Brexit mega thread part 4 : non goady thread : Christmas edition

[Opal8]

Hi,

Longtime lurker and poster (under various nn) on Westminstenders and these threads.

I'm afraid the other thread op pissed me off a lot so here's another option for those of us that want one.

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and good luck for 2022.

@jgw1

Generally, colleagues at work follow the maxim about not discussing politics in the office.

Was chatting to someone earlier who I generally don't talk politics with as we never agree. We agreed.

Also this wasn't a muttered conversation in a corner ...

I was leaving a site, and commented that I'd be back next week, depending on the rules ... at which point the usually demure admin assistant just said "Well I'll be here whatever they say. I couldn't do that again" .... at which point it was like a dam bursting.

I'm in my mid-50s, and I've never heard that agreement and bile in so few people outside of a rally.

It's personal now, people can't brush it off anymore as 'that's what politicians do', 'he is trying his best' or even 'but Corbyn'.

Even without No10 holding parties then lying and laughing about it people would not abide by a 2nd lockdown/plan b

They just wouldn't

But add in the disgusting behaviour from No10 and its lackeys and there is no way in hell most people will abide by rules made by these lying scumbags

@DuncinToffee

It's personal now, people can't brush it off anymore as 'that's what politicians do', 'he is trying his best' or even 'but Corbyn'.

Keir Starmer took a knee.

@Opal8

Even without No10 holding parties then lying and laughing about it people would not abide by a 2nd lockdown/plan b

They just wouldn't

But add in the disgusting behaviour from No10 and its lackeys and there is no way in hell most people will abide by rules made by these lying scumbags

There won't be a 2nd lockdown (isn't it 4th?) and there won't be the reintroduction of any restrictions - mask wearing and the like. Freedom day has been, the pandemic is over, do as you please.

Praise the 20 odd Tories who will vote against plan B, they will fight for our human rights to party

Things going so well in Brexshit Britain, that the government thinks it's a good time to start a was with the US...

*war

Not going so well in North Shropshire
www.shropshirestar.com/news/politics/north-shropshire-by-election/2021/12/08/north-shropshire-by-election-odds-bookies-install-lib-dems-as-favourites/
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/north-shropshire-by-election-neil-shastri-hurst-b1972982.html

That second link is about the Conservative candidate being kept under wraps because he doesn’t know the area

He is also said to have appeared nervous around animals at a livestock market, while his early campaign calls to reopen the long-closed Gobowen to Oswestry railway line have suggested a fundamental lack of knowledge about the constituency’s geography. The A5 bypass now runs across the old line meaning that reopening the two-mile stretch of line would require a tunnel costing hundreds of millions of pounds.

@borntobequiet

That second link is about the Conservative candidate being kept under wraps because he doesn’t know the area

He is also said to have appeared nervous around animals at a livestock market, while his early campaign calls to reopen the long-closed Gobowen to Oswestry railway line have suggested a fundamental lack of knowledge about the constituency’s geography. The A5 bypass now runs across the old line meaning that reopening the two-mile stretch of line would require a tunnel costing hundreds of millions of pounds.

Well he would fit in well with Shropshire other Tory MPs then. One of whom didn't know that his road was closed for the local 10k and so was abusive to a volunteer marshal on race day.

@HannibalHayeski

Things going so well in Brexshit Britain, that the government thinks it's a good time to start a was with the US...

From that article: When asked why further talks with the US weren't happening before 1 January, Ms Trevelyan said the US chose to have a discussion with the EU first because it was a larger trading partner.

Who'd have thunk it ?

@HannibalHayeski

Things going so well in Brexshit Britain, that the government thinks it's a good time to start a was with the US...

It's hard to imagine quite how hard the Yanks must be pissing themselves at this threat. Although it's a logical extension of the ball-swinging that Brexiteers believe England is capable of in the world.

I wonder what the optics are for producing steel in Ireland ?

With a man who identifies as Irish in the White House he has the Brexiters by the short and curlies over the GFA. Frostie was due to invoke A16 after the COP26 summit, wasn't he? It's all gone a bit quiet. Maybe he will do that to dig Johnson out of his latest hole.

Meanwhile .... another drip drip about this party hits the headlines

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59601447

Boris Johnson's press chief spoke at No 10 party last year

top story

@DGRossetti

Meanwhile .... another drip drip about this party hits the headlines

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59601447

Boris Johnson's press chief spoke at No 10 party last year

top story

Nah, he was just giving out the weekly gold stars for the best behaved child in the primary school class. You can't have read the article properly if you didn't realise that.

Next one
Boris Johnson’s standards adviser Lord Geidt is on the brink of quitting after today’s flat refurb report.
Telegraph reports

Lord Geidt quitting sounds like another taking the rap when it should be Johnson who goes.

Well, he seems to have plenty of lemmings willing to jump off the cliff for him. And until he doesn't he's safe.

Economy doesn’t look wonderful

www.ft.com/content/448021f3-2a69-4a6b-87e3-33c3abc847f9

...but will be blamed on covid not brexit...

Can’t possibly be Brexit related though, oh no

Oops X post!

If the only industry that’s growing is the health sector whilst all else tanks, that certainly explains the race to further privatise by this lot of Tories viz the health and care bill. By ‘health care’ do they mean vaccines, testing and old folks homes? I thought the latter owned by private equity firms was so laden with debt they couldn’t be ‘profitable’? So what else is included in this growing health care sector?

[quote borntobequiet]Economy doesn’t look wonderful

www.ft.com/content/448021f3-2a69-4a6b-87e3-33c3abc847f9[/quote]

I'd be interested to see the comparison with other EU countries. That would demonstrate whether it's Covid related or not