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A thank you to Brexiteers.

Loads of UK farmers and landowners got fortunes in set aside payments from the EU. Something I am glad has ended post brexit.
Farmers get (got) all sorts of subsidies. I have a friend who's a farmer. Well, I say he's a farmer, he isn't, he just has land that his father left him, and he claims every grant possible for it (can't blame him if its there for the taking). His latest one was bat boxes. He got a grant for putting up bat boxes around the land. Another time he got a grant for putting up new fences, because his were fucked, and grants for tidying the land, adding lime to the soil, etc.
Madness isn't it, but what's going to replace those grants? The UK government aren't going to hand out money like toffee to farmers, and supermarkets have farmers fucked financially, so their only choice will be to raise prices or jack it in. I can see loads doing the latter, and only the big farmers surviving. Not sure how I feel about that, but it's probably not a good thing.
 
Ask yourself this; what is your motivation in insisting on calling the contractual commitment an export ban? Why are you so keen to characterize it as such?
It's because I don't think in Daily Express headlines, and I also don't subscribe to the somewhat ultra-neoliberal idea that restrictions in commercial contracts are private and inviolable, whereas state intervention is tyranny. In this case, there is zero practical difference.

Astrazeneca
is currently
operating under
a government-imposed
ban
on exporting
vaccine
to foreign buyers
without exception.

It is how it quacks.
 
As was Get Brexit Done.

Remain had: 'Britain stronger in Europe' - which as well as missing a comma, just sounds soggy and wet.
Take Back Control operated on so many levels, get brexit done less inspired, imo.

I keep thinking about how come there was such a massive majority to join in the 1st place, in the 70s, am amazed by it tbh, is anyone old enough to know how joining the EU was sold so well to the public back then?
(yes too lazy to google, it’s my bday and I’m painting the bathroom walls).
 
Three words, four syllables, imperative form of the verb. They're both perfectly crafted slogans.

Depressing really that a skilled tabloid headline writer may have made all the difference.
 
Take Back Control operated on so many levels, get brexit done less inspired, imo.

I keep thinking about how come there was such a massive majority to join in the 1st place, in the 70s, am amazed by it tbh, is anyone old enough to know how joining the EU was sold so well to the public back then?
(yes too lazy to google, it’s my bday and I’m painting the bathroom walls).
no one sold joining the eu in the 70s as the eu was only formed in the 90s

in the 1970s it was the common market or european economic community.
 
Take Back Control operated on so many levels, get brexit done less inspired, imo.

I keep thinking about how come there was such a massive majority to join in the 1st place, in the 70s, am amazed by it tbh, is anyone old enough to know how joining the EU was sold so well to the public back then?
(yes too lazy to google, it’s my bday and I’m painting the bathroom walls).

Not that I was born, but iirc, the selling points were that joining the EC was like walking into a really big supermarket, and the 'Europe together' idea was fairly well grasped by a huge swathe of the population, most of whom had very vivid memories of major European land wars.

If someone offered me the EC of the 70's I'd take it like a tramp on hot chips...
 
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