Brexit Megathread - Part 1 because it's not over by a long shot

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Started a new thread for all things Brexity as the last generic dumping ground reached its 1000 post limit. As this developing shitshow unfolds it's going to be important to share and unload. Clav of course will punt a contrarian view along with unrepentant 'taking back control' so-called Brexiteers. I look forward to seeing the benefits.

I was just watching a clip on Channel 4 about James Cleverly desperately trying to tell us that the shortage of HGV drivers was nothing to do with Brexit.

We want to be a high skilled high waged economy, he babbled. What chum has stopped you and your cronies doing this - you have been in power for eleven years now? Education policies were never part of the remit of the EU - why haven't you put money into education? Instead we have seen a procession of incompetents in the job. Gove, Morgan, Williamson. The only one who had much idea, Justine Greening, got the push - not Brexity enough for them.

It's almost as if they want us to believe they have only been in government since 2016 or 2019 even.

So the past couple of weeks energy companies have collapsed, people wondering how they are going to afford new bills. We can't get fuel round here, unless incredibly lucky, so people can't get into work. People changing plans to conserve fuel. We have shortages of staples like pasta both in store and online. Covid infections through the roof locally....

I could rant for ages. I don't even know what the purpose of this post is. I'm tired and angry and I feel so frustrated that there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do but watch our country sink.

Why aren't we on the streets?

Why aren't we on the streets?

Because Priti Ghastli made it illegal to protest?

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The Brexiters like to invoke WW2. You wonder how the current clowns in Government would have managed with their 'nothing to do with us' attitude.

E.g. WW1 taught Governments that food rationing would have to happen - otherwise vital factory workers would be wasting time queueing for such fripperies as essential food. Similarly so many were unfit for military service, so people needed to be well fed.

5 arrested after Iain Duncan Smith allegedly got hit on the head with a traffic cone, so people are out on the streets.

Heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time - looking like more and more people are talking truth to power and Steve Hardman of Brexit Baker worried about Brexit.

Jacob Rees-Mogg is confronted by Dominic Hutchins who says that he had to prove he had cerebral palsy to claim benefits."

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5 arrested after Iain Duncan Smith allegedly got hit on the head with a traffic cone, so people are out on the streets.

Anyone else had visions of where the cone was going to end up…😳🙈

Well done to Dominic Hutchins. What does Rees-Mogg know about someone disabled having to claim benefits? Even if he had a close relative who was disabled, his money would shield him from the worst effects.

Wow…that was very powerful and upsetting to watch…well done to Dominic Hutchins.

Yes very powerful

I like this;

Perhaps, if we renamed tax avoidance as "elite benefit fraud" or something, the penny might drop.

Savanta ComRes data

Success/failure of Brexit:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England
Success 37%
Failure 50%

🇬🇧Northern Ireland
Success 18%
Failure 74%

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Wales
Success 34%
Failure 58%

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland
Success 35%
Failure 59%

The Telegraph is referencing a well-know anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about the “Great Reset”

Probably wasn’t a good idea then for the World Economic Forum 2021 to be called that then

That man with cerebral palsy was so distraught and JRM so utterly utterly indifferent in that emotionally removed faux politeness manner of his. I could so easily imagine him talking about this great new Tory scheme for workhouses to provide for the disabled and impoverished.

What's entirely mystifying is how that many think that Brexshit is going well!

There can't be that many billionaires in the country...

I hope the Traffic Cone is ok - they can provide a vital service after all.

Interesting the difference in positive/negative views of Brexit between men and women, with women much more likely to say it was a failure

Is it because a) women on average have lower incomes/occupations so will notice price rises while struggling to make ends meet or b) they do more of the shopping so are more likely to have experienced the empty shelves or c) some other reason?

Re the traffic cone incident - I'm surprised it took four people to make him bend over.

Clips in the news of Sunak talking about it being "immoral" to borrow more. Because those Tories truly hold the moral high ground here.

And telling the party faithful that it’s unconservative to borrow for "unfunded pleasures" ffs… pleasures …Jesus. Like food? Heating? Paying rent? Those sorts of pleasures? Because it’s unlikely that Sunak means the sorts of pleasures he or his boss prefer like jaunts to Mustique… They love that convenient the poor-have-only-themselves-to-blame trope.

 Indeed @DrBlackbird

A propos of nothing though, dh was out the room when Sunak was on the news and came through saying how much he sounded like Blair He's absolutely right - I'd been trying to work out on whose voice he reminded me of and it is totally Blair

We're saved!

@HannibalHayeski

We're saved!

Can't imagine why there hasn't been a rush to go through this bureaucratic process, when they can work quite happily wherever they like in the EU bloc!

...... and they'd need to get a passport , which as EU citizens, they hadn't previously needed as they can get to 27+ countries (EU + EFTA) with just their ID cards