Brexit mega thread part 11: is fucktastrophy a word?

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Part 11 of this mega thread

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Hope you don't mind a newbie starting it!

I'd totally forgotten about de pfeffle hiding in that fridge!

140 businesses were taking part to boost tourism in south-east Ireland and west Wales, but Brexit meant the EU funding the project relied on was axed, and of course not replaced...

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/brexit-leaves-joint-ireland-wales-tourism-enterprise-facing-closure/a1274820525.html

Remember Patel and others telling us how stopping EU free movement (including ours) would allow the UK to select only "the brightest and the best" ?

Seems the "brightest and the best" ain't that bothered. Only 3 applicants in 2 yrs for the post-Brexit "Global Talent" scheme

https://twitter.com/AlexTaylorNews/status/1689286212740120577?s=20

Oh MN doesn't like that archived link

https://twitter.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/1689555571106549760?s=20
Barny Gaveney, 49, voted Brexit in 2016. He has many regrets – most of all, the impact on his son.

Like most Brexit voters he was just conned into thinking we could have a better future: one in which there was more hope and investment in

Seems the "brightest and the best" ain't that bothered. Only 3 applicants in 2 yrs for the post-Brexit "Global Talent" scheme

And two of them thought they were joining a gym

Shame that we weren’t part of a group of countries whereby illegal immigrants could be sent back to the first country they arrived to request asylum….
Oh wait.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/11/home-office-staff-assist-rise-small-boat-arrivals-crossings-manston-asylum-centre-kent

One thing I have noticed of late, is that Brexiteers now get much more angry when you claim Brexit is working, than if you don't. Certainly around immigration. Telling frothing Brexiteers that we don't need to do anything about immigration now we have "finally left" is far more productive than merely whining about the downsides of Brexit.

I can recommend it as a tactic. There is nothing quite like hearing a Brexiteer having to lecture a Remainer as to why Brexit is a crock.

On a serious note it does hint at how the future political campaigning is going to try to turn. By the next election, the Tories will want you to think that Brexit was some sort of unavoidable natural disaster like Covid, or out of their control like Ukraine.

If you read the reportage from the MSM, it's already starting.

This is why it's important to keep the word Tory very close to the word Brexit in discussion. Not just because it's the truth. But because it's the history.

Anything which makes Lee Anderson angry is fine by me. He's a cunt.

And here we go, yet another numpty who voted to leave but now realises she was lied to was too stupid to see what was being told to her by non racists. Sympathies limited...

No. Still got no fucks to give.

Sigh

My sympathy knows no beginning

I reckon these stories are kites being flown by people to test if we have forgotten about Brexit yet.

I have made a video will to be passed down the generations so my grandhildrens grandchildren will know the story and how to keep the memory alive. No one - no one - fucks Jane over and walks away.

Were another EU referendum to be held, 50% of Britons say they would vote to rejoin compared to 30% who would vote to stay out

That gives a headline voting intention of 62.5% to 37.5% in favour of rejoining

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2023/08/14/46-36-britons-say-there-should-be-another-eu-refer

The irony being they probably don't want us back

People like Guy Verhofstad has said that they would welcome us back, What he doesn't say, is that it would be on their terms. There would be no preferential opt outs on offer. I don't think they would want us back until the current incarnation of the Tory party is well and truly destroyed.

Jane absolutely agree with the repositioning they are doing of their Brexit. Shameless Tory arse covering. They simply exist to stay in power.

Brexit regret is real and was widespread almost immediately and that’s a relief, rejoin can’t happen too soon. I welcome every regretting voter.

Britain would have to meet the Copenhagen Criteria to rejoin the EU. They include adopting the Euro.

eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/accession-criteria-copenhagen-criteria.html

Well, of course.

Mind you, Sweden and Denmark haven't adopted the Euro yet and don't seem to be in any hurry to do so. But in the case of the UK the pound might be at parity with the Euro so it wouldn't make a great lot of difference.

I think the joining the Euro thing is a bit of a red herring. You just have to pretend that you're eventually going to join and all is fine and dandy.

To be honest though, I've no problem with joining the Euro. It would allow for a certain amount of profiteering as prices go up initially, unfortunately, but given the amount of profiteering this government has promoted, it would probably add a bit more stability to things...

Loving the ideas on display on here recently. Go on, try and make me angry about Brexit...dare yeh!

I'm also liking the scenarios where the EU could compel a returning Britain to adopt the Euro and expect to exact the destruction of the Conservative party as the "price" of re-entry.

Wow! You really do have comprehension problems!

Explains a lot, really...

For those of you who have watched the big short and know of Michael Burry....he's put all his money on a stock market crash

He was right in 2008, albeit predicted the FC a tad early...

This would be the final nail for the economy plus given that most of my pension funds are in shares, I truly hope this doesn’t happen.

Just looking and I see he’s pulling out of Chinese stocks like Alibaba and US regional banks. But is also buying other stocks. Problem is if others think ‘sell’ then this could have negative repercussions. We really don’t need more economic woe.