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Brexit got Britain done

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katmeouws · 18/10/2022 22:10

Thats it really.

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Clavinova · 20/10/2022 17:40

The EU want the Tories to stick to the deal they negotiated and signed. They've moved on. Time for the UK to do the same and stop sabotaging Brexit by not adhering to the agreement made.

7 October 2022
Coveney agrees with Varadkar on 'too strict' protocol.

Mr Coveney said the Tánaiste's comment that the Northern Ireland Protocol is too strict and working without being fully implemented is "stating a fact" and that people are making a lot of similar comments.

He said the protocol is working despite not being fully implemented, demonstrating there is room for "further flexibility for some changes".
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Coveney said it is clear because of the compromises coming from the EU in recent months that it is willing to look "at more flexibility" than it was at the start of this process.

Mr Coveney said the EU negotiator Maroš Šefčovič has already published a number of papers to show the EU is willing to be a lot more flexible.

www.rte.ie/news/politics/2022/1007/1327680-ireland-uk-bilateral/

Liebig · 20/10/2022 18:46

Kendodd · 20/10/2022 12:37

There has been growth in the developed world, it's just that 100% of it has been sucked up by the super rich. And by the rich, I don't mean the (bottom end of) the 1%, that's £130,000 per year in the UK. So just touching London secondary school heads and hospital consultants with a bit of private work on top. These people are not the problem, they're doing valuable work and are not rich, they're working for a living and haven't seen massive inflation in their standards of living.

The problem is the 0.001%, the super rich, these are the ones who have taken all the money and pushed so many into poverty with their profit hoarding. Now I'm sure somebody will come along and say, yes but these are the wealth creators, driving us forward, society needs them. No they aren't and no we don't. We don't need them, they need us. They need us as workers and consumers and they wouldn't have a penny without us.

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Yes, there is that aspect. But I was referring to overall prosperity taking a downturn because of debt inflation, where what little we do make is hoovered up by the elites and funnelled into their portfolios.

People ignore rampant inequality only if they get a share of the pie or a chance at being that elite. That’s all going to unravel amazingly in the near future.

As for the “wealth creators” rebuttal people put out, it’s utter tosh and they can go fuck themselves. And yet we still get cultists following the likes of Musk and Bezos like some new dumb religion.

JocelynBurnell · 20/10/2022 20:12

At this rate, Venezuela and Zimbabwe will need to reach out to the UK with advice on how to stabilise our economy and restore trust with the markets.

Barbie222 · 20/10/2022 20:46

The issue needs to be regularly raised. And the stupid fuckers who voted for it reminded.

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Kendodd · 20/10/2022 22:19

Barbie222 · 20/10/2022 20:46

The issue needs to be regularly raised. And the stupid fuckers who voted for it reminded.

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Agreed.
If the sunlit uplands had been delivered (as if) , I'd have admitted they had been right.

Endlesssummer2022 · 21/10/2022 19:05

Brexit is genuinely one of the only things I’ve ever wanted to be wrong about. I so wanted to be wrong for my childrens sake. Watching our economy slide further into the toilet, I just don’t think I can get over it.

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