Westminstenders: Tachographs and Empty Shelves

[pointythings]

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?

Not just new customers. Existing customers who renew their contract or change their plan will be affected, too.

I can just imagine the headlines in the 'Mail and 'Express in a year or two when families run up £100s in data charges once again.....

Price worth payin mind you!

It will be the EU being unreasonable again.

Thisismoney website, part of the Daily Mail stable, is clear about this.

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-9876397/Vodafone-start-charging-customers-roaming-charges-EU-year.html

3rd sub-header "Charging users was banned under EU law but after Brexit, this is no longer the case"

Some selected quotes from the beginning of the story:
"[Vodafone] joins EE in re-introducing the charges after the UK left the EU.
...
Mobile firms were banned from charging customers extra fees to use their UK allowance of minutes, texts and data in Europe while the UK was still part of the EU.

However, now the post-Brexit transition is over, these rules no longer apply."

One of the key tenets of the EU - heavily pushed for by the UK - was that consumers should be treated the same whatever member state they were in.

No matter - What reason have Leavers for visiting the EU?

BuT LeAvErS kNeW WhaT ThEy VOteD fOr!

I used PressReader rather than signing up to the Fail's website

www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20210810/281844351693901

In its story the DM is blaming Vodafone and the December Brexit trade deal, rather than the vote to leave the EU.

Can't blame its readers for their vote, evidently. Still, it's not "the EU is being mean".

kent brexit voters to be stuffed permanently
As expected, of course the real question will be what other sunset clauses will be 'quietly' removed...

@FrankieStein402

kent brexit voters to be stuffed permanently As expected, of course the real question will be what other sunset clauses will be 'quietly' removed...

Won't anyone think of the house prices children ?

I can start to see why the North voted Tory. Not only have they got to fuck tower block leaseholders over. They also got to fuck Kent over. What my ghastly MiL would call "a twofer" ...

I trust that Leave voters in Kent are delighted to see that we can make our own laws.

@Peregrina

I trust that Leave voters in Kent are delighted to see that we can make our own laws.

It would be ironic if the present developments would have faced challenges under EU law.

I recall how Brexiters told us that we could now improve conditions on things like animal testing.

@Peregrina

I recall how Brexiters told us that we could now improve conditions on things like animal testing.

It's almost as though none of it were true...

First Supermarket deliveries, now Ambulances...

Jesus wept. More than half of Conbrexative voters still think that immigration is the most important issue facing the country!

Where the fuck do these people come from?

BuT BrEXit wAsn'T AbOUt ImMigRaTioN!

Perhaps they are worried that there are not enough immigrants to stack the shelves, pick the veg, wipe their arses and serve them in Wetherspoons? It has got to the point where no one can pretend this isn't a problem now, after all.

@HannibalHayeski

Jesus wept. More than half of Conbrexative voters still think that immigration is the most important issue facing the country!

Where the fuck do these people come from?

In my rabid brexit fanatic mother's case, from a leafy, home counties village where the only immigration she encounters is interlopers from the village across the bridge who descend on the village fete to steal the prizes for best vegetables.

...but it's them thar hordes of terrorists immigrants being smuggled across the Channel, overwhelming our Welfare State and frightening the douce inhabitants of Kent and it's all the pesky EU's fault

That poll reveals the extent of the culture war which has been set loose on the UK.

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@prettybird

...but it's them thar hordes of terrorists immigrants being smuggled across the Channel, overwhelming our Welfare State and frightening the douce inhabitants of Kent and it's all the pesky EU's fault

That makes sense prettybird. It’s those constant headlines and of course Nige helping Johnson and co to keep up their misdirection.

Who needs to worry about underfunded health care, huge backlogs of surgery, a social care crisis, govt waste and millions to mates, millions for a new royal yacht, attacks on the judiciary, the press, an impending climate crisis, etc etc etc when there are immigrants on boats coming across the channel!?

Terrorists ? Just wait until the crack teams that will be trained in Afghanistan start popping up all over the place. Thank goodness Brexit had no impact on the UKs security.

Going back to mobile roaming charges, the London Economic has some prime examples of this being scorned as part of Project Fear before the referendum.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-economics/business/vodafone-reintroduces-roaming-charges-brexit-blog-comes-back-to-haunt-writer-285251/?fbclid=IwAR3ppfJTKRyaHeN6wKi48C17GVnmAS9Cqr0EnEY0rWu4YOXtVHY6JhLm_n0

John Redwood gets a dishonourable mention, naturally.

I particularly liked the screenshot from Parody Boris Johnson (scroll down a bit).