Brexit mega thread part 13: All eyes on Ireland

[SerendipityJane]

With the Windsor framework up & running, and the DUP having a "you could set your calendar by it" hissy fit, but Irish unification refusing to keep it's head down, what next in the long running sage of UK vs. the real world ?

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Oh, I gave up reading it ages ago. It never says anything relevant.

I'm merely making sure to point out what a load of nonsensical bollocks it is, and trying to determine why it's so desperate to post it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/worlds-largest-food-awards-move-judging-panel-from-uk-to-ireland-to-avoid-brexit-red-tape

new post-Brexit import controls have forced the organisers to hold a judging panel outside the UK for the first time in the awards’ 30-year history.

@Peregrina How do you know we haven't formed our own parties, or are about to put ourselves up for election?

If you are going to put yourselves up for election, quick action is needed as it is only 39 days away. I will keep a look out for a new party that’s formed which quotes MN in their manifesto as their source of proof that the UK should apply to rejoin the EU.

Yonks ago RedToothBrush thought about organising a Brexit board meet up
maybe after the election ....

You do that dearie.

@DuncinToffee

The link you have provided includes the following statement:

John Farrand, the managing director of the Guild of Fine Food, said: “The friction at the borders has tripped us up this year. We’re a bellwether for the wider problems in the market. It’s irritating for us because it’s going to cost us a lot more money to go and judge in Ireland.

If it costs more to judge in Ireland, how is that a loss the 68 million population of the UK?

@SerendipityJane

GlobeTrotter2000 · Today 14:46

@Peregrina How do you know we haven't formed our own parties, or are about to put ourselves up for election?
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If you are going to put yourselves up for election, quick action is needed as it is only 39 days away. I will keep a look out for a new party that’s formed which quotes MN in their manifesto as their source of proof that the UK should apply to rejoin the EU.
You do that dearie.

Why? I am not interested in the UK rejoining the UK.

Remain supporters are the ones who say there is evidence that the majority of the UK want the UK to rejoin the EU. That so, it’s their obligation to take action.

Remember that UK and the EU apply the principle of;

Innocent until proven guilty.

Case closed 😀

As part of my work I have dealings with quite a few constituency Tory parties.
They are seething about this election.
They had assumed they had all summer to check out candidates and get the volunteer list in order.
Now they have until June 7th

I am looking forward to some spectacularly bad choices and withdrawn options
from ALL of the parties
snigger

The latest was that Labour has about 13 candidates to file and the Tories 190.

Don't know about the other parties

I am looking forward to some spectacularly bad choices and withdrawn options from ALL of the parties

It won't stop people voting Tory. I remember Ed Vaizey stood down after the election had been announced last time, so a pig with a blue rosette candidate was put up and got duly elected.

Boundary changes may affect the seat this time, but it would take a massive swing to unseat the Tory.

A well organised black ops campaign from a power that didn't like us (which is pretty much the entire world to some degree) could have an awful lot of fun installing really dodgy candidates and then trickling out their peccadilloes one a week to destabilize a party, or indeed the whole process.

If you really wanted to fuck the UK, then you'd start by ensuring no one of any stripe had any faith in the election. From there it's pretty easy to go to local riots, organised resistance and the inevitable coup as an army (doesn't have to be ours) steps in.

Fuck it, people have sold millions of books with far less solid plots.

I am almost looking forward to the US presidential debate on June 27th
(exactly a week before our GE)

Trump's New York verdict is due next Thursday.
The other cases are on hold
but he will have to talk without an autocue and without an audience
which he's not great at ....

I will vote but I wish neither of them were my options
(that applies to the UK and the USA)

Trump's New York verdict is due next Thursday.

but he will have to talk without an autocue and without an audience which he's not great at ....

And this won't make the slightest bit of difference to his faithful followers. They will continue to believe in him.

Why? I am not interested in the UK rejoining the UK.

!DANGER Will Smith DANGER!
Obviously the bot has a glitch.
Obviously Globe should simply be unplugged, or take the batteries out and see if a 'hard reset' might actually turn it into a functioning 'humanoid'.
My washing machine does not 'think' it simply washes my laundry like a good little machine.

Britain has become a dumping ground, warns cement industry

The domestic cement industry has blamed Britain's post Brexit failure to follow European Union trade protection measures, which is encouraging imports from Turkey and North Africa and increasingly from India and China

https://archive.ph/LCvnl#selection-2837.0-2837.218

Because the UK hasn't kept up with EU measures, we've lost a big chunk of our cement industry to foreign producers.

Things may get worse once the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism kicks in fully in 2026. Our equivalent isn't ready.

Thanks, Brexit!

Britain has become a dumping ground, warns cement industry

See also reports of many multistory buildings collapsing in China due to corruption and use of inferior materials which will be at least peripherally connected to the EU fears of substandard or at least variable quality control at a time when the world needs to reduce carbon emissions where cement is a massive culprit.

Times warns of disaster that it campaigned for shocker...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3fece775-16e7-4c9f-b53e-b8542946745e?

Don't know about making EU travel easier for schoolkids but I can't see them avoiding having fingerprints taken under EES.

Globe should be here crowing that she KNEW this would be the result and that she is helping to reduce the number of UK schoolkids being subjected to 'Continental ways' and that fingerprinting of all Brits that wish to travel is simply part of taking back control 'which it is and I believe the Uk called for this on some occasions however exempting themselves from the need to actually know WHO is in the UK.

I had fingerprint scans in 2012 when rotating in and our of Iraq. Both index fingers were placed on scanner at the passport desk while the controller flicked through the passport to look for the last entry/exit stamp. So, no extra time to pass through as both tasks were done at the same time.

More recently in Kazakhstan, all non-Kazakhs had to have photo taken on arrival. This too was done whilst the controller went through the passport to find the Kazakh Visa. So, no extra time to pass through.

Schiphol airport has already installed the finger print scanners at the non-EU lines in readiness. Photo scanners have been coupled with the passport bio page scanner for years.

More scaremongering as usual.

BTW, the DM had the same article as that in the Telegraph and Times. So can the Times and Telegraph be trusted as remainers say the DM can't be trusted?

Globe missing the point in usual style and not factoring in the carfulls of 'old dears' that now have to get out and do the scans after remembering then might or might not need glasses and then deciding that a trip to the loo really is a good idea. What Schiphol and Kazakhstan have done is irrelevant because it is the UK that has FAILED to factor all this in despite knowing it would be NECESSARY for over 8 Years: We are discussing ROAD transport NOT planes, some people really do need to keep up.

I am slowly becoming convinced that real people are starting to post like bots because that is all they have seen done. Which quietly removes them from the debate as bots get better at spotting bots.

An HR chum recently advised me to ensure job applications are always accompanied with a genuine personalised cover letter to demonstrate I am not a bot. However they rather missed the point that such a letter is unlikely to be spotted by a bot.

Modern life. Donchaloveit.

Darn, I forgot to untick the box about watching the thread!
I am certainly not a bot and have offspring to 'prove' it. Maybe Globe, or other brexiteer should volunteer to sort out the paperwork to get the equipment I have just finished transported from France to the UK. France to Croatia was just a matter of going online downloading the label and paying the carriage charge.