EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

When I read the heading 'Proposed live test of Manston Airport' I was thinking of something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nHdB1vJNsg

Where are we in the "country going to shit" plotline we seem to be on?

This weekend I heard :
"We're going on holiday in June, I hope we can get back in after all this mess"

Big sigh

isn't it all on hold till the 14th ?

Ah so it's just pure speculation and hot air until the shit hits the fan (again).

When do dirty den and Angie come back?

They've been busy testing the lorry problem in Kent.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/07/no-deal-brexit-rehearsal-tests-traffic-congestion-in-kent

It took double the length or time to make their usual journey.

I imagine that's bad enough, but they also ran the test with 79 lorries - two orders of magnitude less than what will actually be running.

just after lofty turns up.

This weekend I heard :
"We're going on holiday in June, I hope we can get back in after all this mess"

Big sigh

They've got the sequence wrong there - they're assuming that they'll be able to leave...

Been saying for years you lot should've stuck with trains.

stockpiles beans

I've got way too many trips planned for this idiotic government to fuck them up.

Who wants to split costs of a charter jet for a year?

Would need to be a jet owned by a firm headquartered in the EU, and we won't be able to afford that when it's 2 £ per 1 €

Yeah, but once the £ tanks, and the Euro economy takes a bit of a hit from the lack of any meaningful trade with the UK so the Euro starts wobbling again, then everyone will start buying Swiss Francs once again, so @Cycliste will be able to buy a few ex-BA planes and a UK airfield for the price of a couple of Schoggigipfelis.

$1tn worth of assets moved out of the UK, into the EU. And that's just corporate assets.

Anecdotally, the amount of private wealth moved eclipses that.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/07/investing/brexit-banks-moving-assets/index.html

A lot of my colleagues are going long on German sausage futures, so I can well believe it.

Did someone say Schoggigipfeli? Where?

Basel, normally. If we're down in Vevey they're croissants au chocolat, of course. Although down south I'd prefer a pain au chocolat, which seem to be unavailable in most places in Basel. Certainly not available in Peter's Laden. I expect I'll be filling the hire car full of croissant crumbs this weekend between Vevey and Les Crosets.

And that's only the beginning. It's only going to be accelerating as we head towards Brexshiteday. By March 29th we're going to be down to rocks and flint tools.

Anyone else watch the C4 Brexit the uncivil war?

Recorded it. I'm going to wait until I'm much more inebriated before watching it.

I have it downloaded for my commute watching pleasure.

Read your post as you'll wait till March.

It's interesting I thought. Maybe I'm sleep deprived, but other than a bit at the end bringing up my feelings from the morning after I didn't find it depressing.

Brexit the uncivil war: spoiler alert, Carole Cadwalladr the Journo who exposed a lot of the corruption around vote leave thrash out the creative licence taken by film makers and the events omitted.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/07/you-whitewashed-the-corruption-james-graham-and-carole-cadwalladr-on-brexit-the-uncivil-war

I don't really get the Uncivil War thing. Who's it for / what's it trying to achieve? A dramatisation (definitely not a documentary) on current events just feels weird. Is it meant to be entertainment?

current events

It was two and a half years ago.

If we have to wait until it's over, then we'll be waiting until at least 2030.

Have we had this yet?

https://mobile.twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1082256193035345920