Brexit Megathread Part 3: COP26 and beyond. The Empire is no more.

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The old thread is nearly full so as COP26 is in my home town, I thought I'd start the next one.

I'm not expecting anything wonderful from COP26. The selfishness that is Brexit will extend to the rich nations - or rather corporations, countries and cronies - not wanting to do anything that might actually cost them money or hurt their profits and having made their money on the back of the resources of the poorer nations (in some cases quite literally ), they'll expect them to pay the price for the riches of the West.

The deliberate mistranslation of France's letter to the EU will distract from real issues - but that's ok for BJ as he can then blame the perfidious French.

Nothing changes.

James Felton
@JimMFelton
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2016: Brexit will improve your lives

2021: After you’ve dropped the kids off, please execute these sheep

@HannibalHayeski

James Felton *@JimMFelton* · 4h 2016: Brexit will improve your lives

2021: After you’ve dropped the kids off, please execute these sheep

Given that Mr Useless (aka Eustice) serves no discernable purpose, why doesn't he toddle off and work in an abbatoir?

@LouiseCollins28
What you're asking for is that the interests of people who don't vote, live, pay in... etc here are priviledged over the interests of people who do.

Take a look at stats on how much the tourism industry and overseas students contribute to the economy and the bottom line of universities and you may see that this isn't a question of privileging anyone. It's a question of recognising what side the UK's bread is buttered on. There would be over 2 million fewer people paying taxes if tourism were to collapse.

Looks like someone has pulled some strings to get the Daily Fail back in line pronto and to quit showing up Johnson and Co for their true colours.

I’m sure No10 wasn’t pleased with all that actual reporting going on. By the Fail of all papers! Can’t have the masses knowing so it’ll be a plentiful diet of celeb gossip from now on. Isn’t privilege helpful…

I wonder if Lord Rothermere knows the Johnson family

www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/09/ireland-starts-making-contingency-plans-for-uk-eu-trade-war

John Crace this week…

If Boris thought his troubles were over once the questions moved away from sleaze, he was badly mistaken. Everyone went for him. Particularly his own MPs. Mel Stride, Philip Dunne, Julian Knight, Tobias Ellwood and Jeremy Hunt all took chunks out of an under-prepared and badly briefed Johnson. The prime minister’s life was also falling apart in the Commons where an embarrassed Gillian Keegan was forced to explain how the government had managed to lose (presumably in the incinerator) the records of the phone calls between Paterson, Randox (who paid him more than £100,000 a year) and former health minister Lord Bethell

Surprised but pleased to see my MP as one asking Johnson some hard questions. He didn’t abstain from the Paterson vote, but ‘wasn’t there’ to vote either. So it feels that the gratitude for helping to win Brexit and the 2019 election is wearing thin.

Can we expect to hear that Johnson will need more time to spend with his soon to be expanded young family? Although, that begs the question, if not Johnson then who?

I'm not sure de Spaffle will be spending more time with his family;

He was stupid enough to think that a room full of journalists wouldn't leak his comment on his marriage that he had buyer's remorse...

Car crah yesterday, train crash today?

Raab is out this morning defending Johnson waffling about vaccines and brexit

And Rachel Johnson's piece in the Spectator.....

The beauty of lost minutes is they clear no one.

I hear Owen Patterson was advising Randox on the use of slave labour in far eastern counties on that call.

I wonder what else people heard ?

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news.sky.com/story/channel-crossings-dominic-raab-does-not-deny-government-wants-deal-to-send-migrants-to-albania-12471348

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Luckily the UKs relations with the EU have never been better, so this is a guaranteed win. Absolutely no chance of the EU turning around and telling the UK to "Va te faire foutre"

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/17/i-dont-blame-customers-for-getting-annoyed-a-coffee-house-owner-on-life-without-eu-workers

There's one of his places up the road from us, in Harborne.

I wonder if there's an opportunity for some places like this to trade on their staffs backgrounds ? I would love to be able to pop into somewhere and brush up my French or Spanish. Or even Italian.

A view from Ireland about Johnson's missteps.

I could not but help think that by ousting Goerdie Grieg another potential enemy has been made.

Johnson reported to be regretting his marriage to Carrie.

Don't worry Carrie love. If you wish to have another Catholic wedding sometime in the future, an annulment should be easy to obtain, because it was quite clear that Johnson never intended to keep his wedding vows.

I can't but help think that the Randox contract with the absence of minutes should be treated as though it is fraudulent and the Directors at least be made to pay back the amount they received. It won't happen though. Not with this Government. Now if it had been a Labour Government, that would have been a different matter.

@Peregrina

Johnson reported to be regretting his marriage to Carrie.

Don't worry Carrie love. If you wish to have another Catholic wedding sometime in the future, an annulment should be easy to obtain, because it was quite clear that Johnson never intended to keep his wedding vows.

It would be richly ironic if Boris the shagger found himself at the mercy of his final wife. I'm sure it could be woven into a Henrician tragedy.

It's immaterial whether she really is the power behind the hairstyle too. All it takes is Tories to believe (or even perceive) she is, and there goes Boris authority.

Already I can sense some Tories blaming "Princess nut-nut" for Boris epiphany over climate change and his kneecapping of the UKs energy options. Because there must be a reason this popped up in my feed.

I was struck once again by the bizarre inappropriateness of Johnson’s language when talking about HS2 yesterday.

carve huge new railways through virgin territory

I mean who talks like that? It’s the English Midlands, not the Wild West. Has he got another conquest in mind to entertain himself and affect his vocabulary?

Johnson needs to prove to his party that he isn’t just making decisions on the hoof. It’s this that will ultimately decide his future

It seems that Katy Balls, deputy political editor of the Spectator, is answering my question, which is no, Johnson isn’t yet going to spend more time with his growing family.

Apparently though he is still expected to do something that he’s never done in his whole political career. If the entire Tory party isn’t thick granted many many are, then it seems they must be just plain duplicitous and looking to buy Johnson more time?

But for what exactly to happen? The silencing of every major news outlet? What!? Given that Johnson’s incompetence and exceptionalism isn’t going away soon…

Matin Lewis explains why Brexit is behind Amazon planning to refuse UK Visa Credit cards.

A lot of people follow Martin Lewis, so it might just begin to cut through to them that it's not just a spat between Visa and Amazon as portrayed elsewhere.

Nadine Dorries has been busy tweeting and deleting, her latest:

www.politwoops.co.uk/p/conservative/NadineDorries/976980007720546307

How the fuck is she still in her job and lecturing us about social media.

Sorry not her latest, I missed the 3 years ago oops. Still relevant though as she is now saying social media has been hijacked.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59305080

I can confirm that the last time I used my French Visa card in the UK, I definitely noticed a huge hike in fees on every single sodding transaction.

Another Brexit bonus (wonder whether anyone is dim enough to say that no one gives a stuff about UK traitors who've moved abroad...).

@DuncinToffee

Nadine Dorries has been busy tweeting and deleting, her latest:

www.politwoops.co.uk/p/conservative/NadineDorries/976980007720546307

How the fuck is she still in her job and lecturing us about social media.

Was that the tweet where she asked if she needed to get her shotgun after jamming her daughter up against Reginald D. Hunter ?

Or another tweet ?

Another one of her 1999 deleted tweets.