The Brexit Arms: Are We Nearly There Yet? 🇬🇧🚗↩️🇪🇺

[SingingLily]

No, not yet, but soon. Just 24 more sleeps until we legally leave the EU at 11pm on 31 January and finally enter the transition period after what seems like centuries of argument, dither and delay. We do so with hope, optimism and a determination to be a good friend and neighbour to the EU, but for now, no one said it better than Winston Churchill.

“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”

The Pub Rule is the same as it always was: all welcome but only if you leave goadery outside. The first drink is on the house.

So you actually don't have anything to say then Eddie - looks like all the advice given here is correct, shouldn't feed you.

Another Pint please, looks like H is here taking up the other fireside rocker, so we'll just be nodding, or deliberately ignoring each other, as we do.

Log-rolling - H just said that - I think he/she is referring to a way of governmentally making 'trade offs'; daren't mention that I first came across this in the 1990s in USofA.

The term directly relates to sending huge logs (in a flow) down a river and people would stand on them rotating them in opposite directions with their legs. For amusement (betting mostly) as falling in would pretty much mean death. They didn't have TV and SM back then.

This translated into a governmental mechanism whereby the tax paid on Imports (of certain things) are used to subsidize 'other things', including state-aided programmes, such as free USDA food provided to the needy.

Not heard much more about the UK Fishing vs EU Financial Markets thing yet; but similar to H, I thought of log-rolling.

Trying to suggest people are Trolls because you don't like what they post = nastiness

“Am just about to watch this mornings hustings.
I must be very bored.”

Not even I am that bored, plus it is just too depressing. Highly recommend the Mallorca Files on iplayer instead.

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Lofty....I know him, I just can’t bring the info to the front of my brain...not going to google because it’s cheating 🤔

Going back to the business thing... of course uncertainty is bad for business, but most of the people on this thread voted for it, so have got what they wanted. We have at least another year (approx) of uncertainty to look forward to, so I hope all your businesses/employers are robust.

Walking - I believe troll hunting is against Mumsnet rules? And do you really equate dissent with trolling?

Sounds like there are going to be a big chunk of disaffected Tory mp's again when their constituents start barracking them about price rises.

Autumn 'Chelle never knew what a diamond she had imho.

And do you really equate dissent with trolling?

Seems so. The equivalent of dissent being equated with Treason in the outside world

😂😂😂😂😂 Dusty!

Must be difficult being a Right Wing Remainer these days.

Lofty....I know him, I just can’t bring the info to the front of my brain...not going to google because it’s cheating 🤔

😂😂😂

As Howabout said, 'Chelle was a fool to treat him as she did

Den was a wrongun but she couldn't leave it 😟

Sounds like there are going to be a big chunk of disaffected Tory mp's again when their constituents start barracking them about price rises.
Again, it's what the people voted for.

Eastenders! I did get that before your clues, Dusty

Mum said I was too little to watch it and used to say it shouldn’t be on before the watershed.

Well, at least Jarvis accepts there will be casualties.

Let's just hope it's 'others', not you.

As ever.

Love the autocorrect of 'Javid' to 'Jarvis'. What do they know? 🤔

"Going back to the business thing... of course uncertainty is bad for business, but most of the people on this thread voted for it, so have got what they wanted."

I'll have to disagree with you on that point Arkadas - 3+ years of uncertainty is not what anyone voted for in the 2016 Ref nor since.

The uncertainty wasn't caused by anything but the HoC writhing through its angst to get to the position of needing a GE with a resulting majority in order to get its Act together (pun intended).

Voted for, or not, it's what we have all experienced, and now we are at where we are all at right now. At least we can proceed, rather than thrashing around seeing who drowns first.

There is now some certainity to proceed with, please own your support of creating the very damaging uncertainity that all businesses in the UK and EU have operated under the past few years at the very least.

Labour Hustings seem to be living in a pre Corbyn era, hardly any mention of him. You wouldn't know they just were in the middle of a crisis.
Did anyone know it was the EU that funded Liverpool? And it was Liverpool and Labour against the big bad Boris, the fake news media, social media, the evil Tories, the Sun....
No one had a plan for the future, they were all saying the same thing, evil Tories bla bla bla Boris bad bla bla bla...
No sign Labour is going to do anything other than continue as a party of protest for the next decade.

Starmer: Has his head shrunk or has his body got bigger?
Wrong Bailey: Just a nobody.
Nandy: I liked her.
Phillips: Holding back the tears.
Lady Nugee: Don't wear red in front of a red background.

“There is now some certainity to proceed with, please own your support of creating the very damaging uncertainity that all businesses in the UK and EU have operated under the past few years at the very least.”

Well said Hate.

Is it too late to get Jarvis into the race ?
He'd be good. Even looks like Corbyn's love child.
#jarvis4pm

Loving your break down of the candidates there Walking! 😂😂😂👍

I used to work in Liverpool in the era of Militant. I received my redundancy notice, delivered by taxi from Derek Hatton. I was responsible for the EEC objective 1 money that poured into Liverpool. However because it had to be spent on specific projects, and be match funded, a lot of it went unspent.

The EU did not fund Liverpool.

Cats, he would be ideal!

He is just a modest, St Martins, working class lad, who knows all about living like ‘common people’ after all. He probably shits flat caps too.

And to add sorry to hear of businesses going down.

Just looked in on the other thread.
According to a regular poster there we leavers are "knuckle dragging bigmouths"

Good job they are always nice to visitors. Fuck knows what they would say if they were being nasty.