Immigrants, EU, Remainers, lefties etc.

Just keep cycling through.

My m8s theory was that by removing the eu from the decision making it would stop the government from blaming everything on them and they would be held more accountable.

Ah well,like all good plans lasted till the boots hit the floor.

In it or out of it it’s still the EUs fault.

Shit-filled rivers as another Brexit Benefit delivered. Add that to motorway pile-ups due to dozing HGV drivers.

Temporary my arse.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/07/government-ease-sewage-discharge-rules-amid-chemical-shortage

^ drivers are not just Brexshit, but it’s worrying too read that.

Why are they not asking military to assist with such fundamental things?

Another promise over protecting the environment broken.

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In other news, my brother in law who is finance director at an NHS trust has written his querterly letter to Prime Minister. He usually requests his share of £350m a week, but now he’s upped the game by asking for confirmation of NI rise + £350m share.

Why are they not asking military to assist with such fundamental things?

Assuming this is a serious question.

UK armed forces are no where near big enough to have the manpower to cover a shortfall of 100k drivers.

The total is about 150k+50k reservists, of the 150k there aren’t 100k with HGV licences and of those 50k many of those with HGV licences will already be driving as the day job.

Yes you can find a handful, but it’s simply PR and not a practical solution.

Now how about offering visas to Afghanis with HGV licences or willing to train….

In other news, my brother in law who is finance director at an NHS trust has written his querterly letter to Prime Minister. He usually requests his share of £350m a week, but now he’s upped the game by asking for confirmation of NI rise + £350m share.

Ha. Came here to ask if anyone had heard what they’re spending the £18bn a year from the red bus on…

Brexit + climate change … as you were expecting (unless you were one of those shouting “Project Fear” with your fingers in your ears)…

The Tories just sold out the fight against climate change for a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia.@SamCoatesSky from @SkyNews obtained leaked government emails showing we caved to Australia on Paris Agreement conditions. pic.twitter.com/WIcEvxSa0G

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) September 8, 2021

Leaked email obtained by Sky News

From Cabinet Office trade secretariat pic.twitter.com/B8qgBIYbWN

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) September 8, 2021

My view is that the UK could push much harder in conditionality (both on climate and in other areas) with Australia because it is offering really great market access, however the UK’s desire for expediency means it has sacrificed a lot of leverage.https://t.co/0hpEqWY2WF

— Sam Lowe (@SamuelMarcLowe) September 8, 2021

Why are they not asking military to assist with such fundamental things?

Because the one thing guaranteed to interest Brexity flag-shaggers is the army being involved. They love it. But then loads of sassy remain-type folk will force the flag-shaggers to acknowledge that the army are being drafted in to sort out the Brexit **** ups. And the armed forces ain’t big enough.

Also agree that the ‘temporary’ (cough – bullshit) measures to allow us to pollute the rivers and seas etc are the tip of the iceberg. Not that there’ll be any icebergs anywhere in 20 years at this rate…

🔥🥵

Those Tim Tams coming with a big price tag then 🙂

^ drivers are not just Brexshit

But some of it is and that will become apparent soon enough. Funnily enough I haven’t seen any stories about Carrefour shelves being empty in France….

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^ drivers are not just Brexshit

But some of it is and that will become apparent soon enough. Funnily enough I haven’t seen any stories about Carrefour shelves being empty in France….

🤔

Yep lots of stuff on the Shelves in Sunny Spain, and lots of stuff being grown,planted and picked.

I can even get Cheddar Cheese as the supermarket has their own brand made for them in the West Country in the UK, I did wonder if they’d get issues but tbh not even a blip and the shelves of the Carrefour are er rammed.

That story about sewage plants really shows what’s important in UK PLC. We could easily prioritise essential supply chain activities like that, but instead it’ll be shit in the rivers so that we can keep having 30 different types of bottled water in tesco.

And the driver shortage isn’t going to be any better by the end of the year when that “temporary” rule change runs out.

But it’s all OK, you need a specific approval from the Environmental Agency, an organisation whose task now is to occasionally give people fines that are smaller than the amount of money they saved by deliberately breaking the rules

We could easily prioritise essential supply chain activities like that, but instead it’ll be shit in the rivers so that we can keep having 30 different types of bottled water in tesco.

Partly. 30 types of bottled water at 100 bottles each per massive Tesco = 3,000 bottles to that store. One lorry from hub to store sorts it. 3 types of bottled water at 1,000 bottles each per store is the same amount of logistics effort near enough. The problem isn’t too much choice it is too much stuff to move, full stop. Of course there are other things at play (minimum stock quantities per sku can lead to over-stocking and different bottle shapes/sizes can make it slightly more difficult for two) but it isn’t choice that is the main problem. The UK being led by childish pricks is far more pertinent.

And the driver shortage isn’t going to be any better by the end of the year when that “temporary” rule change runs out.

It will be rolled over. More can-kicking. Even a couple of motorway pile-ups won’t stop them.

But it’s all OK, you need a specific approval from the Environmental Agency, an organisation whose task now is to occasionally give people fines that are smaller than the amount of money they saved by deliberately breaking the rules

Cost-Benefit innit? When the direct cost of a fine is the only thing you care about (and it is diddly squat) then why give a shit? If the indirect cost (rivers full of shit) is someone else’s problem. Take your dividend and/or exec pay and leave someone else to suffer. It is part of the vision of Brilliant Buccaneering Brexit Bulldog Britain, after all. Environmental standards? Just tell a few lies. Dismiss anyone who points it out as unpatriotic. Remember the bullshit about diverging on Environmental standards so we could have higher standards than Europe? Well, it was intentional bollocks then, it is bollocks now and it will continue to be bollocks.

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. This is Britannia Unchained. The bit they didn’t shout about was that it was private capital that would be Unchained in order to **** over the little guy.

But this was all said at the time and the bellends ignored it.

🤷‍♂️

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/3/why-are-there-food-shortages-in-the-uk

Basically the UK supply chain problems are less (much less than Boris Bullshit would have you believe) to do with global covid issues and more to do with epic Brexity Bellendery.

But we knew that anyway. Willingly looking for umpteen other scapegoats notwithstanding.

🇬🇧🍆💦🇬🇧

🤷‍♂️

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/07/government-ease-sewage-discharge-rules-amid-chemical-shortage

And you thought “Brexshit” was just a slogan?

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Partly. 30 types of bottled water at 100 bottles each per massive Tesco = 3,000 bottles to that store. One lorry from hub to store sorts it. 3 types of bottled water at 1,000 bottles each per store is the same amount of logistics effort near enough.

Still all has to get to the hub, but from a load more places. And you have to carry more stock for 30 brands overall than you do 1.

But, my main reason for choosing bottled water is that it makes ****-all sense for there to be a massive supermarket aisle of bloody water which comes out of a tap, but even more so when the cost of stuff like that, is having dirty water in rivers.

bloody water which comes out of a tap

Shouldn’t that be ‘shitty water which comes out of a tap’? There might be a run on bottled water if we run out of more chemicals for sewage treatment / water purification.

Can’t wait for the headline.

“Boris urges every patriotic Brit to filter their own piss through their Brita to thwart evil EU”.

“When asked if he would be doing his patriotic bit Boris replied that he would, although a photographer managed to snap a massive consignment of bottled water and champers being delivered to No 10 – “Let them drink piss” Carrie Antoinette was heard to mutter”.

“Meanwhile it was rumoured that the drinking water shortage was exacerbated by a friend of Robert Jenrick bottling pre-pollution stocks of tap water ‘on am industrial scale'”.

😅

Someone post an Only Fools and Horses clip please.

There is a definite sense that the fall out (plop out?) from Brexit is gathering pace now and haven’t even really got going yet.

The news about the dumping of crap into rivets is deeply depressing.

So desperate for a trade deal with Australia that we signed away any integrity we had left, COP 26 later this year will be a farce.

Australian government stands by coal after 2030

I guess Drax will be retro fitted to burn Australian coal in the near future.

What can possibly go wrong?

BBC News – Government to shorten HGV driver testing process
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58487347

To be fair, I don’t know enough about lorry driving to make an informed comment.

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

https://i.imgur.com/HD1zLZE.jpeg

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.

🇬🇧☠🇬🇧

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/09/priti-patel-to-send-boats-carrying-migrants-to-uk-back-across-channel

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).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/09/priti-patel-to-send-boats-carrying-migrants-to-uk-back-across-channel

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

Remember when ‘they needed us more than we need them….’ Not even in top ten trading with 🇩🇪 This is the Brexit disaster happening in real time and with huge consequences for the future. Not heard a peep about this on the main news. It is big and bad news for Britain https://t.co/biUumnhlEQ

— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) September 9, 2021

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 😂

@doomanic

I suspect the pork scratching issue is more to do with the main manufacturer trying to kill their customers last month

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/25/pork-scratchings-firm-recalls-products-linked-salmonella-cases

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.