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Love Reading remoaners comments, always makes me smile.. There pain not mine

Shitty attitude.

Your life will probably get worse too, over time, you just haven't realised it yet.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 12:35 am
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I will danfay from the comfort of the South of France, bon chance. I shall be taking my teddies with me and my money and businesses - if its good enough for Jim from Ineos its good enough for me.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 12:36 am
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My son is learning the guitar, does that count?

I'm sorry brexit has been such a disappointment for you danfay, at some point we'll all stop laughing at the stupidity of it all!


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 12:38 am
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Project fear.

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/brexit-industry-begins-to-realise-what-going-over-a-cliff-edge-feels-like

Blue passports.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 12:45 am
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Love Reading remoaners comments, always makes me smile.. There pain not mine

As I've said previously and has been suggested on this thread a couple of pages back, and you've just demonstrated:

Remain was based out of love, it wanted to keep hold of what it liked.
Leave was based out of hate, it wanted rid of what it didn't.

I'm glad for you that sticking the boot in makes you smile. But understand that we're on a drizzly little island together and ultimately we all win or lose collectively.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 12:53 am
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We will win!!!.. Just give it time, have a bit more faith in your country.. And stop being so salty!!.

Also loving the comments!!.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 12:56 am
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What are you expecting to win and how much time do we need to give it?

I'm not being salty, you were the one saying that other people's pain made you smile. That's not very nice. Our resident RINO would be telling us off for that.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 1:12 am
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We will win!!!

Who will lose…? Or do all countries get to win…?


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 1:56 am
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I imagine loving in France the pronoun thing can be an absolute nightmare

Probably the same consideration if you're living in France.

As for danfay - chewkw in disguise?
Be sure to tell us when you start to 'prosper mightily' now the brexit transition is over and we're enjoying the benefits of johnson's stonking deal.
'We will win' - according to johnson we already have won; are you suggesting it's jam tomorrow?


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 2:47 am
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Love Reading remoaners comments, always makes me smile.. There pain not mine

And

We will win!!!

Sounds like you already ‘won’, if ‘winning’ = pointing and laughing at people’s real concerns/losses?

Give your head a wobble before patting yourself too hard on the back.
Eh?


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 3:10 am
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We will win!!!.. Just give it time, have a bit more faith in your country.. And stop being so salty!!.

Britain is a great place to live. Somehow, people have been convinced it isn't and it's because someone else is cheating.

unfortunately, very real losses will need significant gains to replace. How long should people expect a reduction in quality of life? and, more importantly, Where will the gains come from?

brexit is one of the most socially and economically disruptive experiments ever. unfortunately, the test subjects are people.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 3:40 am
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"BREXIT BOOST: Norton revs up new motorcycle plant."

I've found it lads, the positive Brexit headline Ive been searxhing for. I saw it on today's daily telegraph website. Took a while to find it mind, buried as it was beneath all the sport and opinion pieces, about 70th in terms of article prominence.

From a paper that only a month ago would have had a dozen or more articles cheering on Brexit and chastising any sceptics as being harbingers of fake news. I think their subscription rates are going to begin to suffer. They've scripted themselves into a corner, they've left themselves with nothing more to write about. Readers won't just be leaving because of the editorial position, they'll be deserting the organ because of lack of content.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 5:30 am
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Wow this is gold lol


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 7:58 am
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You hate middle classes that think?

What about those that clearly didn't, and got us this shitshow? Ignorance will soon prove not to be bliss, I'm afraid, when the boat goes down we all are in the water. Except the few that holed it, knowing where the lifejackets are kept.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 8:09 am
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Best bit is I voted remain!!!. Truth is I'm bored, I'm self isolating to help our wonderful NHS.. And got nothing better to do than wind people up.. I agree with you we're Doomed!!!. Anyway you'll all be glad I'm going to leave it there, and not return to this thread.
Thanks it kept me occupied for a bit lol


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 8:30 am
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I don't know whether to post this here or in the Scottish referendum 2 thread.

An interesting read. Pointing out how close we are to the break up of the Union.

https://independent.co.uk/2021/01/28/why-brexit-will-cause-the-collapse-of-the-united-kingdom/content.html


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 8:48 am
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Linky no worky Matt.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 8:55 am
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And there is Brexit in a nutshell. Absolutely no benefit but you can wind people up for the lolz.

Tedious.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 9:04 am
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And there is Brexit in a nutshell. Absolutely no benefit but you can wind people up for the lolz.

Tedious.

Yep.

Utter ****wit and a key reason why we're in this mess. I bet though they know their place in society, and doff their cap as the man from the big house drives past.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 10:06 am
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I used to play violin, I'm really confused now.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 10:32 am
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I'm not musical or middle class.

Am I bollocksed?


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 10:36 am
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Actually one of the tunes my son is learning on the guitar is Ode to Joy! (eu anthem)


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 10:43 am
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No worries - "Ode to Joy" featured in the movie "Warrior" about two working class guys - one a teacher who's home is about to be repossessed and the other a soldier on AWOL after a "friendly fire" incident - knocking the crap out of each other 🙂


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:13 am
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That's a good film. 🙂


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:17 am
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That Brexit boost Norton thing isn't directly a Brexit thing. Parallels can be drawn, idiot gets into power, screws it up then leaves it for someone else to fix, or is it, Brexit devalued the £ so now foreigners can come in and buy up our heritage, but then I imagine that's not the line they're going with. They just seem to be using the term Brexit as a date marker or something, like BC / AD.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:25 am
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M-OAB link from above:

Independent link


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:26 am
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I honestly didn't think the EU would be the first to mess up the NI protocol:
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-eu-introduces-controls-on-vaccine-exports-to-northern-ireland-12202656
Boris and the Brexiteers will be ecstatic - 'we told you so...' FFS.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 9:06 pm
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This whole Article 16 fiasco has me very intrigued.

We (the UK) have more vaccine options, and more production. The EU (European Commission to be precise) have ballsed up their vaccine contracts. We can get enough vaccines for our own rollout without needing to import, so what are the EU actually trying to achieve?

The only thing I can see they're achieving at the moment, is making their own member states question the EU.
All we need to do is sit back and do nothing, then let our exports commence once there is surplus production. We don't need to retaliate. We can just sit back and watch the EU at it's best/worst (either view is valid depending on your own take) fighting a battle that doesn't serve any purpose, other than to try and make it look like they're doing something.

As much as I think Brexit is a cluster**** of the greatest order, I do currently feel being out of the EU has freed us from a level of bureaucracy, and can leave the remaining members to try and tame the behemoth that's crippled their vaccine rollout, who are realising this is the doing of the EU, not the UK.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 9:27 pm
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To be fair, if vaccines were being made in my country and we were short of vaccines and I had to watch those vaccines being driven out of my country to another country, I think I would question the value of my country if it didn’t try and do something about it.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 9:35 pm
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As always the member states had their own options to explore. German commentator on PM earlier said something along the lines of the Germans throwing their lot in with the EU program in order to help take care of other member states who were not well placed to procure vaccine themselves. Sounds very altruistic to me but I suspect they're regretting going too far down the EU path without pursuing options in parallel. There would have been nothing stopping us doing that if we were still members and also we might have had the influence to recommend the EU put their money on black like we did earlier and got those plants spun up ahead of time. Manufacturing anything new is always fraught with problems. Manufacturing a novel product at such volume in such a short timescale was always going to be a bumpy road. Still. Hindsight.

As much as it sticks in my throat to imagine for a moment that this shower in government got anything right, ever, it does appear they placed the right bets at the right time on this one. Fair play.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 10:54 pm
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Unfortunately for the spicy hot take merchants, the article 16 bit has now been walked back.

U-turns are definitely in vogue.


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:14 pm
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So danfay comes in and people seem to have had their troll detectors on mute?


 
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:30 pm
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The fact that BoJo stayed out of the vaccines programme and let Vallance pick who he wanted to lead it was probably fantastic for this country. As I understand it of course.

Every time the elected Brexies get involved they sod things up. Leave it to the unelected meritocratic bureaucrats to get it right.


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 12:33 am
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Been quiet on here tonight...


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 1:21 am
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Swallow summer - summer swallow.


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 2:00 am
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Still, it all seems to be working out for our fishermen. The ones who voted for this en masse (South of Hadrian's Wall at least) and whom we've been told again and again and again are really important despite being a drop in the ocean (sorry) for our GDP.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/01/26/brexit-regrets-for-uk-fishermen-as-catch-values-halve-due-to-border-delays

Oh.

"If we knew this were going to happen..."

If only anyone had mentioned it in the last five years.


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 3:20 am
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South of Hadrian’s Wall at least

Scottish fishermen generally voted leave, just like the English fishermen. There does seem to be be notion that Scotland voted remain and England voted leave. The reality is that both nations have leave and remain leaning pockets either by location or demographics. Trying to simplify nuanced issues is how we got in this mess.


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 7:13 am
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What about the bit of England North of Hadrians wall that voted leave...


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 10:03 am
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Macron indulging in a bit of schoolyard 'who's side are you on' infantilism. What with the vaccines nonsense and now this just what WTF is going on in Europe? They all seem to have gone a bit mental and unbelievably are making Johnson look like a statesman. Starmer must be pissed, he's had Boris on the ropes over covid for the past year and then the EU come along and hand him a get out of jail free card.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/30/half-friends-is-not-a-concept-uk-should-decide-who-its-allies-are-says-macron


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 12:21 pm
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Theres nobody coming out of this looking good.

Its absolutely puerile on all sides


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 2:01 pm
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Macron indulging in a bit of schoolyard ‘who’s side are you on’ infantilism.

He’s saying that the UK still needs to decide which Brexit model it is going to follow… Singapore off the coast of Europe, close trading partner but not politically part of the EU, or closer alignment with the USA. All have been sold to us as the destination, and there is still a battle in the Conservative party about where we go. At some point we must decide, because it effects the alignment/divergence approach we are taking, and our partners around the world need to respond to.


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 2:07 pm
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Scottish fishermen generally voted leave

Perhaps the pelagic fleet felt more inclined towards Brexit and regaining sovereignty over our North Sea fish but on the west coast shellfish is the main catch and in my home town not one one skipper or crew mate was dumb enough to vote for Brexit.


 
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^ Yes, that highlights the point about making sweeping generalisations with regard to Brexit. There are almost as many exceptions as rules.


 
Posted : 30/01/2021 2:27 pm
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Liam "many deals" Fox was on the news earlier laying into the EU smirking with oneupmanship towards towards the EU. My guess these smirks will be few and far between.


 
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