EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

no furrins

Other than the English?

if you show mine to the French, they don't spit in my food

It's hard if you can't look over the rim of the plate.

those came with armies here, i forgot to bring mine ;)

No foreign here. Pure Anglo Saxon, mate, pure Anglo Saxon

Official home office report on migration. This has made me so angry. Where the fuck was this 2 years ago!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/18/immigration-report-is-much-needed-antidote-to-dog-whistle-politics

And the Brexiters are finally revealing their true intentions.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/18/rightwing-thinktanks-unveil-radical-plan-for-us-uk-brexit-trade-deal-nhs

Surely this will cause a massive backlash, as this isn't what people want or signed up to? I thought the hard right would have kept this all under wraps until we had actually left and then sprung this?

It was always about getting people to vote for stuff they wouldn't vote for if you were honest with them about what was planned.

I ordered some down quilts for camping from the US a couple of weeks ago, the turnaround time to MAKE them was just 6 days, it took a further 2 days to go from initial shipping email to arriving in the UK.

they've since sat in customs at coventry with parcelforce from the 9th sept -> 18th sept doing absolutely fuck all. only just now have I got the email that they're on their way to the local sorting hub whereby I'll finally be posted a request for the customs charge and after arranging payment they'll finally attempt to deliver.

this is how we deal with this kind of shit now. when we leave we probably are talking months to receive items given how much more will get stopped.

Re immigration, using us furrins to prop up structural problems is not going to work long term. That is plain to see, but we are now just cash cows which is also not pleasant.

The report basically suggest to focus on immigrants with high wages. So, then why is the tax burden put more and more on fewer people in the UK...?

So they are going to import only "good furrins" to pay for the tax the UK is unable to raise due to low wages? Hum, that's going to fix things...right?

BMW activating it's brexit plans by shutting the Mini factory for a month, at great expense, out of their usual maintenance schedule, right after Brexit day.

https://news.sky.com/story/bmw-to-shut-mini-factory-for-a-month-after-brexit-day-sky-sources-11501360

Something something Self-Preservation-Society

Genuinely terrifying stuff.

Links in with this someone posted a few weeks back:
http://www.brexitshambles.com/brexit-scam-we-need-to-talk-about-tufton-street/

Angelo Saxon? Sounds pretty bloody forrun to me. Send 'em home!
Bloody immigrants coming over here taking our jobs..

Jag land rover workers in Brum going to a three day week too.
Yay manufacturing!

I just caught this headline item and didn't read it - so went away with the thoughts of a BMW microfactory.

BMW microfactory

That'll be an apt description of the Oxford plant in six months time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45566205

EU still insists on good checks (see also Norway) but that means problems again, so, ehm, it is wait and see again. Maybe they can be done away from the border, but hi to smuggling and companies expanding in ROI again.

David Davis just makes me want to bang my head against the nearest wall.

He urged May to use the £39bn divorce settlement agreed last year as a bargaining chip to get a better deal than that proposed in the Chequers plan. He said: “We have a negotiating lever. We have 39bn of them, the £39bn contribution we are going to make in the withdrawal agreement. Once we have signed that away our negotiating leverage evaporates.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/19/david-davis-may-wont-get-chequers-plan-through-parliament-brexit

So £30.000 cap for dirty furrins? That's me leaving. If only I knew when is the best rime to convert my meagre savings to sweet sweet Euro

May 2016

anyone else watched the "Message from the Prime Minister: Delivering Brexit" video? popped up on my fb feed as a sponsored post... feels like it's aimed at toddlers.
https://www.facebook.com/10downingstreet/videos/2214392835298440/

If only I knew when is the best time to convert my meagre savings to sweet sweet Euro

I'm waiting for someone to give the £ another kicking so I can pay some NI. Still expecting a deal to be done that pleases no one but provides some certainty and nice PR so the currency will tick back up.

Wouldn't worry - after Brexit, we will magically be able to make all goods and services using good quality British ingredients and home grown British workers for the same cost or cheaper than you could have ever bought them from abroad. Wouldn't worry one bit.

David Davis continues to fail to realise that £39bn is actually fuck all to the EU in the grand scheme of things.

It's a fifth of 1% of the EU GDP.

You could argue that £39bn is 20% of the annual EU budget but given that the budget is less than 1% of EU income, it really is just a paper shuffling exercise to swallow the loss.

Yes, but it's also that this is one of those seemingly unchangeable idées fixes he labours under, especially his utter cluelessness about how you negotiate.

Except I got the code yesterday, went online paid, money came straight out of my monzo account and redirected back to their website... "an error occurred"

now they refuse to look at the issue until i've given it "some time" to go through. meanwhile my package I've paid for sits 10 minutes down the road.