Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[DexterTCN]

Nothing to see here.

There's a fucking shitload to see there

 

[CRI]

There's a fucking shitload to see there

Yes - this (not the music either.)

 

[CRI]

Maybe the Government will suggest hungry people eat the waste - solve two problems in one!

Officials warn of ‘putrefying’ rubbish after no-deal Brexit

If the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 29 March, export licences for millions of tonnes of waste will become invalid overnight. Environment Agency (EA) officials said leaking stockpiles could cause pollution.

“If there is a no-deal scenario, the current export of waste may cease for a period. This could result in stockpiled waste which causes licence breaches,” the email said. “Odours will obviously be an issue as the stockpiled waste putrefies and there may be runoff of leachates, causing secondary pollution.”

The second example related to animal slurry. “Problems may arise in exporting livestock to the EU. In that situation, farmers may be overstocked and unable to export lamb/beef etc. That means that they may have problems with slurry storage capacity and insufficient land spreading capability.”

As well as recycling waste, the UK ships about 3m tonnes of rubbish a year to the EU to be burned in incinerators that generate electricity. Most of this is household rubbish, which is sometimes shredded and has metal removed before being sent abroad. If waste has to be stockpiled after a no-deal Brexit, industry experts say the populous south-east of England would be worst affected. The UK’s lack of incinerator capacity and shrinking number of landfill sites drives the exports.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Talks to take place between the EU & Ireland, Germany & others trying to find a way of solving the backstop issue, which is acceptable to both Ireland & the UK.

The Irish Premier Leo Varadkar will head to Brussels next week for emergency Brexit talks amid signs that Dublin is coming under pressure to compromise in the showdown between Britain and the European Union over the backstop.

EU diplomats will continue to show united support for Dublin in public – and they do not expect Mr Varadkar to reverse his position, which is popular with the Irish public.

The bloc cannot be seen to abandon a member’s interests despite the looming prospect of no-deal.

However, privately they will discuss possible alternatives with Mr Varadkar, as well as the economic impact of no-deal on the UK and Ireland, which is the EU economy most exposed. Ireland’s central bank has said that a no-deal Brexit would create “immense” economic threats to the country.

https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/dub...on-backstop-to-save-theresa-mays-brexit-deal/

 

[teqniq]

Leave.EU and Banks firm fined £120,000

Leave.EU and an insurance company owned by its founder Arron Banks have been fined £120,000 over data law breaches.

It represents a reduction in the £135,000 total previously announced by the Information Commissioner's office.

The pro-Brexit Leave.EU group's £60,000 fine was reduced to £45,000 after "considering the company's representations", the ICO said.

What the fuck?

Leave.EU said it was a "politically motivated attack against our involvement in Brexit".

A spokesman said it was "disappointed but not surprised" and would be appealing against the fine in court....

 

[CRI]

Leave.EU and Banks firm fined £120,000


What the fuck?

Seemingly, nobody cares.

And it looks like a quarter of MPs are SO concerned about preparing for leaving that . . . they're not bothering to attend the special sitting to discuss it.

One in four MPs set to miss special 'Brexit sitting' to be with families over half-term

 

[Pickman's model]

Seemingly, nobody cares.

And it looks like a quarter of MPs are SO concerned about preparing for leaving that . . . they're not bothering to attend the special sitting to discuss it.

One in four MPs set to miss special 'Brexit sitting' to be with families over half-term

 

[Ranbay]

Badgers posted about Nissan yet or what?

 

[Poi E]

Ghosn is a crook. Allegedly.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Value is a pretty slippery concept in a capitalist system. Some people would argue that food is more valuable than most, if not all services.

Water is worth much more than food, surely. Yet how much does a pint of tap water cost?

 

[Pickman's model]

Water is worth much more than food, surely. Yet how much does a pint of tap water cost?

Nothing if you get it from work

 

[kebabking]

Water is worth much more than food, surely. Yet how much does a pint of tap water cost?

Depends on your definition of 'worth' - in a supply/demand economic system a pint of water is worth far less than a pork chop because supply so far outstrips demand, even though you could live without a pork chop but not a pint of water.

If there was a long term loss of power and water purification and the water delivery system ground to a halt, then the 'value' of a pint of clean water water would rocket, assuming you could find one...

 

[CRI]

Badgers posted about Nissan yet or what?

This?

Brexit Blamed For Nissan Pulling Manufacture Of X-Trail From U.K.

On Monday, Nissan of Japan is expected to announce that the new X-Trail SUV will now not be built at its U.K. plant in Washington, Tyne and Wear. Sky News has reported that Brexit is one of the key reasons for the switch. Washington is close to Sunderland, the first city to announce voting results for the 2016 referendum on Brexit – Sunderland voted to Leave by a large margin despite the many warnings both before and after the referendum that car manufacturing in the region would be affected.

Ironically, the E.U. recently signed a free trade agreement with Japan, but the U.K. will only be able to benefit from this FTA while it is still in the European Union. The U.K. is scheduled to leave the E.U. on March 29th. After this date, cars exported from the U.K. to the E.U. could be subject to a 10% tariff. The X-Trail is currently made only in Japan, and thanks to the recent FTA, these cars could be imported into the E.U. at a tariff of zero percent. Nissan may also announce that one of its other factories in the E.U. – probably in France – would now produce the X-Trail.

*cough*

 

[billbond]

Nothing to see here.

Leave.EU and Banks firm fined £120,000





What the fuck?

cough

 

[CRI]

 

[brogdale]

Perhaps it's time to revisit Streeck?

In 'How will capitalism end' Wolfgang Streeck identifies and explores...

...five systemic disorders of today’s advanced capitalism; all of them result in various ways from the weakening of traditional institutional and political restraints on capitalist advance. I call them stagnation, oligarchic redistribution, the plundering of the public domain, corruption and global anarchy.

Streeck's notion of oligarchic redistribution suggesting that growing numbers of ultra high net worth individuals have no 'skin in the game' with national economic or social system within which they choose to reside or use to defend their wealth.

Redistribution to the top thus becomes oligarchic: rather than serving a collective interest in economic progress, as promised by neoclassical economics, it turns into extraction of resources from increasingly impoverished, declining societies. Countries that come to mind here are Russia and Ukraine, but also Greece and Spain, and increasingly the United States. Under oligarchic redistribution, the Keynesian bond which tied the profits of the rich to the wages of the poor is severed, cutting the fate of economic elites loose from that of the masses.This was anticipated in the infamous ‘plutonomy’ memorandums distributed by Citibank in 2005 and 2006 to a select circle of its richest clients, to assure them that their prosperity no longer depended on that of wage earners. Oligarchic redistribution and the trend toward plutonomy, even in countries that are still considered democracies, conjure up the nightmare of elites confident that they will outlive the social system that is making them rich. Plutonomic capitalists may no longer have to worry about national economic growth because their transnational fortunes grow without it; hence the exit of the super-rich from countries like Russia or Greece, who take their money—or that of their fellow-citizens—and run, preferably to Switzerland, Britain or the United States. The possibility, as provided by a global capital market, of rescuing yourself and your family by exiting together with your possessions offers the strongest possible temptation for the rich to move into endgame mode—cash in, burn bridges, and leave nothing behind but scorched earth.

The ultra high net worth individuals (oligarchs) who have chosen to support a political process that insulates the UK's wealth defence secrecy regimes from the threat of supra-state regulation will have no concerns about an accelerated de-industrialistion in the UK.

 

[Ranbay]

 

[CRI]

Has this popped up yet? Operation Yellowhammer?

 

[Pickman's model]

Has this popped up yet? Operation Yellowhammer?

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Is this the same yellowhammer first reported five months ago?

 

[Libertad]

Has this popped up yet? Operation Yellowhammer?

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For more information please reread.

 

[CRI]

Cheers - that's why I asked it as a question.

 

[killer b]

great twitter compilation page guys. no wonder buzzfeed is going under.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ghosn is a crook. Allegedly.

Say.it.Ain’t.So.

 

[Chz]

Say.it.Ain’t.So.

That shit-show is worthy of its own thread. My reading is that everyone was complicit until Nissan got fed up with Renault bossing them about and turned him in.

 

[gosub]

....So its not just UK thats fucking this up....Thats the EUropean Parliament's spokesman on Brexit (good help us) - for 2.5 years the EU has been saying it will not discuss future relationship until the divorce terms are settled

 

[Badgers]

Badgers posted about Nissan yet or what?

I don't dare to 'contribute' to the thread due to some wanker the Thread Police

 

[Poi E]

That shit-show is worthy of its own thread. My reading is that everyone was complicit until Nissan got fed up with Renault bossing them about and turned him in.

Been a dramatic drop in Nissan reliability over the last few years.

Apologies for derail

 

[CRI]

Been a dramatic drop in Nissan reliability over the last few years.

Apologies for derail

Got a Nissan - nearly 12 years old now and them most reliable car I've had in nearly 40 years of driving. Maybe they're crap now, dunno. Second most reliable was a Toyota. The shittiest? A Rover and a Vauxhall.

 

[treelover]

Perhaps it's time to revisit Streeck?

In 'How will capitalism end' Wolfgang Streeck identifies and explores...


Streeck's notion of oligarchic redistribution suggesting that growing numbers of ultra high net worth individuals have no 'skin in the game' with national economic or social system within which they choose to reside or use to defend their wealth.



The ultra high net worth individuals (oligarchs) who have chosen to support a political process that insulates the UK's wealth defence secrecy regimes from the threat of supra-state regulation will have no concerns about an accelerated de-industrialistion in the UK.

This was anticipated in the infamous ‘plutonomy’ memorandums distributed by Citibank in 2005 and 2006 to a select circle of its richest clients, to assure them that their prosperity no longer depended on that of wage earners. Oligarchic redistribution and the trend toward plutonomy, even in countries that are still considered democracies, conjure up the nightmare of elites confident that they will outlive the social system that is making them rich.

Plutonomy - Wikipedia

Wow, never heard of that, did it get much coverage?

 

[Chz]

Got a Nissan - nearly 12 years old now and them most reliable car I've had in nearly 40 years of driving. Maybe they're crap now, dunno. Second most reliable was a Toyota. The shittiest? A Rover and a Vauxhall.

Way derailing here, but... It's a case of what sort of cars Nissan makes changing. All low-end cars (Micra, in their case) have become less reliable in the past ~15 years as the definition of "basic" equipment includes things like traction control, variable valve timing, multiple airbags, satnav, etc... There more things there are to break, the more they break. They're targeting owners who want the fully-loaded experience more, and this brings more things to break in the higher-end vehicles as well.
FWIW, over the past 12 years we've had a K12 Micra and an E11 Note and the only thing that's ever gone wrong was that the Micra needed a new CD player.
Thus ends my derail, I'll start a different thread if I feel the need to talk more about it.