jakedee Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Brexit exodus – ‘EU workers have left and aren’t returning...we’ve never seen anything like this in 20 years’ https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/brexit-exodus--eu-workers-21105531 Surely this is wrong, didn't all these immigrants only come to this country for the freebies? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 On 23/07/2021 at 12:19, Lofarl said: There’s no point in laughing at people that voted leave and now realise that it was a shite idea. People have been fed shite news stories for decades about Brussels bureaucrats measuring the length of bananas or the weight of sugar cubes. Couple that with some sense of entitlement over our brave boys in ww2 and this was inevitable. I don't know about "no point". It's a constant education for me. I would have thought that someone who relied on cheap continental labour and beer wouldn't have been stupid enough to vote against their own interests. I thought Wetherspoons c**t would be a real outlier. I've always regarded the notion of "false consciousness" as middle class do gooding bollocks but Brexit's like a textbook case study of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 16 hours ago, coprolite said: I don't know about "no point". It's a constant education for me. I would have thought that someone who relied on cheap continental labour and beer wouldn't have been stupid enough to vote against their own interests. I thought Wetherspoons c**t would be a real outlier. I've always regarded the notion of "false consciousness" as middle class do gooding bollocks but Brexit's like a textbook case study of it. False consciousness. Not heard that phrase for a long time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 5 hours ago, Baxter Parp said: The gammon horde who have a hard on about war will love this. Rationing, Blitz spirit, Captain Tom and all that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 53 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: The gammon horde who have a hard on about war will love this. Rationing, Blitz spirit, Captain Tom and all that. Yes. Let's not forget that WW2 gave us Rhubarb Crumble. Supermarket seems to be out of that too. I don't understand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speckled tangerine Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 7 hours ago, Baxter Parp said: I'm on holiday in Ireland with fully stocked shelves, pubs open for indoor drinking and fields full of beef cattle selling for good prices and exporting well. (For the benefit of some twat who was the farming expert). This was on the news here and they're laughing their arses off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 On 30/05/2021 at 16:19, Lex said: Going to be huge news for the people of Kent when they discover that Gillingham play in the football league. These empty shelves must be coming any day now. Fair play. You were spot on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 We'll have our cake and eat it too. ...just as soon as the shops have flour and sugar back in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 10 hours ago, speckled tangerine said: I'm on holiday in Ireland with fully stocked shelves, pubs open for indoor drinking and fields full of beef cattle selling for good prices and exporting well. (For the benefit of some twat who was the farming expert). This was on the news here and they're laughing their arses off. Heard you had to be double jagged to drink indoors? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speckled tangerine Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Heard you had to be double jagged to drink indoors? Yeah. Irish/EU citizens need their letter/QR code proving double vaxxing. They've been strict on the doors of establishments with this. Children don't need this if they are with indoor diners, but all adults need to leave contact details. The weather has been glorious so we've remained outside. Grey area as to our Scottish Government letters would be accepted or not. One place said yes (hypothetically). Another said they wouldn't be sure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 11 hours ago, speckled tangerine said: I'm on holiday in Ireland with fully stocked shelves, pubs open for indoor drinking and fields full of beef cattle selling for good prices and exporting well. (For the benefit of some twat who was the farming expert). This was on the news here and they're laughing their arses off. The news presenters? -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speckled tangerine Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 13 minutes ago, SANTAN said: The news presenters? Punters and folk around the pub. The news presenters leave that kinda thing until they're off air. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, speckled tangerine said: Punters and folk around the pub. The news presenters leave that kinda thing until they're off air. I'm sure they were! Probably in hysterics... Edited July 28, 2021 by SANTAN -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawpar Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Honda workers in Swindon to face 'reality check' after it closes Swindon EU vote - Leave 54.7% Remain 45.3%. f**k them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57987601 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 28 minutes ago, pawpar said: Honda workers in Swindon to face 'reality check' after it closes Swindon EU vote - Leave 54.7% Remain 45.3%. f**k them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57987601 Bit of a shame for any of the 45.3% all the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 8 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Bit of a shame for any of the 45.3% all the same. Slightly less than half f*** them, then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Seems production is going back to Japan rather than to an EU country, the switch to electric was probably another reason on top of Brexit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: Seems production is going back to Japan rather than to an EU country, the switch to electric was probably another reason on top of Brexit. This sort of thing is to brexit as extreme weather events are to man-made climate change. You can't say for sure that CO2 emissions caused any one particular typhoon to cause floods, but you can be confident that it would have been less likely without. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 16 minutes ago, coprolite said: This sort of thing is to brexit as extreme weather events are to man-made climate change. You can't say for sure that CO2 emissions caused any one particular typhoon to cause floods, but you can be confident that it would have been less likely without. Wholeheartedly agree, but with mainly tariffless deals made with both the UK and the EU, and a full retooling on the cards for the switch to electric, and Brexit on top, it probably wasn't a hard decision to bring the jobs back home. I'd assume the shipping costs are fairly marginal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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