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Westministenders: Festive Edition

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RedToothBrush · 22/12/2020 21:00

Good King BBBBaBoris looked out,
on the Port of Dover,
There the shit lay round about,
Deep around the stopover;
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Tho’ the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Delivering stuff for Yule.

“Bugger SAGE and stand by me,
We've all stuff that needs selling,
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?”
“Sire, he lives a good league hence,
The other side the EU;
Though relations maybe tense,
He's trying to get goods through.”

“Oh god I need another wine,
I have many crisis to consider:
We must tell them its all fine,
I must not be seen to dither.”
SAGE and monarch, forth they went,
forth they went together;
Through the nation's sad lament
and really crappy weather.

“Sire, our plight is darker now,
And the covid transmission stronger;
Fails my heart, I know not how;
To keep Tier 2 much longer.”
“Soon we can drop their wage.
And treat them all more coldly
In Britain's new chrony age
A time to rob more boldly.”

In their master’s steps they trod,
On the quest to get minted;
Each and every last sod
Needs to be fingerprinted.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
DWP claimants are processing,
Ye who now will bless the poor,
God its all so depressing.

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AuldAlliance · 24/12/2020 15:35

Erasmus:
twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1342125765987627012?s=20

No surprise to me, but really fecking angry on behalf of all the students, in the UK and the EU, who'll lose out, all the apprentices whose opportunities have been scuppered, and future generations of schoolkids whose MFL teachers won't have been able to improve their language skills.

ListeningQuietly · 24/12/2020 15:36

What about services
What about banking
What about science
What about food standards
this will take YEARS to sort properly

derxa · 24/12/2020 15:36

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TheElementsOfMedical · 24/12/2020 15:39

Let the BeLeavers call it a Great Brexitannian Triumph, I'm not going to bother arguing.

(Although I give it 3 nanoseconds before the first cries of "Betrayal! BullyingPunishment! DontTheyKnowWhoWeAre? NotBrexityEnough!" start).

If the chaos of No Deal is indeed averted for the coming months, that's the bare minimum I wanted. Goes without saying, surely, that any "deal" was always going to be worse than what we already had as members of the club.

Peregrina · 24/12/2020 15:40

As a sheep farmer derxa - do you seen anything (yet) that is going to either improve your business, or at least keep it the same? Or is it too soon to say, because we haven't seen the detail?

OopNorfDahnSarf · 24/12/2020 15:42

Apparently we can now" cherish our landscape " so that's alright then - sarcastic emoji

ListeningQuietly · 24/12/2020 15:43

I am pleased that people like Derxa have not been sold down the river in the way no deal would have done
but this is still so much worse than what we had before 2016 Sad

ListeningQuietly · 24/12/2020 15:46

Interestingly re farming, Private Eye did an analysis of how a post CAP UK agricultural policy could work and benefit proactive farmers rather than laggards.
basically rewarding farmers for having things, not for doing them, thus early adopters of ideas get more money that latecomers

I'd like to think it might happen

OchonAgusOchonO · 24/12/2020 15:46

From the BBC - But in response to the devastating impact of the Covid crisis on many businesses, the UK government has chosen to delay by six months the imposition of full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU, although there will still be checks for controlled substances.

Nothing to do with the fact they spent the last 4 years pissing about rather than actually preparing.

LouiseCollins28 · 24/12/2020 15:51

Deal Sealed. Apparently it's done, I'd have preferred it were sorted weeks ago but there we are, a deal is a deal. First reaction, big relief and a well done to all involved.

cherin · 24/12/2020 15:52

@OopNorfDahnSarf

Apparently we can now" cherish our landscape " so that's alright then - sarcastic emoji
That’s more or less the extent of his speech I managed to listen. Then I switched it off with a (silent) expletive. He can go fck himself in his celebration of story spinning. Glad we do have something- the alternative was unthinkable. But just looking at his face raises my pressure. One can’t and should not feel so violent on Xmas eve...
Justiceisblind · 24/12/2020 15:56

sorry if this is a silly question but when will we see the text - does anyone know?

derxa · 24/12/2020 15:56

@Peregrina

As a sheep farmer derxa - do you seen anything (yet) that is going to either improve your business, or at least keep it the same? Or is it too soon to say, because we haven't seen the detail?
I don't know yet but I feel a great sense of relief for now. English farmers are going to be paid to be environmentally friendly. I don't know exactly what the Scottish Govt will do. I do know that Nicola dished out my Single Farm payment much earlier than last year. That may be because of Scottish elections coming up. Weirdly enough fat lamb prices have never been so high and breeders are getting record prices for sheep. Seed potato farmers have a problem I think twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1341833911572295681
DGRossetti · 24/12/2020 15:58

@LouiseCollins28

Deal Sealed. Apparently it's done, I'd have preferred it were sorted weeks ago but there we are, a deal is a deal. First reaction, big relief and a well done to all involved.
Don't you feel parliament should get to vote on it ?
DGRossetti · 24/12/2020 15:59

@Justiceisblind

sorry if this is a silly question but when will we see the text - does anyone know?
If you dig out the first draft of the EUs amendments to the UKs proposals in 2017 you'll have it all.

In a nice font too.

DGRossetti · 24/12/2020 16:00

I wonder if Boris fate will be to be remembered more as Chamberlain than Churchill by history ....

ListeningQuietly · 24/12/2020 16:04

Loving the fact that its not on here
europa.eu/newsroom/home_en

pollyannaperspective · 24/12/2020 16:09

Curiously we have driven that part of the A31 (both ways) adjacent to the previously mentioned some threads ago 'nightime adult games area' [dogging] but also one of the proposed holding areas for lorries bound for Portsmouth ferries, and lo, there are works commencing for one night only 29 December. Having peered at the turned temp road signs it would appear that the holding area is being established and A31 moving to lorry park on Winchester bound carriageway with single lane both directions on the Alton bound carriageway.

DGRossetti · 24/12/2020 16:11

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DGRossetti · 24/12/2020 16:14

sadly thought provoking.

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Peregrina · 24/12/2020 16:20

How many of the Tories in Government will bother themselves to read through 2000 pages?

ListeningQuietly · 24/12/2020 16:21

@Peregrina

How many of the Tories in Government will bother themselves to read through 2000 pages?
Well they have had over 3 years for most of it Wink
Peregrina · 24/12/2020 16:22

I hope that Johnson doesn't go into the Restaurant trade ever. Who when going out for a meal, would be prepared to wait 11 months for their meal? You'd expect Oven ready to come pretty much as soon as you sat down.

LouiseCollins28 · 24/12/2020 16:27

To answer a question DGR asked me, yes I think Parliament should have a vote on it. I think they'd be pretty ill advised to reject it now, but of course they should vote on it, as should any other insitutions who need to.

DGRossetti · 24/12/2020 16:28

@Peregrina

How many of the Tories in Government will bother themselves to read through 2000 pages?
Do they need to ? History suggest otherwise.

It will be interesting to watch the parliamentary maths over this one. Hopefully the ERG will vote for it, and sign their own death warrant as far as media coverage of Brexit is concerned. After all the Express will only have Princess Di conspiracy theories and EXTREME WEATHER TO BATTER BRITAIN (ENGLAND) headlines now.

I wonder what Labour will do ?

Of course, the ERGs "Star Chamber" (interesting trivia: The ERG "STar Chamber" is so called, because they took to doing star jumps while meeting as a way to overwhelm Chinese bugging devices they had imagined in their heads) might throw this out. Then what ? 40+ ERGers voting against it ? Or abstaining ?

Or are have we all been hoodwinked about the sovereignty of parliament, and all that was ever needed was a wax imprint of Boris Bottom on a vellum parchment ?

So much we have yet to find out.

I'm finding the flood of love for Farage on Twitter quite uplifting ... mainly because he must detest this deal, but he has to smile and accept everyones plaudits. I - for one - am quite happy if he wants to be "Mr Brexit" over Boris. Forever.