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[Artaxerxes]

Brooks are owned by an Italian company so it's not all that surprising that distribution is via Italy. There will be endless cases of this and you can address each one in turn saying 'well why don't we just...', but in total it amounts to 'why don't we just unilaterally opt out of globalisation'. I mean, you can try, but it's what sanctions are supposed to do to a country.

No it's fine, brexit has made no changes to postage or imports and any changes that exist are purely imaginary and not affecting any businesses anyone cares about even if they did theoretically exist which they don't.

Clear?

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm glad this thread has turned into a discussion about how many sex arses you can fit in a lorry. I've always felt it was heading that way.

This is urban after all

 

[andysays]

Is THIS what you Leavers really voted for?

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Don't tell there are no adequately trained British workers who know how to make sex arses either.

Must we really rely on Romanians and Indians for everything?

 

[butchersapron]

Prob not exactly the right thread but has anyone read Perry Andersons 'Ever Closer Union' essay ? Its long and complex, well compared to the cut and pasting of Guardian articles, but imo a fascinating analysis of the history and the evolution of the EU. Its behind a paywall but you get one free article a month before the paywall kicks in. Perry Anderson · Ever Closer Union? · LRB 7 January 2021

That's the second part of a three part series, last one in next issue. I've uploaded the two so far, see

EU Reading List

That's such a recipe for success, I don't understand how they failed. Me neither. They had the miracle worker who helped the Lib Dems keep 8 MPs.

www.urban75.net

 

[The39thStep]

That's the second part of a three part series, last one in next issue. I've uploaded the two so far, see

EU Reading List

That's such a recipe for success, I don't understand how they failed. Me neither. They had the miracle worker who helped the Lib Dems keep 8 MPs.

www.urban75.net

Thanks Butchers , I really enjoyed it and learnt a lot.

 

[Spymaster]

I'm glad this thread has turned into a discussion about how many sex arses you can fit in a lorry. I've always felt it was heading that way.

The Economist: "What does Brexit mean for the EU’s international standing and security?"

Der Speigel: "How should the EU negotiate internal changes in the wake of the British exit?"

Urban75: "How many sex-arses can you get on a 40 foot trailer?"

 

[prunus]

The Economist: "What does Brexit mean for the EU’s international standing and security?"

Der Speigel: "How should the EU negotiate internal changes in the wake of the British exit?"

Urban75: "How many sex-arses can you get on a 40 foot trailer?"

This is exactly the problem - the europhile metropolitan elite are just not addressing the issues that matter to the ordinary person!

 

[Smangus]

Have to say, my faith in Urban has been reaffirmed in the last couple of pages

 

[BCBlues]

How about if the guy with the sexarses teams up with Brooke's and sits one bum each on a bike saddle then transports. Everybody's happy.

 

[Supine]

I'm glad this thread has turned into a discussion about how many sex arses you can fit in a lorry. I've always felt it was heading that way.

European sex arses. We need traditional British sex arses.

 

[Pickman's model]

The Economist: "What does Brexit mean for the EU’s international standing and security?"

Der Speigel: "How should the EU negotiate internal changes in the wake of the British exit?"

Urban75: "How many sex-arses can you get on a 40 foot trailer?"

An African or a European trailer?

 

[not-bono-ever]

any clarification on whether us brits can still use EU visa free travel arrangements for the rest of the world ?

 

[Pickman's model]

any clarification on whether us brits can still use EU visa free travel arrangements for the rest of the world ?

Our ability to travel ends at dover

 

[not-bono-ever]

TBF, Dover has many many attractions in itself.

 

[andysays]

European sex arses. We need traditional British sex arses.

Exactly.

Surely I can't be the only one old enough to remember when British sex arses were the envy of the world.

 

[gosub]

Our ability to travel ends at dover

What are doing in Dover? Its tier 4 ffs

 

[Pickman's model]

What are doing in Dover? Its tier 4 ffs

I mean the continent no longer welcomes britons

 

[gosub]

I mean the continent no longer welcomes britons

tbf they stopped doing that a while ago, treat us like everybody else these days....I blame not having the most powerful Navy in the world any more

 

[Pickman's model]

tbf they stopped doing that a while ago, treat us like everybody else these days....I blame not having the most powerful Navy in the world any more

By welcomes I meant of course admits

 

[MickiQ]

any clarification on whether us brits can still use EU visa free travel arrangements for the rest of the world ?

No we can't but in reality it probably won't actually change much. Countries that currently allow visa free travel for Brits will almost certainly continue to do so.
The principal behind visa free travel is the assurance that you will go home rather than disappear when your visit is over. For a few years at least that isn't likely to change much. The big difference is that it is now harder to go to Europe and will get harder still in 2022 with the introduction of ETIAS
We're now in the same position as Americans, Australians etc.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Yep. I know the EU regime is based on agreed levels of reciprocity with the counterparts. I do not relish the prospect of the Johnson Junta having to plough through new arrangements with other countries to get some degree of continuity, specially with the reciprocity meaning forren johnnies could still demand preferential access to the UK, going against the fortress UK mindset.

 

[kabbes]

The Sport do have a way with words. “Substandard Chinese sex arses” and “sex arse tycoon” will have me chuckling for a while.

Incidentally, do you reckon the story is completely made up from nothing at all or do you think there was some tiny kernel of truth that the Sport completely altered? I’m always curious with their stories if they bother with any grain of truth. It seems a lot easier (and arguably less risky, even) to create it from scratch.

 

[Roadkill]

So, pulling out of the single market was a bum deal after all...

Oh well, turn the other cheek....

 

[Artaxerxes]

TBF, Dover has many many attractions in itself.

The way out of Britain being number one

 

[philosophical]

I believe a number of people wouldn't buy a Brooks saddle because they're made of animal skins.

 

[Roadkill]

Professor Grey makes a fair point here...

 

[not a trot]

TBF, Dover has many many attractions in itself.

But Bluebirds have never been seen there.

 

[brogdale]

But Bluebirds have never been seen there.

tbf to Walter Kent, he didn't know that.

 

[Voley]

Professor Grey makes a fair point here...

#NewTagLine

 

[Pickman's model]

Professor Grey makes a fair point here...

it's the sort of thing viz might have thought of and then rejected as being unbelievable