If I understand the change it's not really reducing the training or the testing standard, it's just streamlining the testing stage- before, you'd do the class C and then had to wait to do the class E, but now you can do them both at the same time. Doesn't seem like that much of a difference overall? In either direction- if I'm right then it's not a lowering of standards but it's also not going to get many more drivers on the road.
Remember. Full customs checks aren't required at the moment. But they come into force in October.
Beans on toast for Crimbo lunch for us proles whilst De Pfeffel and Carrie Antoinette feast on fois gras, champers and lobster thermidore chased with a fine sherry.
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^^ Aren't "we" trying to negotiate (again) a deferral of implementing full checks in October or something?
I remember reading something on the BBC webby I think?
I think the cloud of obscuring, patriotic vapour surrounding Brexit is well and truly clearing exposing the rancid turd beneath.
I think we found the apex brexiteer
That is marvellous! I mean, it will not change that dick heads world view, but a beautiful riposte by Siobhán.
On another note, I have found a kind of shortage over here in Sweden… Soft drinks in cans. The local large supermarkets have notes saying that supplies are limited because of a general world shortage of aluminium, not because of the actual product.
Breweries are having can shortages too.
To the pub I say! Oh wait, it's dangerous or shut....
https://mobile.twitter.com/SiobhanFenton/status/1304186235628511233
re the Siobhán Fenton thread, fake-ish.
Adam Hawkins sounds like a prime tosser. That is all.
Brexit was mostly a one-off smash and grab on the postwar consensus and standards that cost capital to ensure normal people’s standard of living is even marginally protected.
Yes, but I'll refer you back to my 'slogan':
"Brexit isn't the destination, it's the vehicle"
It's not a one-off, it's just one of many approaches been used to make us 'know our place'.
Turn the dinghies around and blame the deaths on the French. Classy.
Maybe we could create a specialist team and call it something like 'Special Mission Squad'? Although the German translation is punchier.
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/three-european-roaming-charges-b954429.html
I can't be bothered to comment in detail. But this is one of the many things happening that I voted against, even if you claim not to have voted for it (you did).
Britain is now the Ronnie Pickering of Europe.
Ah had my m8 on the W'app and he asked me if we were suffering supply chain issues as the shop's are looking a bit like Poland around his way.
Bit of an old school reference 🙂
His way being North Shields or North Korea?
There’s some very strategic shelf stacking going on around here. Morrison’s, Aldi and Home Bargains are all it. I can’t get pork scratchings for love nor money at the moment.
coming soon
More great Brexit trade news. Who needs to trade with Germany anyway? I’m sure Liz Truss’s next trade triumph with The Galápagos Islands will more than compensate
https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1435865402983202816?s=21
I can’t get pork scratchings for love nor money at the moment
There's a bit of a shortage down here in the south as well. I may have to go back to ordering 1kg boxes off of eBay again, trouble is consumption goes up three fold 😂
I suspect the pork scratching issue is more to do with the main manufacturer trying to kill their customers last month
Because most people can't do basic maths, the impact of the German trade loss will be dismissed with a bit of jingoism and a daily express story about the new deal with Micronesia.
the new deal with Micronesia
Including using a tramp steamers to transport the goods - fuelled by Aussie coal.
Global Britain
Taking Back Control
Etc.
I voted against this? Did you vote for it?
https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1436262726196768820?s=21
Boris Johnson broke Britain, and should not just lose his job title, but be run out of the country. Hopefully just before the Telegraph closes its doors so he can’t return to a high paid column to spread further lies and sow more seeds of decline.
but be run out of the country
If you don't mind I think the rest of the world would rather you kept him. However I find it astonishing he hasn't broken any laws he can be tried for, even Blair hasn't had to face a court for his dirty deeds.
Boris Johnson broke Britain, and should not just lose his job title, but be run out of the country. Hopefully just before the Telegraph closes its doors so he can’t return to a high paid column to spread further lies and sow more seeds of decline.
It really is a shabby tale of a shabby, lazy, lying cheat and his inexorable rise - draining the positivity out of a nation to allow one fraud to live out his fantasy.
**** him.
Reversing? So pre-Brexit. Working up the vehicle types? That‘s only about road safety… who cares… we’ll deregulate and lower standards to get through the Brexit mess… no one would have predicted we’d do that.
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Shit-filled rivers and motorway pile-ups are a price worth paying to be free of the evil EU. Obviously all the cash saved by corner-cutting will be invested back into projects that help the general public. Most certainly not trousered by some fat bastard who already has enough money for ten lifetimes.
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never understood why his police escort wouldn't just provide confirmation of where he was on crucial dates, for example pizza express visits- surely this'd put the whole thing to bed quite painlessly.
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I'm guessing wrong thread, but the similarities between Randy Andy and Brexshit are a damning indictment of what should a be a grateful, Liberal and forward-looking country.
I’m guessing wrong thread, but the similarities between Randy Andy and Brexshit are a damning indictment of what should a be a grateful, Liberal and forward-looking country.
Handy Randy Andy distracting the hard of thinking from the car crash that is Brexit.
^^Oi you, I'm not distracted.😉
Andy, Brexit, Boris. It's the British English disease that's eating away at the country/union.
Sadly, yes
^^ I don't mean too come across as snarky MCTD, I agree with about 98% of your posts on here and there is another 1% where you have actually changed my opinion on something.
Me tearing up my census letter in a futile attempt to stick it to the man when in actual fact they serve a very important and positive purpose.
Yep, I was wrong. An STW first?lol
I don’t mean too come across as snarky MCTD, I agree with about 98% of your posts on here
Wow, imagine two of us being so wrong on so many issues 🙃🤣
^^It's the STW way.👍😁
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Ah the local.es (paywall) is reporting that brits rejected for residency are being given notice to leave the country within 15 days.
Interestingly I’ve been rejected for residency, on the grounds I couldn’t prove I was here prior to Brexit and it looks like I’m not the only one.
(All down to not paying some money into a Spanish bank account regularly.)
It’s not a problem as wifey been approved(Mrs DoD slacker with no income) and the paperwork proving we are actually still married is being delivered today.
Like I’ve said the stench of Brexit just follows like a bad fart,”if you don’t like it here just fk off” ,they said……
Well apparently Not.
seems more are looking for sunny uplands elsewhere will Johnsons brexit tax be enough ?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/13/uk-delay-brexit-border-checks-food-eu
Interesting, feel free to impose the checks, because staff is the issue not checks. But then read the small print, try and keep foreign food out and help British suppliers, who can't cope..... I am sure that will be fine!
try and keep foreign food out and help British suppliers
At the moment, we're screwing UK GB businesses left right and centre... you can see why trade bodies would be desperate for the government to actually make a decision based on putting "our own" producers first. It wouldn't work of course, but the sentiment is understandable.
It wouldn’t work of course, but the sentiment is understandable.
And therefore it is another bit of PR flim-flam to distract from the fact that kicking your closest trading partners in the balls for no good reason is monumentally stupid.
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Brexit controls on food and animal products that were due to come into effect in January are being postponed until July 2022 because of the potential impact on businesses, the British government has announced.
So, not taking back control of our borders, for a fair bit longer. It's the right (only) move, but it does suggest that implementing this isn't entirely and overwhelming in our own interests doesn't it. Meanwhile, our cheese producers (insert Liz Truss meme) find that selling direct to customers anywhere outside the UK is already a distant memory, like some kind of cheese dream... "and we could sell to anywhere on the continent, direct, without supermarkets taking a cut... yes, must have been a dream".
Meanwhile, our cheese producers (insert Liz Truss meme) find that selling direct to customers anywhere outside the UK is already a distant memory
Selling 'our' cheese abroad is an act of treason if you subscribe to the idiocy encouraged and personified by Truss. See also buying imported cheese - foreign muck.
The problem is when this fantasy world meets the real world.
Scottish shellfish producers going out of business? Not an issue as 'we' don't eat that much shellfish as a nation - so what's the problem?
It is people, who should know better, encouraging the notion that such idiocy is 'ok' for their own personal gain that should be a treasonable offence.
Brexit controls on food and animal products that were due to come into effect in January are being postponed until July 2022 because of the potential impact on businesses, the British government has announced.
surely that puts them in breach of the agreement with the EU? More trouble coming!
It is Brexit for your exports to the EU and single market for imports from the EU.
Brillant move.
It is Brexit for your exports to the EU and single market for imports from the EU.
Brillant move.
Liz Truss would actually miss the sarcasm and take that at face value.
Her stupidity is so profound it bends space and time.
It is Brexit for your exports to the EU and single market for imports from the EU.
Brillant move
There simply are no words for this level of stupidity.
This is essentially subsidising EU imports into the UK? Placing tariffs on your own exports?
Christ on a bendybus! The EU must be absolutely laughing their tits off
