Neverending Story 3: The Ongoing Brexit Thread

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I read somewhere that we were offering something on fishing but that it didn't include pelagic fish like herring... which we don't eat anyway, so...

This is what annoys people. This all looks like a performance rather than a negotiation, done entirely for the rubes.

I just hope the covid debacle will make people forget about any 'victory' in the brexit deal because you KNOW that's the way the tory press will present it.

 

I'm just checking the TV listings and it looks like there's no C4 news, no Newsnight and nothing else other than the standard News 24 stuff so it's not like they'll be any sort of heavyweight political analysis of all this within the next day or so, (for obvious reasons), other than in the broadsheet press.

 

I'm sure that is purely coincidental.

 

Good article on the proposed deal.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/significant-agreement-david-henig

For the UK this looks like finally the end of five years of turbulent politics dominated by the EU relationship. Three consecutive autumns dominated by the question of deal or not. The question has for the time being been settled, with a preferential relationship greater than WTO but less than customs union or single market. There will be continuous negotiations on areas of detail in the future, but most will barely trouble the media or political worlds. Overall there will be some form of stability, even if uneasily in a UK split between those wanting closer and more distant EU relations, and with particular challenges in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

There will of course be major challenges in the future relationship. Ultimately the EU achieved their main goals from Brexit, and the UK arguably did not. The EU successfully avoided a border on the island of Ireland and protected the single market from significant cherry picking. The UK succeeded in the headline goal of leaving the EU, but failed as proponents had expected to retain the benefits of membership without incurring the costs, and more recently in overturning any of the withdrawal agreement as the staunch Brexiteers had hoped. The EU also looks stronger for demonstrating so far that leaving is not an easy option, while the UK’s ability to maintain trade relations while escaping ‘the Brussels Effect’ of following EU regulations is going to be tested, business for example will wish to reverse the decision to leave some European regulatory agencies.

 

This thread made me chuckle.

[Brexit end credits thread]

When Big Ben bonged for Brexit, Mark Francois came so loud he startled the pigeon that lives atop his hobbit hole. He was never heard from again. pic.twitter.com/mrfM35tdlh

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 24, 2020

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...riffs-to-visas-heres-whats-in-the-brexit-deal
From tariffs to visas: here's what's in the Brexit deal

 

Watch to the end

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Oh well.....I guess having a European passport makes sense.

“The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maintain his ties with the European Union after Brexit,” Reuters reports.

 

The French should tell him to piss off.

 

Do not judge the father for the sins of his son.

 

This I would say is a first class troll act on Brexit.

“If I understand it correctly, I am French. My mother was born in France, her mother was totally French as was her grandfather. So for me it is about reclaiming what I already have. And that makes me very happy,” said the 80-year-old Johnson, who was speaking in French.

 

So Alexander "I won't call you Boris" Johnson is actually a Frenchman who thought he was born to rule England.

Wow, you can't get more British than that.

 

Although, strictly speaking, he declared he supported leaving after the vote.

 

If only!

 

... and Boris was born in New York, IIRC.

 

He ment leaving Britain after the vote.

 

those bloody furreiners messing up goold old albion

 

I'm guess he was referring to William the Conqueror... but I meant be wrong.

 

I refuse to believe this is not true.

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Not just any sex arses. These are the high-end JLo 3000 XXXLs. This guy will lose his shirt if this important product doesn't get thru!

 

Mine should have been delivered yesterday. Not at all happy.

 

First the Toblerone's... now the arses,

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/8/13560966/toblerone-change-brexit



Where will it all end I'm ask myself

 

The best thing about that picture is he even looks like he's indulging in the act with the product whilst it's being taken