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?

I thought we were short of vets because the vast majority who supervise abbatoirs were EU citizens who have gone home.

Brexiteers. Running away from Brexit like a dog from the smell of it's own farts.

We might be entering the ridicule phase quicker than I dared hope. A testament to the speed of modern media.

Have to dash, my boss is about to record a podcast

Free the vets 😂

@BettyAndFrank

Free the vets 😂

Well it is a three word slogan. Better than the previous ones IMO

.pmk after a long break!

Johnson’s Brexshit First Strategy Collides With Empty Shop Shelves

“They don’t want to admit that free movement of workers has brought some benefit to the U.K.,” said Jessop, who has been a public defender of leaving the EU. “That might look like a lack of confidence in Brexit.”

Day ahead electricity prices
lots of reasons why current UK prices are so much higher than anywhere else but bb (before brexit) we'd have been able to take advantage of lower priced EU energy via the interconnect - automatically. Now it's rather more complex - ie costly.

Morning to all the familiar faces and hope you are all well!
My local Co-Op has had a sign up for weeeeks apologising for lack of products and choice due to delivery issues. No mention it's Brexit lol! My new mobility car which was due in August won't be here till at least October but I'm not sure who to blame!
My dgd is looking forward to 2 nd year Uni and hoping for FtF learning🤞

According to British Gas informing me I'm gonna pay £89 extra for same amount of energy at the same time as the Government is taking away the triple lock on my basic state pension. Meanwhile my DD on minimum wage which is now frozen for 5 years and has no hope of ever owning her own home along with my dgd and most of her generation have got to pay for others care whilst they sit in their million + homes or insure they pass it on to their already over privileged children.

BuT BreXiteRs KneW wHAt tHey wErE VoTiNG FoR!

Quite a volte-face from the BBC this morning. Nick Robinson almost cutting the vaccine minister off for being a useless tosser.

BuT BreXiteRs KneW wHAt tHey wErE VoTiNG FoR!

Quite so, this is what "Sovrenty" costs.

More Brexshit winning!

UK govt confirms that companies & organisations are allowed to dump untreated sewage now that UK has left the European Union.

Woopoo! Just look at those shit covered sunlit uplands!

We were talking about that upthread @HannibalHayeski - and @Peregrina remembered that an expert audience member on QT had warned of exactly this happening and had been shouted down by a Brexshitter on the panel

The pejorative term seems particularly appropriate at the moment

It's telling that it is the Government's own official website that is admitting as Reason No.1 that it is because of the UK's new relationship with the EU

Shitty Sunny uplands indeed

Hands up all those looking forwards to playing the traditional British game of Dodge The Turd next time they take the kids to the seaside.

Do we remember how Brexiters swore that leaving the EU would enable us to raise standards?

@Peregrina

Do we remember how Brexiters swore that leaving the EU would enable us to raise standards?

Indeed.

Funny how they've all gone rather quiet now. Even Clavinonothing hasn't come to try and deflect to Truss' latest marvelous trade deal with Eric from Whitstable...

The worm is turning though. The treatment the hapless Nadhim Zahawi got this morning was - by BBC standards - brutal. If anyone has a few minutes to spare it's worth a listen. Then you can justify it by catching up with the ever amiable Jim Al Khalili talking to Hannah Fry in "The Life Scientific".

Has anyone else bumped into someone who has "forgotten" how they voted yet.

All of which being said, if the former Red Wall want to carry on voting Tory (you'd think some might have realised their parents were right) then they can suck up the next tax rise and the one after that. Because now the principle has been established - that a Tory government can raise taxes breaking it's manifesto - then they will do it again and again.

The Dane-Geld springs to mind.

DGR - I think it has already been established in law that Manifesto commitments do not have to be kept. Personally, I think that is reasonable enough - it's a manifesto to say what they would like to do and 'events, dear boy, events' come along to derail them. However, with Johnson, who lies and cheats his way through life, I doubt whether he even read the Manifesto, never mind planned to try to keep to it.

Well, he blatantly lied about having an "oven ready deal" although to be fair, those exact words weren't used in the Manifesto

....over 8 months later and by his own negotiator's admission, the recipe still needs adjusting before going back into the oven

But what did the idiots gullible expect when they voted for a known liar?

But Corbyn

DEFRA allowing “discharges from water treatment works that cannot comply with permit conditions because of an unavoidable shortages of chemicals to treat effluent”.

Unavoidable?

@FrankieStein402

DEFRA allowing “discharges from water treatment works that cannot comply with permit conditions because of an unavoidable shortages of chemicals to treat effluent”.

Unavoidable?

I can recall a threat to water supplies being derided as "Project Fear".

As I mentioned before, I'd like to know who was Project Manager on Project Fear.

I don't think I've ever seen a project come in more accurately, or more on budget!

Morning all. Just thought I'd share this...

Hannibal that would be funny if it wasn't so close to the truth.