I’ll give as much credence to your brexit guff as I did to your trump election fraud conspiracy nonsense
Wasn't it 5thElefeant who was saying that it's always the left that is violent and that he doubted the American right would display anything remotely like the BLM protests?
Harhahahaahaha
What a tool.
Ok, so increased opportunities for woman who charge men for companionship
A wee opportunity for CMOT Dibbler there! Sossageinabun
What a tool.
+1 and not just for that, for the other rubbish he spouts and then never comes back.
Wasn’t it 5thElefeant who was saying that it’s always the left that is violent and that he doubted the American right would display anything remotely like the BLM protests?
They haven’t. 200+ days of rioting in Portland alone. Billions of dollars of property burned to the ground across the US. But that was fine...
What happened in Washington? Two windows broken and a rubbish bin tipped over (other protestors tidied that up). So they put 30,000 troops on the street!
The myth of the second amendment and right wing militias is well and truly bust.
+1 and not just for that, for the other rubbish he spouts and then never comes back.
I had no idea my insightful insights were so welcome.
I’m sorry to say I only skim political threads on occasion. They’re invariably just an echo chamber of the permanently terrified and offended.
that is utter bollox and you must know it.
that is utter bollox and you must know it.
Have a look at the Portland riots (I lost count after 200 days) then tell me that again.
Yup - total nonsense from someone so blinded by ideology that he cannot see what staring him in the face
Lets see you data for 200 days of riots in portland.
5 people including two cops killed at the capitol riot.
As UK businesses spend the rest of the year adapting to extra paperwork, tariffs, IT system changes… while struggling to get the information and support they need from government agencies lost at see… and the public prepares for the higher prices and taxes heading their way… let’s remember one of the many occasions where a Vote Leave minister had to learn on the job what the likely effects of their policy choices would be…
https://twitter.com/propertyspot/status/1022422994222809088?s=21
I’m sorry to say I only skim political threads on occasion. They’re invariably just an echo chamber of the permanently terrified and offended.
So you just come in to troll basically. How much of what you write do you actually believe or is it all just to get a rise?
Farewell and thanks for all the (unsellable) fish.
https://twitter.com/henrymance/status/1350783230627164167?s=21
Good riddance Carswell. Never come back.
disapointed by lack of "Boris is a shellfish c***" or similar slogans.
Cod diplomacy?
Writing it on the side of a truck was a mistake, government have previous on ignoring such things.
Shame they've not taken a lesson off the French and dumped a truck worth of a rotting, 3 day old catch on the steps of Westminster
+1 on bags rotting shellfish thrown over into No10 garden for the next month or so...
Totally predictably, brexit is proving to be the shit sandwich it was widely predicted to be; pure, unadulterated UK shit.
johnson's polyps continue to regurgitate the '...teething troubles' line'; teething troubles, my arse.
They are presiding over the wilful destruction of UK goods trade with the EU; as for services, they have ceded control to the EU through ignorance, arrogance and their disinterest in doing a deal.
Welcome to 1945.
Rickets, anyone?
My money is on Biden opening negotiations with the EU over a tariff free trade agreement before bothering with the UK - if he even bothers with the UK; why would he?
We had 4 years of talk about a great trade deal with the US; result - nothing; a big fat zero.
So you just come in to troll basically. How much of what you write do you actually believe or is it all just to get a rise?
Well he never comes back and responds when he's caught out, or to answer a question - paid for troll I reckon
AKA Fifth Columnist
Welcome to 1945
Welcome to.. when? Have we ever done anything like this before?
But that was fine
No-one's endorsing riots. Supporting BLM is not the same thing. BLM is not about rioting, but some people also riot.
Welcome to.. when? Have we ever done anything like this before?
Henry the 8th, couldn't get a divorce, thats the last time I think.
Protest in the London from fisherman:
They have been fined for breaching the Covid rules.
molgrips - post WW2 was a shit time; rebuilding an economy and society which had been shattered hence the 1945 reference.
That is the comparison.
Clearly, brexit is a self-imposed horror show without precedent.
+1 on bags rotting shellfish thrown over into No10 garden for the next month or so…
Timely:
Seafood protesters fined after descending on London
Another brexit oversight - they love shellfish on the continent, not so much in the UK and most of it is exported to Europe.
It's almost as if no business anlaysis or economic impact studies have been done.
I bet our indigenous frog face liar and self proclaimed 'saviour of the UK fishing industry' is nowhere to be seen.
post WW2 was a shit time; rebuilding an economy and society which had been shattered hence the 1945 reference.
That is the comparison.
Clearly, brexit is a self-imposed horror show without precedent.
I don't think Brexit is on the same scale as WW2
I don’t think Brexit is on the same scale as WW2, you are comparing 4-5% GDP lost to over 35% GDP
The key difference is a war on that scale is a short shock in economic terms. When it's over, we can go back to BAU, reletivley speaking.
Brexit is more like in an RPG game when someone (in this case ourselves) inflicts ourselves with a long thermal burn with added electric damage that slowly drains our resilience over a long period of time, which is potentially far more debilitating.
And we are clearly not going to get our health buff to counter it (an extra 350million per week for the NHS).
Edit
That's a shame, it's very relevant in 2021.
It was in reply to Mattyfez' comment about WW2
Don't push the comparison to 1945 too far.
1945 saw the start of the establishment of the welfare state in the UK. A direct result of the shitshow that preceded it.
If the shitshow that is Brexit could produce something as beneficial, our descendants might think Brexit wasn't all bad despite our economic suffering.
I doubt it will though.
Well the UC vote today is probably heading in the opposite direction
Yeah I don't think there are enough parallels with WW2 for that to be a useful comment. This was all self inflicted for no reason, for a start. WW2 also resulted in a huge shift to the left for nearly two generations which we aren't seeing - yet. But I suppose it might happen.
Hey, WWII was NOT my simile for comparsion. I was merley responding to a rubbish simile. Just for the record.
As you were.
molgrips
Full MemberNo-one’s endorsing riots.
I do.
ditto
The Whole point of the EU is to avoid another situtation like world war2.
Exactly mattyfez. A number of my Erasmus colleagues have reminded me of this a few times.
I've just had two proposals for interns accepted for 2021. I wrote the job descriptions this morning.
The big difference between 2020 and 2021 is that for 2021 British students were no longer eligible, unless they're living in EU or hold right to work. It's a shame, as there are some great university depts that I'd love to work with again in the UK. It's a nice way to build links with academia and learn together.
I bet the Turing scheme won't be of much help to facilitating industrial Internships
My daughter likes hearing history stories from me. So we started talking about Ireland, and the story continued right up until this week! History still happening.
Off course with all these “teething problems”, it’s easy to forget that a hell of a lot has been postponed to July… in NI, rUK and EU. We haven’t got to the really big disruptive checks and changes as regards trade yet. Something to think about when listening to any government minister gaslighting in these early months of the new normal.
I last visited the UK 18 months ago, and next time won't be until 2022 at least. Be interesting to see the changes
I last visited the UK 18 months ago, and next time won’t be until 2022 at least. Be interesting to see the changes
Same, last time I was there we stayed within sight of a dam that was about to burst and flood an entire valley - ah happy-days when that was all we had to worry about!
We were waiting to see how Brexit panned-out to plan our move back to the UK from Sydney. Well..... lets just say that talks have been postponed indefinitely (but don't tell our kids' grandparents).
I think my industry (Pharma research) is probably well insulated, and has had some fairly strong lobbying happening since 2016, but god knows what will happen to my wife's sector (universities) - and more importantly, quality of life in general in the UK, and access to opportunity for our kids.
Pretty much the same as us. It would be a big hit right in the QoL to go back. We're going to buy another house instead.