Brexit mega thread part 11: is fucktastrophy a word?

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Part 11 of this mega thread

Couldn't see a new one?

Hope you don't mind a newbie starting it!

Yet more winning

"Brexit Trade Deal Could See Britons Pay More For Electric Cars"...

Strange that they don't want to celebrate their Brexit bonus

Unicorn thinking

https://twitter.com/edwinhayward/status/1696526627671547933?s=20

Remember all the Brexiters who claimed that British ingenuity and technology could be used to cook up a seamless border solution more sophisticated than anything that existed anywhere on Earth?

They did a pilot test, and found that it can't.

Oopsie.

Apparently it's industries fault though.

Yeah, they just didn't BeLeeeeeeeave enough...

The unfunny thing is that is what they will sell to the Great British Public who will lap it up.

Notice the subtle way it's become "the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, Brexit" like an unholy trinity of events that were out of anyones control.

I don't think it will in anyway affect the fate of the Tory party. But it will leave a lot of Tories confused as to how it happened. And you know what they say about a confused Tory. They're a LibDem waiting to happen.

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1696490764627321033?s=20

NEW

Government acknowledges for first time that the imposition of now further delayed post Brexit checks on EU food and agriculture imports will increase inflation … though says it is “expected to be minor” at less than 0.2% across three years

https://www.cityam.com/brexit-to-blame-pubs-lost-22m-over-august-bank-holiday-due-to-staff-shortages/

Hard to feel there isn't some sort of incestuous relationship between Brexit and Trump in UK media priorities.

Anyway, am increasingly warming to the movement that is emerging to use the wording of the 14th amendment to stop Trump appearing as a presidential candidate.

Grant Shapps as new Defence minister?

What alternative universe does Sunak live in? Is this some secret bidding of Putin so that the UK announces spending millions for weapons support only for it to turn out that no such weapons exist??

Okay, so that’s one thing. The other is Gove doing to waterways what he did to education. Why in gods name is this man still in cabinet? Even conservative Brian Jackson deems Gove a "…prat, quite frankly,” declared 63-year-old Brian Jackson, who described himself as a Conservative

Today, the RAAC debacle in UK schools is announced (after the actual report was completed in May/June...)

It seems the appointment of shapps to defence has really dismayed many in Whitehall

I read earlier that the PM is the ONLY cabinet minister with a constituency North of the Midlands...levelling up? Where?

Nothing to see here

No posts on MN about the RSPB? Not even Clavinova weighing in to say they're out of order for daring to criticise our beloved leaders?

Or about the Tories threatening to end their charitable status for daring to point out something within their remit?

As I saw mentioned on twitter (sorry, "x"), The charitable Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is not allowed to make political statements. The equally charitable Institute of Economic Affairs does little else.

It seems the appointment of shapps to defence has really dismayed many in Whitehall

Sunak firmly demonstrating how completely out of touch with how the electorate view his cabinet.

It seems the appointment of shapps to defence has really dismayed many in Whitehall

But delighted the Russians. I suspect they didn't pay for this in Roubles.

No posts on MN about the RSPB?

I hope we are long past the era when shoving an "R" in front of some leftover scrabble tiles demands automatic respect.

I also hope we remember that Brexits long game is to burn the establishment to the ground. Including the parasitic distraction that is the Royal Family. I can easily believe that long distant historians will link the timings into a wider view that Brexit was most likely to happen when the Queen was on the way out. Either way, I think the future of the Royals is much less certain now that had Remain won. Which is weird. But then sometimes history happens in in the future as I once heard.

Funny how selfish "I'm alright Jack" Brexshitteers only start regretting Brexshit when it finally effects them...

Nope, still no fucks to give.

And for reasons I won't go into here, I wish him the best of British (as my DM used to say) dealing with possibly the most Byzantine civil service in the EU. A close competition with France I know.

Paying a Kings ransom to foreign lawyers. What could possibly go wrong ?

I wonder if he has any children ? The wording of the article is suggestive.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/despite-rishi-sunaks-desire-to-be-a-big-world-player-brexit-has-ensured-a-walk-on-part

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/the-guardian-view-on-brexit-borders-a-slow-dawning-of-economic-reality

Gordon Bennett! You couldn't make this shit up!

It never works! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KingCanuteeandtheetide

It Never Works!

Futile talk of greater funds in return for reform of how it's spent.

Here's the future for the EU, more bills, fewer votes.

The EU is poised for a giant leap towards further integration | Financial Times (ft.com)

More Members = more integration. Meaning More money while having less say.

Sounds like a benefit to me...

As an EU citizen living in an EU country, I'm very happy for new members to join us. Even more opportunities for our young people. I can't imagine being so full of hatred and bitterness that you'd rather destroy your kids' life chances than work collaboratively with your neighbours.