Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[Cloud]

Not a great idea in hindsight was it tbh?

 

[Marty1]

Report suggesting Boris may extend the Brexit deadline after all.

Britons furious amid fears coronavirus will force PM into extension

BRITONS have reacted furiously following reports Boris Johnson may be forced to request an extension to Brexit.

www.express.co.uk

 

[two sheds]

Haha Britons FURIOUS

(((((marty1 you're so sweet))))

 

[Kaka Tim]

Right now i imagine most britons dont give a flying fuck about an extension to the transition period.

 

[two sheds]

No I and everyone I know are FURIOUS. Along with Diana's KILLING we're still FURIOUS about that too.

 

[gentlegreen]

"Britons" ?

 

[gosub]

Brussels red-faced after Hungary gets more EU coronavirus cash than Italy

EU rules for regional aid meant that Hungary got far more emergency cash than stricken Italy, where the need is far greater

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

Brussels red-faced after Hungary gets more EU coronavirus cash than Italy

EU rules for regional aid meant that Hungary got far more emergency cash than stricken Italy, where the need is far greater

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[MrCurry]

Report suggesting Boris may extend the Brexit deadline after all.

He needs Farage to get taken out by covid first, as it was his dodgy deal with Nige that resulted in the pledge to not extend the transition past the end of this year.

Kind of bizarre that Brexit, which so dominated the news sphere in the past couple of years, has barely warranted a mention in recent times. If anyone had told us last year that in the first months of 2020 Brexit would drop out of the headlines, I wonder what we could possibly have imagined might allow that to happen.

 

[Humberto]

They've timed this Brexit well.

 

[The39thStep]

They've timed this Brexit well.

its only a dry run for Italy leaving so its a learning curve

 

[Flavour]

he's got the best excuse ever for extending the transition period if the negotiations literally can't happen (in person) and all the Zoom invites from the EU end up in the spam folder. remember this: Boris and his friends do NOT want a no deal exit, which is what will happen on Dec 31 if no extension is agreed. and they've got the perfect bogeyman. i'd put money on an extension of another year being agreed in the autumn.

 

[Raheem]

he's got the best excuse ever for extending the transition period if the negotiations literally can't happen (in person) and all the Zoom invites from the EU end up in the spam folder. remember this: Boris and his friends do NOT want a no deal exit, which is what will happen on Dec 31 if no extension is agreed. and they've got the perfect bogeyman. i'd put money on an extension of another year being agreed in the autumn.

Think it will be sooner than the autumn. Because the EU will be pressuring for earlier, and because it will be better from the UK's perspective (more precisely, its government's) to u-turn in a context where it will dominate the news for less time.

 

[The39thStep]

Think it will be sooner than the autumn. Because the EU will be pressuring for earlier, and because it will be better from the UK's perspective to u-turn in a context where it will dominate the news for less time.

Think you'll find that the EU has been very very busy with equally imoptant issues ie trying to keep the southern states on board through the corona virus crisis. Brexit is only one thing on its very crowded agenda

 

[ska invita]

Think it will be sooner than the autumn. Because the EU will be pressuring for earlier, and because it will be better from the UK's perspective to u-turn in a context where it will dominate the news for less time.

Yes i read that if "sufficient progress" hasn't happened by June the EU will be switching all energies to prepare for a Crash Out Brexit - which is fair enough, both sides will need 6 months at least to prepare for that outcome. It could be clever positioning, but I think the June deadline was one originally set by the Tories

 

[Raheem]

Think you'll find that the EU has been very very busy with equally imoptant issues ie trying to keep the southern states on board through the corona virus crisis. Brexit is only one thing on its very crowded agenda

Yer don't say.

 

[teqniq]

What the fuck is this shit?

UK government preparing ‘shock and awe’ Brexit media campaign

Military term features in plan to inform public about end of transition period.

www.politico.eu

 

[gentlegreen]

What the fuck is this shit?

UK government preparing ‘shock and awe’ Brexit media campaign

Military term features in plan to inform public about end of transition period.

www.politico.eu

"take action"
Looks like a repeat of the government's approach to a virulent, invisible virus...

Funny how they failed to mention “loss avoidance” four years ago ...

“new opportunities.”
We'd better all switch to boomerang manufacture ...

The current plan is to split the publicity across four “bursts.” Between July and August there will be a drive to “nudge” or “shove” people to take action by warning of the “consequences and opportunity” ahead, before moving to a “shock and awe” approach between September and November.
Between December and January the campaign will focus on “loss avoidance” and from January 2021 onward it will be about “new opportunities.”

 

[teqniq]

They're paying an advertising agencey a no doubt sizable sum for this nonsense.

 

[gentlegreen]

They're paying an advertising agencey a no doubt sizable sum for this nonsense.

The plan forms part of a £4.5 million advertising deal the government has struck with media agency MullenLowe London, which has also been working on communications around the coronavirus pandemic. The contract was found on the Tussell government procurement database.

 

[teqniq]

Lol yes I did read all of it. I just couldn't remember the details.

 

[brogdale]

What the fuck is this shit?

UK government preparing ‘shock and awe’ Brexit media campaign

Military term features in plan to inform public about end of transition period.

www.politico.eu

The reason that Johnson retained Cummings at all costs.

When the propaganda about propaganda tells you that this will be the "most important Government campaign this year" (this year !) you know that you're deep into the Leave style targeted, social media psy-ops that aim to 'unify' the nation into some quasi-military mass mobilisation. Of a piece with the Johnson playbook with allusions to military conflict, and a "gung-ho", turbocharged Churchillian bollocks.

 

[Artaxerxes]

What the fuck is this shit?

UK government preparing ‘shock and awe’ Brexit media campaign

Military term features in plan to inform public about end of transition period.

www.politico.eu

Brexit is more important than the pandemic campaign.

Sigh.

 

[philosophical]

I would hazard a guess that those paid in the advertising company are cunt mates of cunt Tories.
Brexit is betrayed because it does not apply equally to the whole of the UK.

 

[gentlegreen]

Reading that article and other stuff it seems we're still in the "game" of convincing the EU that we "mean business" and won't blink first ...

 

[Pickman's model]

Reading that article and other stuff it seems we're still in the "game" of convincing the EU that we "mean business" and won't blink first ...

I think the numerous repetitions mean we're trying to convince ourselves we mean business rather than persuading the eu

 

[Pickman's model]

I would hazard a guess that those paid in the advertising company are cunt mates of cunt Tories.
Brexit is betrayed because it does not apply equally to the whole of the UK.

Atac

 

[teqniq]

I suspect the EU collectively gave up giving a shit quite some time ago.

 

[philosophical]

Atac

Advanced tactical air command?

 

[Pickman's model]

Advanced tactical air command?

Like acab only different