EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Not enough space for a cow. Chickens are too smelly. I'd quite like a goat, but apparently you need to have more than one otherwise they get very lonely. And I don't have space for 2+ goats. Even dwarf ones, even though they are pretty cool.

The lfggs Brexit group ride: Sneaking over border in Ireland from Belfast , to return with fresh food. These will be smuggled in via ferry under saddles / via false floors in cycle bag / etc.

Bring knobby tires! ;)

6 weeks. I understand from a source inside DEXU that this is how long they reckon it'll take to get an emergency food supply and basic rationing system up and running, and that's the period they're basing their contingency planning around.

why would I smuggle Irish food when Eurostar goes to Paris?

I might plan to spend late March and most of April abroad.

I may be in Gran Canaria when Brexit takes place, as it happens. 'Oh dear, I'll have to stay here until it all sorts itself out'. Could be worse.

hah, fair enough. I'll miss the French cheese for sure if it all goes catastrophically wrong :)

tinned camembert is not a thing, right? ;)

How many ounces of Gammon a week will the lucky brexitters be able to look forward to?

As if the French will let Eurostar operate normally straight after brexit!

Sausages in frame tubing?

Tinned 'feta' available in every Turkish shop in London.

I'm sure there will be tons of Gammon, all shouting loudly about how it's all the EU's fault.

So, how much will it cost us to leave the EU and how long will it be and how much will it cost to rejoin the EU?

Once Euro trading is safely established within the EU-zone,
and
car/aerospace manufacturing has relocated, the UK will have little (added) value.
Imagine a 60 million population Sicily with crap weather.
Couple of years time the UK will probably have many more areas with
GDP under the 75% EU GDP average. As a nation we might be too poor to be considered.

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So, how much will it cost us to leave the EU and how long will it be and how much will it cost to rejoin the EU?

Lots, f'evah, they won't want us back.

Once Euro trading is safely established within the EU-zone,

and
car/aerospace manufacturing has relocated, the UK will have little (added) value.
Imagine a 60 million population Sicily with crap weather.
Couple of years time the UK will probably have many more areas with
GDP under the 75% EU GDP average. As a nation we might be too poor to be considered.

Au contraire! Due to climate change we'll be able to grow the grapes that France is now too hot for. So:

• Grapes (wine, for the making of)
  
• Lake District
  
• Salisbury Cathedral (spire, for the admiring of)
  
• Very cheap but low-skilled labour
  
• Oxford and Cambridge, UCL/LSE/Kings
  
• Booking corporate profts/general tax-haven activites
  

Fortified with extra 853 steel, sounds good.

I like feta and we have a middle eastern shop, oh I think there is feta in glass and oil too.

Could go middle class and get ducklegs in a tin ;)

Someone inside dexu is talking about implemeting rationing systems...

That's what I've been told. I'd be surprised if they weren't - they've admitted publicly that they're planning to stockpile food and basic supplies, so they'd also have to have some way of distributing it in a sensible manner.

they'd also have to have some way of distributing it in a sensible manner.

The scary thing is that in the forties and fifties, under rationing and spiv black market rules, the people of the UK felt every bit as modern and as developed and as immune to all that bullshit as we do, today.

Man, what a time to be alive 😉

I often think that the most important lesson to be learnt from history is that we are part of it; that in fifty years time we will seem old, outdated, outmoded and (ahem) foreign.

White cheese in a tin! I love that stuff :D

Since moving to North London my diet has evolved to become entirely adapted to 24 hour Turkish corner shops

Finally!
Obesity will be beaten.