So where's the protests?

[strangeshapedpotato]

I recall a trade deal once being negotiated between the EU and the USA. The goals of the deal as well as the red lines and regular progress updates were made public, but this wasn't enough for some people who complained the whole thing was secretly selling out to the US.
This despite the fact that any agreed deal would have had to be agreed by 4 separate groups - the Commission, Parliament - both UK and EU and the EU Council AFTER full details were made public.

Today we learn the UK has signed a trade deal with Australia. We have no idea what's in the deal and we won't be told for months. It will be voted on by Parliament long before any voter knows any details - presumably Parliament won't be told either.

Now this is a secret deal - presumably for a reason - the deal is to satisfy Brexiteers who wouldn't read past the headline anyway. But they don't want groups like farmers getting angry by finding out that they too have been sold out.

So where's the protests? If TTIP was undemocratic, this deal is pure dictatorship... yet almost total silence from the media.

The media is too obsessed with so-called Freedom Day, or lack thereof.

I personally don't have the headspace for the news cycle at the moment. Probably won't have until 2022.

It is what people voted for when they voted for Brexit and for this government, why should they protest, it is what people wanted.

It's a good time to get this stuff in by stealth.

People are too hot, preoccupied by the football and loss of "freedom day" over this deal by which some people will welcome cheap meat imports or whatever they signed up to.

It's a tiny squirt of a trade deal worth 0.02% of GDP. Barely worth getting excited about.