Brexit mega thread part 10 : what's the (s)tory? Incompetence, tax evasion, dodgy loans and economic free fall...nothing to see here...check out those sunlit uploands!

[Chevyimpala67]

Part 10 of our long running thread.
I'm still putting my money on a spring GE.
The tory slash and burn of the UK is right on track.
Bon chance my friends!

Pretty certain I am washing my hair that day. Now I'm worried it will come out white.

He had to vote. He wouldn’t have had an excuse for breaking up his evidence to the inquiry this afternoon.

Vote Leave trying to hide the fact that they've basically admitted that they broke the legal spending limits.

But basically fraud in a referendum results in a fine. The fact that they've fucked the country up by their fraud is obviously insignificant...

The News Agents were very scathing about Boris. Which I'm sure marks them out as terrible UnBeLeavers

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-news-agents/id1640878689?i=1000605437564

The sight of the usual tory QT audience failing to back Boris (in an ironic echo of Boris being the only person recently to put his hand up to "back Brexit") is a thing of beauty.

Even Fiona Bruces rather unguarded admission they'd deliberately stuffed it with Tory voters failed to move a heart. Or hand.

My view - repeated wherever it can be left for Google to analyse - has been that the cheque that paid for Brexit was a dud. If it's now bouncing, it should surprise no one.

Covid has done far more damage to the country and the world than brexit. It's a flea bite in comparison

And your point is?

Hippos kill more people than lions each year too.

I think the point is "Look over there!!! 🐿🐿🐿"

It's also total bullshit...

Larry & Paul here not holding back.

Warning, might contain a swear word or two...

That's not true though is it @purpledalmation?

Arguably we did have one of the most damaging covid management schemes on the planet which veered dementedly between "Let It Spread" and "Lockdown" but because Brexit came into effect at the same time as Covid nobody can really disentangle the two.

Three years after the Brexit bongs and the first U.K. death from Covid long term sickness from Long Covid is still a drag on our economy, but the reason why most other comparable countries have regained their pre covid economic positions and we haven't...Is Brexit.

And the Brexit damage continues until we reverse it.

Well said, @verdantverdure . It's time the Brexiters stopped hiding behind Covid.

Obviously in lost lives yes but in terms of economic impact... a resounding no!

Brexit effects every aspect of trade, sport, culture, travel/holidays and is very expensive.

Take sport, pro cycling, no longer can an aspiring racer move to the continent and ride for a French or Dutch amateur team (essential to get a pro contract) he/she is restricted to 90 days, so no more Bradley Wiggins, Lizzie Armisted or Mark Cavendish's... small fry maybe but whats the gain?
Same with musicians, can't easily or cheaply perform in Europe.

Covid will work its way through the economy quickly... as it is doing but Brexit will last for decades, we can't even match the EU on inflation now and that impacts on gilts and govt borrowing and us!!!

Flea bite

On Laura Kuensberg this morning she asked the head of the OBR Richard Hughes, what the effect of leaving the EU has on our economy.

In the long run Brexit reduces our overall output by around 4%

Asked for a feel on that, after struggling to give a real world example, he said:

"of an order of magnitude similar to pandemic effects"

Brexit benefit?

All UK honey tested in EU fraud investigation fails authenticity test | Food | The Guardian

Investigators tested 320 samples and found 147 (46%) were suspicious, where “at least one marker of extraneous sugar sources was detected”.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/mar/26/uk-honey-fails-authenticity-test

Presumably that's fucked up honey exports as well as things that contain honey. Way to go.

Wasn't Tate and Lyle a big supporter of Brexit?

I wonder if it's their sugar syrup adulterating UK "honey".

Well remembered!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/08/brexit-backers-tate-lyle-set-to-gain-73m-from-end-of-eu-trade-tariffs

Presumably their cannabis farming isn't profitable enough ?

Well this is timely...

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-damage-uk-economy-covid-b2308178.html

If anyone wants to get the current government to drop their obsession with "AI" then just ask Bard about Brexit

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/26/left-wing-google-ai-bot-thinks-brexit-bad-idea/

Of course what is really happening is that Bard - as the Large Language Learning Model it is - is synthesising it's training data into the most qualitatively valid response. A parameter that is autonomously generated once the model has been left to run free.

I've already shown that ChatGPT can write pitch perfect Boris articles.

No one in their right mind would describe Google as "Left Wing"

More garbage from the Loony Right who perhaps need to start seeing Brexit for what it is.

More on Brexit not being a flea bite: