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.
stock issues
Who would have predicted that removing ourselves from a large single market and customs union would make it being harder to source food and other goods? Oh, that’s right, everyone with a shred of honesty and the smallest necessary amount of understanding of trade.
The basic, number one, real-world effect of what 'we' have done to ourselves is to make us more difficult to trade with. That will always lead to increased bureaucracy, increased supply chain issue, increased price to the consumer and decreased choice for the consumer. I reckon most chimps could be trained to realise this.
I love the irony of chavs thinking Brexit will make them better off. It's kind of sweet in a way.
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There was a retail analyst on radio 4 this morning saying that when all the customs and import/export restrictions come fully into force in October (we ain’t seen nothing yet, remember!), with the huge increase in red tape, the ‘just in time’ logistics model we’ve just accepted and relied on for decades is now no longer viable in the UK.
So the days of walking into any supermarket and just assuming that they’ll have everything you want, just sat there on the shelf waiting for you, are over. Finished.
The UK alone will now have to develop a completely different supply chain model and do this with an enormous Labour shortage in the key areas required to do so, while dealing with mountains of paperwork, regulations and barriers that didn’t exist before
Well done Brexiteers, you ****ing geniuses!
*slow handclap*
I’d love to think that it’s going to royally kick off at Christmas when people are fighting each other to the death for the last pack of mince pies in Asda but the government will just wave some flags and blue passports at the *ing morons who voted for this lunacy and they’ll all stand together and sing Rule *ing Brittania
****s!!
I'm beginning to think an extra freezer and a bit of pre-December stocking up might be in order. I don't want my Christmas messing up by a bunch of knuckle-dragging racist halfwits.
I didn't vote for this, so if I get an extra turkey by default and a Brexiteer doesn't, then that's an extra intangible Crimbo present for me. Even if I don't need an extra one. I might consider selling it on the 24th, but the pricing will be means tested. Did you vote Leave? No = you can have it for what I paid. Yes = £500 and you have to wear a dunce's hat for the rest of Advent.
**** the morons, it's every man for himself.
So the Mail have finally realised that working with he EU to limit cross-border beaurocracy and delays benefits both sides...
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If only they had realised that a few years ago.
