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Local big tesco selling emergency locally sourced lettuces sellotaped into sandwich bags, nothing else except the more random pre-bagged ones. Which no doubt means that somewhere else in the supply chain places just can't get any lettuces because Tesco vacuumed up their source.
There are packaging problems. I bought tile adhesive in a brown paper bag inside a plastic one with a note saying that due to supply problems they couldn't get hold of the usual tubs.
Are you sure it wasn't hummus?
I bought tile adhesive in a brown paper bag
Perfect for huffing!
Local big tesco selling emergency locally sourced lettuces sellotaped into sandwich bags, nothing else except the more random pre-bagged ones. Which no doubt means that somewhere else in the supply chain places just can’t get any lettuces because Tesco vacuumed up their source.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg
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Shit just got real
https://www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/nandos-restaurants-in-milton-keynes-forced-to-shut-today/?
Meanwhile Ireland still can't believe they got the deal they asked for on day 1
Johnsons capitulation is in complete contrast the how our press portrayed his deal at the time
how our press portrayed his deal at the time
They're just playing to their audience. Many of them will still believe it too.
Next to no squash in Asda today. Big bare section.
Any tennis?
No but then there generally isn't much tennis being played in Asda.
have you tried pumpkin instead?
No but then there generally isn’t much tennis being played in Asda.
I know. Terrible service.
It's not just Asda having tennis shortages, the whole supply chain is at break point
Good work northwind!
Thanks leavers, just made my ews100 entry more expensive
Also I got a lace on ews100 woop!
Your phone is at 4% you have more urgent problems😱
I like to live on the edge
Its 1% now 😳
Thanks leavers, just made my ews100 entry more expensive
Is it not the other way round? EWS is a British thing I presume (as Chris B is Scotland based) and since leaving the EU there's probably some way it's not VAT-able as it's a service sold overseas... Maybe.
Anyway we'll be there be good to see you! Been a while.
I was looking for different wheels for my car on eBay. There's a great eBay shop in Germany with exactly what I want. Ok so shipping is 100 € but apparently I also have to pay VAT even if they are used... how fantastic.
More 'levelling up'....
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/21/ocado-drivers-paid-less-than-5-an-hour
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I was looking for different wheels for my car on eBay. There’s a great eBay shop in Germany with exactly what I want. Ok so shipping is 100 € but apparently I also have to pay VAT even if they are used… how fantastic.
Same with some Hope levers I was looking at in Germany a while back. Brilliant innit?
More ‘levelling up’….
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/21/ocado-drivers-paid-less-than-5-an-hour
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Yep good innit,
ahh but they the get the flexibility to work the hours that fit their lifestyle requirements.
I think these gig apps are fine for students and people after some part time work but once it goes to the full time employment it’s just a slick way to exploit people and blur a full time employee so they have fewer employment rights.
(It may be Hanlons razor thou)
More ‘levelling up’….
It was the whole point of Brexit. Ultimately they want to be free to tear up workers rights until we're all working for a fiver an hour, with no entitlement to any benefits
it’s just a slick way to exploit people and blur a full time employee so they have fewer employment rights
Which is exactly the intention of the Britannia Unchained mob. They don't like educated workforces. They want a steady stream of school Leavers at 16 to form an insecure, poorly paid, no rights workforce in the food and tat processing/distribution game.
The delicious irony from their point of view is that they got the idiots to vote for it themselves.
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The drivers in that article all have foreign sounding names, so the obvious response to their employer paying them such criminally low wages is to drive them out of the country.
[ obviously I don’t think that, just trying on the Brexit apologist specs to see how they work ]
Gig jobs are fine for some.and we need some, but when everything's like that the people who need steady jobs can't get them.
Gig job workers should still be paid properly.
RE: the Ocado story.
It's scary when looking at driving jobs just how many companies are trying to force people to take the self-employed/gig setup and just pay a day rate with expenses to be deducted for the van etc. I thought it would have reduced after a few legal rulings (eg the Uber one) but it doesn't seem to have made a difference. A few have job adverts with two options: PAYE at a stupidly low hourly rate or self-employed at a decent looking day rate but when you delve into it the deductions make it just as bad.
Sadly I think it will have to get worse before things come to a head and have to improve. Expect the extra costs to then be loaded onto your bills at the tills.
Expect the extra costs to then be loaded onto your bills at the tills.
Well it certainly won't come out of dividends or exec pay...
Is this an unintended side effect of the well meaning tax credits brought in in the mid 00s? I remember articles in the Guardian from 6 or so years ago raising the issue of low pay effectively subsidising businesses.
Tax credits were designed to work with minimum wage laws. What needs to happen is the so called “living wage” needs to be a real living wage, and laws and regulations need updating to take account of all the modern wheezes increasingly used to avoid them.
laws and regulations need updating to take account of all the modern wheezes increasingly used to avoid them
Funnily enough the motivation behind the 'Britannia Unchained' strand of Brexshitdom is the exact opposite.
Turkeys.....Christmas.....etc
Blame benefits, regulations and foreigners for low wages. For now. Once all three have been done away with, then return to blaming an allegedly workshy UK workforce… “We’ve cut benefits, slashed regulations, and sent those Europeans home… now do any job we give you, work any hours we want you to, at any rate we say.”
Rule Britannia.
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More 'levelling up'.
Expect more gob, razor blades and glass in yer pasties and steak bakes....
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Goodger said that last week he had contacted HMP Hollesley Bay in Suffolk, but the rehabilitation officer said there was such a big demand for inmates “we’ve reached our quota and we are not allowed to let any more out to go to work”.
We need more prisoners to plug the gaps in the labour market!
I see where they are going with this.
Even the Express seems to have woken up…
“Small and medium-sized exporters have found themselves consumed in an avalanche of red tape and blockaded by disruption, to the degree that many have simply been forced to cease selling to EU-based customers altogether.”
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Yeah, but who are they blaming....
'Blockade' is a predictable use of language by the Volkische Beobachter.
We need more prisoners to plug the gaps in the labour market!
I see where they are going with this.
It's better than that. This current bunch of strokers (with geniuses like Liz Truss to the fore) will probably be looking at ways to reverse progress in electronic messaging, just to create a demand for mailbags to be sewn by prisoners to be seen to be being 'tough on crime'.
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And further through the Brexit looking glass we go....
https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1429685742691835907?s=20
Seriously... WTAF?!!! 😳
Next week, Paul Hollywood is to be announced for the Defence Minister roll.
Oh Hahaha haha hahaha!
He'll fit right in, because he's an utter imbecile. A potato headed rural lout from Yeovil with one discernible talent that he used so he didn't become just another cider and horse tranquilliser quaffing hayseed.
This has to be a joke, right?
Next week, Paul Hollywood is to be announced for the Defence Minister roll.
Nah, Geoffrey Boycott for the Minister of Women and Equalities job.
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This has to be a joke, right?
Trade people on Twitter unbothered by it - saying his job will be to talk cricket to cricket obsessed Aussies and then introduce someone who wants to do a deal.
So taking bollocks over a beer - possible well suited.
You know? Who cares. I'm sure he'll have limited impact. The folks who care will be pleased no doubt to meet him
"Hi, I'm Ian Botham, remember that time I single handedly beat your team into the dirt? Buy some sausages"
So taking bollocks over a beer – possible well suited.
Who's paying for it?
“Hi, I’m Ian Botham, remember that time I single handedly beat your team into the dirt? Buy some sausages”
Headingley '81 was lucky slogging.
Old Trafford and Edgbaston were the better performances by him.
I actually thought the Botham appointment was a joke!
I am so naive in this brave new land 😂😂😂
I am so naive in this brave new land
"Strength Through Ignorance".
Sing God Save The Queen really loud, a couple of verses of 'Vindaloo-la-la' then punch a forriner (or someone who looks like they might be a forriner). You'll get it eventually.
He'll need those foot circulation machines even more now with all those flights back and forth to Aus, Won't someone think of his swollen ankles !
Trade people on Twitter unbothered by it – saying his job will be to talk cricket to cricket obsessed Aussies and then introduce someone who wants to do a deal.
Yeah Ive met some of these types of people. Their point is to be the guy that someone is interested in having dinner with.
There’s more than a whiff of bacon in all this.
Their point is to be the guy that someone is interested in having dinner with.
How does that explain Kate Hoey being made envoy to Ghana? No-one could possibly be interested in having dinner with her.
How does that explain Kate Hoey being made envoy to Ghana? No-one could possibly be interested in having dinner with her.
Oh I don't know...
She would be a good person to bounce ideas off if your 'bag' was 'creating a sense of belonging in a working class via notions of racial purity' or the study thereof.
Botham's appointment makes no less sense than Raab's tbh, and they both got their jobs for the same reason.
Botham’s appointment makes no less sense than Raab’s tbh, and they both got their jobs for the same reason.
Because they both like chunky toast....
THICK CUT.
Just the one letter out.
Pleased to see that we have also appointed a Trade Envoy to Cameroon. Step forward Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP.
Just wish I knew why Cameroon, which has a GDP of just USD 39bn. Why not Algeria (GDP of USD 170bn) or almost anywhere else? Australia's GDP is USD 1.4tn for comparison.
Was it a typo? Was it meant to be 'Cameron'? Ensuring that government trade with Cameron's interests is fully greased at all times.
Bizarre.
Jeffrey Donaldson - member of Orange Order as an enjoy to a country Wiki lists having Catholicism as the most prevalent religion. What could go wrong?
How does that explain Kate Hoey being made envoy to Ghana?
Nothing could explain Kate Hoey being made Envoy to anything or anywhere.
So, weirdly, it's not OK for sportspeople to get involved in politics when it's Marcus Rashford, but it is OK for sportspeople to get involved in politics if you're Kate Hoey and Ian Botham.
I wish they'd make their minds up...
Nothing could explain Kate Hoey being made Envoy to anything or anywhere.
Oh, I don't know.
Are we planning on doing any trade deals with Hell?
Farage finally gets his revenge:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mcdonalds-milkshakes-uk-lorry-driver-shortage-brexit-b951974.html
Would it be wrong to stand outside branches of McDonalds with a "told you so" placard ?
Just wait until the full customs procedures come into force in October. You'll be able to stand outside pretty much any retailer with a “told you so” placard
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/24/uk-brexit-safety-ukca-mark-eu-ce
Wonder how many companies were trying to meet the deadline?
Only positive is that there's now a 12 month delay to more red tape (cost).
Raphael Behr nails the current situation. But he writes for the Guardian and has a foreign-sounding name, so the bellends can dismiss him as a limp-wristed pinko gloomster or a sleeper agent of the cursed EU. Or both depending on their need at that particular moment.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/24/brexit-failure-remainers-shelves-empty-eu
The last paragraph is particularly accurate and depressing.
But there is no realistic conversation about the relationship Britain should have with the rest of Europe, if not the one it has now; and the relationship it has now is the product of avoiding realistic debate for decades. As a result, the government – and perversely the opposition too – is committed to the task of finding a purpose in something that will keep proving itself pointless.
From Behr's commentary:
The longer it is left untreated, the more expensive it will be to fix.
If any Leavers are still reading this thread - you're responsible for the mess the UK is in. End
meanwhile in the telegraph
The Telegraph is read by ****s.
Stupid ones at that.
Isn't Jacinda Ardern the New Zealand PM?
*checks map*
Yup.
That image just keeps giving.
The longer it is left untreated, the more expensive it will be to fix.
If any Leavers are still reading this thread – you’re responsible for the mess the UK is in. End
Yep. The only correlation that matters now is how much 'capital' (money, political credibility, etc) 'we' are willing to piss away before admitting we made a bone-headed mistake based on the emotional fantasies of a bunch of xenophobes, racists, idiots and exploiters.
It is the only correlation that has mattered since 2016. In typical bellend fashion, 'we' have decided to be as absolutist and tosserish as we can in opting out of less damaging Brexits. 'We' are like the drunk who has ****ed his life up so thoroughly and is so bitter at 'our' stupid life choices, so we go out, get plastered, start a fight and refuse to allow the other parties to walk away by admitting defeat. I'm concerned that only a full-on kicking from reality is going to suffice.
If any Leavers are still reading this thread – you’re responsible for the mess the UK is in. End
Yeah, but the clever ones have either profited from the chaos in some way (betting against the UK ecomony) or pissed off abroad. Or both.
The thickos don't even realise there are any problems. They may have noticed that they couldn't get a claggy McDonald's milkshake, but someone will have told them it is the EU's fault, so they hate the EU even more.
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Brexit may rid of us of the annoying "We Value Your Privacy" pop-ups...
... but what will replace it and will our privacy be removed and exploited instead?
will our privacy be removed and exploited instead?
It's a toughie...
Unsurprisingly, your privacy does have value. A monetary one, to someone else.
I’m determined to seize the opportunity by developing a world-leading...
Where have we heard that before and how is it going now? Plus this comes from a government with a questionable data use background.
Dowden said: “Now that we have left the EU I’m determined to seize the opportunity by developing a world-leading data policy that will deliver a Brexit dividend for individuals and businesses across the UK.
So rather than protect us against rapacious businesses, they want to give them what they want.
The dividend will end up with international businesses paying proportionally little tax on it in the UK.
but what will replace it and will our privacy be removed and exploited instead?
The pop up will disappear, so will our privacy, but few people will know, on account of the popup that isn't there any more, so that's ok.