Brexit mega thread part 8: platinum jubilee edition

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New thread

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-uk-leaves-the-eu-40571853
www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-nuclear-idUSL8N1I20NJ
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/is-the-uk-still-participating-in-eu-programmes/

Looks like the continuing wrangles over the WA (we all know why they exist) and a reluctance to pay are problems.

I'm not an expert in international law (not that anyone on Team GB was either) but my memory was that the WA was written to allow the EU to act first and invite the UK to challenge rather than the traditional "let's go to arbitration first".

Pretty certain it was mentioned on these threads way back when.

The TL;DR is that the EU is acting within the WA the UK (well, Boris) signed.

Didn’t the fact that we wouldn’t sign up to Euratom actually get quite a lot of media coverage?

It did, and in fact we discussed it repeatedly on Westiministenders. To be brazenly assured by the Leavers that it would be fiiiiiiiiiiine and we didn't want to play with those stinky kids anyway.

I refer you to my point about gaslighting earlier.

I made an incredibly sarcastic comment about the UK needing a North->South pipeline and why on earth hadn't Boris spotted what a wonderful phallic legacy it would be, plunging through England (thus cementing a metaphor) recently

Yesterday - I shit you not:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109579/Could-Great-Boris-Canal-fix-Britains-water-woes-Tories-call-review-plan.html

Could ‘Great Boris Canal’ fix Britain’s water woes? Tories call to review plan to transport vast quantities hundreds of miles from North to South

Not quite Brexit related but, whilst not surprised, I still feel incredibly sad about Liz Cheney losing Wyoming to a Trump backed candidate. One of the few sane Republican voices are lost and can’t stand the fact that Trump will just be so gleeful about ousting her.

Trump is in serious trouble no matter what.

Listening to what she has said since, I suspect that the shackles are now off and she will do whatever it takes to stop Trump!

Boothby Graffoe
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Yesterday inflation was at a 13 year high. Today it's at a 40 year high. Brexit Britain once more breaking records! Take that Remainers.

Liz Truss admitting that the referendum was won on lies...

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I recall that Euratom was a separate treaty but somehow came under the ECJ, so Of Course, the Brexiters had the screaming habdabs about why they had to leave Euratom.

Bill Bradley (not the politician)
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Britains lazy workers have only managed to triple the wealth of Uk billionaire's over the last few years...

There's something quite apt about the proposal to let the south and south east of England literally suck the more disadvantaged areas of the North and Wales dry. What could embody Thatcherism more?

There's a thread running about the picture of Boris on holiday, and it really is a perfect metaphor for the state of England today. It could have been a Gillray cartoon bought to life.

But to descend into a metaverse for a second, that thread itself is a metaphor - with some people immediately "getting it" being drowned out by people missing the point entirely (and I have to suspect wantonly). But this is the same country that made Theresa Mays shoes the news story rather than her lying in the speech she gave wearing them.

So it seems that even Diminic Raaaaaab was wrong when he stated that as a Brexshit bonus "there will be adequate food"...

That makes me feel bad: I've just thrown away a nectarine, half of which had gone mouldy/collapsed

I routinely ignore BB and even Use By dates: will go by smell and appearance and if necessary hide the date from ds who at 21 can be a bit funny about these things

If my vague memory that older folk are more susceptible to food poisoning is correct, this seems to be another initiative to off the old.

Seems very strange that the Tory scum are trying to kill off their supporters...

Not really. We already know the demographics of voting. I'm guessing these people being logan'd are the only people that could depose the tories.

(same way a lot of alleged "Brexiteers" never actually voted ...)

FFS.

Rees-Mogg has been tipped for a cabinet position in a Truss government – perhaps as levelling up or trade secretary

Its going to get worse before it gets better, isn’t it. But it will get better… eventually?

And can we please rejoin the EU now? I’m seeing so many gaps in grocery shelves. Sigh.

Although the maxim you wouldn't worry what others thought of you if you knew how rarely they did always applies, a rare UK centric story from my overseas vista.

www.msn.com/fr-fr/actualite/monde/graves-perturbations-felixstowe-le-plus-grand-port-de-fret-au-royaume-uni-secou%C3%A9-par-une-gr%C3%A8ve-majeure/ar-AA10VMjS

Somewhere another French, or German, or Italian or Dutch or Spanish or Belgian or Austrian (...) company has just taken another slice of post brexit pie from the fumbling fingers of the Tory fuckups who pretend to be in charge.

I’m seeing so many gaps in grocery shelves.

Not quite sure where ? According to all the Brexiteers I'm guarding there are no shortages. Nothing is amiss. And even if it were (but it's not) then it's always been that way. Swimming in shit ? Never did me no harm. Bloody snowflakes.

etc etc.

Where is our siren cutnpaster to tell us that it was worse in 1836 or some similar unrelated date ?

Imagine all the novel diseases you could catch from eating aything caught of our shores ? Maybe the Tories have cracked the problem of the French fishing rights. As innovative as French cuisine can, I can't see "peche a merde" taking off their side of La Manche

There have been cases of polio in London, and they are dumping raw sewage all over the place.

I think that some people just don't like people to have what they perceive as an easier time than they had. YOu know- because they survived ice inside windows and huge interest rates etc we all have to go through that.

And it will do us all good to go hungry as we are too fat. Do they not understand that crap food leads to crap health outcomes.

Anyway we seem to be happily heading back not to the good old days of the 1970s but the good old days of the 1870s. Some of us seem to deserve it.

It’s been reported that The leaders of the US, Germany, France and Great Britain have discussed the current situation on the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant during a phone call

Is anyone else as shocked as I am that we have a ‘leader’?? Just assumed the lights were out at No 10 until our lives take yet another downturn when the terminally dim witted Truss moves in.

Really, we have leaders?