The Leavers Lagoon - for people positive about our future outside of the EU.

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Good morning

Voting to leave the European Union was a monumental decision, and one that will change the direction of our Country for decades to come.
I see that as an exciting opportunity & something to be welcomed & celebrated.

So, if you see solutions instead of problems, if you see a better future for the citizens of U.K., free from the constraints of an organisation we had no control over, then this place is for you.
Of course not everything is going to run smoothly, maybe not for years, because leaving a union drowning in red tape was never going to be easy, but we are forward thinking progressive people who know the future doesn’t just mean next week.
So, here’s to our new future,
To the future of the U.K.
The countdown begins.........

@Cailleach1 indeed which is why I said "possibly". Highlanders have probably been native to the islands for longest, but then Vikings........so probably not.

It was a general rather than a specific point.

Bojo's speech hugely alienated me when he mentioned "The Will of the people".

This phrase is only used by Brexiters to remind everyone that Remainers are Not The People. Instead, We are some kind of invalidated Other category.

I thought the speech was BoJo's excuse for saying in future "Well I tried to be nice, but those Remainers are just totally unreasonable, aren't they?" even though he opened with statements that are only meant to alienate and define who is valid (The People, Brexiters) and who is not (anyone who still hates Brexit). The speech was all about him positioning self as May's successor by pretending that he was reasonable and nice. The speech was about nothing else.

They have found some traces of other humans like Neanderthal in modern humans

I strongly suspect that my ex husband may be one of these.
He has the brow.

faith all men have the brow - it’s one of the things that differentiates male and female skulls.

loving the adverts thing,
there was one about all your Christmas needs.

dammed if I could remember the rest. Anyone and ideas.

For Elements

Should take all of about 30 seconds for it to seep into your subconscious , then you will officially be one of 'us' Elements , forever and ever , no going back

Damm you all!

I'll be singing that all day.

Bastards.

Aaaaaaaaargh

Thanks frumpety

You are most welcome Elements and Mousse , always happy to help

I thought the speech was BoJo's excuse for saying in future "Well I tried to be nice, but those Remainers are just totally unreasonable, aren't they?"

I agree with this. But I also suspect that the penny has finally dropped that, as much as he and other harder Brexiters froth, they don't have a parliamentary majority for their preferred option. And the Anna Soubrys of the world are only getting more vocal in their objections. So he might have been trying to get them on side.

I think he failed miserably but I suppose time will tell.

Oh get over it fgs.

Is that comment directed at Michael or Mousse Surfer ?

It's all well and good you saying get over it but my day is filled with....

"Do the shake and vac to get the freshness back"

I'm traumatised.

Mousse , of the magnolia and vanilla variety , a much loved shake and vac favourite

To try and make amends I give you the Remain campaign theme tune, catchy isn't it

You know @frumpety please feel free to stop helping.

Anytime you like - stop with the helping.

Please....

I Passed the Citizenship test - after I made them change a question for me because it was demonstrably incorrect.
All of the staff at the testing centre admitted that they had failed it when they first took it.
So we immigrants are better Brits than you Native born

Actually if you go back 500 years my family were British but they moved abroad for a while.

Getting back to the boring thing of
Customs Clearance at Dover
Felixtowe, Southampton, and Tilbury are the three biggest ports
but they are all container ports
its a very different clearance market from the lorry freight that goes through Dover and Folkestone.
The lorries carry perishables such as food and short notice groupage such as car parts
spot the saddo who worked for a freight forwarder for a few years
The Container market is worldwide.
It will hardly be affected by Brexit.
Dover and Folkestone on the other hand handle over 13m passengers a year who will have to clear customs as well as the lorries and vans and booze cruisers and small companies.
East Kent does not have the infrastructure to cope.

I suspect, TalkinPeace, that your knowledge of freight movement via Dover & Folkestone makes you some kinds of Expert, therefore it will be ignored by leavers as it seen to be akin to witchcraft.

Interesting, Talkin; thanks for that.

ifailed
Snigger
My office was directly above the warehouse where confiscated contraband - mainly drugs - was stored.
Some of the stories about the smuggling that went on were classic (the watermelon full of heroin was a corker)
Anybody who thinks that a virtual border will work post Brexit has obviously never travelled much.

TalkinPeace its is funny, but in a gallows' humour sort of way - I doubt if any politician is spending much time on things like this, far too busy with their own profile and most are too wealthy to be affected.

May triggered article 50, much as I wish she hadn't we are where we are, yet no one seems to give a flying fuck, especially all the smug leavers, about how this will impact us all in 58 weeks time.

So True.
Brexiters Want to leave the EU
but have no real idea what that means or what they actually want from it.
So sadly they will remain angry in years to come

The Economist review of Toby Young's Dad's book "The rise of the Meritocracy" nailed it for me ...

So sadly they will remain angry in years to come

But it will be everyone's fault but theirs.