Can you blame him seeing the results of the referendum and the following 4 years circus?
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Can you blame him seeing the results of the referendum and the following 4 years circus?
Bonus.
Thought chlorinated chicken was bad? Fukushima food to be imported as restrictions get lifted
Boris Johnson munched on ‘Fukushima popcorn’ as he met with Fumio Kishida, the Japanese prime minister.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...e-imported-as-restrictions-get-lifted-321773/
Thought chlorinated chicken was bad? Fukushima food to be imported as restrictions get lifted
Boris Johnson munched on ‘Fukushima popcorn’ as he met with Fumio Kishida, the Japanese prime minister.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...e-imported-as-restrictions-get-lifted-321773/
How to spot a British tourist - they glow in the dark.
This should end well.
"You know we need some ... er.... er.... some more.....er...self-flagellation... you know.. er... yes, we have world beating self-flagellation..." BORIS BREAKS BRITAIN
The NI protocol dispute is in no way the latest dead cat to distract from the dreadful state of the economy and the cost of living crisis. Boris is trying to stoke the embers of Brexit although it is not working anymore. If Labour and the Lib Dems are sensible in terms of target seats, we can kick out these shameless hustlers at the next election.
In 2025
Yes, December 2024 is a long, long way away. They seem to be utterly bankrupt though - reduced to “war on woke” and schemes such as Rwanda to provoke the “liberal elite lawyers” while people are struggling to pay for food and heating.
Oh really?
Brexit: Scrapping Northern Ireland protocol is legal, says attorney general
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61417798
Brexit: Scrapping Northern Ireland protocol is legal, says attorney general
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61417798
You are the ones that left, you are the ones that agreed the deal. I'm sorry, but how does Britain live with this lot?
You can't discuss or negotiate with idiots, that's apparent after six years of trying.
Saw a British lorry on the motorway yesterday evening, almost a year to the day since the last one I'd seen. Heading north back to Blighty, heavily laden, struggling up the hills, but it was a removal lorry, British immigrants on their way back maybe from the south of France or Spain.
Was half-expecting a round of applause, so the embarrassed silence was something I suppose.
I for one cannot wait for people to realise Northern Ireland is part of The Great Britain.
Can you imagine his surprise when someone explains to him what a border is. I can't help but think about dougal trying to determine whether the cows are small or far away.
all that's missing from that one is "all the trucks are piling up in dover....the EU should just let them through because we are Great Britain"
Quite something when the QT crowd who would clap a dog scratching its balls, refuse to clap.
Some 6 years since the Brexit referendum and still major structural problems with the Get Brexit Done agreement.
Just out of interest, can anyone give a clear example of a benefit to the UK from leaving the EU?
Just out of interest, can anyone give a clear example of a benefit to the UK from leaving the EU?
Nobody ever explained what benefit there was other than the meaningless slogans.
The UK government are not implementing the extra checks required by the agreement and WTO, they've still got the implementation of the new UK certification , UKCA, which is hardly mentioned now, the loss of equivalence in the financial and services sector and mulitple other procedures over the next few years. There are few trade advantages to obtain and plenty of losses.
The government know Brexit is a disaster which will only get worse, not better, and are grateful for any distraction; DUP helping out at the moment.
Labour hardly challenges the government on Brexit because both Corbyn and Starmer were both Brexiters. Their slogan is "make the most of Brexit" . How do make the most of the most stupid disastrous act of self-harm? What can possbly be done to alleviate the problems they've brought on themselves?
Even the most racist xenophobic numbskull would never have got what they expected. The Uk needs immigrants and immigration is higher now than before the referendum.
Blue passports
My thoughts entirely.
I am not trying to re run the Brexit debate. That is in the past.
But it is important that we get to understand whether the so called Brexit opportunities can happen in reality.
I know in my own mind that this is not going to come about.
Primarily because of the totally botched nature of the way the UK signed up to the withdrawal, knowing full well that it was totally impossible to implement. Especially the NI protocol which was never going to work.
So you think that the Brexit opportunities were realistic with a different withdrawal agreement?
Whether one was for Brexit or against Brexit, what can possibly be done to get the UK out of the mess? I don't see anything. And it's not something that can be reversed.
The illusion that was given that the UK didn't trade with nations outside the EU should have killed the "global trading opportunities" rubbish before the referendum but nobody wanted to listen to people who actually knew what they were talking about. With NI - if the UK left the EU CU then there has to be border, it's either in the sea or on the island of Ireland. The protocol is the best solution, it works, the DUP don't want it to work because they feel separated from GB but they shouldn't have wanted Brexit in that case.
There is no scenario where Brexit could be good for the UK, no matter what form a withdrawal agreement or trade agreement would take. They've voluntarily become a third country in relation to their closest neighbours and main trading partners. I will never get over this.
It's a permanent set-back and the only way the UK doesn't fall even further behind will ultimately be re-joining but it will never get back the position it had and will be forced to make sacrifices.
It's either that or the EU collapses and everyone else descends to Britain's level in the chaos.
The former of what I wrote seems more likely. "global Britain" levelling up to oven-ready deals is hogwash.
The logical conclusion of this post is that the opportunities of Brexit actually potentially exist (which is by no means established) and that a different agreement could have realised the aims of the Leave collective. I don't think you mean that though as I'm pretty sure you, quite rightly, see a harmonious and successful Brexit as an impossibility.
In the foreseeable future I don't see the UK rejoining the EU. Firstly the EU would never accept them back until the UK radically changes its parliamentary system and attitude and accept vastly inferior terms as you said. Not in my lifetime in any case.
Throughout the world groups of nations are all in similar types of alliances and unions and communities with their nearest neighbours and partners. Brexit makes zero sense.
Except to people who benefit from short-term deregulation
Yes for the few in the short term.
'We can't predict things like wars' - Bank of England governor responds to claims from MPs it has messed up inflation forecast
Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England governor, is giving evidence now.
Mel Stride, the committee chair, starts by putting it to Bailey that the committee has failed to gets its inflation forecast right. (See 3.19pm.)
Bailey says that 80% of the overshoot of the inflation target is caused by energy and tradable goods.
He says it is not for the Bank of England to forecast wars.
Brexiter Tory MP's and Brexiter Bank of England Governor - don't mention the B word!!!!
Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England governor, is giving evidence now.
Mel Stride, the committee chair, starts by putting it to Bailey that the committee has failed to gets its inflation forecast right. (See 3.19pm.)
Bailey says that 80% of the overshoot of the inflation target is caused by energy and tradable goods.
He says it is not for the Bank of England to forecast wars.
He also says that to have a series of shocks to the economy like the ones that the UK has experienced, Covid and then the Ukraine war, is “almost unprecedented”.
Brexiter Tory MP's and Brexiter Bank of England Governor - don't mention the B word!!!!
Did the committee push him on this point or did he get away with being economical with the truth?
Below is the whole meeting but it lasts 1h45m.
What I've listened to it's blamed on Ukraine war and Covid, furlough, labour market, not heard one single mention of Brexit, not even for the shortage of labour. All reports seem to say the same.
You're welcome to listen to the whole thing
No I most certainly don't. Because I have never believed that there were meaningful Brexit opportunities.
Yes. That is the reality of the situation.
Yes indeed. You have described it far better than I.
What I was attempting to say was that were there any opportunities, they ought to have become apparent by now.... and they have not which was my point.
Just listening to Boris moaning that the problem with the Irish Protocol is that he and his government did not expect the EU to implement it to the letter of the agreement.
So, it is yet again the fault of the EU and not the UK
Anyway, he says that he can fix it.
Got to tell you Boris, you are the problem. Not the EU or NI.
You negotiated it and then told everyone that it was a wonderful thing you had agreed.
So, it is yet again the fault of the EU and not the UK
Anyway, he says that he can fix it.
Got to tell you Boris, you are the problem. Not the EU or NI.
You negotiated it and then told everyone that it was a wonderful thing you had agreed.
Johnson on Sky News: "Parts of the Northern Ireland economy are going really, really well.."
"We need to change the Protocol to sort out some really minor issues"
The lying duplicitous load of charlatans are going to destroy the UK.
Whatever the EU do will never be enough. They know it's going to get much worse. Your Brexit lies are being found out. Eventually the people may finally wake up.
A nice trade war should sort them out for good.
"We need to change the Protocol to sort out some really minor issues"
The lying duplicitous load of charlatans are going to destroy the UK.
Whatever the EU do will never be enough. They know it's going to get much worse. Your Brexit lies are being found out. Eventually the people may finally wake up.
A nice trade war should sort them out for good.