I've changed my mind. I think we should rejoin. I can deal with the economic shock, I can deal with loss of freedom of movement, but I can't deal with us not being able to take a ham fucking sandwich into Holland.
01-13-2021 05:41 PM
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I've changed my mind. I think we should rejoin. I can deal with the economic shock, I can deal with loss of freedom of movement, but I can't deal with us not being able to take a ham fucking sandwich into Holland. | |
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01-13-2021 06:47 PM
#527
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Agree, but I think this has been forgotten. I gather one big problem is going from a job to receiving benefits takes forever, with people being without any cash for weeks. | |
01-13-2021 07:03 PM
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01-13-2021 07:09 PM
#529
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This has been discussed before, me and poop have argued about this subject in the past. I said it then and I'll say it again. I went hungry at times, I had a terrible stepmom and a father who was either at work, drunk, or at football matches (home and away, every weekend). He either didn't know how awful she was, or didn't care. I'd like to think the former, but I was too young to understand my childhood wasn't normal. Eventually I got taken into care, living in foster homes and children's homes. | |
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01-14-2021 04:30 AM
#530
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Scottish fiserhmen fucked by Brexit. #MESA | |
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01-14-2021 07:06 AM
#531
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It's amusing that the Scottish nationalists don't like being called nationalists. | |
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01-14-2021 07:10 AM
#532
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It is, but not as amusing as the fact that Brexit is continuing to screw over the same fishermen it was promoted as being in the interests of. | |
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01-14-2021 07:13 AM
#533
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Some Scottish politician with an agenda said so, it must be true. | |
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01-14-2021 08:39 AM
#534
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You're right, he's probably making the whole thing up, not relating what one of his constituents wrote to him about. Everything's still rainbows and unicorns. | |
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01-14-2021 08:48 AM
#535
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This is apparently what objective criticism looks like. | |
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01-14-2021 08:53 AM
#536
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It's what pressing buttons looks like. | |
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01-14-2021 09:00 AM
#537
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They're your words mate. You can't be surprised if people take them at face value. | |
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01-14-2021 10:43 AM
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01-14-2021 01:10 PM
#539
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Can't argue with this kind of logic. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 01-14-2021 at 01:13 PM.
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01-14-2021 01:14 PM
#540
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"Unsold fish are rotting on docks" | |
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01-14-2021 01:16 PM
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https://twitter.com/i/events/1349713615612309504 | |
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01-14-2021 01:16 PM
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01-14-2021 01:17 PM
#543
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I mean what's funny is that people are taking him seriously. He's clearly taking the piss. Whether he should be taking the piss in that environment is a different matter, but if you're going to criticise him, do so for not taking it seriously, rather than him saying fish are happier being British. | |
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01-14-2021 01:18 PM
#544
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"Rees-Mogg and all of these Johnson MPs are takin the pis* out of the UK, every last one of them." | |
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01-14-2021 01:23 PM
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01-14-2021 01:26 PM
#546
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It's like you didn't even see the next post I made. | |
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01-14-2021 01:28 PM
#547
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I mean I actually agree with that guy whose tweet I quoted. It doesn't matter what Rees-Mogg said, what matters is hes not taking it seriously. He's dismissing the issue, which I do not approve of. | |
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01-14-2021 01:28 PM
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01-14-2021 01:29 PM
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01-14-2021 01:30 PM
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01-14-2021 01:32 PM
#551
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Rees Mogg is a twat. There you go. | |
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01-14-2021 01:32 PM
#552
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Rumour is there's plans to dump tons of rotting fish on the Parliament lawn. I would definitely love to see the PMQs where Starmer asks Boris "What's that smell?" | |
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01-14-2021 01:35 PM
#553
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You know the EU set out something like $5b to help its fishermen through this "transition period". The UK gave how much again? £100m? £200m? Seems like they really don't care about fishermen do they? | |
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01-14-2021 01:42 PM
#554
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These problems do need to be sorted out. They should already have been to a certain degree. There's a period of adjustment, naturally, so maybe this is just a "hiccup", like I said earlier. Or maybe this is exactly what the future holds. But if we can't sell fish to Europe, then alternative markets need to be sourced. They shouldn't rot. I mean at worst it's cat food. I'm sure Whiskers would buy this fish, just not at the same price that Spain would buy it for humans. | |
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01-14-2021 01:43 PM
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01-14-2021 01:44 PM
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01-14-2021 01:46 PM
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01-14-2021 01:49 PM
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01-14-2021 01:50 PM
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01-14-2021 01:53 PM
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01-14-2021 01:55 PM
#561
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Clearly the government need to help prop up the industry while we transition. I don't disagree with this, and I don't believe the figures quoted are sufficient. But what do I know? Maybe the EU are throwing more money than needs be in an attempt to shame the UK. Who knows? £200m is still a lot of money. | |
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01-14-2021 01:56 PM
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01-14-2021 01:57 PM
#563
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You reduce the convo on a regular basis. | |
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01-14-2021 02:17 PM
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01-14-2021 02:23 PM
#565
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Funny I keep seeing all these articles about the problems Brexit is causing and not even a single one about where to go to get my sunlit uplands. | |
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01-14-2021 06:42 PM
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Last edited by Poopadoop; 01-14-2021 at 06:46 PM.
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01-14-2021 07:09 PM
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01-14-2021 07:09 PM
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Oops wrong thread. | |
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01-14-2021 07:15 PM
#569
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Was never going to be smooth as soon as we were a year from exit and had no deal documented. Then we waited another 360-ish days to make a deal. Fuck knows how much that will cost the UK taxpayer. That said, the company I work for moved quickly in ditching some of their British suppliers and taking deliveries into Heathrow, in favour of mainland Europe. Fair few British jobs lost as a result. | |
01-14-2021 08:19 PM
#570
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It's better than No Deal which would have been a complete disaster. It's only a partial disaster. | |
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01-15-2021 01:55 PM
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It didn't immediately occur to me, but I've been thinking about this and you know what? This kind of implies that this is worse for the EU than it is for the UK. I mean, the less money we need to prop up the industry, the better, right? If the EU are throwing £5b at their fishing industry, what does that actually tell you? That's the damage Brexit has done to THEIR fishing industry, not ours. | |
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01-15-2021 03:44 PM
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01-18-2021 05:33 AM
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https://twitter.com/aileen_boughen/s...09104056602629 | |
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01-18-2021 06:41 AM
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01-18-2021 04:14 PM
#575
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WTF? I was promised sunlit uplands, not #BrexitCarnage. Where's my goddamned sunlit uplands? | |
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01-18-2021 05:40 PM
#576
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Has oskar got his bike yet? | |
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01-20-2021 04:28 PM
#577
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Funny you should ask! | |
Last edited by oskar; 01-20-2021 at 06:09 PM.
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01-20-2021 04:39 PM
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Do you like 7-day-old fish? I'm pretty sure we can cut you a deal. | |
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01-20-2021 06:04 PM
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I haven't seen too much of Boris but if that's the amount of competence on display, I'm not surprised. How hard would it be to just shut this down with platitudes whether or not you have a plan. What possible upside is there to shouting: Well you tried to get out of this mess I put you in and for this show of disloyalty you deserve to be in it! | |
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01-21-2021 10:09 AM
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Yeah, he's pretty damn hard to take. It's one disaster after another, with the worst covid death rate in the world right now, biggest hit to the economy in the developed world, a shit last-minute Brexit deal, shoveling wheelbarrows full of money to his mates in dodgy contracts, and on and on. The latest scandal is that they, somehow, just accidentally deleted > 400k police records. | |
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01-23-2021 05:42 PM
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Can't wait to hear how this is good for us. | |
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01-24-2021 10:36 AM
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Lots of companies already did this. Think I already mentioned that the company i work for moved printing and shipping to mainland Europe, while diverting deliveries of stock into Heathrow over to Schiphol. | |
01-24-2021 01:47 PM
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Yeah, but #MEGA | |
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01-27-2021 12:31 PM
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55822602 | |
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01-27-2021 01:14 PM
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Sounds like a valid claim for breech of contract if money was exchanged by the EU to facilitate the production of the vaccines in the UK with the agreement that investment would purchase the vaccines when produced. | |
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01-27-2021 01:44 PM
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I don't think the vaccines produced in the UK are subject to the contract with the EU, I could be wrong though. The EU have centres in Belgium and the Netherlands. I mean, I obviously don't know the details of the contract, nobody does because of confidentiality clauses put into the contract, so idk about "valid claim for breach of contract". That's for the lawyers to sort out if it gets that far. Chances are though that the EU is just making a public statement to convince EU citizens the EU is doing all it can. They're masking their incompetence. | |
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01-27-2021 03:25 PM
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What I heard is that the production centres in the EU had problems with a batch so a lot less of the AZ vaccine was produced there than was planned. | |
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01-27-2021 03:28 PM
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And lol at calling the EU incompetent when we just passed 100k deaths here. Ffs, what show have you been watching. The ONLY thing we have done right here is get the vaccinations rolling quickly, and there's still time for them to mess that up. | |
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01-27-2021 03:37 PM
#589
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I mean, if you want to see incompetence, watch how Boris deals with questions in parliament, by not answering them no matter how serious they are, but attacking the questioner. | |
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01-27-2021 06:26 PM
#590
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I like how your response to "incompetence" it what you guys refer to "whataboutism". | |
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01-27-2021 06:27 PM
#591
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Oh I forgot to mention, the UK is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe. Of course we'll get hit harder by a viral pandemic. | |
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01-27-2021 06:32 PM
#592
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They won't mess up the vaccination program. This is what it's all about. The pharma companies want to sell vaccines. The govt are in bed with pharma companies. There's probably more to it than that, too, perhaps in 2025 we'll need a vaccination passport to catch the bus into town. So this is where the govt show they're actually very competent. | |
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01-27-2021 07:09 PM
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Having one of the worst gov'ts in the world at managing a pandemic but calling other gov'ts incompetent? That's just hypocrisy. | |
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01-27-2021 07:50 PM
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01-28-2021 02:37 AM
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The EU conspires to make UK not recover, the UK administration conspires by manipulating covid and flu data, AZ conspires against the EU...I wouldn't wanna live in your world lol. | |
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01-28-2021 04:32 AM
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Imagine thinking we have one of the worst gov'ts in the world at managing a pandemic when we also have one of the worst death rates in the world from said pandemic? | |
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01-28-2021 04:39 AM
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01-28-2021 01:47 PM
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01-28-2021 02:08 PM
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01-28-2021 02:19 PM
#600
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Just a quick question and not something I want to start a discussion on for obvious reasons, but... | |
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