Westminstenders: Tachographs and Empty Shelves

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So Grant Shapps' solution to the shortage of lorry drivers is to allow them to drive longer hours.

Leading to more accidents and deaths on the UK's roads. But Brexit is Job Done and all is well - isn't it?

here's Nick Tolhurst's game plan @nicktolhurst

"Stage 7 could be reached within 18 months & definitely if there’s a new govt.

Stage 9 won’t come until after 2030.
It may never be reached but alignment can take you 90% of the way there anyway."

twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1423579189324750851

Latest Chris Grey blog

Britain's Brexit slow puncture. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog looks at what's to come in terms of travel, import controls, investment, conformity assessment, regional development etc. Slow-burn damage, making a definitive 'day of judgment' unlikely: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/britains-brexit-slow-puncture.html

It's hard to know whether Chris Grey will be right on the lack of a day of judgement. The Scottish Independence issue is unlikely to go away, despite the propaganda now saying that support for Independence is waning.

Within the next decade the Queen is sure to pass away, making it much more likely that many Commonwealth countries decide not to have the British monarch as Head of State. Murdoch also is 90 or so, so what will happen to his Empire? Added to this the deplorable way that young people have been treated with both Covid and Brexit, and they are unlikely to be forgiving of the current political régimes. So there will be changes afoot, and how they interact makes forevasting the future unpredictable.

I want to know who was Project Manager on Project Fear. I don't think I've ever seen a project quite so accurate in my life...

I wonder how bad it’s going to get in the Supermarkets?

[quote HarrietPierce]Latest Chris Grey blog

Britain's Brexit slow puncture. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog looks at what's to come in terms of travel, import controls, investment, conformity assessment, regional development etc. Slow-burn damage, making a definitive 'day of judgment' unlikely: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/britains-brexit-slow-puncture.html[/quote]
Thanks for sharing that link.

Catma2021 I don’t know how bad it’ll get, but here’s an interesting article on 20 reasons why there’s a U.K. haulage driver shortage and none of them are going away or being solved soon.

orynski.eu/20-reasons-why-there-is-shortage-of-drivers-in-the-uk/

Added to this the deplorable way that young people have been treated with both Covid and Brexit, and they are unlikely to be forgiving of the current political régimes.

The way people who grew up being shat on by the Tories in the 80s trampled each other underfoot to vote for them in 2019 suggests that isn't the case.

Seeing the pictures of empty shelves immediately made me think "what a great advertising opportunity !" ... maybe not quite the entrepreneurial spirit the Brexiteers had in mind, but fuck it, I'd see if I could knock up an online portal that allowed people to pay to have a card slotted into the empty shelves and pay a few pennies to the supermarkets. That's if they haven't had the idea already.

On a more serious note, I think we were getting a tad too spoiled for choice as it was. The is a level at which too much choice is as bad for the environment as too little.

A while back we we’re having a discussion on flags and the current gov’ts obsession with spending tens of thousands on buying them.

Oliver Dowden going so far as to demand absolutely broke councils also spend £ they don’t have buying them. In this article they’ve included a quote from Samuel Johnson that sums up my views on excessive flag willy waving… patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel

Sadly I agree with Chris Grey that there will be no moment of acknowledgment, no dawning realisation, no anger at being lied to or emotions exploited, no regret at having voted for this sh*tshow. Too many people are insulated from the impacts with any empty shelves conveniently blamed on nasty EU. Indeed, we’ve been told here that this exactly what was expected.

Most of those i know who voted to Leave - and of course I’m not saying this was the reason why ALL Brexiteers voted - was some peculiar and innate sense of no one especially from the EU is going to tell me what to do chip on their shoulder. Stirred up by our erstwhile press and indignant reinforcement of the papers commentary over drinks at the local pub/golf club etc.

That sense has not gone away… they won’t read the likes of Chris Grey or Keleman’s Twitter thread or the London Economic or Bylines or the FT or even really the BBC… they read the Torygraph or DM/Express.

So all is fine in their world.

Very few "Brexit benefits" for Daniel Lambert (Wines)
twitter.com/DanielLambert29/status/1423915344264114182

Sadly I agree with Chris Grey that there will be no moment of acknowledgment, no dawning realisation, no anger at being lied to or emotions exploited, no regret at having voted for this sh*tshow. Too many people are insulated from the impacts with any empty shelves conveniently blamed on nasty EU. Indeed, we’ve been told here that this exactly what was expected.

Already the narrative has shifted to make it out that Brexit - like "austerity" was something that just Had To Happen. Much like it was accepted that WW1 "just had to happen" in it's immediate aftermath.

After all which is more palatable ???

Now that our vaccination programme is no longer world beating, what will what will the blond buffoon cling to now ?

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/06/six-eu-states-overtake-uk-covid-vaccination-britain-rollout-slows

[quote HarrietPierce]Now that our vaccination programme is no longer world beating, what will what will the blond buffoon cling to now ?

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/06/six-eu-states-overtake-uk-covid-vaccination-britain-rollout-slows[/quote]
....stick a few more EU countries on the red list and come out with "our world class travel restriction policy which has kept us all safe during the pandemic"

Disturbing expose of the mindset of pfeffel and cameron - why they won't treat anything seriously - from brexit to climate change - we are so f*cked.
sad little boys

Frankie I was just reading about that book and thought about posting here. It’s bloody depressing. Especially when Richard Beard pointed out this system has endured for 600 years 🤯

The 2019 report by the Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission, Elitist Britain 2019, paints a mostly unchanged picture. Private schools account for nearly 70% of the judges and barristers in the country. To this list can be added more than 50% of bishops and ministers of state and lord lieutenants and the England cricket team, these doors not even half open to anyone else

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/07/relaunched-brexit-party-has-bank-account-shut/

Anyone fancy helping out the government with Trade and Cooperation meetings? They haven't a clue so it's best if we help them out.

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-engagement-with-business-and-civil-society-groups

Anyone remember this classic?

"No 10 deny plan for Army role in 'no deal' Brexit"...

Project real once more...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58146039

@Jason118 beat me to it.

Roaming charges - they weren't going to return, were they?

Actually I'm sitting here in Spain on Vodaphone, and I don't have roaming charges.
Thankfully

@KonTikki

Actually I'm sitting here in Spain on Vodaphone, and I don't have roaming charges. Thankfully

It's for new accounts and from January. Tok much bad press otherwise, probably. Still, we were told this wouldn't happen and yet here we are.

Not only were roaming charges not going to return, May bragged about being responsible for them being cancelled.