping Chinese investment in key infrastructure will be just the tip of the iceberg. If British voters have to sacrifice so much in the name of complete security why not the Chinese?

What's the point of lockdowns when in a year Chinese students and citizens can just get a visa and walk in without quarantine? Why let them in at all? We just can't trust them to have our interests at heart. I don't care if some will be like angels - lockdown is about almost complete certainty in flattening the curve and protecting people - we need that certainty over the perpetrators for a generation to come.

China - their tourism, exports and the extreme multiculturalism that goes with it is too high a price. Watch this space.

So you'd rather money go elsewhere (outside of emergencies) rather than British people. Now I'm unemployed due to the virus you seem to have learnt no lessons. We need EVERY penny for British people now - the rules have completely changed. There's nothing set in stone.

All it takes is a party that's left of centre economically and hardline on migration and putting British people first while supporting embedded non-pecuniary liberal values and it's the end of the Tories as a majority party I'm afraid.

The Conservatives seem unable to grapple with the new paradigm shift.

But perhaps in times like these it should do. After China flu capitalism will have to change (not to anything more dirigist) but more interventionist. It doesn't matter what the Tories think - if they want to maintain power they will have to change with the mood of the nation.

We have reached a stage where nothing is without bounds - so pull most of the aid budget, have an import policy that meets the values and needs and protections of the nations. Be firmer on migration and have a `ceramic divorce` with China.

People are giving high ratings for Boris as he's a nice guy and the other lot are terrible. Most people want to give goodwill to someone who is responsible in times of crisis. Once Brexit is out of the way then I think the ratings will fall.

Politics abhors a vacuum and some movement or force will come to challenge the Tories if they don't change. It's not about not being capitalist - it's about bending capitalism to the best advantage of the nation state.

I wasn't so much locked down but locked out. The company has applied for liquidation.

I think the Conservatives need to change their attitude. There seems to be too many corporations pulling the strings.

The next big test will be hyper-globalism and how it affect the long-term health of the nation. You are either in or your out.

Either for turning a blind eye about `pooling sovereignty` with totalitarian states like China or having an interventionist policy when it comes to imports.

Where's the left party that's patriotic firm on borders (more than the soft touch Priti Patel) yet socially liberal and puts Britain first?

Thank you for your empathy. I'm well aware that `the business crumbled etc etc`. It would have been nice for the owner to have taken the government grant so that I don't have to again, doff my cap to my betters. to see if I can once again take part in Capitalism. To whom do I bow?

As it was before this China Flu I thought the Tories were in for a decade, Unfortunately, they've been found wanting. Forget about the Sunak figures. I think everything's changed and you are in for a rude awakening.

`If the party crumbles in the next few years it was never going to survive in the long run. There are people out there at the moment which if you allow them will excel. This is life and this is politics - you do your best and best determines the quality of your vote. If not there is short money - but we were getting our knickers in a twixt about the all the people who might go home. We we have a couple of a million ways to make you leave`.

Remember like Capitalism - Politics can be highly competitive. Keep up Mr Fluggee or the party might be for the dole queues.

Unfortunately this is all too little too late for me. My employer has filed for bankruptcy and I am one of the long line of people joining the unemployment queues.

I'm beginning to lose all faith in the Conservative Party. After depression I managed to get off of my backside, took a placement in a community centre (front of house, calls inbound and outbound concerning furniture deliveries) then got a job at the place I'm now in. I thrived for most of my time but the owner has decided to pull the plug and not take the government's grant to furlough staff.

I find the Conservatives as rather naive to be frank and quite unhelpful. We have one party that seems to be naive about globalism, another about the EU and the Conservatives about private sector.

Images of non-essential workers jostling together in canteens will probably put a kybosh on a potential tory majority.
Thoughts about people secreting themselves in their houses while Iran Air are pouring people out of hotspots shows to me that the Tories are uninterested in the logical welfare of the nation. Also what's the point of welcoming more people here when unemployment is going to skyrocket? Close the borders for migration purposes and for gods sake toughen up!

Get me a centre-left party that prioritises things properly understands the need for Brexit and tough as old boots migration policies and I'm off.

Stop acting like neoliberals (which is what has caused this mess from China) and start putting the nation first,
What's the point of capitalism if after you've built up enough money to do us a house you have to spend it on shoes because the social doesn't cover it?

What's the point of borderless world when there are no equivalent food health and safety standards nor the same freedom of information and democracy that requires China to be very quick and very transparent. This is a completely avoidable pandemic caused by wildly different food hygiene standards as well as the use of `wildlife meats`.

2016 was when hyper-globalism stalled. 2020 is when hyper-globalism ended in the sense of multiculturalism and lowest common denominator. It's also the year the EU started to crumble.

We're getting rid of the governmental elites now it's time to pull the crony capitalists and corporatists down a peg or two.

Ever since the vote my life has got better economically. I've gained jobs.

`I also owe him a particular debt – he kindly endorsed me in the general election and spoke on my behalf. At the age of 86, he remains one of the best public speakers in the country. When he speaks, people should listen. (I would argue that a few more people listening to him in South West Hertfordshire in December would have been particularly desirable.) That was your problem right there. Heseltine instead of bowing out gracefully or thinking `how can i help UK industry today` became an old uber globalist dinosaur,

`Evidently, this country is about to go in the opposite direction. Departure from the Single Market and the Customs Union will inevitably result in increased trade barriers with the EU. Regulatory divergence will increase those barriers yet further. Pretending that this can be fully compensated for by entering into trade deals with other countries is, sadly, delusional.` How do you know? Thank god DG lost. He's all about barriers not about creating new realities and shape shifting the world.