A thank you to Brexiteers.

[editor]

Brexit fucking over small businesses as usual

These days, the issues facing Spillers are less existential and more operational: increased vinyl prices, slow order turnaround times and delivery delays caused by Brexit-related workforce shortages. In her eyes, Brexit has been worse for business than the pandemic.

How a Woman in Wales Saved the World’s Oldest Record Store From Closure

13 years ago, Spillers was waning — but thanks to Ashli Todd’s intuition, it’s waxing again.

www.billboard.com

 

[editor]

Also helped kill off a great record shop in Brixton. Fuck Brexit.

Founder Jah Lingwa, AKA Markie Lyrics, told Resident Advisor that the closure has been triggered by Brexit and the gentrification of Reliance Arcade–a narrow covered market for local traders in which the shop is located–and compounded by the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis. "It's been challenging to pay the rent," he said. "We used to post a lot of vinyl to customers in Europe but they can't afford to buy it because of the crazy amounts of tax incurred since Brexit."

South London's Universal Roots Records announces closure · News ⟋ RA

The Brixton shop cited factors including gentrification, Brexit and the cost-of-living crisis as contributing to its closure.

ra.co

 

[ska invita]

They just don't get all of the 'sovereignty' and the posssibility that we might, one day, elect a government that might re-nationalise the railways.

Lexit dreamland.

Electing a nationalising government isn't that proposterous is it?

 

[brogdale]

Electing a nationalising government isn't that proposterous is it?

Well, we've already got a tory one, but the chances of the LP nationalising anything look very remote.

 

[singsongfun]

Gina Miller voices fear for democracy over closure of her party’s bank account

Access to banking for new parties needed in ‘functioning democracy’, says campaigner after Monzo decision

www.theguardian.com

 

[Pickman's model]

Gina Miller voices fear for democracy over closure of her party’s bank account

Access to banking for new parties needed in ‘functioning democracy’, says campaigner after Monzo decision

www.theguardian.com

But what do you think?

 

[ska invita]

Well, we've already got a tory one, but the chances of the LP nationalising anything look very remote.

yes but in the fullness of time surely a reformist centre left nationalising government isnt beyond our wildest possible dreams? if that's too much to ask for why bother with any radical politics?

the more complicated question is how much does having brexited allow us to nationalise everything, or how much are we still hindered by other trade agreements including WTO rules. Far from clear that brexit has actually made a difference, or if being in the EU would've truly limited the possibility to nationalise. When this has been discussed (endlessly) before it was far from clear what the legal implications were. Lots of contradictory information out there.

 

[singsongfun]

But what do you think?

I agree with Gina Miller. Access to banking is fundamental for political parties and democracy.

 

[T & P]

I was surprised to learn Farage doesn’t bank with BNP, frankly.

* gets coat

 

[tony.c]

Pro-Brexit voter who voted to leave EU complains that he now can't live in his house in EU.

'I voted for Brexit and heard it wouldn’t affect us, now I can't live in my £13k Italian house'

Greg Walter, from Winchester, says he feels betrayed as he and his partner are struggling to get visas to live in Italy

www.inews.co.uk

 

[Mezzer]

Pro-Brexit voter who voted to leave EU complains that he now can't live in his house in EU.

'I voted for Brexit and heard it wouldn’t affect us, now I can't live in my £13k Italian house'

Greg Walter, from Winchester, says he feels betrayed as he and his partner are struggling to get visas to live in Italy

www.inews.co.uk

Know people like this. Idiots who think nothing effects them and who don't do detail. No sympathy at all, as they get what they deserve.

 

[brogdale]

yes but in the fullness of time surely a reformist centre left nationalising government isnt beyond our wildest possible dreams? if that's too much to ask for why bother with any radical politics?

the more complicated question is how much does having brexited allow us to nationalise everything, or how much are we still hindered by other trade agreements including WTO rules. Far from clear that brexit has actually made a difference, or if being in the EU would've truly limited the possibility to nationalise. When this has been discussed (endlessly) before it was far from clear what the legal implications were. Lots of contradictory information out there.

When I hear the phrase "in the fullness of time" associated with change through parliamentary means, I tend to agree with Keynes about the long run.

tbh, I think that membership (or not) of trade agreements has little to do with the potential for economic change through rep.dem....and 2022 gave us a snap-shot of what happens when an elected administration attempts policy that the financial markets don't rate.

 

[T & P]

Pro-Brexit voter who voted to leave EU complains that he now can't live in his house in EU.

'I voted for Brexit and heard it wouldn’t affect us, now I can't live in my £13k Italian house'

Greg Walter, from Winchester, says he feels betrayed as he and his partner are struggling to get visas to live in Italy

www.inews.co.uk

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

yes but in the fullness of time surely a reformist centre left nationalising government isnt beyond our wildest possible dreams?

Seems like a pretty wild dream right now. Decades away.

 

[prunus]

Know people like this. Idiots who think nothing effects them and who don't do detail. No sympathy at all, as they get what they deserve.

Yes but why do the rest of us have to get what they deserve too?

 

[krtek a houby]

Pro-Brexit voter who voted to leave EU complains that he now can't live in his house in EU.

'I voted for Brexit and heard it wouldn’t affect us, now I can't live in my £13k Italian house'

Greg Walter, from Winchester, says he feels betrayed as he and his partner are struggling to get visas to live in Italy

www.inews.co.uk

Leave means stay

 

[philosophical]

The ongoing issues related to the land border between the EU and the UK are unresolved. I know the Unionists won’t ’power share’ unless they’re in charge, but the useless Windsor Agreement which sees EU law and courts prevail in some areas of Northern Irish life has given Unionists the excuse to collapse the local administration.
Any attempt not to have a hard border is going to see EU formal involvement, and a hard border is going to lead to conflict and likely death, injury and destruction.
When people voted leave they effectively voted for this chaos. Maybe the regretterati will retrofit some kind of weasel excuse about their secret plan for a United Ireland but that is a bollocks excuse from the faux political and social ‘experts’.
Seven years on and no united Ireland and no functioning local administration.
The thing is the voting slip said the whole of the UK should leave the EU and it hasn’t happened equally everywhere.
No way is there going to be a rejoin because of the EURO issue, the Labour Party are going full in on something they describe as ‘Brexit’, and in the meantime schools go unrepaired in Northern Ireland in real time and kids education suffers.
The biggest bastards of all are the ‘Lexiters’ strutting and baying about how right they are whilst this goes on.

 

[Karl Masks]

I still don't fully understand what the left thought leaving would achieve, other than something to do with rail nationalisation. Who else was it going to put in charge but the cranks hiding in the open for years

 

[Yossarian]

I think even the most ardent Lexiteers have lost interest in defending the project, there's now been a couple of pages of Brexit criticism without anybody wibbling about "Planet Remain."

 

[brogdale]

I think even the most ardent Lexiteers have lost interest in defending the project, there's now been a couple of pages of Brexit criticism without anybody wibbling about "Planet Remain."

but, but...true Brexitism has never been fully realised; don't judge the whole beautiful project based on the degenerated workers brexit state....

 

[inva]

I still don't fully understand what the left thought leaving would achieve, other than something to do with rail nationalisation. Who else was it going to put in charge but the cranks hiding in the open for years

Seeing as you were on here demanding we all vote Labour I assume you thought Corbyn could be in charge? As far as I know, in general, Lexit supporters agreed with you.

 

[Karl Masks]

Seeing as you were on here demanding we all vote Labour I assume you thought Corbyn could be in charge? As far as I know, in general, Lexit supporters agreed with you.

Perhaps you could actually answer the question?

 

[inva]

Perhaps you could actually answer the question?

I wasn't a lexit supporter, but it's not too difficult to work out is it? They saw an opportunity for a left wing government enacting social democratic policies which the EU is a barrier to. I'm sure there's still some old websites from the referendum around with details.

What's funny about liberal left remain supporters who've backed themselves into a 'there is no alternative' corner is the crazy ludicrous lexit fantasy hinged on the exact same condition that their own politics demands: electing a left wing government (at least for those who haven't retreated to just vote Labour at any cost). 2017 with a left wing leave supporting Labour party was the best opportunity in decades (maybe ever?) of achieving that. Either both are absurd or neither are.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Brexit blamed as London-Paris organisers say next year’s edition will be the last

Border issues following UK’s departure from the EU have led to increased costs and logistical headache

road.cc

I'm sure this will be derided as yet another niche middle class effect and the true working class are keen to keep well away from such frivolities

 

[bluescreen]

Brexit blamed as London-Paris organisers say next year’s edition will be the last

Border issues following UK’s departure from the EU have led to increased costs and logistical headache

road.cc

I'm sure this will be derided as yet another niche middle class effect and the true working class are keen to keep well away from such frivolities

Leave means leave.

 

[philosophical]

Except in part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

 

[brogdale]

I wasn't a lexit supporter, but it's not too difficult to work out is it? They saw an opportunity for a left wing government enacting social democratic policies which the EU is a barrier to. I'm sure there's still some old websites from the referendum around with details.

What's funny about liberal left remain supporters who've backed themselves into a 'there is no alternative' corner is the crazy ludicrous lexit fantasy hinged on the exact same condition that their own politics demands: electing a left wing government (at least for those who haven't retreated to just vote Labour at any cost). 2017 with a left wing leave supporting Labour party was the best opportunity in decades (maybe ever?) of achieving that. Either both are absurd or neither are.

Both are, as was the belief that either of the two possible referendum outcomes could effect real economic change.

 

[Karl Masks]

aged like milk stored in a greek wildfire

 

[editor]

Need a camera repaired? Brexit has fucked you for that too.

Dear Customer, we recommend that you send your repairs to Rudiger Maerz in Germany who are capable to service all our products. As the UK is no longer part of the EU, we want to advise you that shipments may be subject to duties and taxes in addition to taking more time.

 

[philosophical]

I see Sammy Wilson the other day was blaming the Republic of Ireland for the cosmic fuck up all leave voters have visited upon Northern Ireland.