A thank you to Brexiteers.

[brogdale]

This is another feature of this thread. Somehow concerns about fucked up border crossings or any desire for freedom of movement in Europe in general are middle class concerns.

Utter bollocks, and rotten politics.

Point taken, but it wasn't meant to be an entirely serious point.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is another feature of this thread. Somehow concerns about fucked up border crossings or any desire for freedom of movement in Europe in general are middle class concerns.

Utter bollocks, and rotten politics.

all border crossings are fucked up

 

[brogdale]

The first day of BTOM has arrived.

 

[bemused]

Watching the pro-Brexit crowd defending the additional costs and complexity is funny, there are problems because we're not trying hard enough or because MPs voted against it at some point.

 

[ska invita]

meh....making international trade just a little bit harder isn't such a bad thing, production should be closer to consumption for endless reasons, environmental impact high up on that list....its not like an iron curtain has come down.... since we don't have an industrial policy a bit of market incentivisation is probably the best we can hope for

I dont know if anyone has ever read Colin Wards Anarchy In Action - its interesting to read today because the lack of luxury that it suggests would be required to move towards an anarchist society would probably horrify the vast majority, including anarchists!

it is a shame though to lose parts of inter continental trade ...

 

[Karl Masks]

meh....making international trade just a little bit harder isn't such a bad thing, production should be closer to consumption for endless reasons, environmental impact high up on that list....its not like an iron curtain has come down.... since we don't have an industrial policy a bit of market incentivisation is probably the best we can hope for

I dont know if anyone has ever read Colin Wards Anarchy In Action - its interesting to read today because the lack of luxury that it suggests would be required to move towards an anarchist society would probably horrify the vast majority, including anarchists!

it is a shame though to lose parts of inter continental trade ...

This seems...indifferent. I don't think it's a little bit harder, it's considerably harder, and for no appreciable gain?

 

[philosophical]

It will be good if local government properly returns in Northern Ireland.
Personally I don’t believe the practical and philosophical problems about the land border between the UK and the EU is fully resolved.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This is normal...

 

[brogdale]

This is normal...

It's funny, but not as hilarious as what Loathsome actually said:

 

[two sheds]

awwww "we will think of you fondly if any of your businesses do ... you know ... "



wonder what the missing words were that she trailed off and waved hands

 

[two sheds]

Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics | Lola Okolosie

My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie

www.theguardian.com

For the umpteenth time, my son, with an Ikea stuffed ball he has had since infancy, is playing football in the living room. He is joined by one of his best friends, an equally football-obsessed 10-year-old who, before slide-tackling in what can only be described as a deliberate attempt to knock my son’s legs off, shouts: “Brexit means Brexit!” Confused, I pass it off as an example of tweenage precocity: which 10-year-old is happy to quote Theresa May while playing football?

but

 

[brogdale]

Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics | Lola Okolosie

My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie

www.theguardian.com

but

Tackling and winning the ball is taking back control? Is that it?

 

[two sheds]

Or more towards looking like you're tackling but actually kicking shit out of the opponent then running after the ball and saying to the ref "look ref I got the ball", which is what we seem to increasingly see in the Premiership.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics | Lola Okolosie

My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie

www.theguardian.com

but

Making this up

 

[tommers]

It's just funny. Brexit footballers, Mark Noble, Craig Ballon Dawson, John Terry. It's none of your foreign crap as you steam in to take somebody's legs out.

 

[gosub]

2006 apparently

 

[The39thStep]

Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics | Lola Okolosie

My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’, says teacher Lola Okolosie

www.theguardian.com

but

I first came across that phrase well over a year ago . There have been Tik Tok and Twitter threads about it for a while and I've even seen a couple of rugby ones. Good to see the Guardian on the ball

 

[Elpenor]

I doubt any 10 year olds even know who Theresa May is

 

[tommers]

I first came across that phrase well over a year ago . There have been Tik Tok and Twitter threads about it for a while and I've even seen a couple of rugby ones. Good to see the Guardian on the ball

And typically the comments are full of people doing hilarious jokes about how it should be about erecting trade barriers between your midfield and defence or something.

It's just funny.

 

[two sheds]

2006 apparently

I seem to recall him taking out a child, too

 

[gosub]

I seem to recall him taking out a child, too

So, I think, does Lola Okolosie

 

[The39thStep]

And typically the comments are full of people doing hilarious jokes about how it should be about erecting trade barriers between your midfield and defence or something.

It's just funny.

Probably FBPE rugby types

 

[two sheds]

or Man Utd supporters

 

[Ax^]

 

[T & P]

And typically the comments are full of people doing hilarious jokes about how it should be about erecting trade barriers between your midfield and defence or something.

It's just funny.

A better analogy might have been fans cancelling their season tickets, then demanding to be let into the stadium for free to watch the match anyway and without queuing at the turnstiles either.

 

[brogdale]

Those dastardly foreigners stopping that nice Mr Hunt from reducing the tax burden on capitalists.

 

[philosophical]

Who’d have thought issues that trace back to the land border between two different systems on the island of Ireland would be a problem?
Not fucking Lexiters with their distraction excuse that they voted leave to get a United Ireland.

 

[brogdale]

Sounds pretty definitive. Thread closer?

 

[philosophical]

Still a problem with particular reference to Ireland.
I wonder why Lexiters haven't sorted this yet, it's closing on eight years since they voted for two different systems either side of a land border on the island of Ireland.

Stormont: EU law vote fails to get cross-community support

It will now be up to the UK government who will decide whether to adopt or veto the new EU law.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Elpenor]

Still a problem with particular reference to Ireland.
I wonder why Lexiters haven't sorted this yet, it's closing on eight years since they voted for two different systems either side of a land border on the island of Ireland.

Stormont: EU law vote fails to get cross-community support

It will now be up to the UK government who will decide whether to adopt or veto the new EU law.

www.bbc.co.uk

Probably because there’s been a Tory govt in place for that entire period