OR it will (to increase ease of GB trade) become a genuine vassal state to the EU. It did seem Labour was (effective WF for whole UK) planning the latter but if @lizwebster.bsky.social is correct, it will be the - UK dumping ground - former (also here making exports to the EU harder still)
Have I missed anything? Basically everything is (levelled down) worse, with no equal compensating better elsewhere. UK has *chosen* to be diminished, poorer & more cut off from its continent behind its (still descending) Gammon Curtain Has a country ever been so fucking stupid?
Yeah, you've missed Arnott's TimTams ... right Boris Johnson? www.johnlewispartnership.media/pressrelease...
Or Aldi "Benton's Aussie Style" biscuits made in the Netherlands and which win a taste test I think. (Not watched it.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPW...
While chocolate bars have suffered shrinkflation, or recipe changes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4286...
Plus reduced chocolate exports (bar to Ireland) "Significant concerns have been expressed by UK’s Food and Drink Federation over a marked drop in exports .. which dropped 15.8% owing to Brexit, post Covid-19 trading complications, war in Ukraine" www.confectioneryproduction.com/news/46539/u....
The thickest nation on the planet.
Hmm. People are starting to be made aware of the scale and nature of Thatcher's treachery. It's water this week. Big report. 88 recommendations. A worthless exercise. Mug Island has an extensive history of epic self harm.
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Disappointing to see that no one seems to have popped up to refute your depressing assessment of our situation! ☹️
I think the problem is that most people see no difference.
Which is why successive UK governments have not & won't get Brexit fully "done" (on UK border controls) on imports from the EU...although they will need to & more so (the WF) from GB to NI, if they want a SPS agreement from the EU .. ..many more would then notice more so. UK's catch 22.
Yes I agree. So far, apart from FoM, they have got away with it. It’s strange. At one point I thought the complexity of NI would stop Brexit, but it will mean the full blown effects are inevitable. Maybe some political/constitutional change will then happen
I think they’re working with Trump to try force the EU to deregulate. See 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Airstrip One redux. A message for who? www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...
UK already has the ready made, privately owned "Freeports" and SEZs to do so.. (Labour) "nothing to do with us guvnor"
It’s a horror story.
With no end in sight. The TCA is unworkable without huge problems fully implementing a hard border UK side. Labour's red lines rule out any solution (ETFA/EEA etc). Surely time to start preparing the ground for a referendum that has the various options clearly explained to allow informed choices.
I don't think so. EU (like Canada, Mexico, Japan and others) does not want to raise the stakes before seeing if T.A.C.O.
“Have I missed anything?” Only that one of the leading pushers of Brexit now leads one of if not the it the best polling parties, and poses an existential threat to the Tories.