The Positive Brexit Thread

[dj11 377]

30 minutes ago, Herman said:

Leaf it out lads. 

Anyway, hate to worry you but we are on page 666.😮

That’s a world beating amount of positives. 

[Herman 9,694]

Here's another one for the collection. Do you remember the kerfuffle about the government's purchase of PPE? Well it seems like they have lost a large amount of it. Government agencies are looking around docks and ships trying to locate it. 

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

2 hours ago, Bill said:

calm down, petal 😍

Run, Florist, Run😀

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

1 minute ago, Herman said:

Here's another one for the collection. Do you remember the kerfuffle about the government's purchase of PPE? Well it seems like they have lost a large amount of it. Government agencies are looking around docks and ships trying to locate it. 

Its a bit like the Parrot "OK, what have you done with the ship" joke.

[Bill 1,788]

34 minutes ago, keelansgrandad said:

Its a bit like the Parrot "OK, what have you done with the ship" joke.

''There was this Magician on a ship performing every night. Not noticing, the captains parrot watches him every night as he performs the same tricks. After watching him, the parrot finds out how he does it and started to tell the audience. After the parrot told the audience, the ship hit an iceberg and started to sink. Everyone ran to the life boats. It so happen that the Magician went overboard and managed to hold one a flat piece of board that the parrot was on. After three days of staring at each other the parrot finally says "Ok, what did you do with the ship?"

 

ps I had to look it up 🙄

[Bill 1,788]

38 minutes ago, keelansgrandad said:

Run, Florist, Run😀

shut it, ya pansy 🙃

[Yellow Fever 3,732]

55 minutes ago, Herman said:

Here's another one for the collection. Do you remember the kerfuffle about the government's purchase of PPE? Well it seems like they have lost a large amount of it. Government agencies are looking around docks and ships trying to locate it. 

Perhaps they've bought it several times 😉

 

[Bill 1,788]

"The Brexit trade deal will swipe around £45bn over two years from the UK economy, a Brussels analysis says – after Boris Johnson refused to carry out his own study.

And the economic damage will be more than four times greater than that suffered by the EU, from the putting up of daunting new barriers to cross-Channel trade. The Christmas Eve agreement – hailed as “fantastic” by the prime minister – will cut UK output by about 2.25 per cent by the end of 2022 compared with EU membership, the analysis has found. With annual gross domestic product (GDP) standing at around £2 trillion, such a loss would be equivalent to around £45bn over the next two years.

Although the hard exit terms will also hit the EU economy, that loss is estimated to be only about 0.5 per cent over the same period. The European Commission said avoiding the threatened no-deal outcome before the New Year’s Day deadline “improves the situation”. But, its winter economic forecast added: “It cannot come close to matching the benefits of the trading relations provided by EU membership.”

The figures are the first appearing to back up the overwhelming verdict of economists that the skeleton deal – leaving the single market and customs union – will hurt the UK economy.

The government has repeatedly refused to carry out its own analysis, trade secretary Liz Truss telling MPs last month that it was time to “move forward”. However, assessments have been released for much less significant ‘rolled over’ deals with tiny economies such as Moldova and North Macedonia – and for trade targets including the US, Australia and New Zealand. All analysis had showed that, whatever future deals are signed, they cannot come close to compensating for ending frictionless trade with the UK’s biggest market.

The Treasury has been asked to respond to the Brussels verdict, which comes amid mounting business fury over the blizzard of new red tape hitting trade. The last-gasp agreement maintained zero-tariffs on the sale of goods crossing the Channel – but only if firms meet rules of origin on products. And new paperwork, customs checks and confusion over the new system have slowed up deliveries, forcing some firms to give up on EU trade altogether. The Commission said the “shock” from these so-called non-tariff barriers amounted to the equivalent of a tax on imports worth 10.9 per cent for the EU and 8.5 per cent for the UK.

And the absence of any specific agreement for services, which form 80 per cent of the British economy, would further hurt the UK and some EU nations. However, avoiding a crash-out Brexit – and moving onto World Trade Organisation terms – had reduced the further damage for the UK by a quarter "  12/2/21

[PurpleCanary 5,553]

4 hours ago, Herman said:

It's a thorny issue and should be taken seriously. 

Too late. Brexit should have been nipped in the bud...

[Creative Midfielder 1,985]

2 hours ago, Herman said:

Here's another one for the collection. Do you remember the kerfuffle about the government's purchase of PPE? Well it seems like they have lost a large amount of it. Government agencies are looking around docks and ships trying to locate it. 

Yep, this Government is wasting an absolutely horrific amount of cash - apparently they're now paying yet another set of private consultants to find the PPE that the Government bought off their mates at sky high prices without any due diligence or tender process and now they don't even know where it is.

Unbl**dy believeable.

Corrupt and totally incompetent, what a combination!!

[sonyc 5,481]

On the gardening theme, this may be the Brexiter's lament. 

[horsefly 4,273]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/joe-biden-taking-trillions-of-dollars-from-london-as-eu-uk-spat-sparks-wall-street-surge/ar-BB1dDo7i?ocid=msedgntp

Joe Biden taking 'trillions of dollars' from London as EU-UK spat sparks Wall Street surge

[Well b back 3,180]

The views of 3 businesses

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55993220

[horsefly 4,273]

Oh dear! Express readers having a meltdown

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/josh-hawley-gop-senator-eviscerated-by-home-state-s-largest-newspaper/ar-BB1dDzaC?ocid=msedgntp

Joe Biden backlash: Britons furious as US leader snubs London for EU - 'No friend of UK!

Anthony Gardner, former US Ambassador to the EU, said the Netherlands will play an "absolutely critical role" to "promote key transatlantic priorities" now the UK has left the bloc. But the claims prompted a furious reaction from Express.co.uk readers.

 

[Herman 9,694]

 

[horsefly 4,273]

Where have all the brexitards gone? Seems they've abandoned the idea of trying to find a positive brexit story.

[cambridgeshire canary 6,669]

33 minutes ago, horsefly said:

Where have all the brexitards gone? Seems they've abandoned the idea of trying to find a positive brexit story.

brexitards

 

Nice to know that five years after a referendum you lost you still can't let it go.

[horsefly 4,273]

50 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

brexitards

 

Nice to know that five years after a referendum you lost you still can't let it go.

Truth is eternal. How about you come up with some solutions to the disaster caused by this folly. I will certainly continue to point out to anyone foolish enough to have voted for brexit that they are part responsible for this utter shambles that will ruin the livelihoods of many people and economically harm the entire nation.

Edited February 13, 2021 by horsefly

[Yellow Fever 3,732]

1 hour ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

brexitards

 

Nice to know that five years after a referendum you lost you still can't let it go.

As Brexit reality strikes the people and businesses now getting their P45's or struggling (oddly many in fishing & farming) can't let it go.

Where is the Brexit good news? (and please not Truss's largely meaningless trade deals that at best repeat what we already had and at worst cost more jobs or debunked nonsense about jabs). I note we about to hit our steel quotas in Wales and we won't even mentions NI.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55845067

Where are the new Brexit jobs (apart from the 50,000 more customs staff).

Where are the savings - Not the £7Bn/pa extra that business now faces in red tape.  

Where are the extra exports (not the huge reductions we are seeing to to the EU  - all those empty lorries returning across to Calais) 

No, for most if not all businesses it's just an exercise in damage limitation for the benefit of 'notional' meaningless sovereignty and meaningless symbols. Even Amsterdam has now overtaken London in share dealing.

I tend to try and avoid the made up words like Brexitards but Brexit idiots or fools sounds about right. If the cap fits.

Edited February 13, 2021 by Yellow Fever

[Herman 9,694]

Here's only one good reason we "can't let it go".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/europe/brexit-britain-trade.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

[Yellow Fever 3,732]

28 minutes ago, Herman said:

Here's only one good reason we "can't let it go".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/europe/brexit-britain-trade.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

All you have to remember is that Brexit was the referendum that Johnson expected to lose gracefully hence he could make all sorts of false promises that he never in a month of Sundays expected to have to make good on - or indeed break. Trouble was that he underestimated the stupidity of those that voted for him, and now he and the Brexiteers generally are being hoisted by their own petard.

The brighter ones (and there appear now to be many and growing) accept their mistake and wish to 'renegotiate' or otherwise ameliorate the error. Then there are those who can't face hard facts, change direction, and  would rather cut their nose off to spite their face.

Edited February 13, 2021 by Yellow Fever

[dj11 377]

Struggling to find a positive in this one. 

 

[Herman 9,694]

Another worrying development. The BBC is in serious trouble. And objective truth also looks to be about to take a battering.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/14/murdoch-journalist-given-key-voice-over-new-chair-of-ofcom

[kick it off 1,948]

Oh fantastic, the latest Brexit treat is "Cancer bacon". Who doesn't want to eat bacon that has a proven link to increasing your risk of bowel cancer? 

Every single one of you who voted brexit should be thoroughly ****ing embarrassed that you were thick enough to fall for this sham. It's about the rich profiteering at the expense of everybody else's quality of life, that's all it was ever about. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/14/uk-us-brexit-trade-deal-could-fill-supermarkets-with-cancer-risk-bacon

[Herman 9,694]

Chlorine chicken with pesticide asparagus wrapped in cancer bacon. Sounds lush.

[horsefly 4,273]

1 hour ago, Herman said:

Chlorine chicken with pesticide asparagus wrapped in cancer bacon. Sounds lush.

Is that a full-English Brexit?

[nevermind, neoliberalism has had it 159]

4 hours ago, Herman said:

Another worrying development. The BBC is in serious trouble. And objective truth also looks to be about to take a battering.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/14/murdoch-journalist-given-key-voice-over-new-chair-of-ofcom

the whole Leveson inquiry was a farce, never to be implemented at all, stalling in the long grass. The Murdoch media will soon run all the propaganda channels in this country, whilst journalists who dare to write truth and investigate issues the establishment/Government does not want airing, are being hounded by the law, even if they have done nothing wrong.

Biden has instructed his DoJ to object to Magistrate Baraitsers judgement not to extradite Julian for now, he wants him to suffer some more in a supermax. security jail, if he survives the current Belmarsh covid outbreak. He should be given bail, to see histwoboys and his partner, not face extradition to the same old US that wants to carry on bombing where Obama left off.

Rupture time is coming nearer, it seems, every ball is in the air.

But the populations in this world have an image burned into their hearts of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter firing on unarmed civilians in Baghdad. At least 18 civilians were killed, including two Reuters reporters and a man who came to rescue the wounded. Two children were injured. A U.S. Army tank drove over one of the bodies, cutting it in half. The video contained evidence of three separate war crimes prohibited by the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. Army Field Manual.

that fact will never change!

[PurpleCanary 5,553]

Today's Brexit lesson from Dominic Raab to those who have already or will soon be sacked as business in the UK dries up: Don't worry. You will get another job in ten years' time.

[paul moy 235]

Another boost for independent Brexit Britain and future electric car battery production.  Key battery component  lithium deposits found in Cornwall :  🤗

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1396748/brexit-news-boris-johnson-business-global-britain-british-lithium-cornwall-mining

[paul moy 235]

4 hours ago, kick it off said:

Oh fantastic, the latest Brexit treat is "Cancer bacon". Who doesn't want to eat bacon that has a proven link to increasing your risk of bowel cancer? 

Every single one of you who voted brexit should be thoroughly ****ing embarrassed that you were thick enough to fall for this sham. It's about the rich profiteering at the expense of everybody else's quality of life, that's all it was ever about. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/14/uk-us-brexit-trade-deal-could-fill-supermarkets-with-cancer-risk-bacon

Processed meats have always been a cancer issue.   Just cut down on them and stop panicking........  😂