Land of Hope & Glory? - UK Politics and other stuff

Smacc_25 · December 24, 2020, 5:23pm

StrontiumDog · December 24, 2020, 5:27pm

The new Marty

Jalfrezi · December 24, 2020, 5:41pm

I’m no expert but I think not (unless he goes and moves in with your cousin). The graphic above shows Erasmus isn’t included in the deal.

Jalfrezi · December 24, 2020, 5:52pm

I’d prefer you not to call them “my lot” thanks.

As I said, I have more in common with the average person in Brussels or Berlin than the average person in fucking Kidderminster.

But I do know what you meant.

Jalfrezi · December 24, 2020, 6:03pm

This is the first time I’m really feeling that we’ve left the EU - the transition period buffeted us from any actual effects. I’m depressed about the whole long term picture and how the far right will exercise their majority to do god only knows what here and how the most hideous specimens in the country will feel empowered to carry out god knows what heinous acts.

It’s all enough to make me want to sell up, buy a small isolated house in the countryside where we don’t have to talk to any of the fucking awful people and dig in for the rest of our lives.

pyatnitski · December 24, 2020, 6:58pm

The Reuters sub headline is pretty funny in a dry way.

Britain clinched a narrow Brexit trade deal with the European Union, just seven days before it exits one of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire.

Victory!

Smacc_25 · December 24, 2020, 8:36pm

I really wasn’t too angry before today, after watching the shitshow of our nations news channels I’m absolutely depressed.

The talk about remainers? There is none… There was A deal or No deal… In the run up to the worst Christmas period of most off our lifetimes & if I feel this bad I hate to think about the folks who fought to avoid this.

As Jalfrazi says reality is setting in now & thinking of what they can do with the majority the’ve got is frightening to say the least especially when the whole fucking day the journalistsonadoglease are asking what will Labour vote for “Fuck right off”

Whole thing has been planned this year so they could slip it through before it gets fully scrutinised in parliament imo… No screaming from the ERG tells us we’re in deep shit.

Us Scots will probably get the troops sent in before we get another referendum on independence.

The way the truckers were treated this week at dover/Kent is the way forward for this country, the bastards could not even send them water.

Smacc_25 · December 24, 2020, 9:00pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/mdbuckley/status/1342172064317374464

I agree

https://mobile.twitter.com/Labour4EU/status/1342058766833999877

Smacc_25 · December 24, 2020, 9:07pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/goodclimate/status/1342161449469227010

pyatnitski · December 24, 2020, 11:28pm

Don’t know what you’re worried about, Marty, Johnson is going to start a new programme named after Turing and it will be with the ‘best universities in the world’. Seems the trouble with Erasmus was that although UK kids did good the UK ‘loses out’ because dirty Europeans also expected to come to the UK and made us feel icky.

Am sure the world’s ‘top universities’ will be falling over themselves to sign up on those terms.

Brexit all over. The ‘problem’ was that the arrangement didn’t solely benefit the UK, and the solution is to re-engineer something that already exists so that it benefits the UK alone. It’s blindly assumed that other countries will just go along with it, at a level so deep that that isn’t even mentioned or addressed in the plan.