EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

A brexit positive? I understand that a similar compromise was mooted with the EU back in December, but fell apart when they decided to impose their own retaliatory tariffs relating to the Airbus /Boeing dispute. Ended up with further escalation by the last administration in the US and still no immediate relief in sight.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/04/us-to-drop-retaliatory-tariffs-on-uk-exports-including-whisky-brexit-boeing-airbus

The EU helped out last time the USA tried to screw over UK made planes with tariffs.

It's hard to tell if it's a positive in that sense as the UK is now alone for good and bad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-56285874

EU legal action over unilateral extension if grace period imminent.

Tx Boris 🙄

Of course it's possible, like last time, it's just to keep some Tories onboard and they stick to the rules last minute, but worrying nonetheless.

Sadly brinkmanship seems to be the default with this lot...

It is really hurting the UKs international status, short termist brinkmanship?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/06/food-scarcity-fears-prompt-plan-to-ease-post-brexit-checks-on-eu-imports?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

So reliable rumor has it the government is breaking the trade rules as they fear food shortages.

FFS people...it's not as if Whitehall and "project fear" didn't warn you.

We refused the extension because it was politically difficult, so now we’re breaking our own word because it’s politically difficult.

I have to say I take my hat off to Johnson and his band of cunts, I didn’t think Brexit would be this successful.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/07/exodus-of-foreign-workers-a-threat-to-uk-recovery?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

More in "I told you so"

All nice and well to add jobs to shortage lists but that doesn't solve the issues with cost and complexity of the UK visa system.

Entertaining thread about sourcing of opinion in official documents and reports, Nazi Spies, Factortame (recently mentioned by one of our own swivel eyed loons) and the Commons Library.

^ huh weird story.

https://www.jparkers.co.uk/brexit

Well there goes my favourite plant shopping 🤬

No I can't get everything locally, gonna have to try the Southy shops.

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, building our stuff, keeping us alive, paying their tax!

Out with them I say!

Do we think that deploying our revised armed services to the Pacific to annoy China is going to give us sufficient leverage with the US that we can then destabilise Ireland with impunity in order to create leverage with the EU?

USA is heavily in debt to China.

Risky strategy to follow also as the USA and EU are talking trade, so EU may leverage that.

Arguing with our computers, owning our public transport companies (not in Northern Ireland), building our power plants! ;)

For extra irony that company was started by a Dutch person...so Growing our plants!!! can be added 😁

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/secretary-of-state-accused-of-taking-people-of-northern-ireland-for-fools-over-irish-sea-border-40181571.html

Brandon "the border doesn't exist as there is unfettered access" but it also exists because there isn't" Lewis being at it again.

He's only there because the previous and actually competent SoS for Northern Ireland wasn't brown nosing Boris Johnson.

He's only there because the previous and actually competent SoS for Northern Ireland wasn't brown nosing Boris Johnson.

He is not alone. That does appear to be the only qualification for being appointed to the Cabinet these days - i.e. being a Brexity Yes-Womble.

Going to be interesting if we don’t (yet again) engage reverse gear on this.

We either accept the verdict of the European Courts, pay our fine and come back inline with our treaty commitments which would have the Brexists howling “are sovrinty!”, or we ignore the ruling and have tariffs slapped on our most sensitive exports.

'Factortame (recently mentioned by one of our own swivel eyed loons)'

You called?

I mentioned, I wouldn’t say called- that suggests I wanted to see you.

Is that self-identified “working class” or one of the ABCD etc socioeconomic groups?

As I suspect those two skew differently on age etc

I imagine that info is available on the YouGov website.

The data may be, but I'll put £10 on the plot not being. Someone's made it using their data (they claim to have, anyway), but they've done a shit job (not having a go at you, Neil). It's comparing apples with oranges with fruit salad with fruit pastilles.

And we're not allowed to ask why there isn't an 'idiots and racists' column, right?