Brexit and Corona converge on Barnier as GNU reappears

Hilarious news from the Graun,even though I shouldn't really laugh:

Coronavirus live news: EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier tests positive

That man will do anything to keep us in Europe.

And, never one to miss a chance, the persistently dripping M Kettle:

Defeating the Covid-19 crisis could need a wartime coalition government 

Johnson and Dominic Cummings still imagine they will be able to spin their way through the crisis and resume their interrupted election agenda. But they would be wrong...The country has been deeply divided by austerity and Brexit. That’s why, just as in 1915 and 1940, it may eventually feel inevitable for Labour and even the SNP to be brought into a governing coalition in some way.

The return of the pro-EC GOAT or GNU, and JIT 

Equally hilarious class-struggle news in the Times [subscription] today:

Affluent families desperate to escape towns and cities are offering tens of thousands of pounds to the owners of country properties around Britain to find sanctuary in the coronavirus crisis....Some have offered to pay a year’s rent up front. Guy Bradshaw of UK Sotheby’s International, said some were willing to pay £50,000 a month. The idea has not been popular with people living in the areas.

And in the Grud

As Parisians flee to countryside, rural-dwellers accuse them of spreading infection and emptying shops 

Expect npb outrage because they won't be able to compete with those prices. Should be first come first served -- or interview with the authorities?