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[gentlegreen]

Go for a halfway house and move to the channel Islands where the tax regime may be to your liking

Don't you have to be a millionaire to live there ?

 

[prunus]

She's come dressed as a Magic Eye poster

Yes if you squint at that picture just right you can see a pair of cunts.

 

[bimble]

This footage of Kent from above today is just

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't you have to be a millionaire to live there ?

Mostly

 

[Artaxerxes]

Well, this is really helpful...

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Nah fuck it, this is what happens when you fuck about and demand that your special and your borders and sovereignty are inviolable then piss about until the week before New year to sort access out.

It's shit but if we're playing the take back control card then the EU is going to put the brakes on those borders if we don't.

It's going to be a really shit few weeks but this is the consequence of literally everything that's happened last 4 years.

 

[Pickman's model]

She should've thought of that before she crippled the political system to the point where a 200lb slab of plankton in Michael Fabricant's spare wig could become prime minister in the first place.

Plankton would do a better job

 

[bimble]

It’s exactly that kind of thing that notes makes me glad we’re leaving even though I voted remain.

Why, because he did a mean tweet?

 

[SheilaNaGig]

'kinnel...

There’s also this

UK: Long Lines Of Lorries On M20 Motorway As France Shuts Borders 2

Lorry drivers in the UK made a long line on the M20 motorway due to a ban on freight to France. The French government closed its borders to all travelers from the UK from midnight on Monday, December 21 over fears of a new variant of the coronavirus which could be up to 70% more transmissible...

www.newsflare.com

It’s a two minute clip of the queue on the M20.

 

[Pickman's model]

not quite for this thread, but couldn't think where else to put it.

apparently brexiter nigel lawson is having to sell his home in france and move back to the UK, as he can't get residency there unless he becomes a full tax resident in france.

more here

how sad...

Why isn't he dead yet?

 

[Treacle Toes]

D'ya know what would make my Christmas? Some of those lorry drivers finding out that Nigel Farage lives in the village of Downe in Kent and basically blockading the roads in and out of there for a while. Petty maybe but it would make my day, especially a few parked up right outside his gaff.

 

[Artaxerxes]

D'ya know what would make my Christmas? Some of those lorry drivers finding out that Nigel Farage lives in the village of Downe in Kent and basically blockading the roads in and out of there for a while. Petty maybe but it would make my day, especially a few parked up right outside his gaff.

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Someone should tell them it's where to find the bog

 

[Treacle Toes]

Someone should tell them it's where to find the bog

I really wish more lorry drivers were on Twitter...we could make this happen, quickly...

 

[andysays]

Dunno about that.
Maybe the European Royals and the British Royals should have a tear up in the Eurotunnel car park to settle matters.
Jousting or something.
Televised.

So even 17th century norms are too advanced for you, and you'd prefer international affairs were settled according to medieval methods.

Splendid stuff...

 

[mauvais]

I'd prefer a lot of this to be settled with medieval methods to be quite honest, whether that's executions or a Norman invasion.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Don't you have to be a millionaire to live there ?

Mostly

It's certainly complicated. I did vaguely toy with the idea of going to one of the channel islands as a seasonal bus driver a few years back and it all sounded kinda complicated then, and that you had something like a 'temporary guest worker' status

D'ya know what would make my Christmas? Some of those lorry drivers finding out that Nigel Farage lives in the village of Downe in Kent and basically blockading the roads in and out of there for a while. Petty maybe but it would make my day, especially a few parked up right outside his gaff.

sadly, Downe is right at the other end of Kent, south of Bromley (not sure if it isn't administratively in Bromley Borough / Greater London)

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Nah fuck it, this is what happens when you fuck about and demand that your special and your borders and sovereignty are inviolable then piss about until the week before New year to sort access out.

It's shit but if we're playing the take back control card then the EU is going to put the brakes on those borders if we don't.

It's going to be a really shit few weeks but this is the consequence of literally everything that's happened last 4 years.

I didn't realise the 'rona had been plotting this for 4 years, citation pls for uni dropouts

 

[Artaxerxes]

I didn't realise the 'rona had been plotting this for 4 years, citation pls for uni dropouts

I never went to uni at all so I don't know what this citation stuff is mate.

This is just a weeks early brexit and the EU countries have absolutely no skin in playing nice with us or patience with us after we've fucked around so long.

 

[Treacle Toes]

sadly, Downe is right at the other end of Kent, south of Bromley (not sure if it isn't administratively in Bromley Borough / Greater London)

I know Downe, I know where Nige drinks...I could make this happen...

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

I never went to uni at all so I don't know what this citation stuff is mate.

This is just a weeks early brexit and the EU countries have absolutely no skin in playing nice with us or patience with us after we've fucked around so long.

Sure, if only we had voted remain then freight, new variant of virus and all and sundry can just continue doing a wee merry dance all over the world unhindered. As a leave voter may I be the first to offer my sincere apologies for this new development.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Sure, if only we had voted remain then freight, new variant of virus and all and sundry can just continue doing a wee merry dance all over the world unhindered. As a leave voter may I be the first to offer my sincere apologies for this new development.

That's nice of you, who says leave and remain voters can't be civil.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Like it or not part of the reason we're in this situation is because the government has had far to relaxed an approach to borders and testing incoming and outgoing people since the start which is nothing but ironic and deeply pathetic considering the rhetoric it puts into kicking out the poor and preventing or demonising poor immigrants, legal or illegal.

Plus you know, Boris and his red hot negotiating strategy of erm... Pissing everyone off.

 

[kabbes]

Why, because he did a mean tweet?

It reveals a lot about the contempt that the EU has for ordinary people. They’d rather people suffer than allow any stepping out of line. Verhofstadt is actually pleased this is happening. I don’t want people like that being my line of defence against anything. It’s worse than having nothing.

 

[philosophical]

So even 17th century norms are too advanced for you, and you'd prefer international affairs were settled according to medieval methods.

Splendid stuff...

Did I say it was a preference?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I know Downe, I know where Nige drinks...I could make this happen...

but will he have buggered off to his second home for xmas?

 

[Pickman's model]

Did I say it was a preference?

You didn't have to, you made your view quite clear

 

[Treacle Toes]

but will he have buggered off to his second home for xmas?

Maybe...But the village will remember and half of them are sick of him already...he's barred from one pub

 

[splonkydoo]

Apparently Heathrow is absolutely jammers right now with crowds of people, 3 flights lined up for Belfast. Thank you Arlene Foster, DUP, UUP, Alliance party, and stupid people everywhere.

 

[splonkydoo]

The fact there isn't an all-island health policy in this country is insane, and down to complete unionist pig-headedness. I wonder how many people of those flights will be travelling down south, and using public transport links to do so

 

[teuchter]

It reveals a lot about the contempt that the EU has for ordinary people. They’d rather people suffer than allow any stepping out of line. Verhofstadt is actually pleased this is happening. I don’t want people like that being my line of defence against anything. It’s worse than having nothing.

Seems a bit of an overreaction.
Verhofstadt is one Belgian MEP. He's not "the EU". The UK did not rely on representation by him when it was part of the EU, it was represented by all the UK MEPs.

 

[philosophical]

You didn't have to, you made your view quite clear

Bollocks did I.
I used the word 'maybe' if you care to look.