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[two sheds]

It works both ways though, anyone wants really stinky cheese, Rishi gets a lump.

Perhaps we could send him our really stinky cheese lumps direct

 

[ska invita]

It's almost like they haven't thought this through...

Or there will be a deal

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Perhaps we could send him our really stinky cheese lumps direct

*fumbles around in pants for a donation...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Why do we export so much produce only to import the same? Local food for local people, or else the planet dies.

 

[andysays]

coshes are imported we won't be able to get any

You're not going to tell me there are no British workers already trained to make coshes and we're going to have to rely on Romania and India for those as well, are you?

 

[weltweit]

Just heard a VT of Johnson sounding like he wants WTO / no deal.
Britain can do exactly what it wants he said ..
The man is an imbecile..

 

[gosub]

You're not going to tell me there are no British workers already trained to make coshes and we're going to have to rely on Romania and India for those as well, are you?

Batons

.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I wonder how prepared UK Customs are to start collecting tariffs on incoming goods and services?

They aren't, because they still don't know what type of deal we will have.

 

[Artaxerxes]

THE WIFE WONT TAKE MY CALLS AND MY KIDS DONT WANT TO SEE ME.

 

[Raheem]

You're not going to tell me there are no British workers already trained to make coshes and we're going to have to rely on Romania and India for those as well, are you?

I believe India is still largely a cosh economy.

 

[weltweit]

They aren't, because they still don't know what type of deal we will have.

Oh I am sure they have contingency plans.

 

[Winot]

We exported through the year, most businesses I talk to have been continuing as near to normal as they can manage. You are right they will suffer, a complex aspect has just / will just be inserted into what used to be relatively simple trading arrangements.

Have you only just found out about Brexit

 

[two sheds]

Batons

.

Yeh made in Britain I bet the steel comes from Belgium

 

[gosub]

Yeh made in Britain I bet the steel comes from Belgium

I'm sure if they practice enough they can get a lovely CE imprint in the brusing

 

[gosub]

 

[weltweit]

Have you only just found out about Brexit

Been aware long enough thanks.
As we already export under WTO terms to non EU locations, we have a level of preparation.

 

[Raheem]

Hope to fucking God that's just some sort of bullshit.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

All believable but without names it is just words on the internet.

“Someone who knows said Barnier’s dad was shagging Eva Braun’s daughter....”

 

[bimble]

A solution “different from what we set out to achieve” but also it will be “wonderful for the uk”.

 

[editor]

Just putting this here

Petition: To Seek a 1 year Extension to the Brexit Transition Period & a Second Referendum

To seek a 1 year extension to the Brexit Transition Period so that negotiations on the future EU-UK relationship can be concluded and a referendum conducted. The UK public can assent or reject the terms. A rejection would mean that the Government would commit to seeking re-entry to the EU.

petition.parliament.uk

 

[Jeff Robinson]

God, this shit is so grim. Britain is a reactionary, racist hell-scape and it's pretty sure to get much worse next year. When everything goes to hell, I wonder who the tory regime and their fascist attack dogs in the vermin media will pick out as the scapegoat - 'critical race theorists'? 'cultural Marxists'? 'the muslims'? Grim times ahead.

 

[ska invita]

Why do we export so much produce only to import the same? Local food for local people, or else the planet dies.

It is insanity that we both export sheep meat and then import sheep meat, from New Zealand say. How did that come about?

 

[editor]

God, this shit is so grim. Britain is a reactionary, racist hell-scape and it's pretty sure to get much worse next year. When everything goes to hell, I wonder who the tory regime and their fascist attack dogs in the vermin media will pick out as the scapegoat - 'critical race theorists'? 'cultural Marxists'? 'the muslims'? Grim times ahead.

And the remainers. Apparently it's all their fault too.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Even he had to pause before he could spit out the absurd word 'wonderful'.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It is insanity that we both export sheep meat and then import sheep meat, from New Zealand say. How did that come about?

Unless we stop moving ourselves and our crap around the planet willy-nilly we are fucked. We are fucked anyway, but a massive part of the change that needs to happen now if we stand any chance at all of unfucking ourselves is to stop moving crap/ourselves around so much. Really is local shit for local people, or we're fucked.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Raheem]

It is insanity that we both export sheep meat and then import sheep meat, from New Zealand say. How did that come about?

Apparently, the UK is somehow legally obliged to buy a third of NZ's lamb supply. Don't know why, but maybe Google does.

ETA: it's not that we're obliged to buy it, but there is a WTO deal that means there are no tariffs on that third, meaning that it is inevitable that we do, because it is cheaper than lamb from anywhere else.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Apparently, the UK is somehow legally obliged to buy a third of NZ's lamb supply. Don't know why, but maybe Google does.

If the NZ lamb would otherwise have been sold in the rest of the EU, this arrangement doesn't necessarily add that many freight-miles to the totals involved.

 

[Flavour]

It is actually quite impressive what a thick twat Boris is.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It is actually quite impressive what a thick twat Boris is.

It's more that he thinks everyone else is thick, no? In this instance, at least. A wonderful situation, an Australia-style solution. Saying that shows contempt for his audience more than anything.