Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
Taking bark control
A thank you to Brexiteers.
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Taking bark control
ska invita
back on the other side
Add a £100 million facility in Kent to inspect Ukrainian pets to the list of benefits.
It is built on a vast 230-acre site, with a total cost put at more than £100m, and has space for 1,700 heavy goods vehicles. Security staff are on patrol at several checkpoints around its 12-foot-high perimeter fence. Inside are new state-of-the-art buildings and equipment for inspecting imports from Europe.
But more than six months after completion, this heavily guarded supposed showpiece of a newly independent Britain lies all but deserted. It is labelled by people who live nearby as the great white elephant of Brexit, spanking new but largely redundant. The only imports being inspected are a few pets from Ukraine.
‘It’s a farce’: the giant Brexit border control site now used to inspect Ukrainian pets
The customs inspection site at Sevington in Kent has space for 1,700 lorries, but lies largely desertedwww.theguardian.com
Also yet more total sham use of the words levelling and up
"Meanwhile, the port of Dover received a £45m investment last week from the government’s levelling up fund (originally envisaged to help deprived parts of the UK) to improve the flow of traffic from the UK to the EU and reduce congestion on local roads post-Brexit. "
such a wind up the press talk about levelling up as if it were anything more than 2 words used to try and win elections
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
If only there were some sort of method of transporting goods over the water to other parts of the UK and removing some of the trucks from the roads around Dover.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
This Dan Hannan piece for the RW Washington Examiner will cheer some of the Brexit fanboys/girls that post on here; everything's going swimmingly, apparently.
philosophical
Well-Known Member
Has Hannan suggested a solution to the land border on the island of Ireland between the UK and the EU?
If not he can fuck off and join his snide lexiter mates who voted leave.
If not he can fuck off and join his snide lexiter mates who voted leave.
gosub
~#
Wrong meme I think...I can't find anywhere else saying inflation sig lower than eurozone. Comical Ali more appropriate...
But that's a burning building on the other side of the channel too rather than green grass
ska invita
back on the other side
true, its a case of prove anything with stats
most EU countries have much lower inflation, but the odd country like Poland has much higher (16%), so maybe there is some kind of EU average stat that isnt total bullshit (being generous)_
monthly earning are in real terms at a low when adjusted for inflation, but again he may have found some cynical selective stat that isnt in itself a total fabrication, but i cant see any 14% increase here at all, however selection
and so on...
most EU countries have much lower inflation, but the odd country like Poland has much higher (16%), so maybe there is some kind of EU average stat that isnt total bullshit (being generous)_
monthly earning are in real terms at a low when adjusted for inflation, but again he may have found some cynical selective stat that isnt in itself a total fabrication, but i cant see any 14% increase here at all, however selection
and so on...
Average weekly earnings in Great Britain - Office for National Statistics
Estimates of growth in earnings for employees before tax and other deductions from pay.
www.ons.gov.uk
gosub
~#
Earnings and employment going up indicates to me inflation isn't under control...but as I said grass ain't greener in the EU ...the one size fits all interest rate gives them different headaches in tackling inflation
editor
hiraethified
Fucking Brexit
www.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com
www.independent.co.uk
www.theguardian.com
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Three years after Brexit, where is the new golden age that they promised us? | Andrew Rawnsley
Nothing in the prospectus has survived contact with reality
UK set to hit £1trn export target 15 years late amid Brexit slump
Government accused of ‘failure and broken promises’, as exports set to slump next year
www.independent.co.uk
‘It’s a farce’: the giant Brexit border control site now used to inspect Ukrainian pets
The customs inspection site at Sevington in Kent has space for 1,700 lorries, but lies largely deserted
TopCat
Putin fanboy
It looks increasingly like a better agreement will be agreed and put in place in Ireland.
What then will you have to whine about and rail against? The development of Catford shopping centre perhaps?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Inflation in Portugal was 9.6% in December 2022. Currently, there are strikes in the health service, teachers, railways and also in the private sector. 4m out of a population of 10.3m are at risk of poverty. Weathers good the Brits but the grass isn't greener for the Portuguese
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Almost as though it makes no positive difference whatsoever whether a polity is within or without the supra state?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I think a decent socialist govt whether it be in the U.K. or in Europe would make a better fist of tackling inflation and low pay
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Nonsense, citing Portugal is merely optimistic futurology.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I don’t know if you follow threads but a) I wasn’t citing Portugal as a reasonable comparison b) wasn’t using it as an example to support Brexit just stating a fact and c) was responding to the comments about inflation being lower in the EU .
editor
hiraethified
It's almost like they're so desperate to put a positive spin on the ongoing disaster that is Brexit that they're prepared to publish any old 'positive' claims, regardless of their credibility or without checking them first.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Maybe; maybe not, but hopey, wishy stuff doesn't seem to amount to much of a justification for brexit.
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T & P
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Well, apart from the right to live and work indefinitely anywhere they please in twenty-six other countries in the EU. Something that UK citizens of this snd all future generations have had irrevocably taken away from them.
It might not seem an important perk to you. I can assure you it is of vital importance to millions. I won’t even mention the thousands of families/ couples in long term relationships whose lives have already been turned upside down by Brexit.
So the grass still looks a lot greener to me across the Eurozone compared with the UK even if the economic outlook is broadly similar.
philosophical
Well-Known Member
Nearly seven years.
Who knows when 'then' will be?
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Here's to a glorious future of everything being about to be fine some time soon!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
This isn’t actually true though.
T & P
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How so?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
My passport still bears the legend ‘European Union’, yet I don’t have that right. So was it indefinite for me?
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Yes. Indefinite ≠ permanent.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
T & P
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Well, if you want to go down the route of finding parts of the language or statements my post not fully accurate, be my guest. But I’m sure you got the main gist of my post. The British people have forever lost a freedom that is invaluable to tens of millions of ordinary people across the EU, and a pipe dream to billions outside of Europe. They are no longer automatically eligible to live and/ or work permanently in EU countries. Come on. You know what I mean.
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve mentioned this little side effect of Brexit ITT and it has gone completely unanswered by Brexit supporters in here. I wonder why that is.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I really don’t know, genuinely I don’t. If I get offered a job in the EU, for me to consider uprooting my life now or as a younger man it would have to be of such a quality that a visa would be a given.
So maybe it is me, the nearest CrapDonald’s to my London office was mostly staffed by Spaniards when I used to go there (2016 last time, not a Brexit thing though!) - I understand that youth unemployment is tough in Spain, but is a job on McShits in London the answer? Not convinced it is and have a feeling if that is what membership of the EU means then it doesn’t mean a great deal.
As to the pipe dream to the billions outside of the EU, you hit on it, freedom of movement as defined by the EU is a racist policy, whoop.
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