Let's Get Political!

[horlock07]

In the meantime https://twitter.com/Trade_EU/status/1297798385328685057?s=20

[Chunkyhair]

In the meantime https://twitter.com/Trade_EU/status/1297798385328685057?s=20

Can anyone out their explain to me the upside of Brexit?

[Batch]

blue passports.

and a perception of less brown faces, and taking back control.

no, I don't get it either

[horlock07]

Tony Abbott, widely derided as possibly the worst PM Australia has ever had, is being imported to help Liz Truss with Brexit trade negotiations

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/tony-abbott-granted-travel-exemption-to-take-on-uk-brexit-job-20200826-p55pnv.html

Liz Truss clearly needs help (on so many fronts) but surely the one thing we're not short of in this govt is wildly incompetent politicians who will fuck things up. Not sure we need to start importing Australia's failures to do this for us, we have plenty of great British talent with a proven track record of making a real horse's arse of things from start to finish.

As noted by Mike Rann, a former Australian high commissioner to the UK:

“Britain asking Tony Abbott to run its trade negotiations would be about as credible as Australia asking Gavin Williamson to take charge of its education system.”

But just don't mention unelected foreign bureaucrats!

[BoA Vagabond]

Can anyone out their explain to me the upside of Brexit?

Sorry, I can't help and I haven't had a reasonable argument from anyone yet to explain how I am/will be better off.

[Matchworn Shirts]

Wait until the Brexit unicorn flys over the skies, lavishing everyone with piles of money, blue passports and hoovering up foreigners

[pauld]

Sorry, I can't help and I haven't had a reasonable argument from anyone yet to explain how I am/will be better off.

TBF I think a lot of those who voted Leave don't believe we will be better off, at least not in the short term, but they voted Leave because they wanted to leave the EU as a political union i.e. it was a political rather than an economic choice, notwithstanding the very many lies from the Leave campaign (on the side of buses or otherwise) that we would somehow be better off financially as well.

[horlock07]

TBF I think a lot of those who voted Leave don't believe we will be better off, at least not in the short term, but they voted Leave because they wanted to leave the EU as a political union i.e. it was a political rather than an economic choice, notwithstanding the very many lies from the Leave campaign (on the side of buses or otherwise) that we would somehow be better off financially as well.

I agree, although I don't think anyone signed up on the understanding that they would end up demonstrably worse off.

[Batch]

Is he doing the C6 football programme? Heard really good things about that (some of my eldest's mates did it and loved it)

he is now! they stood up a third team.

I think it's going to be good for him, he loves his football - and if he doesn't work to standard he doesn't do it.

did need to swap an a level around. economics for psychology. which I wasn't initially thrilled over, bit it was always his third subject and I think he'd truely hate economics to be honest

[pauld]

he is now! they stood up a third team.

I think it's going to be good for him, he loves his football - and if he doesn't work to standard he doesn't do it.

did need to swap an a level around. economics for psychology. which I wasn't initially thrilled over, bit it was always his third subject and I think he'd truely hate economics to be honest

Yay, brilliant, go Batch Jr. Chuffed for him!

[RWB Robin]

So Matt Hancock is going to change the law to enable lots of others apart from doctors to administer vaccinations. So wtf have nurses, pharmacists, nursing auxiliaries etc been doing these past twenty or thirty years? Breaking the law? You rarely see a doctor vaccinating. For God's sake  can we have someone who knows at least the basics in charge?

[Batch]

I got my flu vaccine in Morrisons Chippenham.

truly the heisenberg of supermarkets

[BambooToTheFuture]

Icke... Coronavirus Rally. Except all I took from this was that it was generally more an anti-government protest on his part.

Surely he's just using the veil of the "Covid Conspirators" to enable his own agenda?Why aren't those conspirators understanding that they too are just being used?

https://www.facebook.com/671907927/posts/10158243033972928/

[pauld]

The UK Cabinet Office (Gove and Cummings) boasting of "growing the customs sector for EU trade in 2021"

https://twitter.com/cabinetofficeuk/status/1299649242114469889

Now not just admitting that Brexit will cause mountains of red tape, but boasting about it as a "growth sector". Presumably because it will be about the only growth sector in the UK economy?

[RWB Robin]

.....and with Tony Abbott doing the 'trade deals', the world is our oyster so far as destroying everyday life in the UK is concerned. Good ol' Brexit.