This is not chaos, this is not unplanned.
The people who paid to get this govt elected are making a mint every time the £ fluctuates, or share prices dive.
Couple of stories I've seen in the right wing press over the weekend make me wonder if the penny is finally dropping about what Brexit and the GE result are actually going to mean. Too late now, obviously
This should keep the Brexiteers happy...
^^^^
Ha ha ha.
They're going to need to really scrub the ceiling to get all the little bits of gammon off after the explosion.
European human rights law is not a part of the EU. Its a completely separate entity although its a prerequisite for joining the EU. #We actually wrote most of the declaration of human rights post war
One of the UK contributors to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was Johnson's grandfather, who later became a member of the European Commission of Human Rights and then its president.
^^^
Yeah, but then the grandson spotted an opportunity for self advancement by hitching his wagon to the Brexity train and the rest, as they say, is history.
A ramshackle coalition of idiots and xenophobes led by an arch opportunist.
And everyone else is along for the ride.
Cosmic.
USA! USA! USA!
https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1234424819824971778?s=21
https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1234417455960817664?s=21
Just seen this:
The US has also specified it wants to be able to veto the UK's ability to strike deals with "non-market economies" meaning the likes of China
Taking back control eh?
Apologies if this has been mentioned previously,
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1233094625809838080
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1233094625809838080.html
Taking back control eh?
And the EU will want a veto on us giving any other country/block preferential access that we haven’t given them.
The big squeeze is coming.
The big squeeze is coming.
In the short term the hedge funds and currency traders clean up.
In the medium to long term the outsourcing zero hours contract offering spivs clean up.
Meanwhile Joe Public is shafted and ends up picking up the tab anyway when the under-tendered services fail and the bosses take a bonus anyway.
That's the market for you. I love it when people miss out a crucial thing about 'the market' being the ultimate arbiter. Namely if you already have a big wad of cash you can (and will) manipulate said 'market' to your own advantage, which is often not for the greater good.
The big squeeze is coming.
The problem is that Brexit has acquired a Get Out of Jail Free card called Coronavirus.
All economic downturn, recession etc is just going to be blamed on that. Reasons for not being able to negotiate a deal? Yeah, we couldn't travel to Brussels and have large meetings.
Nothing to do with lack of negotiation skills and power, oh no...
The Sardine Wars are coming…
https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1235267307712151552?s=21
(although, if your catch is molluscs or crustaceans, no Navy can save you from having no market)
At last have a use for an aircraft carrier with no aircraft.
They can mend nets on the deck.
A navy in name only thanks to successive govs failing to invest adequately in enhancing capability; we haven't even maintained capability; successive govs have wilfully and deliberately reduced capability.
More empty posturing by johnson and his acolytes.
Pathetic.
The UK currently has 4 fishery protection vessels to patrol 300,000 nautical square miles - assuming 2 are at sea at any one time, then that's 150,000 square miles each day, every day - assuming a speed of 20knots, a patrol 'reach' of 10km, it would take approximately 2,500 hours to patrol, or they'd do 3 passes in a year....
But remember, these are British fishery protection vessels so they will always be up to the task. It is naysayers like you who are ruining all of this.
Surely the nation can replicate the Spirit of Dunkirk and send a fleet of small boats into the channel to defend the nation?
I'm picturing Mark Francois at the bow of a cockling boat, wrapped in a union jack and singing Land of Hope and Glory as he impales a Spanish trawler captain on a rolled up Daily Mail
It is naysayers like you who are ruining all of this.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
I’m picturing Mark Francois at the bow of a cockling boat, wrapped in a union jack and singing Land of Hope and Glory as he impales a Spanish trawler captain on a rolled up Daily Mail
I hope they've put something heavy at the back of the boat to counterbalance that useless fat knacker.
Plenty of planes available now.
New Passports aren't even Blue!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51737116
The Met Office are considering locating their new super-duper-puter somewhere where they can take advantage of green energy and cooling "stuff".
Somewhere like Iceland. Linky.
Taking back control.
Fishing rights.
Iceland.
Cod wars.
Weather forecasts.
Taking back control.
Cod wars.
Iceland.
Weather forecasts.
Unicorns.
Etc.
Someone needs to do a Carry on Brexit film.....
Boris has got it pencilled in for when he's finished his Benny Hill reboot for ITV2
New Passports aren’t even Blue!
The Home Office has issued pictures of the post-Brexit passport, describing it as a return to the "iconic blue" used for UK passports before 1988.
"I'd say it's black," says Stephen Westland, professor of colour science and technology at the University of Leeds.
Pah! Experts.... Who needs experts? We've had enough of experts.
Etc.
I've just renewed my passport and smallest child's passport also, going to be posted in the next week... shall we run a book on what colour we get? I hope they are both burgundy...
Ed - Black!
I'm going to imagine for a moment how much £4bn could have bought in flood defenses, Northern rail links, nurses or school resources.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51762243
Opportunity cost? 🤦
Even more damming is the fact that there is very little detail on how that money was spent.
I hope they’ve put something heavy at the back of the boat to counterbalance that useless fat knacker
I don't.
Also I'm imagining the encounter with the trawler captain going mostly the other way.
Can but hope.
Interesting that the EU couldn't make up for that massive drop in international nurses.
It takes time. It was increasing year on year. And it would have by now if we hadn’t voted to make them feel unwelcome.
I fully expect that by 2030 non-EU incomers will make up for the lack of EU staff… but the next 5-10 years are going to be _______ squeaky bum time in nursing homes and hospitals up and down the UK as regards Nursing recruitment.
They could just pay nurses £50k a year starting salary, I'm sure we'd get a load of new people starting training asap. Surely that'd fit right in with Tory values on market economics?
Again, still a lag. Who fills the gaps this year and the next (and the next) (and the next) (and the next)? Lots of ways to sort staffing issues in the longer term, and as I said, filling the gaps by 2030 is entirely doable (and hopefully will be done) but that is of no use to those staffing nursing homes and hospitals in the years in front of us now. The worry is that current staffing issues are about to be made clear to a lot more people (crossing the streams with the other thread again).
Along with a massive drop in EU nurses there, there's a (much smaller) steady rise of non-EU staff.
I wonder which countries they might possibly be coming from and whether that's what our brexity friends voted for.
Along with a massive drop in EU nurses there, there’s a (much smaller) steady rise of non-EU staff.
I wonder which countries they might possibly be coming from and whether that’s what our brexity friends voted for.
Our Brexity friends were either voting for:
Less foreigners. Nope, just different foreigners.
Or
Less brown people. Extra fail, as it will probably mean more.
Or
Not a ****ing clue, but some sepia-tinted image of a golden age that never really existed (where, of course, 99% of the people in the photo just happened to be white).
Sometimes they say the third option to disguise the fact that it is really the second.
At least the North is getting all those billions of investment..... Or has just been postponed?
At least the North is getting all those billions of investment….. Or has just been postponed?
Easy Tiger, there's £350m a week for the NHS first.
Funny isn't it? The only people who have actually had a Brexit Dividend so far have been the DUP as they were the ones who had to be bribed at the time. And they have since been thrown under the bus.
It is a bit like a kleptocracy.
There's plenty of currency speculators and hedge fund managers who will have had one almighty Brexit Dividend already. But that will be a mere aperitif to the main course they'll be gorging on when we crash out with no deal at the end of the year
Sod your northern investment and £350m for the nhs, the tory ballsack alister jack has promised us a tunnel to ireland and he'd better not let us down, bridges are so last century.
