Jaysus, that man really is the turd that just won't flush.

I think a bit of the problem here is the media desperately wanting the dull politics of internaitonal trade to be exciting, in which case they've basically blown up what is to all intents and purposes just a Whatsapp group into some quasi new UKIP without accounting for the fact that in any Whatsapp group the ratio of noise to action is about 10-1