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[Paul the Wolf]

Project Reality hitting home...

'Absolute carnage': EU hauliers reject UK jobs over Brexit rules

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-eu-hauliers-reject-uk-jobs-over-brexit-rules

And...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55735980

From the BBC article, Mr Hale, who at a guess voted Brexit despite being economic suicide for his company and trying to convince himself otherwise.

Quote:

Fresh meat is perishable, with a time limit of a maximum of five days to get it to its destination, he says. If the meat gets held up an exporter may have to dispose of it.
However, despite the business being out of pocket, Mr Hale says he is an optimist - he is sure that the border situation will improve, and that there will be new trade opportunities due to Brexit.

Presume the new trade opportunities are the countries he can ship his pork to within 5 days that aren't in the EU. Other countries have rules as well, Mr Hale.

 

[dogrob]

What did they expect when people are buying things from EU countries of course you have to pay import duties, I can remember having to do this way back in the 90´s when I bought some bits and pieces for my Amiga 500 from the UK with me being in Germany.

 

[JPRouve]

What did they expect when people are buying things from EU countries of course you have to pay custom duties, I can remember having to do this way back in the 90´s when I bought some bits and pieces for my Amiga 500 from the UK with me being in Germany.

That made me check your age.

 

[dogrob]

That made me check your age.

Over 50 BREXIT just keeps on giving what did people expect idiots

 

[JPRouve]

Over 50 BREXIT just keeps on giving what did people expect idiots

The strange thing is that what you described isn't that old, people should remember that customs used to be a problem in the 80s-early 90s and that it was a costly and heavy administration.

 

[Fully Fledged]

The strange thing is that what you described isn't that old, people should remember that customs used to be a problem in the 80s-early 90s and that it was a costly and heavy administration.

The only thing they can remember was that they could buy cheep fags and booze while travelling to Europe.

 

[golden_blunder]

The only thing they can remember was that they could buy cheep fags and booze while travelling to Europe.

Now you’re talking the important stuff

 

[horsechoker]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ot-grant-eu-ambassador-full-diplomatic-status


UK insists it will not grant EU ambassador full diplomatic status

Foreign Office says EU should not be treated as nation state, despite 142 countries granting bloc this status

 

[Jippy]

What did they expect when people are buying things from EU countries of course you have to pay import duties, I can remember having to do this way back in the 90´s when I bought some bits and pieces for my Amiga 500 from the UK with me being in Germany.

My brother had one. Kick Off 2 was brilliant!

 

[TheGame]

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[horsechoker]

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This was inevitable

The first of many interviews like this.

 

[4bars]

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Is disgusting how twice he voted to have europe on his knees begging for his fish. It was completely a stick it to the europeans. How you can pretend to built a EU with this kind of thought? and is not exclusive of him and is not exclusive of Brittish. There is a long story of historical resentment that it need at least 2 generations if it does not perpetuate everywhere in europe

 

[The Firestarter]

This was inevitable

The first of many interviews like this.

Surely not the first, unless this is already a meme similar to "Ole's first real test".

 

[tombombadil]

Well, let this be a wake up call for anyone else who has such delusions of grandeur.

 

[Virgil]

Need more information but on the face of it potentially good news from Nissan for their presence in the U.K.

Apologies I forgot the link. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55757930

 

[dogrob]

The strange thing is that what you described isn't that old, people should remember that customs used to be a problem in the 80s-early 90s and that it was a costly and heavy administration.

At least now they can "BUY BRITISH" if I remember it was a memory module that I bought I had to go to the local customs office then got my hardware after paying the import duties same with Magazines after I left the Army I usually bought English language magazines for computer etc. but you payed through the nose for them again due to import duty once I could read well enough in German I never bothered again and just bought German language magazines unless I was in the UK.

 

[Penna]

If you voted leave based on one tiny aspect of being in the EU, you're almost certainly going to be disappointed (like the fishing guy). Everything was interconnected, there are knock-ons all down the line. He saw the prospect of selling more fish to the EU, he didn't see the prospect of all the increased regulation of not being in the EU.

 

[CassiusClaymore]

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He wasn't brainwashed. His eyes lit up with £ signs and he gave not a single thought to anyone else it might feck over. He's only crying into his fish now because he can't sell them.

 

[Massive Spanner]

I'm shocked to see that the people being most affected by brexit are the idiots who went and voted for it in the first place.

I mean, who could possibly have seen that one coming?

 

[Wibble]

If you voted leave based on one tiny aspect of being in the EU, you're almost certainly going to be disappointed (like the fishing guy). Everything was interconnected, there are knock-ons all down the line. He saw the prospect of selling more fish to the EU, he didn't see the prospect of all the increased regulation of not being in the EU.

Yes.

And most voted on exactly on this basis.

Sadly

 

[Conor]

He wasn't brainwashed. His eyes lit up with £ signs and he gave not a single thought to anyone else it might feck over. He's only crying into his fish now because he can't sell them.

I love how these Tory moneygrubbers always throw in 'my family' when talking about this sort of stuff, just to try and make their statements not sound completely cnuty.

 

[Paul the Wolf]

If you look at it from a different angle. This is not sarcasm.

BJ is right , the UK has this fantastic FTA with the EU that no other country has and most will never have. The UK will never have such a fantasic deal with any other country or bloc of countries outside the EU.
All countries outside the EU would hope to have such a trade deal with the EU.

So looking it from the view of a country not previously having had a FTA with the EU it's brilliant.

However, compared to the relationship the UK had with the EU it"s a pile of excrement. FTA's with no matter how many countries the UK conclude will ever make up for being in the EU CU.

 

[The Firestarter]

If you look at it from a different angle. This is not sarcasm.

BJ is right , the UK has this fantastic FTA with the EU that no other country has and most will never have. The UK will never have such a fantasic deal with any other country or bloc of countries outside the EU.
All countries outside the EU would hope to have such a trade deal with the EU.

So looking it from the view of a country not previously having had a FTA with the EU it's brilliant.

However, compared to the relationship the UK had with the EU it"s a pile of excrement. FTA's with no matter how many countries the UK conclude will ever make up for being in the EU CU.

Was May's deal retaining participation in the CU?

 

[JPRouve]

Was May's deal retaining participation in the CU?

No. Which is why the backstop was proposed.

 

[Paul the Wolf]

Was May's deal retaining participation in the CU?

No, but she thought that it was possible to retain the same benefits as being in the EUCU without being in it. Same as Starmer with his six conditions. The cake and eat it era.

 

[The Firestarter]

No. Which is why the backstop was proposed.

No, but she thought that it was possible to retain the same benefits as being in the EUCU without being in it. Same as Starmer with his six conditions. The cake and eat it era.

Cheers.

 

[VeevaVee]

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Good. Cnut

 

[Fluctuation0161]

It will get worse. Especially with this government in charge.

Tories admit they're looking at overhauling workers' rights laws after Brexit
Rules governing the 48-hour week, rest breaks and holiday entitlements are being examined by the Government, the new Business Secretary said
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-admit-theyre-looking-overhauling-23347454

 

[Frosty]

But they said two weeks ago that they weren't planning to do anything like that.

Colour me shocked.

 

[calodo2003]

To this American, these Tories seem like quite the cnuts.

 

[Adisa]

To this American, these Tories seem like quite the cnuts.

They are. Your dodgy eat dog country is their dreamland.

 

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[caid]

Whats the way forward from Brexit so?
Its a terrible idea clearly so where do you go from here?

 

[horsechoker]

Whats the way forward from Brexit so?
Its a terrible idea clearly so where do you go from here?

Go cap in hand back to the EU and say we're very very sowwy

 

[Fluctuation0161]

Whats the way forward from Brexit so?
Its a terrible idea clearly so where do you go from here?

Backwards, for a few decades. Erode workers rights, food standards, then rejoin in 50 years as a developing country with minimal influence and minimal benefits.

On the plus side, we could degrade into a Mad Max style wasteland with ageing, failing nuclear reactors approved by the Tories in the 2010s, owned and operated by French and Chinese companies.

 

[Frosty]

This is what you do:

Set up shop in Europe, government advisers tell Brexit-hit businesses

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...dvised-government-officials-set-up-shop-in-eu

 

[golden_blunder]

This is what you do:

Set up shop in Europe, government advisers tell Brexit-hit businesses

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...dvised-government-officials-set-up-shop-in-eu

when will the people of the U.K. release brexit was a con on them so that the few could make tons of money. Now these businesses are shelling out even more money to survive, investing in the EU directly and costing British jobs. When will the backlash against this administration of Tories kick off?

 

[horsechoker]

This is what you do:

Set up shop in Europe, government advisers tell Brexit-hit businesses

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...dvised-government-officials-set-up-shop-in-eu

and then months later they'll be asking why British businesses are leaving the UK.

Singapore on the Thames where everyone invests in Malaysia instead

 

[MoskvaRed]

and then months later they'll be asking why British businesses are leaving the UK.

Singapore on the Thames where everyone invests in Malaysia instead

Oh ye of little faith - based on Rees-Mogg’s prognosis, it’s only 49.9 years to go until we reach the sunlit uplands.

 

[JPRouve]

Oh ye of little faith - based on Rees-Mogg’s prognosis, it’s only 49.9 years to go until we reach the sunlit uplands.

49.9 years to move the UK into the Mediterranean Sea? Now I understand.