Brexit Arms - Out with the old and in with the new

[time4chocolate]

It’s time again for another Brexit Arms thread to see us into Christmas and beyond.

Well what a week it’s been!!

Boris has now completed his first week and he’s been busy. New conservatives have been sworn in, the Queens Speech yesterday shows promise (aware that the proof of the (Xmas) pudding is in the eating) and Boris’ Deal is going to be voted on today with the results being around 3pm I believe.

Meanwhile, on the other side all four wheels have definitely fallen off the red bus and were very nearly joined by a garden gate and a car door. Oh dear!!

Anyway, I have added a few more Christmas decs to the pub and popped the fairy back on the tree (it took a nasty tumble)

We are now good to go.
Cheers all 🍷🍷

Ps. If anyone wants to volunteer for outside catering that would be👍🏻

[Walkingdeadfangirl]

Glad to hear the WAB scrapped through.

Sad that so many Labour back benchers defied Corbyns whip. 😂🤣😁😂🤣😅

[Walkingdeadfangirl]

wow AutumnRose sounds like you have had an interesting life

[SingingLily]

I am also not liking that rich Tory donors can buy themselves EU citizenship if they have £1m to invest in Cyprus

I don't like the fact that rich people with seriously dodgy credentials from anywhere can buy themselves EU citizenship in Cyprus, or Malta for that matter. Oleg Deripaska may have eventually been stripped of his Cypriot citizenship but how many others slipped under the net and stayed there?

Citizenship is a birthright or a status earned through residency and good behaviour. Or should be.

[HateIsNotGood]

Evening All - a pint of Best please. I'm really knackered so haven't got much to say, so I'll just plonk myself by the fire and stare at it.

I'm just relieved really and Our Borrie seems to be doing a fine job so far (bearing in mind it's been just a week) and so, so much better to have a Parliament that works now - as in that v irritating MN saying "that's how it works". Throws log on fire.

And walking yes, it seems so, lots of intrestin' people frequent The Arms.

[yellowallpaper]

I can't stop laughing at how Remainers had websites devoted to tactical voting, while those thick, ignorant northerners who don't even know how to use the Internet, looked at their communities and the voting pattern and destroyed the labour red wall with their tactical vote.

[ChrismArseDarkly]

Re workers rights, child refugees etc - it's actually daft to have that in a bill which is about exiting the EU

Anyway, who cares about that stupid stuff? Workers rights is just another excuse for staff to get ideas above their station. And child refugees - they should just stay where they are so people can forget all about them so can be looked after by their own people

[ChrismArseDarkly]

You're so right yellowallpaper, that is hilarious, I can't stop laughing either and it's been a whole week! I've proper pooed myself laughing

Dunno why people say that wallpaper is boring??

[BoswellSolver]

Well, that explains the smell @ChrismArseDarkly . I just assumed it was the shit falling out of your mouth.

[HateIsNotGood]

Why wouldn't we want to protect, or even increase the rights and conditions of workers - seeing as many of us here are 'workers'. Same for doing the best we can for refugees, the best things that can be done don't make headlines, nor splattered across SM - but are practically done.

Why on earth would the Arse of Christmas Past think otherwise?

[ChrismArseDarkly]

Tee hee Boswell that's a zinger

I've said it before and i'll say it again, you really put the original Boswell to shame! You are funnier and more 'highly intelligent' and probably much better looking and everything.

[ChrismArseDarkly]

Boris Johnson is a One Person Tory

[Saucery]

We are going to continue to take in child refugees aren’t we?

Some people need to crack open the Baileys or the benzos and start to plan Christmas . All this angst, based on nothing. Must be a bit hectic to be them

[AutumnRose1]

Saucery hey, I like my benzos any time I can get them 😂

[DustyDiamond]

🕺

Just report & ignore

The 🦊 is a visitor of old who is 😭 because no one other than a few 🧦 🧦 posted on their dull pity party thread

💭 & 🙏 with the poor 🐑

🙏 🕯 🥀

[Walkingdeadfangirl]

Remainers still dont get it. We are leaving the EU, we will make our OWN laws.
I just dont understand that after Boris got a landslide victory and Corbyn was disgraced do they still bleat on about the EU determining what our workers rights are.

Oh well at least we dont have to listen to their nonsense any more. Another round?

[BoswellSolver]

DustyDiamond I've just popped over to see what thread you meant.....it's even more pitiful than I imagined 😅

[MarySidney]

"Britain’s working class has now not only seen off the yuppie populism embodied in the “People’s Vote” campaign, they have achieved something virtually unprecedented in the political history of the EU – they have disciplined their own ruling class to abide by the outcome of an EU referendum."


Excellent!

[XingMing]

Small businesses will continue, as ours always has subject to the year's trading results to share the profits with the employees who make the profit. As we have done today: we aim to pay a 13th month of salary to everyone who has worked for us for a year, at Christmas. How much it is depends on trading, but this year, everyone (except the owners) has had a full 13th month salary payment. But instead of making it an entitlement, it always depends on what happened during the year. Some years, we have lost money, and as the owners, we have gone without paying ourselves to keep our team together, because we have great people and want to keep them employed. When we prosper, everyone shares the success.

[HateIsNotGood]

Thanks Xing - too often it's asserted that Employers don't care about their Wokforce - but many do, like yourself; what doesn't help is the Employers who don't - who go strictly by efficiency/sales/costs models.

Globalization has fuelled this and all the consumerist ills that have followed - FOM and an unlimited workforce who don't have the same living costs as the indigeneous workforce will always be a minus factor for the rights, wages and conditions of the indigeneous workforce.

Another pint please, throws log on fire, exchanges look with H, who gives Hate a Twiglet.

[XingMing]

I sort of understand why global employers have to play that game. But we don't, and we only have eight staff, so we try to make sure that a good year for us is also a good year for the people we employ. FWIW, nobody has ever left us except to retire, or to do something completely different.

[DuckWillow]

This is an important thread tbh. It is so hard to read anything without some kind of spin on it.

Walking yes I still think it’s odd there was no cover about Corbyn being awarded some kind of peace prize when it was certainly news outside of the UK. My feeling is that had this been Boris Johnson then there would have been fanfare.

Corbyn is not a leader and there is no way I wanted him as PM. However the media silence here on whatever peace award he got speaks volumes.

It seems in our media we get news with spin or they don’t report at all if it doesn’t suit them.

I could be up in arms if I took seriously the reports about the workers rights and refugee children today. It’s been reported in the way the various sides want to report it with no explanation. We get black or white and little information about the grey. I’ve practically given up bothering reading news as it’s mostly propaganda and spin.

[SingingLily]

I still think it’s odd there was no cover about Corbyn being awarded some kind of peace prize when it was certainly news outside of the UK.

It was reported in the Daily Mail at the time, Duck, and I recall reading about it in the Telegraph at the time. However, as Walking pointed out earlier upthread, the Sean McBride Peace Prize is named after a former IRA Chief of Staff (therefore someone who would have carried responsibility for approving for the kidnapping and torture or murder of people). It was also previously awarded to Chelsea Manning so it's not exactly the sort of award the vast majority of people in this country would be proud to have on their mantelpiece. Why do you feel it should have been given greater prominence in the press?

[DuckWillow]

Ah thank you,, I didn’t know what it was. Just that it was recent.

[DuckWillow]

I just thought it should have been reported ...the leader of a political party being getting a peace award is news.

However I didn’t know what it was or who had awarded it.

[DuckWillow]

It was a prize awarded by the International Peace Bureau apparently.

I don’t know the history of that particular award (the Sean MacBride award) but it’s from a long standing peace organisation.

More reading to do of the site,