EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

So they are covering soil with clay?

That'll be shit for plant life and water runoff surely. (Don't call me Shirley etc..)

So they are covering soil with clay?

No. Natural soils (only) generated form the portal excavation, will be used to remodel the
golf course.

https://planning.hillingdon.gov.uk/OcellaWeb/showDocuments?reference=10737/APP/2020/3359&module=pl has more

The planning consent requires a soil management plan which might have even more detail but I can't find that. Might not have been submitted yet.

Not convinced by the governments arguments on this one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68244374

^ that does indeed not sound like the gov considered the downsides.

The idea to change the way young plants are checked is also criticized, the government wants to do complete change that to central hubs and mix all.plants together, rather than have more specialised smaller hubs.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/14/brexit-tackle-politics-children-football

I thought it was bullshit then asked my lad and said yeah that’s it. A violent tackle where you don’t get the ball is a Brexit

The kids know!

More sunlit uplands - we'll be able to torture chickens again:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/carrying-chickens-by-legs-remain-unlawful-brexit

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

A long article with a good overview, and yes it ties in with Brexit which everybody has put on their political ignore list.

The leaking tap that is not acknowledged while we all wonder why the place is damp/the floor is getting soft.

Has anyone experienced any genuine Brexit benefit. All I can find is inconveniences and increased costs.

Flew to Gibraltar to get to Spain today, I would so prefer a maroon passport and being able to join the EU passport queue.

I bought a pair of Nike Air Max DNs today in Copenhagen.

I can claim back the VAT on my return to Blighty.

That's a Brexit benefit.

Only one in eight miserable years

Duty free Lego on cross channel ferries

I can't afford Lego or air max any more #brexflation

Edit: vat free or otherwise

Has anyone experienced any genuine Brexit benefit….Flew to Gibraltar to get to Spain today, I would so prefer a maroon passport and being able to join the EU passport queue.

I have an EU passport and Mrs U doesn’t, always gives me a smile when she toddles off to the big queue - small Brexit bonus

Yeah, but you still have to wait for her in the other side. We both have EU passports, so can sail through flicking the V's at all the Brits.

A mate who has a hospitality recruitment firm did really well out of the EU hospitality staff shortage a while back.

Can you no go together? We always go together to the shortest queue when one of us has the suitable passport.

Can you no go together?

What and spoil the moment??

It should also require that you injure yourself in the process of not winning the ball

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/british-farmers-want-basic-income-to-cope-with-post-brexit-struggles?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The current schemes that replaced the EU CAP don't work well, this could be one if the few Brexit benefits.

Though perhaps individual countries can top up CAP payments and I know nature management farming schemes for pay exist in EU countries also. But not heard of a farming ubi.

Are you not then liable for UK VAT, as you would be if you ordered from overseas and shipped to UK?

Tory farmers want a universal (just for farmers though right?) basic income. Oh do fuck off....

Farmers reaping what they sowed. Or not. Lol.

In conclusion these polls indicate that somewhere between 34 and 58 per cent of farmers planned to vote for Brexit, with two polls after the referendum putting the figure that did vote to leave at around 53 per cent.

To put that into context:

55 per cent of men voted to leave;
56 per cent of the ‘rural’ vote was a vote to leave:
61 per cent of Conservative voters voted leave; and
the older you were the more likely you were to have voted to leave (60 per cent of those aged 50-64 and 64 per cent of those over 65).
Given that farmers are predominantly male, rural, Tory voting, and older than 50 (one third are over 65), they appear to have voted to leave in a smaller proportion than others in their demographic.

https://www.westcountryvoices.co.uk/challenging-the-myth-that-farmers-voted-for-brexit-and-therefore-deserve-whats-coming-to-them/