Westministenders: This is not the Brexit we voted for

[ListeningQuietly]

UK Shellfish industry destroyed because our inshore waters are not clean enough
Welsh Ports on their knees because the Land Bridge has found another route
Horticulture seed producers lost all of their mainland EU customers

Antique dealers lost access to their suppliers
Small businesses being told (by UK Govt) to relocate to the EU to avoid red tape
Brits in the EU discovering that stopping Free Movement applies to them too
Northern Ireland in Unionist flames because there is a border between them and Great Britain, but not the Republic
And the UK has still not taken control of its borders

Brexit is shaping up as predicted, but none of those who voted for it seem to have what they wanted

A video of Johnson lying to Parliament reaches 10 million views.

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Gosh I do find the Independent impossible to read on my phone. Jumps about, ads and videos everywhere. Why do they do that?! They used to be a decent paper but they are just useless now.

I saw someone on twitter last night saying that David Cameron's involvement in Greensill is going to be investigated by a Cavid Dameron.

The Prime Minister said he did not think arrangements he agreed with the EU would involve restrictions on the movements of food products such as sausages, on parcel deliveries and on soil from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland

That just goes to show he didn't do any basic research into the EU or the SM.
If a bunch of relatively uninformed MNs can see the problems, why couldn't he and Frost not see them?

@jasjas1973, he did not want to see them.

In fairness to Clav (and Johnson), after the way things went tits-up with the Scotland visit, I can see why he would stay away from Northern Ireland.

The car crash has happened. We are into the bloody aftermath now, where you count your fingers and toes and see what is still working.

@HannibalHayes

I saw someone on twitter last night saying that David Cameron's involvement in Greensill is going to be investigated by a Cavid Dameron.

I wont have anyone denigrating Cavid Dameron on this thread, his impartiality is unquestioned

I know it's puerile but made me laugh

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-translation-sign-outside-town-20380441?fbclid=IwAR2h2ndiRr3dldCwfn5pCRTcdgdshSNliH3Vmqz7vSvOtijZFbunaHfFF_A

@Jason118

I know it's puerile but made me laugh

[[https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-translation-sign-outside-town-20380441?fbclid=IwAR2h2ndiRr3dldCwfn5pC]]RTcdgdshSNliH3Vmqz7vSvOtijZFbunaHfFF_A

I know it's puerile but made me laugh.

Agreed. And that Soviet Style poster to the left of it is pretty stunning too.

This will be lost on the man in question, because he is extremely unlikely to speak Welsh, being a Home Counties Tory.

But it's an opportunity to remind people that when old deadwood Redwood was the Welsh Secretary he was caught miming the Welsh National Anthem.

These threads are so valuable, now I know the Welsh for arsehole.

Miming is a bit of an exaggeration. 'Miming' would imply he knew the words.

Another bit of light relief...

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Peregrina
Clavinova please read the threads. It should not have escaped your notice that many of us think that Starmer made a big mistake on supporting Johnson's deal. The nodding dogs would have seen that it went through.

I did read the thread! Why would I let you forget that Starmer supported Johnson's deal? Don't be daft.

ListeningQuietly
I can see no evidence at all that Boris Johnson left London in Mid March.
He certainly did not go to Northern Ireland as far as I can see.

You didn't look very far:

Reuters - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has his temperature taken as he arrives at Axial 3D offices in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March, 12, 2021.

www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-nireland-idUKKBN2B71JU

The Times 13 March 2021 -

The British prime minister said that he was in “listening mode” as he held frank discussions with the DUP during a visit to Belfast and Co Fermanagh yesterday.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-calls-for-trade-symmetry-in-northern-ireland-b5skm5wp0

pointythings
(JD Sports to open Dublin warehouse)
yes, but a chippy in Grimsby has taken on an additional cashier, so Brexit is doing wonders for the economy!

I don't know about chippies in Grimsby but "the UK's first "gigafactory" has moved a step closer."

12 April 2021 -
Britishvolt said it had bought the 235-acre (95 hectare) Blyth Power Station site and would have "spades in the soil" by the summer.

The plant will produce lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, with production scheduled to start in 2023.

About 3,000 jobs are expected to be created.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-56711116

12 April 2021 -
Timberland, North Face and Vans invest millions in UK hub.

www.business-live.co.uk/ports-logistics/timberland-north-face-vans-invest-20355874

HannibalHayes
"One in four small U.K. exporters have halted sales to the European Union because of red tape caused by Brexit"

The Bloomberg article in your link appears to be very misleading with regard to sample size in the survey. Bloomberg say; according to the survey of almost 1,500 firms - however the FSB have a note on their website which suggests that the majority of small businesses in the survey were not exporters (or importers);

Notes to editors
1) FSB surveyed 1,483 businesses between 1 and 15 March 2021 of which 207 were importers and/or exporters.

www.fsb.org.uk/resources-page/one-in-four-small-exporters-halt-eu-sales-three-months-on-from-transition-end-new-study-finds.html

And Reuters ran an article on the same day as Bloomberg which states;

In the survey by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), 30 out of 132 exporters said they had stopped sales to the European Union temporarily, while five reported having done so permanently.

www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-exports-idUKKBN2BK0RV

Encouraging export figures yesterday;

www.politico.eu/article/uk-goods-trade-with-eu-signals-recovery/

logistics.org.uk/media/press-releases/2021/april/statement-from-logistics-uk-re-ons-figures-on-uk-t

.. not fake ..

@ListeningQuietly

.. not fake ..

"Don't worry if this effects you"

affects surely ?

It's richly ironic that if an English proficiency qualification was needed to be - or remain - a citizen. we'd lose a lot of the Tories overnight.

A video of Johnson lying to Parliament reaches 10 million views.

Does the video also point out that Keir Starmer quoted an out of date projection in the same exchange (on poverty) in Parliament?

Full Fact -
Mr Starmer also claimed that child poverty was projected to rise to 5.2 million by 2022. This is also from the SMoC report, which seems to quote estimates based on projections made by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in 2017. The IFS projected that child poverty would rise from 30% in 2015/16 to 37% in 2021/22. But if the projections had played out for real, then we’d expect child poverty to be at around 35% by now. Given that relative child poverty is still 30% (unchanged since 2015/16), we don’t think these projections are still valid.

fullfact.org/economy/child-poverty-keir-starmer-boris-johnson/

oven ready [deal]

Channel 4 Fact Check -

Shaky evidence for Starmer’s attack on Johnson Brexit promise.

www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-shaky-evidence-for-starmers-attack-on-johnson-brexit-promise

But what are your comments on the actual video CnPova?

Enough whataboutery, how about owning your own shit?

twitter.com/kieransmyth97/status/1380481210422595585?s=20

(Trying to disguise my verbose writing style...)

Randox has been the Grand National sponsor since 2017. But plenty of questions about Owen Paterson’s advisor position with Randox (£100k per year) and Randox winning Government contracts with no other firms being asked to bid.

Randox are based in Northern Ireland. To be fair - the company does seem like the obvious choice.

Irish Times - December 2020

Inside Randox, the Northern Irish firm at the heart of UK’s Covid testing effort.

The Co Antrim company maintains that recent negative reports are ‘simply not true.’

By anyone’s standards, the way the company has responded to the pandemic is impressive, despite some controversy both over how it secured contracts with the UK government and alleged testing issues.

Just two weeks after Chinese authorities shared the genetic map, or genome, of the virus, Randox had developed its own test for Covid-19. By the end of March it was completing 150 tests a day: this has since risen to more than 80,000 a day and the company plans to expand this further, to 100,000, with its site in Dungloe, Co Donegal, currently being upgraded to boost testing capacity...

The company identified the fourth positive Covid case in the UK.

www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/inside-randox-the-northern-irish-firm-at-the-heart-of-uk-s-covid-testing-effort-1.4426601

It is estimated that each year 5 per cent of the world’s population – more than 370 million people in 145 countries – receive a health diagnosis via a product manufactured by Randox.

www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/randox-to-create-200-jobs-and-invest-30m-in-covid-19-testing-lab-1.4270597

But what are your comments on the actual video CnPova?

Enough whataboutery, how about owning your own shit?

But what are your comments on the actual video CnPova?

In the profile link the filmmaker describes himself;

Stefanovic is a high profile Lawyer, no bullshit Journalist, blogger, Filmmaker, campaigner, Labour supporter...

Sigh..... again avoiding the question..... are you sure you're not Boris Johnson......

PS that's not a compliment.....