Brexit - the next steps

[Aruntraveller]

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.

[SteveH]

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.

[jeremyp]

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.

[Nearly Sane]

  Brexit Benefit! Brexit Benefit! Brexit Benefit! 

Apparently

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66642878

Lords defeat the 'Brexit benefit'!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66804160

[Nearly Sane]

Lords defeat the 'Brexit benefit'!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66804160

Did the govt want to lose the vote?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66805127

[Nearly Sane]

Hurrah we can have a pint of champagne at last, maybe!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67795075

[jeremyp]

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.

[Nearly Sane]

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

[jeremyp]

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.

[Nearly Sane]

So 'single market' via Ulster?

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/sunak-offers-to-sacrifice-brexit-freedoms-to-re-establish-stormont-report/a799742753.html

[Gordon]

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

[Nearly Sane]

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

[Nearly Sane]

And Brexit 2.0


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68135059

[jeremyp]

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

[Nearly Sane]

Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed


Brexit benefit!

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

[jeremyp]

Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed


Brexit benefit!

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

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

[Nearly Sane]

Brexit continues to be an issue in Northern Ireland

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68951063

[Aruntraveller]

So the jury is still out on Kemi B. Is she think or is she thick as pigshit?

[Nearly Sane]

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?

[jeremyp]

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.

[Nearly Sane]

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.

[Aruntraveller]

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.

[Nearly Sane]

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