Brexit Megathread - Part 2 because it's not over by a long shot

[vera99]

Well getting to a 1000 posts didn't take too long so here we are.... everybody welcome!

It's a pity that no Tories have the integrity to leave also. But then, the most recent entrants would need to find a dictionary first, and look up the word Integrity.

And then they still wouldn't comprehend the meaning of the word...

Puttnam calls a spade a spade.

Hope more people follow.

Really sad that Putnam has left. All the good people leave, so the bad people face no resistance.

A link directly to the full speech

www.davidputtnam.com/viewNews/n/lord-puttnam-retirement-full-speech/

But note that on the other thread about expired passports, the Leavers are desperately screaming that the requirement to have six months left on a passport are Nothing To Do With Brexit.

An expired passport is an annoyance, but good people leaving the field clear in public life for the Brexit clones is a Bad thing. I would like to say that if all the non-brexiters decided to resign, the clones would have to own it, but having seen Frost effectively say that the agreement he negotiated and signed was nothing to do with him and was all the EU's fault, I know they won't own anything.

Now the Telegraph is talking of a Trade War with the EU, which the UK could win. Must increase exports with elsewhere, blah, blah. We have had more than five years, and the world hasn't yet come running to our door. But Covid, vaccines, blah, blah, all the EU's fault.

Now the Telegraph is talking of a Trade War with the EU, which the UK could win. in it's own mind, perhaps. Let's remember that North Korea is the worlds best at everything at the moment ... in it's own mind.

North Korea came to my mind yesterday funnily enough, after reading a couple of articles in the US press, which talked in a matter of fact way about the UK being in a mess due to poor governance and Brexit.

It's a testament to how ignorant Matt "not gloss" Hancock and his cabal of sycophants are that not a single one of them knew he would be ineligible for the UN gig. (I'm reminded of when the Treasury "forgot" to add VAT to their calculations for the 2012 Olympics.). Wait till they discover Britain is an island - it'll blow their fucking minds.

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This story has it all ..

huddersfieldhub.co.uk/brian-hayhurst-meets-a-huddersfield-man-driven-mad-by-bureaucracy-after-his-car-was-seized-by-spanish-police-for-no-reason/

My favourite bit(s)

Former Huddersfield gymnast and pub landlord Brian Hayhurst and his wife Elaine are ex-pats who have lived just outside Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol for 20 years.

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With limited Spanish ...

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20 fucking years, and he only has "limited Spanish". Says it all really.

This bit is good, too:

Without doubt the 90-day max stay in Spain is affecting many.
This is especially the case for pensioners who would normally be here for over six months each winter. They are reputedly “selling their holiday homes and leaving in droves.” This 90-day restriction must surely be reviewed?
These properties are being snapped up by wealthy Spaniards from cities like Seville and Madrid

Fecking Spaniards buying properties in Spain, eh?

@AuldAlliance

This bit is good, too:

Without doubt the 90-day max stay in Spain is affecting many.
This is especially the case for pensioners who would normally be here for over six months each winter. They are reputedly “selling their holiday homes and leaving in droves.” This 90-day restriction must surely be reviewed?
These properties are being snapped up by wealthy Spaniards from cities like Seville and Madrid

Fecking Spaniards buying properties in Spain, eh?

Did you notice how the entire article managed to avoid mentioning "Brexit" once ?

Brewhat?

This 90-day restriction must surely be reviewed?

Why?

@Peregrina

This 90-day restriction must surely be reviewed?

Why?

Because some gammon said so?

This 90-day restriction must surely be reviewed?

Yes, but then we might have to let some of those dirty forriners stay for longer, and we wouldn't want that now, would we?

I'm depressed that not one single person appears to have bothered to read this post. We're heading towards God knows what.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a4377527-Not-to-want-to-lose-my-human-rights-on-the-whim-of-a-government-minister?

I just looked at your thread and commented secondratefrog.

It is absolutely terrifying!

It's all so easy, isn't it? Because each of us is an individual and almost no-one is prepared, or bothered, to resist.

That's terrifying SecondRateFrog, I'm not sure where we are heading.

How do we resist though, stand on a corner screaming? I feel like doing that to be honest. The ground is shifting constantly, horror follows horror on an almost daily basis. Part of the plan I expect.

Are you allowed to stand on a corner, screaming? Under the new anti-protest legislation, isn't one person protesting in the street now a demonstration, and isn't a noisy demonstration which might annoy someone now unlawful?

To be fair to Brian Hayhurst, he did mention that he hopes Boris Johnson notices that there are no shortages and plenty of everything in his neck of the Spanish woods.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58949867

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