EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/16/major-breakthrough-needed-to-avert-no-deal-brexit-says-irish-minister

Still no movement on environmental and labour protection...even though EU standards aren't that strict one could argue.

So in 10 days we may know "thin deal or no deal" and the brexit mystery box may contain hope after the demons have fled...with a bit of luck.

Any truly forward thinking Agricultural Policy would have been selectively breeding British Unicorns to cope with the rigours of our uplands.

Those sunlit uplands are often very damp, so perhaps some gene-splicing to acquire the rot-resistant hooves of water buffaloes would have been needed.

One Tory minister said that mainland EU dairy farms could always move here.

My partner: Oh, so they are going to put cows on the immigration job shortage list?

I think I must agree unicorns are better 🦄

I think I must agree unicorns are better 🦄

Clearly we must generate markets for all the by-products.
I'm certain that the great minds within our Brexit Cabinet have the contacts
to ensure the Chinese substitute Rhino horn with Unicorn horn.

Which gammony brexitter wouldn't be proud to have a tin of Unicorn hoof glue in his shed?

And Liz Truss could get all of a tizzy proclaiming the booming markets for the export of British Unicorn semen.

Unicorn hoof glue: LOL
British Unicorn semen: Disturbing and snigger

We can also make lots of money exporting salt from this thread ;)

(though frankly salt, sarcasm, tired resignation with "but don't be mean in return" is all I got left...)

Could we feed the unicorns some kind of shellfish by-product?

This is coming together nicely...

I currently have an FTA with my parents for Bovril; they buy it in the UK, then post it to me in France. No tarifs for me. I don't even pay for the Bovril.
That's how everything will work after Brexit, isn't it...?

That sounds like the fantasy land the Brexit Massive™ are living in, yes.

Clearly we need the UK Biotech industry to devise some method of rendering shellfish chitin into metabolisable amino acids, thus reducing the forecast reliance of the UK Upland Unicorn industry upon imported soya meal.
As you say, this IS coming together nicely ...

What actually happens to unicorns. Shame they don't pay their taxes

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I love a fry up but sadly real bacon is pretty scarce here so I'd buy some. On my own, I'm a pretty niche market though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54958343

Boris spouting his usual nonsense.

Thing is, the majority of Cod is imported from Iceland and Norway

There was a great Daily Mash headline from a couple of years ago that was something like 'Country that shuts down during light snow confident that it can go it alone'.

"Proper" = "not starve" in UK English?

As the UK doesn't produce enough food (though Ireland does with NI thrown in especially, we may be fine down here) I am not sure prosper also means "not starve" for GB...

Boris has some lard he can burn through he may sell it as the "Brexit weight loss plan!" ;)

That's only cos the EU stole all the snow ploughs, no? ;)

We're basically going to be North Korea come the 1st January. But at least they have China on there side.

Its time to buy a baseball bat and wrap it in bared wire isn't it.

I've cleverly been putting on the 'COVID stone', too.

bared wire

Not scary enough. :)

Snow Deal

It's ok, when all those filthy forruns realise the UK is sunk they will leave and there will be plenty of rats left for everyone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-54984158

Usual issues, nothing ready for border, policing over borders harder even with deal, businesses can't cope bit this was funny:

He (Aodhán Connolly from the NI Retail Consortium) said there needed to be some sort of phase in period: "You can call it the pink fluffy bunny period... we don't care what you call it."

Name is Brexit British bulldog flying spitfire period and erg may go for it :p

On a call this morning (I’m PM for our Brexit project for IT) and there was a suggestion that Cummings departed last week when discussions around an extension to the transition period due to COVID started to gain traction. Not sure if this was supposition on someone’s part or founded on knowledge.

Too late. The deadline for extending the transition period was back in June and our glorious leaders decided not to extend, despite a global pandemic.

I'm sure that could be overcome with the right pressure out of Washington. Obviously, no idea if that will come.