Brexit

[petit_bateau]

Time sure is telling. It's going swimmingly well while our counterparts across the channel are drowning in a wave of angry sentiment.

Mmmmm.......... speaking as someone who pays the bills in my/our UK manufacturing and exporting company I can be absolutely sure that the only place Brexit is going swimmingly is in some dark orifice. I am reluctant to talk too publicly about our private business, but I can be absolutely categoric that Brexit is bad news in every way, shape, or form.

Try this little lot for some sense of balance (not something that is likely to trouble you, but which may assist others):

Brexit: the Digby Jones Jobs Lost Index is launched – Yorkshire Bylines
Brexit Job Losses
Brexit Job Loss Index: 436,296 Jobs Lost As Of 31 January 2020
The Digby Jones Index – Yorkshire Bylines
Brexit 'Benefit' Myths – Yorkshire Bylines
The Davis Downside Dossier – Yorkshire Bylines
The Reckoning: Brexit and the Legacy of Lies – Byline Times
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rexit-u-k-firms-are-being-slowly-ground-down?
https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/

 

[Favguy]

People voted to win back the right to control our borders - not limit immigration, merely the right to maintain borders. This fact has been twisted by many to suggest that voters were xenophobic morons - which I don't believe to be the case.

Many were xenophobic morons though, about 30% of the population of most western countries actually are, give or take 5% or so.

This fact has held true for centuries. It was also the reason for Hitler, the current strongman winning in Brazil, and as our US friends know only too well, the recently departed President.

Its one of the reasons western democracies are so fragile, you only ever need to temporarily get an extra 20% or even less of the voting population on side, usually at times of social unhappiness to get a tyrant in power, the 30% are always up for it.

 

[Buckminster]

Fury at Gove as exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit
How bad is this?

 

[Buckminster]

So turns out that Brexit was not as bad as feared by some - including me. However, not a walk in the park either...

Anyway, we have bigger fish to fry now following Megxit. Thread on the "Republic of Britain" may be warranted. "Republic of England and Wales" doesn't quite sound right - fortunately the SNP have shot themselves in the Sporran.

 

[petit_bateau]

So turns out that Brexit was not as bad as feared by some - including me. However, not a walk in the park either...

Anyway, we have bigger fish to fry now following Megxit. Thread on the "Republic of Britain" may be warranted. "Republic of England and Wales" doesn't quite sound right - fortunately the SNP have shot themselves in the Sporran.

Brexit is proving every bit as bad as feared:

- Trade down : UK-Germany trade slumps amid Brexit and Covid fallout
- Formal infringement proceedings imminent : Brexit: EU poised to take legal action against UK over Northern Ireland
- WTO obligations being disregarded : Food scarcity fears prompt plan to ease post-Brexit checks on EU imports
- Propaganda campaign failing : Brexit unhinged
- Irish reunification progress : Is the tide turning on Irish reunification?
- EU parliament ratification postponed : Press corner
- Paramilitary threats in evidence in NI : Loyalist paramilitary groups withdraw support for Good Friday Agreement
- etc etc etc

 

[Buckminster]

Brexit is proving every bit as bad as feared:

- Trade down : UK-Germany trade slumps amid Brexit and Covid fallout
- Formal infringement proceedings imminent : Brexit: EU poised to take legal action against UK over Northern Ireland
- WTO obligations being disregarded : Food scarcity fears prompt plan to ease post-Brexit checks on EU imports
- Propaganda campaign failing : Brexit unhinged
- Irish reunification progress : Is the tide turning on Irish reunification?
- EU parliament ratification postponed : Press corner
- Paramilitary threats in evidence in NI : Loyalist paramilitary groups withdraw support for Good Friday Agreement
- etc etc etc

I hear you but jeez - how do you sleep at night? It could have been a lot worse - supermarket shelves are mostly full for instance. Admittedly it still could get a lot worse if the EU carry out their threats but there will be some upside eventually.

I think the public are in agreement with me. The Scots certainly are:
Voters snub SNP plans for another referendum

Always looking on the bright side of life.

 

[JupiterMan]

Third country food imports to EU are about to be hit with even more additional red tape and costs...

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This will also affect UK -> NI exports

The post Brexit decision to leave the single market is having big consequences.

 

[petit_bateau]

I hear you but jeez - how do you sleep at night? It could have been a lot worse - supermarket shelves are mostly full for instance. Admittedly it still could get a lot worse if the EU carry out their threats but there will be some upside eventually.

I think the public are in agreement with me. The Scots certainly are:
Voters snub SNP plans for another referendum

Always looking on the bright side of life.

I guess you've not been into a NI supermarket recently then ?

DUP minister's Irish Sea food supplies warning followed briefing with Spar

Concerns were raised of "disruption to supply", according to newly released notes of the meeting

www.belfastlive.co.uk

How to beat the supermarket dog food shortage

The shelves may be empty for dog food pouches but there are some places you can still roder

www.belfastlive.co.uk

Which could easily become the whole UK

Food shortage fears after Brexit border delays

Ministers are considering relaxing post-Brexit border checks on food imports from the European Union because of concerns about food shortages in UKsupermarkets, it has been reported.

www.standard.co.uk

Or gone to Scotland very much ?

Misreading the mood on Scottish independence | Letters

Letters: Roger Read, Val Machin, Fiona Raffaelli and Alastair McLeish respond to an article by Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

What impact is the Salmond saga having on the drive for independence?

SNP insiders accept that Sturgeon’s public grilling will raise the row higher in the public’s minds

www.theguardian.com