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Aruntraveller

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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6400 on: September 13, 2023, 09:23:38 AM »
Quote from: jeremyp on September 13, 2023, 09:20:21 AM
What kind of emergency requires the use of a particular pesticide? Is it the sort of emergency that results when a Tory minister needs more money?

And on the Tory Bingo card you just got a full house.

Congratulations.

Your prize is a swim from one of our many award-winning brown flag beaches.
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6401 on: September 13, 2023, 09:52:40 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 29, 2023, 07:07:52 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66642878
Deregulation, so beloved by the Tory swivel-eyed faction, is nearly always disastrous. Thatcher's deregulation led to the BSE/CJD crisis.
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6402 on: September 13, 2023, 10:15:01 AM »
Quote from: SteveH on September 13, 2023, 09:52:40 AM
Deregulation, so beloved by the Tory swivel-eyed faction, is nearly always disastrous. Thatcher's deregulation led to the BSE/CJD crisis.

Nope. The use of meat and bone meal to feed cattle started long before Thatcher gained power.

You can't blame everything on her.

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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6403 on: September 14, 2023, 09:04:55 AM »
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6404 on: September 14, 2023, 01:14:08 PM »
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6405 on: December 27, 2023, 09:47:16 AM »
Hurrah we can have a pint of champagne at last, maybe!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67795075
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6406 on: December 27, 2023, 02:31:23 PM »
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The then-prime minister [Johnson] pledged to change the rules ahead of the 2019 election, calling imperial measurements an "ancient liberty" and adding he saw "no reason why people should be prosecuted" for using them.

But the government has now said it will not change the rules, after 98.7% of respondents to a consultation favoured using metric as the main measurement unit for sales, as now, or as the only unit.

Some sanity.

I don't care what sized bottles they sell wine in, as long as I can still get standard sized bottles and any non standard bottles are clearly marked in metric units with the volume of liquid contained therein.
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6407 on: December 29, 2023, 08:23:04 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on December 27, 2023, 02:31:23 PM
Some sanity.

I don't care what sized bottles they sell wine in, as long as I can still get standard sized bottles and any non standard bottles are clearly marked in metric units with the volume of liquid contained therein.

Not a parody


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12904933/PETER-HITCHENS-Let-return-champagne-pint-strike-blow-against-metric-commissars-loathe-traditions.html
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6408 on: December 30, 2023, 11:31:39 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on December 29, 2023, 08:23:04 PM
Not a parody


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12904933/PETER-HITCHENS-Let-return-champagne-pint-strike-blow-against-metric-commissars-loathe-traditions.html

I see some of the commenters make the obvious point: wine producers are not going to start putting their produce in pint sized bottles just because a few old xenophobic luddites in Britain want their archaic measuring system back.
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6409 on: January 25, 2024, 02:45:09 PM »
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6410 on: January 25, 2024, 08:40:43 PM »
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6411 on: January 28, 2024, 10:19:10 AM »
This piece in The Spectator on the collapse of talks on a UK/Canada trade agreement illustrates the basic flaw in the Brexit position, in that it is essentially 2 completely contradictory positions. One based on the idea of 'free markets', and one based on 'anti globalist protectionism'.


https://archive.vn/pAO7L
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6412 on: January 30, 2024, 11:30:45 AM »
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6413 on: March 27, 2024, 10:46:11 AM »
Quote from: Gordon on January 25, 2024, 08:40:43 PM
The 'Brexit benefits' are piling up: here's another.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/25/tourists-heading-to-europe-could-face-14-hour-queues-at-dover-from-october

Imagine queueing up for 14 hours ands then finding that your passport is not considered valid by the EU

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68658209
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6414 on: April 03, 2024, 06:57:17 PM »
Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed


Brexit benefit!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68726852
« Last Edit: April 03, 2024, 09:53:34 PM by Nearly Sane »
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6415 on: April 04, 2024, 09:06:26 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 03, 2024, 06:57:17 PM
Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed


Brexit benefit!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68726852

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The fee has been introduced to pay for border inspections and fund new facilities in Kent to protect biosecurity

Really? Can't they fund it out of all the savings from not being in the EU anymore? /s
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6416 on: May 05, 2024, 09:58:59 AM »

Brexit continues to be an issue in Northern Ireland

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68951063
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6417 on: May 18, 2024, 02:46:01 PM »
So the jury is still out on Kemi B. Is she think or is she thick as pigshit?
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6418 on: May 18, 2024, 02:52:48 PM »
Quote from: Aruntraveller on May 18, 2024, 02:46:01 PM
So the jury is still out on Kemi B. Is she think or is she thick as pigshit?
Or calculating that people who might support her are?
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6419 on: September 17, 2024, 11:45:31 AM »
Good news everybody.

As a result of Brexit, our trade balance with respect to the EU has improved.

Yes, goods exported have decreased by 27% but goods imported have decreased by a whopping 32%

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd988p00z1no

I just want to cry.
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6420 on: September 17, 2024, 11:54:07 AM »
Quote from: jeremyp on September 17, 2024, 11:45:31 AM
Good news everybody.

As a result of Brexit, our trade balance with respect to the EU has improved.

Yes, goods exported have decreased by 27% but goods imported have decreased by a whopping 32%

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd988p00z1no

I just want to cry.
I suppose if you are against an idea of 'globalism', this is taking back control.
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6421 on: September 17, 2024, 01:00:50 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 17, 2024, 11:54:07 AM
I suppose if you are against an idea of 'globalism', this is taking back control.

I hadn't realised that "taking back control" was code for that.

I thought it was code for something else entirely.
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Re: Brexit - the next steps
« Reply #6422 on: September 17, 2024, 01:29:14 PM »
Quote from: Aruntraveller on September 17, 2024, 01:00:50 PM
I hadn't realised that "taking back control" was code for that.

I thought it was code for something else entirely.
Oh, it's that too, but that's all part of the World Economic Forum's neoliberalist globalist agenda  ;)
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