EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

moanmentum

oh my fucking sides.

i'm glad you think the ongoing legitimisation of fascism is a lolfest.

Asked a Dr mate of mine and he said that they are not seeing any discernible impact from that- but long tenured EU nurses are leaving in large numbers, particularly Spanish nurses he noted (he had no idea why Spanish nurses were leaving in larger numbers, however).

Coming over to? They created it.

and remember they cleverly got rid of bursaries for nurses last year https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/02/nursing-degree-applications-slump-after-nhs-bursaries-abolished

Yes. No one wants to pay in order to qualify for a job that has massive stress and below market remuneration, in a soon to be privatised and currently crumbling organisation.

https://www.tes.com/news/brexit-blamed-dramatic-drop-eu-teachers

EU teachers are not applying anymore either. I don't think they changes the requirements for teachers?

But the rights of EU nationals are...well, sorta settled with the settled status law. But that only became law about 2 weeks ago, the registration system is still not sorted, the new about the UK is of course not great in mainland EU.

That is of course aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllll the fault of remoaners and fake news ;)

Looks like the government might have succumbed to the embarrassment of Johnson's housing situation (given his resignation a few weeks ago)

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1023886302020808705

It's going to be fun, fun, fun watching it happen!

Suck it up, buttercup: https://ec.europa.eu/info/brexit/brexit-preparedness/preparedness-notices_en

Clusterfuck.
Thanks to Ireland these type of documents will be available in English for the foreseeable future. But should Eire go full Gaelic at some point then all of this stuff will have to be translated at the UK taxpayer's expense from original documents written in, say, French or German.

Wow. This is not going to go well.

The Brexiters should have taken the win, banked the Norway/EEA option and then diverged over time. Instead, because they're lunatics, they've pushed us all the way to catastrofuck no-deal, which may mean no Brexit at all as the truth (food distributed by the army, martial law in place to stop rioting etc et) comes out.

Ha, I hadn't fully realised the irony until you posted that.

As long as, at some point, some semblance of sanity prevails.

It may not.

Clustery cluster fuckity fuck.

Yeah, it'd be quite pleasing if their own greed and stupidity was the engine of their defeat.

But, if we get catastrofuck I think we just need to ride it out - I'm buying a Kendo suit to do the shopping in, and I'll weld some mesh over the windows of the C55.

The closer we get to a no-deal crashout, the jumpier the markets will get, culminating at some point in early 2018 in a full-on Sterling collapse. At that point the govt will basically be forced to do some sort of deal, any sort of deal, where the EU will hold all the cards, probably an indefinite extension of the current position

Which isn't on offer - a limited extension for a GE or second ref is, but an indefinite extension just means Europe has a UK problem forever.

We'd be much better of recalling A50.

Agreed. I think instead though, the gov will concede on some of their red lines, which the ERG will be less able to throw their toys out of the pram about as it will be clear to all that sticking to them was leading the country to chaos

Can someone summarise the last week?
Has it been a case of:
Theresa may fucks off on holiday, loads of stuff in the papers about how bad it will be, the brexit mobnshittong it, and the potential we'll get a vote to say "nah, don't want this, can we stay in?"

Do you really see TMay compromising on her self-imposed Red Lines?
She deludedly believes the Chequers Proposal is alive, despite Barnier continuing to stress the indivisibility of the Four Freedoms and the impossibility of the UK collecting import duties fir tge EU27.

Add in TMay and other Ministers visiting EU27 countries to 'sell' the doa Chequers Proposal, even after Barnier told Raab & the World that can have no effect.
Once TMay realises her Chequers proposal is dead, she may as well resign.
(Potentially resign = call a general election, and hope she loses a few more seats so not even £1.5bn to the DUP gives her a working majority).

Should I come home?

I'ld leave it a while. Once the Gammons are denied their daily statin pills and other blood pressure regulators, there will be clear majority for rejoining the EU.

Problem is my dad needs insulin 3 times a day and the U.K. doesn’t make any at all.

Yet.

All those gammony pancreasesesesses

Lower regulation for xenoinsulin.