Brexit mega thread part 8: platinum jubilee edition

[ChiswickFlo]

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Only certain types of benefit....
42% of the welfare state Bill is state pension...

But don't worry, that'll be gone soon, like paid maternity leave and paid sick leave. Ditto paid holidays. I hope brexshitters have all enjoyed the above for decades because their kids and grandkids won't get it.

Coz sovrinnity innit?

I'm not an economist but this week has a definite "black Wednesday" feel about it...

Speaking as a pensioner - the state pension isn't actually all that generous. A lot of women my age paid the 'Married woman's stamp' which didn't give them access to the full pension. Not me I am glad to say. I do also have a work pension which is modest but better than many women get. For many schemes women weren't allowed to join the pension scheme, until the equalities legislation of the mid seventies came along. I always understood that this legislation was brought in to harmonise with the then EEC which we had just joined, although I may be wrong on that.

BTW those of you who have followed my posts will know that I am definitely not a Brexiter.

Coz sovrinnity innit?

Once you realise the Brexit-Boris-tangled-knot-of-pubes is a pseudo-religion, it all makes more sense. Not the thing itself, because that makes zero sense but the slavish devotion in the face of all evidence.

I wasn't saying the state pension is generous...its far from it imo.

I was simply pointing out that tories only mean certain types of benefit claimants.

Chief Economist at the EPC

UK Brexiteers in government seem to be intent on layering more self-infliced economic pain on top of the economic pain they already inflicted on the UK

twitter.com/FabianZuleeg/status/1574336197706633216?t=MNCCzYixVf9MNuCNIbyt5A&s=19

@DuncinToffee but he's an expert! What does he know about setting fire to a national economy and toasting marshmallows on the flames?

This is what happens when people stick their heads up their arses when they vote. They can't see the risks, or hear the warnings. And now they'll all so upset.

Vote Tory, get Tory.

I'd be curious to know if any other country in the world has a population so dim as to vote for one party in the hope they will turn out to be another party ? Because that seems to be the English way (that and "hanging on in quiet desperation"). People saying "I'd love a fair tax, more equal society. But instead of voting for a party that offers that, I'm going to vote Tory and see if they offer it instead. It's exactly like being surprised that you can't get Waitrose biscuits in Asda.

God alone knows how the tanking pound will increase fuel bills. I'm guessing at last an extra 10% on whatever was in the pipeline a week ago.

Govt to scrap “Brexit bonus” which would have paid farmers and landowners to enhance nature as wildlife groups slam “all-out attack” on environment

Just utter bastards…

Virgin money and skipton building society removing new mortgage products from 8pm tonight....

When I was young I think you could get two dollars to the pound. That is a long lost dream now.

We got almost $2 to the £1 back in 2001

Luckily I went on a brief shopping trip to France getting back on Thursday.

If I'd gone this week it would've cost me another £100-odd...

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Yet the majority of farmers voted for Brexit so I am guessing they weren't too bothered about the subsidies anyway.

Indeed

The pre decimal half crown (2s6d) was still known as half a dollar in my youth - 60s...

From that Twitter link - American singer 50 cent to be known henceforth in the UK as 1 pound.

When I checked a while ago, I was surprised to find the farming proportion of the Brexit leave vote wasn’t much higher than that of the general population, and far less than some regions.
I’ll check again. Certainly farming and fishing have been dreadfully adversely affected by Brexit.

😃

My memory was that quite a few farmers that were opposed to Brexit woke up and discovered their "communities" had voted for it wholesale. Not a narrative that the country likes to hear though, where it's all Pimms and The Archers while discussing the next gymkhana.

No Brexiteers have posted here for a while so either they’ve lost the threads or they’re so happy living in the sunlit uplands that they’re off hugging their unicorns.

However, in another universe, this BTL comment made me laugh and cry…

We have a government of inexperienced but overconfident fools. They are led by a PM with the credibility of Hague, the electoral appeal of Howard, the judgement of Cameron, the Charisma of May, the integrity of Johnson

In latest Brexit Bonus news, Eurostar say they have to reduce the number of trains and increase fares, because Brexit has significantly reduced capacity at St Pancras International. ~AA

twitter.com/EurostarJustinp/status/1574711574337495041?t=fXHO6NOoLtRtPlubK1CY9w&s=19
Here's the full letter from Jacques Damas setting out the challenges currently faced by eurostar.

So much winning