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Do you think there will be a Deal or No Deal?

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Brexit is like a prolonged football match.

Everyone knew the UK were in for a heavy defeat. By how many goals depended not on the opposition but on how many own goals they would score.
Some supporters still thought they could still win despite being 15-0 down after less than 2 years.

New signings were vastly over-rated and a huge disappointment like the Aussie deal, the Japanese deal and the new Immigration policy.

Some signings never materialised like the USA deal and CPTTP but were vastly over-rated anyway.

After 5 different managers before half-time and the lack of (freedom of) movement the inevitable outcome is assured.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-to-uk-food-bills-in-two-years-research-finds

Brexit added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years, research finds

Cost of food imported from EU rose because of extra red tape, with poorest most affected

One benefit of Brexit was that domestic food producers now faced less competition from European imports, the report noted.

But it added: “The gains to domestic firms are outstripped by the loss to domestic consumers by more than £1bn. Additionally, unlike regular tariffs, NTBs do not generate any revenue for the government.”
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Brexit. The most stupid socio-economic/political experiment - utter self-infliction. Only way to begin the process of undoing the damage is to rejoin the EU.

Feck the "will of the people" bullshite - people are stupid. This should have been left to MPs, and it would never have happened.

I work with loads of overseas companies looking to come into the UK, and they're now just focusing attention elsewhere. Not worth the hassle.
 
RedSky said:
It's just the new pipedream that these Tories like to dangle for the gullible among us.
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Bloody TV Karens united as one and all conspirating against Tories’ field of ponies!
 
groovyalbert said:
Brexit. The most stupid socio-economic/political experiment - utter self-infliction. Only way to begin the process of undoing the damage is to rejoin the EU.

Feck the "will of the people" bullshite - people are stupid. This should have been left to MPs, and it would never have happened.

I work with loads of overseas companies looking to come into the UK, and they're now just focusing attention elsewhere. Not worth the hassle.
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Are you sure about that?
 




Not to get too far ahead of myself, but looks like the Rishi bounce back was a bit of a damp squib.
 
Wibble said:
Feck no. You might as well abolish MPs and just have referendums. See how that works out.
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I was being facetious, that is why I deleted the post, but you caught me. But at the beginning, the MP were not thinking on it, but after the referendum, they positioned being pro brexit to grift with the votes. And funnily enough, they became a representation of their brexiteer electorate, so it is that the MP are a representation of the electorate in the end. And if people starts to realize the shitshow that they are into it, they will change accordingly with their demands
 
FireballXL5 said:
Good piece in today's Guardian by Jonathan Freedland. Re-joining the EU isn't some remainer airy-fairy pipe dream, it's a fecking economic necessity.

The reality of Brexit is biting hard. Poor people are suffering most – and now everyone can see it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/02/brexit-poor-people-paying-eat-debate-human
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I'm afraid it is too late for that. Regardless i don't see the political or public appetite being strong enough. Actually, I don't see the UK media owners having an appetite for it so neither will the easily manipulated public opinion.

Re joining would be on worse terms than we had and would not cause business to immediately relocate to the UK. The damage has been done.
 
Britain lagging behind every major economy, except Mexico, for economic growth potential.

I have no idea what could have caused this.
 
golden_blunder said:
If you’re not eating shop bought sarnies you’re not levelling up the economy
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Don’t forget, next in line will be those smart arses coseying around the house in big wooly jumpers, and sitting on the sofa watching TV under a duvet instead of putting the heating on most of the day.

They’re having their cake and eating it, not putting anything into any coffers.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...-food-prices-says-bank-of-england-policymaker

Among all voters, a total of 59% want to rejoin the EU (34%) or have a closer relationship while remaining outside the bloc (25%). Only 15% want the status quo and 14% want even less to do with the EU. About 63% believe the UK should have a relationship which would allow it to regain access the EU single market, against 14% who oppose the idea.

In a sign that people increasingly dislike the reality of border controls, 57% support removing all document and identity checks (such as passport controls and documents for exports and imports) while 21% do not.

Above depresses me.
So many UK Journalists, politicians and voters still do not understand what has been voted for.
 
UK was the Nr 5 trading partner for Germany for a long time. As of 2022 it will not feature even in Germany's top ten of most important trading partners.
 
you knew the con/scam was up when the treasury floated the "Swiss option" and the ERG/Farage came out, especially farage, and said they'd "come back into politics and destroy the conservatives electorally". They don't want any kind of trade improvement with the EU. They want to sit there, short the economy, and then claim if "labour-aligned globalists remoaners just got out the way, we would be booming". They are going to sit in their armchairs for the next 1-2 decades, exploit all this for personal gain and do NOTHING. It will be 2035 and you'll still see them talking about "remoaners".
 
horsechoker said:
Yes Brexit has worsened the UK in so many ways, project fear was right

But this is just Project Terror, the sequel.
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Not really sure what else can be said apart from the fact that voting to leave the world biggest trading group was always going to end badly.
And now we are all having to pay for that decision at almost every level.
Our economy is at the heart of everything including the need for immigration.
The UK has successfully shot itself in both feet.
 
Brexit coupled with years of Tory government and austerity was always going to be a total kick in the bollocks for anyone that wasn't well off to begin with. The sad part is it's not like no one saw it coming, but then again if your primary focus is to punish others because you're miserable then you probably couldn't see past 'getting one over Europe'.

The only thing we can hope for is a change of government and industry/better support comes back to the UK, otherwise this will only get worse. At some point the UK will come crawling back to Europe anyway, most likely within the next 30 years.
 
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