Guest Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 You can probably be anti-EU by ideal while pragmatically anti-Brexit. Anti-EU for the reasons MazzyStar has touched on there. Yet anti-Brexit because weakening just the EU won't reduce exploitation of the poor world. All that does is alter the power distribution among the rich world with USA gaining whatever the EU loses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Any Brexiteers looking forward to the Brexit Freedoms Bill? Only 364 days to go till you lose your paid holidays. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Well, I suppose it is a British charity taking control: The government has signed a £200,000-a-year contract with a disaster response charity established by the former head of Britain’s armed forces to help drivers stuck in lorry queues in Kent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 I was listening to the fine series "The Life Scientific" on Radio 4 tonight. Being interviewed was Dr Chris Elliott a food safety expert. Near the end of the interview he was asked whether another frozen lasagna horse meat scandal could happen and he mentioned that most food imported into the UK comes through Rotterdam. This got checked while we were in the EU but now it gets waved through as the UK Government relies on the food industry to self govern. Dr Elliott reckoned this was fine with large food companies as they would not wish to suffer reputational damage but there was a risk from small to medium food companies being less than honest. So if your pie at the football starts neighing at you, you'll know the reason why. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Ach, dicht yer pie with some chlorine and it'll be fine... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 32 minutes ago, KirkieRR said: Ach, dicht yer pie with some chlorine and it'll be fine... “Things you’ve said to your wife” thread for this… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 https://www.thenational.scot/news/23243321.alister-jack-no-desire-scotland-rejoin-european-union/ I'm not sure if Alister [sic] Jack is just out of touch, dim, or is making a weak attempt at Trump-o-Putin 'stuff is true if I say it'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, KirkieRR said: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23243321.alister-jack-no-desire-scotland-rejoin-european-union/ I'm not sure if Alister [sic] Jack is just out of touch, dim, or is making a weak attempt at Trump-o-Putin 'stuff is true if I say it'. He's conflating "Scotland" with "Alister Jack". He's a c**t. Edited January 11, 2023 by HTG 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackislekillie Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 1 hour ago, HTG said: He's conflating "Scotland" with "Alister Jack". He's a c**t. An utter waste of skin. The epitome of a unionist whose only role in life is to bend over and pretend being abused is a privilege. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 7 hours ago, blackislekillie said: An utter waste of skin. The epitome of a unionist whose only role in life is to bend over and pretend being abused is a privilege. He doesn’t seem too fond of unions - the EU for example is unacceptable to him because he claims it harms UK sovereignty: the only thing that matters. He’s a hardcore UK nationalist - which in Scotland means exactly what you say… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git-intae-thum Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 1 minute ago, Antlion said: He doesn’t seem too fond of unions - the EU for example is unacceptable to him because he claims it harms UK sovereignty: the only thing that matters. He’s a hardcore UK nationalist - which in Scotland means exactly what you say… Exactly......the term "unionist" is in no way any longer correct for these people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 On 01/01/2023 at 00:22, welshbairn said: The US economy is bigger than the EU on its own, and Canada and Japan have spent decades establishing favourable trading relations around the world. We're scrambling to try to get back something close to the deals we had as EU members with far less leverage, and have insisted on a whole new set of barriers to trade with our nearest trading partners just so we can refuse to sign up to common standards. There is zero gain to Brexit. Correct re the US economy which stands at a GDP of $20.94 Trillion, though there are indications that without the pandemic the Chinese economy with a GDP of $14.72 Trillion in 2020 would have possibly overtaken the US, given Chinese government massive investment loans in Africa this may soon be realised As I mentioned the EU is the largest trading bloc in the world with the US being it's largest trading partner. You mention Japan, during Apartheid South Africa had strict trading laws based on ethnicity, China though at the time with hardly a dollar to it's name was one of the countries banned yet Japan, with a similar ethnic background to China and with a booming economy was accepted as a trading partner by SA. We paid an Indian fireman off in Capetown during Apartheid, as far as immigration was concerned he did not exist as if they did acknowledge him by stamping his passport then SA was recognising his country, so he was taken off the ship straght to the airport and directly on a plane back to India by some obscure routing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 Europe: This leaving the EU sounds like a good idea. Let's wait and see how it works out in the UK. Later... Support for leaving the EU has dropped significantly, and sometimes dramatically, in member states across the bloc in the wake of the UK’s Brexit referendum, according to data from a major pan-European survey. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 28 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said: Europe: This leaving the EU sounds like a good idea. Let's wait and see how it works out in the UK. Later... Support for leaving the EU has dropped significantly, and sometimes dramatically, in member states across the bloc in the wake of the UK’s Brexit referendum, according to data from a major pan-European survey. Grrr. We done those pesky immigrants a favour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 BBC Newsnight doing quite a decent debate on the pros and cons of Brexit. Strange no one from the govt was available to take part in this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarHibee Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 17 minutes ago, ICTJohnboy said: BBC Newsnight doing quite a decent debate on the pros and cons of Brexit. Strange no one from the govt was available to take part in this. Not been watching. What are the pros? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 1 minute ago, StellarHibee said: Not been watching. What are the pros? Andrea Leadsom claims it's the best thing that ever happened to the UK. Didn't explain why, unfortunately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StellarHibee Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 Just now, ICTJohnboy said: Andrea Leadsom claims it's the best thing that ever happened to the UK. Didn't explain why, unfortunately. The usual BBC "balancing" act then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 2 minutes ago, StellarHibee said: The usual BBC "balancing" act then. Tbf they're not doing such a bad job on this. Plenty of business people taking part, happy to explain just how big a disaster the whole thing has become. Worth watching on iplayer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 (edited) Britain the only G7 economy forecast to shrink in 2023 | Economic growth (GDP) | The Guardian And for some balance, a piece in Moneyweek saying that our lack pf growth isn't down to Brexit at all. Make your own mind up. Edited January 31, 2023 by Suspect Device 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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