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Brexit mega thread part 8: platinum jubilee edition

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ChiswickFlo · 03/06/2022 19:07

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SerendipityJane · 08/08/2022 13:08

DuncinToffee · 08/08/2022 12:11

Keep brexit safe is Sunak’s latest slogan.

He promises to review every EU law on the statute book in his first 100 days.

Lala land.

So where do conservative votes that hate Brexit put their "X" ?

SerendipityJane · 08/08/2022 13:22

What happens when a Brexiteer falls through the looking glass and becomes a border guard in the EU ...

www.mirror.co.uk/travel/europe/thousands-brits-stuck-portugal-over-27683983

“The border control official looked at these papers he had obviously never seen before and decided they were not legitimate, that in fact they were only applications for residency.

“To make a long and frightening story as short as possible, he turned me back to Portugal.

“He told me everyone in the UK has a residency card. I told him Portugal has not got around to issuing them and he kind of laughed and said he was talking and I should be listening and that was the end of his listening.”

DuncinToffee · 09/08/2022 09:32

Possibly the clearest chart I've yet seen on the Brexit impact on trade - and to be clear this is exactly what economic theory and observed reality said would happen if a country puts up trade barriers to neighbours.

twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1556699288125726721?t=RyLb_eNIwDPKk5sIHPjUsw&s=19

SerendipityJane · 09/08/2022 12:21

Have you ever met a typical Brexiteer ?
It goes :

  • not only are there no problems, but things are better than 2016/2019/2010
Obviously these people can't trusted with paper, let alone scissors. Only saving grace is on balance they pobably don't and didn't vote.

If you can progress...

  • Well maybe there are some problems. But we expected that.
Again the lack of anything resembling intelligence means these people are probably best not left alone with matches. No point in asking where we have the warnins before the vote as you will just be told to Google it.

If you can get past that and there's an admission that yes
has gone to shit ...
-It's someone elses fault (usually remaines. But we know the drill by now. Don't acutually expect facts).
-Nothing to do with me guv.
rinse and repeat until you reach the kernel at the heart of all this which goes something like no matter what is going wrong or going to go wrong, I'm just happy to got what I wanted.

You can lay the above template over Toryism in general. Doesn't matter how low this shower sink, how appalling their behaviour, a lot of peopke (paging Mad Nad) are just happy they got their Boris.

If you want to convert the above to a recipe, just sprinkle in "we won", "taking back control", "blue passports", slam in an oven for 0 years and serve cold.
Very cold.
Very very cold.

So TL;DR there is no point in highlighting the downsides of Brexit, because to a Brexiteer there aren't any, There never were, and never will be. It truly is a cult of cunts. If their sainted Farage was found to have killed Princess Diana, there isn't a Brexiteer alive that would not say she must have deserved it.

Jason118 · 09/08/2022 16:23

Yes, it's my experience with the few I've encountered socially - it always ends up as someone else's fault rather than those that voted for it.

SerendipityJane · 09/08/2022 16:44

In fact at this distance, and with this much data, it's easy to create a simple rule to distinguish Brexiteers from intelligent people.

Brexiteers blame everyone but those in power. Intelligent people blame those in power.

I guess this is like one of those optical illusions where you see two faces in profile, or a vase.

HannibalHeyes · 09/08/2022 22:25

Laurence Unboxed
@LaurenceinEU
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Perhaps it's optimistic to rely on the spontaneous combustion of Brexiteers to keep warm in the UK this winter, but it's more likely than the government doing anything to fix it.

quiteathome · 10/08/2022 06:52

Brexiteers think that anything that is wrong with Brexit is the fault of the Remainers.

Much like fairies, if we don't believe they disappear.

TheElementsSong · 10/08/2022 08:53

quiteathome · 10/08/2022 06:52

Brexiteers think that anything that is wrong with Brexit is the fault of the Remainers.

Much like fairies, if we don't believe they disappear.

Indeed. It'll be because we didn't all "Pull Together" and "BeLeave" and instead some of us "Talked Britain Down."

HannibalHeyes · 10/08/2022 10:38

This is brilliant!

HannibalHeyes · 10/08/2022 10:49

And the Papua New Guinea Courier has done it again...

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mathanxiety · 11/08/2022 05:39

A UK government spokesperson said in a statement: “We continue to urge the Portuguese government to complete the process of issuing biometric residency cards to UK nationals living legally in Portugal without further delay. “Portugal must immediately and fully implement the withdrawal agreement commitments it signed up to in 2018 so UK nationals have the security they need.”
www.mirror.co.uk/travel/europe/thousands-brits-stuck-portugal-over-27683983

Wait - obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement must be honoured?

DrBlackbird · 11/08/2022 10:05

The UK must immediately and fully implement the withdrawal agreement commitments it Boris Johnson and all Tory MPs signed up to in 2019 so UK nationals all citizens in NI can have the security they need.”

Either irony is now absent from the UK civil service OR this is a massive trick civil servants are playing on the dim witted irony failure UK politicians signing off that official statement. I’m hoping for the latter.

DrBlackbird · 11/08/2022 10:27

Ah someone new to blame the bad Brexit on! This is a master stroke by Truss’s camp…

Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, remains the frontrunner and this morning her camp is launching a fresh line of attack against her rival Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor. In an article for the Daily Telegraph two leading Truss supporters, Simon Clarke, the chief secretary to the Treasury, and Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, accuse him of frustrating government attempts to realise the benefits of Brexit

RafaistheKingofClay · 11/08/2022 11:05

Is there anything that doesn’t frustrate attempts to realise the benefits of Brexit?

SerendipityJane · 11/08/2022 12:15

Remember to always correct any mention of "Brexit" to "Tory Brexit".

Every.
Single.
Time.

SerendipityJane · 11/08/2022 12:23

Just in case anyone thinks people easily forget.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-62501688

India man wins 22-year court battle against railways over 21 pence

Posted here to underscore how long and deep injustices can survive when not corrected.

Already I hear there's a Netflix boxset in this ....

Chevyimpala67 · 11/08/2022 15:49

news.sky.com/story/nhs-in-crisis-heart-attack-and-stroke-patients-waiting-half-an-hour-longer-for-ambulances-than-pre-pandemic-12669818

Which has, of course, been the tory policy all along...

HannibalHeyes · 13/08/2022 12:28

Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
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Brexit is now at the stage where people who voted for it believe the Brexit we ended up with is terrible, however that isn't the fault of either the people who actually made that happen, nor Brexit itself.

SerendipityJane · 13/08/2022 22:44

HannibalHeyes · 13/08/2022 12:28

Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
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Brexit is now at the stage where people who voted for it believe the Brexit we ended up with is terrible, however that isn't the fault of either the people who actually made that happen, nor Brexit itself.

In other words Brexiteers are generally a bit dim.

Weather to follow.

DuncinToffee · 14/08/2022 13:48

It's all going swimmingly

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prettybird · 14/08/2022 14:03

....but Covid

....but the war in Ukraine

....but the energy crisis

....but nasty officious French border control

Hmm
Chevyimpala67 · 14/08/2022 14:26

Just been quoted £125 to get something shipped from the EU.

Sigh.

Shipping is double what the item is worth.

Basic medications oos pretty much everywhere...even online.

No functioning nhs, dentists or primary care, no functioning adult social care, no functioning respite for carers, empty shelves in shops...

But Corbyn...

Ffs.

quiteathome · 14/08/2022 14:27

It is probably because we are having a heatwave. That is why it is all going wrong.

Everything melts in the heat.