Merging (or renaming) the two Brexit threads?

[editor]

We've now got two post-Brexit threads where the some identical content is being posted, so it would seem prudent to either merge them, or rename them to stop pointless/confusing duplication of posts.

The post-Brexit trade deal & transition period
Brexit 2021 onwards; project reality

So what shall we do?

 

[mauvais]

Some sort of unworkably complicated administrative fudge that attempts to allow content to transfer between the two and ultimately fails in even its most basic purpose, tipping the two threads into open conflict, please.

 

[ska invita]

Yes well confusing

and keeping vaccine chat out of the one thread as its not about Brexit please

lock The post-Brexit trade deal & transition period ?

 

[danny la rouge]

Merge them and rename the merged thread “Check out my Union Jack glowing rave underpants”

 

[andysays]

I suggest we have a referendum, and when one side narrowly wins we can continue arguing about the results and slagging off those who voted the opposite way to ourselves for years to come.

 

[editor]

I suggest we have a referendum, and when one side narrowly wins we can continue arguing about the results and slagging off those who voted the opposite way to ourselves for years to come.

For that comparison to be valid, the title should have read:

"Merging (or renaming) the two Brexit threads, with £340m per week going to the NHS as a result"."

 

[andysays]

For that comparison to be valid, the title should have read:

"Merging (or renaming) the two Brexit threads, with £340m per week going to the NHS as a result"."

Change the thread title if you think it will sway the electorate

 

[brogdale]

We've now got two post-Brexit threads where the some identical content is being posted, so it would seem prudent to either merge them, or rename them to stop pointless/confusing duplication of posts.

The post-Brexit trade deal & transition period
Brexit 2021 onwards; project reality

So what shall we do?

Happy with any of the first 3 outcomes offered.
The idea of the project reality thread was to afford a discrete discussion of post deal outcomes. (seeing as we are now beyond the transition period...obvs)
But...whatever works best?

 

[maomao]

Don't merge the threads and start crossposting onto this thread to add to confusion.

 

[platinumsage]

Lock the first one as the transition period is over, but it should remain available for reading. All new contributions should be directed at the second thread which is a more suitable title for future discussion. I think merging them will be a mess.

 

[The39thStep]

Merge them and set up a Brexit Watchdog thread for consumer issues re VAT, Customs charges etc

 

[The39thStep]

Yes well confusing

and keeping vaccine chat out of the one thread as its not about Brexit please

lock The post-Brexit trade deal & transition period ?

Have you made any progress on understanding the EU vaccine issue?

 

[Serge Forward]

Will this merger have a seamless border?

 

[Sprocket.]

Will this merger have a seamless border?

Maybe more of a blend than merge?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Some sort of unworkably complicated administrative fudge that attempts to allow content to transfer between the two and ultimately fails in even its most basic purpose, tipping the two threads into open conflict, please.

#Rejoin #FBPE

 

[bimble]

Whatever option is chosen, can we please still be calling eachother Mergers and Renamers in 5 years time thanks.

 

[Pickman's model]

We've now got two post-Brexit threads where the some identical content is being posted, so it would seem prudent to either merge them, or rename them to stop pointless/confusing duplication of posts.

The post-Brexit trade deal & transition period
Brexit 2021 onwards; project reality

So what shall we do?

rename the first one brexit 2020: trade deal and transition period and leave the second one as is

 

[mauvais]

#Rejoin #FBPE

 

[Artaxerxes]

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Butter is better.

 

[kebabking]

I think it's important that there remains (ha! Geddit??!!) a place for politically tin-earned snearing...

 

[brogdale]

Will this merger have a seamless border?

Any animals crossing between the threads should be checked.

 

[not-bono-ever]

It’s trench warfare in those two threads and will remain so until the armistice is agreed (ie never) . Just kill them both off

 

[StoneRoad]

Lock the one about the transition period, that's over now.
we just have the reality of the f*****ing chaos left behind to deal with

 

[steeplejack]

why merge them? what's the point?

PS disappointing there isn't a "Democracy is a bourgeois fiction" option, leaving the poll incomplete

 

[Supine]

For that comparison to be valid, the title should have read:

"Merging (or renaming) the two Brexit threads, with £340m per week going to the NHS as a result"."

£350m. You can't just pocket ten million quid unless you are a conservative mp.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I voted Rename. I am now a Renamer. All you Mergists Mergiteers are bigots who should feel ashamed of yourself.

*edited because Mergiteer is a vastly better word than Mergist

 

[prunus]

why merge them? what's the point?

PS disappointing there isn't a "Democracy is a bourgeois fiction" option, leaving the poll incomplete

Poll has to be incomplete, or democracy won't be a bourgeois fiction.

 

[teuchter]

I would put a soft border about 3/4 of the way through the first thread, and then a partial hard border between the two threads, and then allow posting on the first thread only for posters who had already posted on the second thread at that point in history. For posters who only posted before the soft border through the first thread was implemented, they would be allowed to post on the second thread if 50% of posters from after the soft border agreed, although they would have the right to post emoticons only, in any location. For posters who could prove that a grandparent had, or would have, posted on the second thread but only before the soft border was imposed on the first thread, they would be allowed to post on either thread but not move any arguments from the second thread to either portion of the first thread, unless their grandparents had, or would have, only ever posted on the first thread but prior to the hard border having been agreed in the preliminary agreement that will by the way have to be negotiated, before any of the new borders are implemented. Both threads need a parking area for any posters awaiting confirmation of any details of the rules which may not have been clarified prior to the changes taking place.

 

[Pickman's model]

I would put a soft border about 3/4 of the way through the first thread, and then a partial hard border between the two threads, and then allow posting on the first thread only for posters who had already posted on the second thread at that point in history. For posters who only posted before the soft border through the first thread was implemented, they would be allowed to post on the second thread if 50% of posters from after the soft border agreed, although they would have the right to post emoticons only, in any location. For posters who could prove that a grandparent had, or would have, posted on the second thread but only before the soft border was imposed on the first thread, they would be allowed to post on either thread but not move any arguments from the second thread to either portion of the first thread, unless their grandparents had, or would have, only ever posted on the first thread but prior to the hard border having been agreed in the preliminary agreement that will by the way have to be negotiated, before any of the new borders are implemented. Both threads need a parking area for any posters awaiting confirmation of any details of the rules which may not have been clarified prior to the changes taking place.

you've just talked yourself out of any possibility of becoming a mod

 

[brogdale]

Thread of the day, without question!