Brexit - Post Match Reaction

[badgerx16]

6 minutes ago, Gurj said:

Echo.

Is that the sound of a dead cat economy bouncing ?

[rallyboy]

Looking at the economy and the current lack of direction from the top, it feels like the UK has quietly closed.

A small notice on the door apologises to previous customers and says we hope to reopen if conditions improve.

Which seems unlikely.

 

[Warriorsaint]

Hope Faragist Duckwomble can’t read. All those Indian and Pakistani nurses coming won’t please him. They don’t have to get in little boats either.

https://flip.it/S.10KG

[spyinthesky]

Piece in the Sunday Times today.

Despite Liz Truss boasting of all the trade deals she has done, basically cut and pastes of exiting deals in truth, the Uk is underperforming other G7 countries in export revenue which most people will recognise is due to the current difficulties in trading with our largest export market ie the EU.

[saint1977]

On 13/08/2022 at 12:08, rallyboy said:

Looking at the economy and the current lack of direction from the top, it feels like the UK has quietly closed.

A small notice on the door apologises to previous customers and says we hope to reopen if conditions improve.

Which seems unlikely.

 

Superdry founder agrees https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62509760

[Guided Missile]

Germany and France have driven eurozone into recession, economists warn

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The eurozone is in recession, economists have warned, as Germany’s businesses suffered their sharpest slump since June 2020. Factories across the continent reported steep declines in demand as higher energy bills and the cost-of-living crisis trash their finances as well as those of their customers.  Business activity shrank this month according to the purchasing managers’ index (PMI), a survey from S&P Global. The index fell from 49.9 in July to 49.2 in August. Any score of below 50 indicates falling activity, so this shows an accelerating decline in the eurozone. Salomon Fiedler, economist at Berenberg Bank, said the eurozone is now falling into recession.

Cue the usual demonstration of collective Brexit Derangement Syndrome.

[badgerx16]

9 minutes ago, Guided Missile said:

Germany and France have driven eurozone into recession, economists warn

Cue the usual demonstration of collective Brexit Derangement Syndrome.

Whilst the UK manages to go into recession all on it's own.

[Tamesaint]

33 minutes ago, Guided Missile said:

Germany and France have driven eurozone into recession, economists warn

Cue the usual demonstration of collective Brexit Derangement Syndrome.

Nice to see that old "shit for brains" is still alive. I thought that he had gone quiet because he was looking for Brexit benefits. 

[badgerx16]

10 minutes ago, Tamesaint said:

Nice to see that old "shit for brains" is still alive. I thought that he had gone quiet because he was looking for Brexit benefits. 

Well according to JRM, due to Brexit we will avoid a 2% increase in the cost of fish fingers.

[Weston Super Saint]

47 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Well according to JRM, due to Brexit we will avoid a 2% increase in the cost of fish fingers.

Correct.  It will now be an 8% increase due to strike action driving up the cost of wages and the cost of processing increasing due to higher energy prices.

[whelk]

13 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Correct.  It will now be an 8% increase due to strike action driving up the cost of wages and the cost of processing increasing due to higher energy prices.

I can only eat Birds Eye cod fillet ones so suffering more than others as they are at the pricey end

[Warriorsaint]

So glad we did this Brexit thing so we could pour shit all over our beaches. What was it Gove said” no watering down of Environmental standards “

Hmmmnn! Wait till Guidedmissile Whatabouts again.

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, Warriorsaint said:

So glad we did this Brexit thing so we could pour shit all over our beaches. What was it Gove said” no watering down of Environmental standards “

You can't water them down, there's a drought.

[whelk]

Shred those fucking environmental rules they are holding back our wealth makers maximising efficiencies dealing with waste in the most cost effective way. 

[rallyboy]

Gove sold it as a Green Brexit and said we'd lead the world in water quality...

Clearly he knew he was lying, but I wonder if he now classes that as a small white lie or another huge whopper?

Either way he must be pissing himself laughing at us all.

 

 

[whelk]

1 hour ago, rallyboy said:

Gove sold it as a Green Brexit and said we'd lead the world in water quality...

Clearly he knew he was lying, but I wonder if he now classes that as a small white lie or another huge whopper?

Either way he must be pissing himself laughing at us all.

 

 

Gove right now is snorting coke off an escort’s tits

[kyle04]

8 minutes ago, whelk said:

Gove right now is snorting coke off an escort’s tits

... wearing only his socks and specs, the bounder.

[Tamesaint]

😁😁

[Warriorsaint]

 

[spyinthesky]

The so called 'Festival of Brexit' officially known as 'Unboxed' and promoted by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg, to 'celebrate' British creativity and our exit from the European Union, had a publicly funded budget of £120m with a budgeted target of 66 million visitors.
Last month just 238,000 people (ie 0.4%) were known to have attended since the first events opened in March.
Another waste of Tax payers money similar to Boris's bridge over the Thames and the Marble Arch Mound.

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, spyinthesky said:

The so called 'Festival of Brexit' officially known as 'Unboxed' and promoted by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg, to 'celebrate' British creativity and our exit from the European Union, had a publicly funded budget of £120m with a budgeted target of 66 million visitors.
Last month just 238,000 people (ie 0.4%) were known to have attended since the first events opened in March.
Another waste of Tax payers money similar to Boris's bridge over the Thames and the Marble Arch Mound.

And you are surprised ?

[Warriorsaint]

The gift that keeps on giving etc etc

 

[Mosin]

2 hours ago, Warriorsaint said:

The gift that keeps on giving etc etc

 

Should read, more than a 3rd of brits to thick to look at contract for mobile phone and got charged loads, mean while, people with some brains already knew most mobile networks like o2 / ee still do free 2 roam like home that is free of charge and comes from a free sim card you can order for free from the network providers website, to activate your free sim is just a simple 10 pound top up for a whole months usage...... would have saved them selfs 990 pound...

[badgerx16]

26 minutes ago, Mosin said:

Should read, more than a 3rd of brits to thick to look at contract for mobile phone and got charged loads, mean while, people with some brains already knew most mobile networks like o2 / ee still do free 2 roam like home that is free of charge and comes from a free sim card you can order for free from the network providers website, to activate your free sim is just a simple 10 pound top up for a whole months usage...... would have saved them selfs 990 pound...

1) True, but obviously none of those "smarter" brits read the Express.

2) You do get the irony of the Express front page ?

[CB Fry]

1 hour ago, Mosin said:

Should read, more than a 3rd of brits to thick to look at contract for mobile phone and got charged loads, mean while, people with some brains already knew most mobile networks like o2 / ee still do free 2 roam like home that is free of charge and comes from a free sim card you can order for free from the network providers website, to activate your free sim is just a simple 10 pound top up for a whole months usage...... would have saved them selfs 990 pound...

"Thick" people not understanding what they've signed up to, then taking a hit and then moaning about the consequences that were foreseeable and avoidable?

I wonder if that has ever happened before?

[Tamesaint]

Yippee. A Brexit benefit !! Banks can now legitimately pay bonuses to their staff of more than 200% of  annual salary. Snouts in the trough lads.

 

 

 

 

 

[badgerx16]

2 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

Yippee. A Brexit benefit !! Banks can now legitimately pay bonuses to their staff of more than 200% of  annual salary. Snouts in the trough lads.

 

 

 

 

 

Which was always the true purpose of the Brexit con: deregulation so the rich get richer.

[spyinthesky]

22 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Which was always the true purpose of the Brexit con: deregulation so the rich get richer.

 

22 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Which was always the true purpose of the Brexit con: deregulation so the rich get richer.

The majority of people I know who voted for Brexit did it on the assumption that immigration would be banished.
That seems to be going well!!!

[revolution saint]

4 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

Yippee. A Brexit benefit !! Banks can now legitimately pay bonuses to their staff of more than 200% of  annual salary. Snouts in the trough lads.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think this will happen because it's inflationary and would be hypocritical to condemn people on strike asking for more money whilst giving the green light to bankers to increase bonuses.  Team Truss and the new chancellor are far more savvy than that.

[cloggy saint]

1 hour ago, spyinthesky said:

 

The majority of people I know who voted for Brexit did it on the assumption that immigration would be banished.
That seems to be going well!!!

You're hanging out with the wrong crowd.

[Tamesaint]

18 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

I don't think this will happen because it's inflationary and would be hypocritical to condemn people on strike asking for more money whilst giving the green light to bankers to increase bonuses.  Team Truss and the new chancellor are far more savvy than that.

Maybe. Let's see.

Politically and for PR reasons alone it should be a dead duck. Truss however has said that she is happy with the rich benefiting more from her intended tax cuts than the poor and the idea of  removing the cap on bankers's bonuses comes from the same PR disaster zone.

[rallyboy]

Indeed, I'm sure there's no way that this government will allow rich people to get richer before they address helping those in poverty, remember how those PPE contracts were all given to poorer towns with established companies.

Even the energy support is very-much geared to help the less well-off, this is a caring cabinet that focusses on levelling up - multi-millionaires had better watch out!

 

[Winnersaint]

1 hour ago, revolution saint said:

Team Truss and the new chancellor are far more savvy than that.

😂 Loving the irony!

[saint1977]

6 hours ago, spyinthesky said:

 

The majority of people I know who voted for Brexit did it on the assumption that immigration would be banished.
That seems to be going well!!!

That’s the people who voted for it in the main. Watching them moan about customs queues and roaming charges they have brought about has an amusement value. Some of the architects of Brexit do want Singapore on Thames on the Tory hard right but others are more invested in the Empire/Anglosphere 2.0 model. When the UK joined the EEC in 1973 it was seen by some as a pragmatic alternative to empire but by others as inferior to empire and whom cling to UK exceptionalism eg Boris’s ridiculed push to commission a new Britannia yacht. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

54 minutes ago, saint1977 said:

When the UK joined the EEC in 1973 it was seen by some as a pragmatic alternative to empire but by others as inferior to empire and whom cling to UK exceptionalism 

What complete and utter pony.
 

The vast vast majority of the opposition to us joining the EEC came from the left. People like Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Peter Shaw, they opposed us joining because they considered it skewed towards big business and a bosses club, as well as being undemocratic. They weren’t people clinging to UK exceptionalism in any way shape or form.  More Labour MP’s voted leave than remain in ‘75,  The TUC was anti EEC, as were  SNP, Plaid Cymru, & Sinn Féin. The only national paper that came out for leave was The Morning Star. I know you Remainers like to look inside people’s souls and know why they voted a particular way, but there’s no way a longing for empire played any part in 70’s euro scepticism. 

[Warriorsaint]

21 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

What complete and utter pony.
 

The vast vast majority of the opposition to us joining the EEC came from the left. People like Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Peter Shaw, they opposed us joining because they considered it skewed towards big business and a bosses club, as well as being undemocratic. They weren’t people clinging to UK exceptionalism in any way shape or form.  More Labour MP’s voted leave than remain in ‘75,  The TUC was anti EEC, as were  SNP, Plaid Cymru, & Sinn Féin. The only national paper that came out for leave was The Morning Star. I know you Remainers like to look inside people’s souls and know why they voted a particular way, but there’s no way a longing for empire played any part in 70’s euro scepticism. 

There he is. Farages cockwomble. Had enough of screaming at black mermaids and Meghan Markle?

Tell us Duckfucker how is Brexit going?

[whelk]

I like these type of graphical illustrations. Shames stops at 2019 as no doubt others have now overtaken us

 

[whelk]

And incredible China don’t even make an appearance until you reach 1995

[badgerx16]

7 minutes ago, whelk said:

I like these type of graphical illustrations. Shames stops at 2019 as no doubt others have now overtaken us

 

Try this.....

https://www.worldstopexports.com/worlds-top-export-countries/

 

The UK is down to 14th, ( though I am not sure if the figures here are measuring exactly the same things ).

[badgerx16]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62967084

"The UK is weighing up whether to attend a new European political "club of nations" next month"

[SW5 SAINT]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62967084

"The UK is weighing up whether to attend a new European political "club of nations" next month"

They might as well, as there is absolutely zero chance of a trade deal with the US…

[badgerx16]

34 minutes ago, SW5 SAINT said:

They might as well, as there is absolutely zero chance of a trade deal with the US…

You don't mean that one we were promised ?

( The one that Barack Obama said would not be a priority as Brexit would put the UK "at the back of the queue" )

[Edit: for lols, re read the first page of this thread ]

 

Edited 20 September, 2022 by badgerx16

[Tamesaint]

33 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

You don't mean that one we were promised ?

( The one that Barack Obama said would not be a priority as Brexit would put the UK "at the back of the queue" )

[Edit: for lols, re read the first page of this thread ]

 

You are right. If it wasn't for the seriousness of the subject the first page of this thread would be hilarious.

I particularly like GM's clarification to "miners" at the end of the first post. I wonder if he means all miners or is just addressing coal miners.

[warsash saint]

I thought we were promised an immediate trade deal with the US ??  Yet Truss is saying deal is not close!.  Not another BREXIT lie surely

[whelk]

43 minutes ago, warsash saint said:

I thought we were promised an immediate trade deal with the US ??  Yet Truss is saying deal is not close!.  Not another BREXIT lie surely

All done mate

 

[whelk]

As a nation it is to our shame how we allow the press to constantly spew lies. And these cunts go after the BBC

[whelk]

45 minutes ago, warsash saint said:

I thought we were promised an immediate trade deal with the US ??  Yet Truss is saying deal is not close!.  Not another BREXIT lie surely

Also funny that her way to growth is tax cuts whilst Biden who she is meeting today simultaneously tweeting about the myth of trickledown economics

[rallyboy]

We hold all the cards, it'll be the easiest deal in history...

 And If you're still defending all the drivel that you were spoon-fed in return for your vote, you should never be allowed near a polling station again.

[warsash saint]

Well at least the bankers can now get double their salary in bonuses - Ducky will be over the moon!

[saint1977]

14 hours ago, whelk said:

Also funny that her way to growth is tax cuts whilst Biden who she is meeting today simultaneously tweeting about the myth of trickledown economics

She won’t even see the irony. Her politics is as dated as the artex on people’s 1980s ceilings up and down the country and trickle down theories are the asbestos hidden within it. At least her and Kwarteng have ensured any honeymoon she or any new PM might have ridden on after the last few days events have dissipated straight away. Astonishing unforced error. Chances of another Tory majority on a par with Che Adams scoring 20 PL goals this season - yet still uncertain Starmer will secure much of one either, which is not a great portent for Labour.