Brexit mega thread part 11: is fucktastrophy a word?

[mirages08]

Part 11 of this mega thread

Couldn't see a new one?

Hope you don't mind a newbie starting it!

Don't know how to link to old thread, sorry!

I was just thinking this morning I haven't seen a Brexit thread for aaaaaages. You read my mind/the zeitgeist. And fucktasrophy is a magniderful gloriant word, top stuff.
Take that, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg with your fancy-pants Latin!

Thanks mirage08

link to previous thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/eu_referendum_2016_/4732486-brexit-mega-thread-part-10-whats-the-story-incompetence-tax-evasion-dodgy-loans-and-economic-free-fallnothing-to-see-herecheck-out-those-sunlit-uploands?page=1

Thank you !

Thanks @mirages08 for the new thread. Regarding immigration, Jo Maugen (sp?) on Politics Love today hits nail on head. We need immigration to fund the country so the problem is investment (or lack of it) in housing, doctors and nurses etc. Immigration isn't and never was the problem, it's a solution.

I like the idea of Politics Love, but Live it should really be!

No we don't need it, asbolute rot from JM, start to finish. More to the point, what happens when all those people who've supposedly come here to work reach retirement age? We need fewer people living here, not more.

Its an absolutely fair description OP. To think, once, was sufficient to convey multiple Tory cockups

Lol, I managed to delete ‘OmniShambles’
But insert your own descriptor

It is a perfectly cromulent word.

Germany is now officially in recession. I assume this is because of Brexit?

Following and thanks for the thread @mirages08

If it's not, it should be.

Checking in!

This was promised as a Brexit Ban

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/live-exports-ban-rishi-sunak-puppies-b2345792.html

supposedly come here to work

Someone's prejudice is showing.

And that word should be embiggened MathAnxiety

I imagine it has a great deal to do with Germam reliance on Nordstream

Thanks @mirages08

YouGov asked today if we think the government should be trying to bring inflation down, bring interest rates down, or avoid a recession.

It's all go in these Sunlit Uplands isn't it?

'Words people used to describe Britain in 2023 included: broken, mess, expensive, struggling, disaster, poor, divided, shambles and corrupt.' Nothing in Britain works anymore, say overwhelming majority of Red Wall voters:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nothing-britain-works-anymore-say-30063503?utmsource=twitter.com&utmmmedium=social&utmcampaign=sharebar

news.sky.com/story/brexit-poll-suggests-just-9-of-britons-think-decision-to-leave-european-union-more-of-a-success-than-failure-12887197.

That's it. That's the post.

Immigration is purely to depress wages - why would companies pay for a native worker when they can hire an immigrant for 20℅ less? It's been catastrophic for the working class over the last twenty years and is only set to get worse, and this will now impact the middle class too which is generally the trigger for violent revolutions.

We already have working people relying on food banks. We are dangerously overpopulated versus our carrying capacity - if there is another world war and we are blockaded most of us will simply starve to death, as we cannot grow enough food to feed ourselves. Oh, and there's at least one belligerent superpower sniffing round the back door, and I can think of another two at least that would be only too happy to destroy us.

We are sending a billion pounds a year in remittances to Poland alone - God only knows how much else leaves to other countries.

The rise of AI and automation means that within half a century many jobs will disappear for good. The very last thing we need are more mouths to feed, especially with food shortages looming due to climate change.

The future looks very bleak indeed.

Here is a projection of national debt based on high, low, and zero net migration assumptions, produced a while ago, based on ONS figures.

I see Starmer has been - quite rightly - slapped down by the EU over trying to float a hippo over "renegotiating" Brexit.

Keir Starmer says he would negotiate new Brexit deal (telegraph.co.uk)

Weird innit ? When the EU similarly slapped down Rishis puff about it, the reporting was reversed and suggested that they would roll over and lap it up.

However, this siren reporting so early on really serves to show that if Labour can't renegotiate Brexit, then neither can the Tories. We may as well try and "renegotiate" the treaty of Paris.

The German politicians are surprised that the GDP is down so much so I don't think that's the story really. They'd been preparing for a long time over energy and a few people on here who live in Germany said that it wouldn't be a problem because of subsidies.