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[Mick Dempsey]

2 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I have very mixed feelings about Scotland viz a viz UK.  I worked there for long enough to form a fairly well informed opinion.  

 

Yes, the UK £, the ￥and indeed the € - all being humped at an all time record by the $.  Must be Brexit...

 

UK/US trade deal, have to give you that one, is it better or worse than before Brexit though?  And what about that $ humping the £?

 

C*nts crossing the channel is on about the same trajectory as it would have been in or out of the EU and is only going to get worse until somebody either removes international borders and allows proper freedom of movement or has the kahoonas to enforce that which is currently enacted in law.

 

I don't think any of your examples are exclusively, or even predominantly, aligned with Brexit although the naysayers do tend to trot them out as 'evidence' of the error of Brexit.

 

Nope - still not buying it.

So what tangible benefits have you seen? 

[GarethM]

Early days and all that until Liz grows a pair.

Next you'll be saying lying starmer would be better, look everyone we sang the national anthem, probably just after the communist one!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

[GarethM]

Ok, we shall gloss over that they're printed in France on this occasion.

[eggsarascal]

5 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Two twats who achieved what they set out to do, both got the DCM soon after.

[Mick Dempsey]

6 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

srsly?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

14 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

srsly?

Of course not srsly.

 

Just chosen for effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(much like the BS that UK £ is at an all time low BECAUSE of Brexit)

[Mick Dempsey]

Tangible benefits Kevin if you please..

Edited September 26, 2022 by Mick Dempsey

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Just now, Mick Dempsey said:

Tangible benefits Kevin…..

Well the greatest tangible benefit Mick is that the UK won't be hitched to it when it does collapse.

 

That collapse will have a far and wide effect but the impact will be lessened by separation.

 

There - that is a tangible future benefit. 

[openspaceman]

39 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Au contraire Mr D!

 

The error was in the incessant EU expansionism which is the real reason and which has brought us inexorably to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 

I rather doubt any sensible observer of world events would deny the benefit of the original EEC concept.  

 

The EU however has been the architect of its own demise - the UK being bold enough to take the first step in the divorce, set the standard for others to follow and get ahead of the inevitable breakdown which will likely make the current relatively minor hiccups of leaving the EU pale into insignificance.  

 

No, not yet, no regrets.  

 

 

Yes as the little lady said Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

 

The whole thing was a cock up from the start and I expected an impact on our financial sector but abstained as I am not young enough to suffer the consequences and didn't anticipate it getting this bad but a lot of that is to do with covid and the government trying to spend our way out of it, and failing.

 

I consider the management of our larger companies, hijacked by their global shareholders' demands rather than sustainability, to be the major reason  our industries have failed.

 

Of course my trade was a part of this demise as traditional sawmills closed and all those little niche timber outlets were lost till  we were left with good structural logs going into biomass rather than value added products.