Brexit mega thread part 11: is fucktastrophy a word?

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Part 11 of this mega thread

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It's almost like they didn't know what they were doing and are trying to undo it without the Daily Heil reporting it...

God, the Covid enquiry is really showing how the government’s no deal threats and then all the deal prep for Brexit have cost the country so many lives during the pandemic plus countless public money while pandemic planning work was deprioritised for Brexit work. It’s absolutely heartbreaking seeing the protestors standing with pictures of their loved ones who died.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66029325

God, the Covid enquiry is really showing how the government’s no deal threats and then all the deal prep for Brexit have cost the country so many lives during the pandemic plus countless public money while pandemic planning work was deprioritised for Brexit work.

Yes. And the total radio silence all over the civilised internet from moronic drooling useful idiot brexiteers isn't a coincidence.

Seems like today is a bad day to shout about taking back control. Which may or may not be calculated, given how the news about walking back bits of brexit has been distinctly low-key.

Very hard not to be bitter at the profile of fishing in the campaign, such a tiny industry was elevated to such heights in the debate.

A Brexit campaigner actually told me my kids would be able to get a good job on a fishing boat once we left Europe. Still waiting.

Wasn’t it because Michael Gove, aspiring jockeying bastard self interested PM hopeful at the time, was all over this absolute farce of a whopper because he had some kind of personal link back to fishing?

Gove Sr ran a fishing company in Scotland

I agree wildfirewonder. Though I’m not even trying not to be bitter. Just can’t do that yet! At least, I’m genuinely not bitter about anyone who voted for this (apart from the few morons I know who voted for Brexit simply because ‘Cameron was against it’) because I know the whole campaign was exploitative lies. They felt they were doing the right thing at the time, by voting Leave. It was done with hope for the future which was highly misplaced.

I do feel endlessly bitter about the self-interested Tory MPs under Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and now Sunak who all cynically put the country into this dreadful position and insisted that we went with the hardest Brexit position that they could cook up. Which we will have to now expensively try to row back on wherever possible, but so much of the damage is undoable, like lives and time lost. It’s a national tragedy.

Without being arsed to research it, I am guessing that it was a shit fishing company and the moment it was exposed to real competition, it imploded.

Doesn't make the slightest difference what the reality is. I'm just going to whack that out there before I turn over to celebrate Nigel Farages latest win.

DuncinToffee it’s all so predictably corrupt. I just really hope that Sunak is so obscenely mega rich that he’s less likely to be personally on the make at taxpayer expense. We can’t know that of course but fingers crossed...just so depressing to have to think like that.

It's pretty clear that the last few PMs have been changing laws so that their "friends" donors are benefitting to the tune of billions. Sunak is no different. His wife still has investments in Russia, and every law he has introduced, or refused to introduce, has benefitted the very rich. Anyone who thinks he's working for them, unless they've got several billion in the bank, is a fucking idiot...

Was at St Pancras today. I can't get over how much nicer it is now than before. Sadly I didn't have time for shopping as train delayed by an incident near Flitwick.

I'll have what he's having

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/minister-calls-for-brexit-scaremongering-to-stop-as-total-trade-is-up-b1091031.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/30/no-10-lawyers-using-echr-

I think my irony meter broke ages ago...

More on the Taking back control front...

And in "Brexshit Going Swimmingly" news;

UK Seeks to Ease Inflation Hit From Planned Brexit Border Checks...

Now we know why Cleverly has been singing the praises of the EU to whoever will listen today.

Who else can here a very de Gaullian "Non" in the background ?

’some in government worry trade friction will fan food prices’

No shit. Isn’t it about 7 years too late to be thinking about that.

They don't give a shot about food prices except as a proxy for getting back into power.

Desperation

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/post-brexit-imperial-measurements-drive-revived

Luckily the U.K. doesn’t have any serious issues that need fixing at the moment. It’s all going swimmingly well so we have plenty of time to waste on pointlessly legislating Imperial measures.

Literally no one I know is interested in this.

And frankly if the Brexiteers think that people will be happy paying for the CoL crisis because all of a sudden it's priced in roods per bushel then the forbidden adjective not only applies, but applies squared. Because clearly being a fucking moron is on an exponential scale not as we previously suspected linear.

Jesus wept. What a catalogue of delusion, incompetence and greed is listed here. It’s too dark for satire. They’d need to make Have I Got Awful News for You
I’d love to think that in ten years time, things will look totally different politically (in a good way) but I worry by then that the country will be so fucked and the costs of rejoin so high, financially, that we are stuck with the Brexit fucktastrophalypse for the foreseeable. I’d be very happy to be wrong on that!

Something more positive

https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-and-eu-agree-draft-horizon-deal

Something more positive

but the Brexiters will still be baying for Sunak's blood for 'betraying' Brexit.