The big Brexit thread - news, updates and discussion

[Raheem]

Probably a good news story from the baby bee’s perspective.

Brexit rules mean 15m baby bees may be seized and burned, says beekeeper

Patrick Murfet says he tried to import bees via Northern Ireland but was told they would be destroyed

www.theguardian.com

15m baby bees! That's bigger than a bus!

 

[Spymaster]

Brexit voters going on about a United Ireland are tossers who only now seeing how things are unfolding are putting that into the mix in order to try to give their destructive action some meaning.

Don’t be silly. That was only mentioned in the context of negating the NIP and removing the land border between the U.K. and the EU, not as a potential benefit of Brexit which will probably never happen.

 

[philosophical]

Don’t be silly. That was only mentioned in the context of negating the NIP and removing the land border between the U.K. and the EU, not as a potential benefit of Brexit which will probably never happen.

Musings about a United Ireland have certainly been going on since the brexit vote, not just now since the Northern Ireland Protocol was dreamed up.
It looks to be like a diversion by brexit supporters as a desperate attempt to say 'See. When I voted leave I was secretly doing everybody a favour by actually voting that way as a sneaky route to a United Ireland'.
The brexit vote was to leave. Leave means a border between two different systems. How to manage and run that land border in Ireland remains, as it has been since the vote, the problem.

 

[kabbes]

Has that idiot I can see people replying to acknowledged yet that Brexit wasn’t actually impossible after all? Or is he still living in a la-la-land where it will never happen? I am loathe to take him off ignore to find out.

 

[TopCat]

Has that idiot I can see people replying to acknowledged yet that Brexit wasn’t actually impossible after all? Or is he still living in a la-la-land where it will never happen? I am loathe to take him off ignore to find out.

Which idiot?

 

[kabbes]

Which idiot?

The one who was insisting it would literally be impossible for the UK to leave the EU because the Ireland border issue was literally impossible to find a way around

 

[TopCat]

The one who was insisting it would literally be impossible for the UK to leave the EU because the Ireland border issue was literally impossible to find a way around

I think you mean philosophical. I stuck the loon on ignore ages ago when he wanted to punish leave voters, make them suffer.

This thread has a few of those types hence me asking which idiot.

 

[Winot]

Report from the Scottish Affairs Committee. I wish these businesses had been this vocal over the last 4 years because nothing that has happened is a surprise.

 

[kabbes]

I think you mean philosophical. I stuck the loon on ignore ages ago when he wanted to punish leave voters, make them suffer.

This thread has a few of those types hence me asking which idiot.

You don’t have Spymaster on ignore though, do you?

 

[TopCat]

The one who was insisting it would literally be impossible for the UK to leave the EU because the Ireland border issue was literally impossible to find a way around

Or do you mean remain riot boy who predicted insurrection by Waitrose customers?

 

[TopCat]

You don’t have Spymaster on ignore though, do you?

No

 

[kabbes]

No

So you can see that Spymaster is quoting philosophical

 

[kabbes]

Or do you mean remain riot boy who predicted insurrection by Waitrose customers?

Oh, that happened. Nobody noticed though because they queued politely.

 

[TopCat]

So you can see that Spymaster is quoting philosophical

So that idiot. Life is simpler if you mute the fucker.

 

[TopCat]

It's Britain moving further from mainland Europe.

The cliff looked like it was reaching towards France. Arrest that rubble.

 

[kabbes]

So that idiot. Life is simpler if you mute the fucker.

I did a long time ago. Did you not read what I actually wrote?

 

[ska invita]

Report from the Scottish Affairs Committee. I wish these businesses had been this vocal over the last 4 years because nothing that has happened is a surprise.

thats a damning thread of quotes from the man - air of desperation in his voice



this guy in the thread represents the processors but aside from that two thirds of the scottish fleet are single small boats - from what i read they are particularly fucked and unable to find solutions due to limitations of scale and cost

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Has that idiot I can see people replying to acknowledged yet that Brexit wasn’t actually impossible after all? Or is he still living in a la-la-land where it will never happen? I am loathe to take him off ignore to find out.

In answer to your query, no he's still banging on about borders though.

 

[ska invita]

More interesting bits from that thread - James Buchan quoted was interviewed back in 2017 as an ardent Brexiter

Meet the Scots who can’t wait to finish Brexit and get out of the EU

They’re also very keen on migrant workers.

www.newstatesman.com

but this is the key thing isnt it:


so much smoke, mirrors and also projection about this whole situation

 

[littlebabyjesus]

More interesting bits from that thread - James Buchan quoted was interviewed back in 2017 as an ardent Brexiter

Meet the Scots who can’t wait to finish Brexit and get out of the EU

They’re also very keen on migrant workers.

www.newstatesman.com

but this is the key thing isnt it:
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so much smoke, mirrors and also projection about this whole situation

Sounds like the vision that David Davis was pushing. Different standards for different markets, so you trade with the EU according to EU standards, with other places according to other standards.

tbf Davis laid all this out in a pamphlet pre-referendum. It's what got him the job of Brexit Secretary. But it was all, always, totally unfeasible, a complete fantasy whose viability was pretty well summed up by the image of him sat at the negotiation table without a single paper in front of him. Not even worth a piece of paper to write it down on.

 

[kabbes]

In answer to your query, no he's still banging on about borders though.

Fantastic

 

[brogdale]

The cliff looked like it was reaching towards France. Arrest that rubble.

Don't blame the good Kentish lithology; any fule kno that if you increase the mass loading on a cliff-top the chances of mass movement increase.

Blame Paddy Power

 

[Spymaster]

Musings about a United Ireland have certainly been going on since the brexit vote, not just now since the Northern Ireland Protocol was dreamed up.
It looks to be like a diversion by brexit supporters as a desperate attempt to say 'See. When I voted leave I was secretly doing everybody a favour by actually voting that way as a sneaky route to a United Ireland'.
The brexit vote was to leave. Leave means a border between two different systems. How to manage and run that land border in Ireland remains, as it has been since the vote, the problem.

I haven’t seen much of that. The only times that I’ve noticed on here has been from Irish posters suggesting ironically that it might be an unintended bonus.

 

[Supine]

Ah, the joys of spending £2000 to get a German taxi driver to bring an urgent spare part to the UK. Brexit bonus for him.

 

[Raheem]

Ah, the joys of spending £2000 to get a German taxi driver to bring an urgent spare part to the UK. Brexit bonus for him.

Is your toilet working now, though?

 

[TopCat]

I did a long time ago. Did you not read what I actually wrote?

I only took you briefly off of ignore.

 

[Supine]

Is your toilet working now, though?

luckily its only a pharma production line thats out of action. I have plenty of time to toilet in peace

 

[The39thStep]

Or do you mean remain riot boy who predicted insurrection by Waitrose customers?

Ha ha who was that ?

 

[teuchter]

Ah, the joys of spending £2000 to get a German taxi driver to bring an urgent spare part to the UK. Brexit bonus for him.

Once the pandemic's over I'm happy to do this for £1,995. In case it happens again.

 

[Supine]

Once the pandemic's over I'm happy to do this for £1,995. In case it happens again.

Move to Germany and pm your number