Brexit mega thread 7 : global Britain is looking rather insignificant.....

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In the Netherlands in the 70s I noticed that 500g was referred to as “een pond” so I think it’s a long established tradition in Europe.

Yes, I have always used 'pond' in Holland and I was born in 1970's. 500gr was more of a mouthful than asking for a 'pondje' of somehing.
Never really thought about is as it is so every day use.

Any of the brexiteers on here sent in their ideas?

After consulting Express readers for 'Brexit Benefits' these are the top ideas selected by Jacob Rees Mogg.

Almost every single one is about removing consumer, worker or environmental protections. And to think that the UK sacrificed 12% of trade and 4% of GDP for this! ~AA

t.co/LTMg278z6s

Yes, from the Express;

1. Encourage fracking, shortcut rules on planning consultation via emergency act.
2. Abolish the EU regulations that restrict vacuum cleaner power to 1400 watts.
3. Remove precautionary principle restrictions (for instance) on early use of experimental treatments for seriously ill patients and GM crops.
4. Abolish rules around the size of vans that need an operator's licence.
5. Abolish EU limits on electrical power levels of electrically assisted pedal cycles.
6. Allow certain medical professionals, such as pharmacists and paramedics, to qualify in three years.
7. Remove requirements for agency workers to have all the attributes of a permanent employee.
8. Simplify the calculation of holiday pay (eg 12.07 percent of pay) to make it easier for businesses to operate.
9. Reduce requirements for businesses to conduct fixed wire testing and portable application testing.

Basically, about making everybody less safe.

Except no 2, which was never a regulation anyway. 1600 watts was the regulation, and it was the UK that championed it.

As somebody commented, "Brexit: Reclaiming the freedom to suck harder."

Thanks Hannibal, I tried to attach the image with those ideas but MN wasn't having it.

I hope this one works

MN isn't being the quickest at the moment...

Or this one...

Db is across from France at the moment (he made the sensible decision to move over there after the Brexit vote).

His comments about BJ and the WM Conservative Cabal Government are unprintable that the UK is now viewed from the other side of the Channel as (at best) a laughing stock and (at worst) an irritating irrelevance.

Pharmacy and paramedic degrees are three years anyway- in most places. So that is a not a change. I think they tend to be 4 in Scotland.

Back to imperial measures - I had the thought that a certain part of Johnson's anatomy will sound much longer when measured in mm - say 50 as opposed to 2. Does he really want to go back to the old measurements?

MN might delete this, or they might just have a sense of humour.

So we have the (impossible) return of imperial, today UK will have to have 6hour electricity daily blackouts...

Maybe they should ask 'express readers to come up with scary stories to divert from BJ's trajectory?

Diversion? Rwanda it seems, first deportation flight scheduled for 14th June

Geidt pee'd off because his advice to BJ to say why he didn't break Ministerial code has been ignored.
www.scotsman.com/news/politics/boris-johnson-told-by-his-own-ethics-adviser-lord-geidt-to-explain-how-partygate-fine-did-not-breach-ministerial-code-3716522

so expect another diversion.....

Even America doesn't use imperial measurements any more. Everything is in units of Ariana Grandes...

Now here are the new Imperial measurements...

Tobias Ellwood recommends rejoining the Single Market. He strikes me as one of the more sensible ones:
www.politicshome.com/news/article/senior-conservative-says-uk-should-rejoin-single-market-to-ease-cost-of-living-crisis and
www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/we-can-upgrade-brexit-and-ease-the-cost-of-living-by-going-back-to-the-single-market
(Paywall) - www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/01/britain-should-rejoin-eu-single-market-ease-cost-living-crisis/ Frothing response from Telegraph readers.

I see that Arlene Foster has been made a dame.

Frothing response from Telegraph readers.
I can well imagine

Northern Ireland economy outpacing post-Brexit Britain

The ONS found that Northern Ireland’s GDP grew 1.4% in Q3 of 2021, compared with 0.9% in Scotland, 0.6% in England and -0.3% in Wales, over the same quarter.

www.politico.eu/article/northern-ireland-economy-outpace-post-brexit-britain/

Shortage of pickers means it is cheaper to import fruit

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-british-food-supermarkets-farmers-b2092612.html

One little nugget from today's YouGov - every region now considers Brexit to have been a mistake.
twitter.com/DavidHerdson/status/1531982646951165954?t=LQhYLvTAgByjM3uyXIuBGQ&s=19

Extra points if you can convince a Brexiteer it's genuine (2 so far but it's early yet)

And in "more things working out the opposite of what Brexshittiers promised us" news;

Brexit means fewer British products in supermarkets...

Tugendhat showing his ignorance with this tweet

Tobias is wrong. The Single Market puts the EU in charge:
- EU rules
- open borders
- no new trade deals

We need a deal British people control not foreign laws with no say.

Let’s plan for the future and stop looking back. This decision is made

Tugendhat gearing up for a leadership contest