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Living behind the Gammon Curtain. Industrial scale snark with the occasional post about the EU, customs and borders. Really, really hates racists.
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Brexiters, if you can't understand why the EU won't let you send goods unchecked into their territory let me explain it to you in simple terms:
A question: would you buy a car, sight unseen, from someone you didn't know? I'm assuming you aren't completely stupid, so I'll say no.
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"Johnson lists returning crowns to pint glasses as a key Brexit success"
The man's an idiot.
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Amazing isn't it - Part of the reason for the creation of the EU was to prevent European countries lurching into fascism and what does the first country to leave the EU do? Lurch into fascism.
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So the government is sneaking in:
No right to strike
No right to protest
No right to privacy
Got the picture yet?
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So let me get this straight: F&M have paid:
To set up a warehouse in Brussels
To establish the origin of each product
To undertake the export and import procedures for the goods
The duty on each product
Storage on the goods
Additional staff.
And this is a brexit benefit?
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Brexiters:
"The EU is corrupt, but can't I explain how."
"Brexit bought lots of benefits, but I can't describe any of them."
"We're trading with more countries now, but I can't name any of them."
"Britain is better off, but I can't tell you how"
Gaslighting tossers.
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So Dido is averse to foreign doctors but not to US funding? Funny how that works isn't it?
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Given that the head of M&S thinks that the EUs food safety regulations are just pointless bureaucracy I'm having second thoughts about buying from them in the future.
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Brexiters. For clarity, as you look around at the wasteland your racist little spasm has made of the UK please remember that it was not caused by a botched Brexit, an incomplete Brexit or even a sabotaged Brexit. None of those things exist. It was simply Brexit.
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How long before we have to start drinking beer instead of water because our taps are too contaminated?
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Imagine being an EU based trucking concern and contemplating sending 30+ of your trucks behind the Gammon Curtain where you'll lose them for weeks. You also have contracts to use them to send goods to Poland where you know you'll get them back in 2 days. Decisions, decisions eh?
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Watching my 85 year old father retreat into a world where crime is only committed by ethnic minorities and where there was a golden age of a peaceful compliant people between 1939 and 1959 is a real testimony to the power of the Daily Mail and the Express.
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What with the money paid to Arcuri and the job to Carrie, why do I get the impression that the PM has to pay for sex?
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Somebody tell her that these aren't "new trading opportunities" but simply all that's left after we've trashed trade with the EU. We always could trade with them.
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Champagne in pint bottles ? What a bunch of wank.
Honestly, the imaginary benefits of brexit get more ludicrous as the days lengthen.
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I'm 60 and as anti Brexit as it is possible to be.
Brexiteers say that most of the young people who are anti-Brexit now will become pro-Brexit eventually, as you get more conservative as you get older.
But Brexit isn't a conservative idea - it's just a bad idea. One that won't improve with age.
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I have to say, what with the planned rewriting of the human rights act: the removal of the powers of judicial review and now amendments to parliamentary standards, it's beginning to look a lot like fascism.
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I visited Romania during the Ceausescue era. I remember being bemused by the queues for petrol everywhere we went - the shabbiness and the lack of choice in the shops - the xenophobia aimed at the Roma community.
Suffering from deja vu at the moment.
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Oops, just called Ian (Duncan) Smith a "thick skulled snot gobbler". I might get punished.
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The bitter truths about Brexit that no political party will tell you:
1. Outside the EU the UK is a supplicant nation, dependent on the goodwill of others for favourable trading conditions.
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Okay. Can someone please explain, what is so bad about Freedom of Movement?
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So, did anyone who's following me actually "eat out to help out"? I know I didn't. Saw it for the trap it was.
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Oh mate. The Nazis has Socialist in their name for the same reason the ERG has Research in theirs.
Nobody seems to know one crucial fact. The Nazis were very Left-wing. They hated Christianity and deliberately set children against their parents. They imposed penal taxes on the middle class and attracted Communists to their ranks. via
@mailplus
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And this, ladies and gentlemen is why we can't have nice things like freedom of movement, seamless borders and a stable economy.
Fücking WW2 fetishism!!!
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Just got off the phone to my father. 20 minutes of him ranting about the state of the NHS, working from home, poor people owning mobile phones and people not doing enough exercise. Why yes he does read the Daily Mail, why do you ask?
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So preliminary findings are that the mission was undertaken with minimal understanding of the world they were entering, a total disregard for the consequences and blatantly ignoring the views of experts.
I can see the resemblance to Johnson's brexit.
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So we've just seen the precursor for the reason for cancelling the election, yes?
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I wonder if he's ever bothered with what the people of Gibraltar might want?
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Hello schadenfreude, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again...
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Anyone remember those halcyon days when the Brexit idiots used to claim that the EU was less democratic than the UK?
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The Reform UK candidate for Spelthorne. No I don't think so.
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I've come to believe that NI is to brexiters what West Berlin was to the DDR. It's a reminder of how much better it could have been if they hadn't made such dubious political choices. As a consequence it must be dragged behind the Gammon Curtain and made to submit to the regime.
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So, it appears that the Tories plan to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda is exactly the same as the Nazis plan to move Jews to Madagascar.
What, and I can't emphasise this enough, the fuck!
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Just clarify. If Grant Shapps thinks that the pay bill for 72000 civil servants is that amount it means we're owed a fuckload of back pay.
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I absolutely detest Labour's strategy of hoovering up the arsehole vote with their Pro Brexit policy while relying on the rest us wanting to get the Tories out badly enough to vote for them.
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Can any Brexiter who is currently moaning that leaving the EU didn't deliver what they expected please tell us what it was that they expected?
The vagueness is maddening.
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Do you want to know the worst part about the hour long queue to get my passport stamped leaving Spain? That it's a minor inconvenience compared to the impact the loss of FoM has had on business and the country.
It's just the garnish on a shit sandwich.
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@Dominic2306
So you've just admitted to not negotiating in good faith. Thank you.
@MichelBarnier
you might want to read this. It appears the UK cannot be trusted going forward.
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Brexiters. A little bit of reality for you. Trade is the oldest profession. No one country has everything it needs, not in raw materials or expertise. So it needs to trade with other countries. Our modern trade falls into 3 eras: empire trade, post empire trade and EU membership.
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Look guys it's really easy. If you leave the EU you can no longer have:
-Untrammeled access to their single market.
-Use of their criminal databases.
-Unlimited, unregulated stays in their territory.
You blew it all away. Now go and live your more-stunted lives.
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So let me get this straight :
The people sent by politicians to protect the cenotaph are fighting with the police who were sent to protect the cenotaph. In the meantime, the people they were supposed to protect the cenotaph from are going nowhere near the fecking thing?
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@lizzzburden
@OBR_UK
Ooh who to believe? A group of trained economists with the heart beat of the country at their fingertips: or a Tory place mat promoted because of her loyalty to the ERG?
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Hey Labour! Now would be a good time to confirm your commitment to the ECHR. Just saying.
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Hang on, the agreement was for a few hundred, why are we suddenly rounding up thousands? What are we going to do with them? Concentration Camps?
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One of the most important life lessons I ever learned was that people who understood why something worked the way it did were more successful than those who merely knew how it worked. So I learned why the EU worked. That's why I voted remain and why I knew brexit would bollix us.
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Just googled who was Prime Minister in the year of my birth and I feel old. Harold Macmillan.
Who was yours?
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Brexiters, here are three reasons why you cannot make brexit a success:
1. You might think the mechanisms and rules that make up the world's trading order are burdensome and unnecessary but the rest of the planet does not.
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Can anyone tell me of any British product with the global reach of say champagne, or camembert?
Possibly cheddar?
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Brexit is the very opposite of free trade. Brexit simply means the imposition of the same customs formalities on trade from the EU as the rest of the world. It's what you campaigned for. It's what you got. Why are you complaining?
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Just think. Thanks to Brexit very soon you'll be able to look at your cookbooks and think "gosh, I wish I had access to all those wonderful ingredients". Just like a real-life 1940s housewife.
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You know it's not entirely unfeasible that Sunak will be the last Conservative Prime Minister this country will ever have. What a fascinating prospect.
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@EUoutnow
You say that like it's a bad thing? I'd love to be back in the EU. We'd have an economy again.
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@NeilDotObrien
Why don't you show photos of the bits you're responsible for? You know: the potholed roads, schools falling apart, shops shuttered because of the price of electricity, the food banks, the queues at Dover.
Aren't they pretty too? If not, why did you let them happen?
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So, we've left the ECHR, set up our own Bill of Rights & are depending on British judges to defend them. The govnmt, in a fit of pique passes a law that all green eyed people are criminals.
All the high court can do is confirm whether the judgment is legal.
Still happy?
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Chain Gangs!?! Fucking chain gangs?
"I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be out there in one of those fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs visibly paying your debt to society".
Boris Johnson outlines his planned reforms for dealing with people convicted of anti-social behaviour.
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@donaldtuskEPP
The UK currently exists to be the perfect example of how to destroy a modern economy.
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Work Makes you Free.
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So in order to survive brexit the government has now had to suspend:
Competition law
Health and safety laws
800 years of customs controls
It's going really well, isn't it?
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@AdamBienkov
So, if I'm reading this right he's claiming that certain "groups" (aka "races") are inherently inferior. Yep, scratch a conservative, reveal a raging racist.
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@SuellaBraverman
@Conservatives
In other words the Labour party voted against the march of fascism in this country.
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Such is the level of the Conservative's intelligence that they can't tell the difference between the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.
Our culture is clearly safe with them.
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It's all so inevitable, not a single idiot Brexiter actually thought through the consequences of their racist little vote, did they?
UK ends freedom of movement...
UK perpetually moans, gets ever more angry & blames others for the consequences of UK's decision to end freedom of movenent
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I'm just wondering if future generations will be reading a diary of a young girl who hid from the British while they were rounding up people for exile to Rwanda?
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@Cobratate
@GretaThunberg
So apart from having 33 cars and the ego like a fragile flower who are you?
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@janemerrick23
@theipaper
Bit rich. At that time I was doing 14 hour days trying to help sort out both COVID and Brexit while he was getting pissed at parties and making uninformed promises about the NI border.
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Somebody remind Sunak that the last person who used the phrase "the will of the people" as an excuse to persecute a minority ended his life in a Berlin bunker.
Not a good look.
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@toryboypierce
You're about to find out why the EU has never had a trade agreement with India.
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I'm over 60. For information I'd rather nail my balls to my kneecaps and walk all the way home than be considered part of the Saga generation. For that alone the Tories have lost my vote never mind all the other shït.
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@LBC
@darrenadam
How about asking the opposite question. How much disruption can unions cause before you realise they might have a valid point?
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Well my wife has finally conned me into that diet she's been threatening me with for 25 years. Giving up sugar in my coffee has been surprisingly easy. But porridge without sugar😲. Tried fresh fruit but the acidity clashes. Chopped nuts are acceptable: any other suggestions?
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@bluewoodsmoke
@StephenMossGdn
We've been coasting on past glories for decades, All brexit has done is shine a light on our inadequacies for the rest of the world to see.
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we conform to their mechanisms and rules (oops) and that includes permanent dispute resolution mechanisms with legal force.
Face it, your pipe dream is a bloody disaster.
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@AvonandsomerRob
Any particular time period that you are thinking of? They all smelled differently:
1940's: death, airplane fuel and gunpowder
1950s: rationing and brown
1960/70s: leaded petrol and tobacco smoke
1980s: cannabis and cocaine with the odd yuppie
So much to choose from
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Something that really annoys me is the focus on Freedom of Movement as simply border checks on holiday makers by the lazy press, blithering idiot Home Secretaries and Brexit pundits. The reality is that FoM is much, much more than that and the UK has lost so much.
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@ZacGoldsmith
Christ, my cat has laid turds more intelligent than the PM. You must be desperate.
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So presumably the PM's plan is:
A. Leave ECHR
B. Cancel general election
C. Outlaw protests
D. Rule until "things improve".
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@pritipatel
What trade barriers to exporters does the government control? This is like asking for gravity to be removed so that you can float to the moon.
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Anyone else just put candles on their shopping list for today?
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@TiceRichard
I'm a retired customs policy expert with specialisms in border controls, cooperation and law. I too cannot see a way in which I can 'put my shoulder' behind Brexit.
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Somebody needs to tell the government that importing foodstuffs from Australia reinforces the need for border checks between GB and NI.
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I think this is the problem the older generation are struggling with. They cannot conceive of being lied to by the media and political parties.
These are the leaflets the Conservative Party is currently putting out in London.
Just straightforward disinformation, designed to trick people into handing over their data.
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@askquantum
Thanks Tom. All things that were explained to ministers at the time. Brilliant thread.
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Come on brexiters. I'm still waiting for one of you to tell me what a properly achieved Brexit looks like. Surely one of you had the intelligence to tell us?
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@danielmgmoylan
@NickTayNorfolk
Nope. It was poorly run. Without the normal democratic safeguards required of a referendum in civilised societies and was probably funded by dirty money.
I respect the decision as much as I respect you. That is to say not at all.
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Isn't it interesting that in the minds of the brexirati only Englishmen are entitled to self determination?
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Fair warning, if anyone says the phrase "independent sovereign nation" within my earshot I shan't be responsible for my actions.
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Hey brexiters! Just for information, when you cast your vote to leave the EU this is the legislation you voted for to apply to our exports to the EU. Have a read so you can stop complaining about the EU bullying the uk. This what you wanted:
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@cleanupbritain
Make up your mind. Is it local public sector workers or civil servants? There is a difference you know.
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@JeremyWarnerUK
"Brexit dream" lmao. It was a dream of a resurrected Empire ruling over the foreigns. It was always a tendentious reading of history rippled through with mendacity. It was a pipedream.
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@vanmaneuro
This information will be passed to the Department of Doing Chuff-all to consider a response.
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@111meeuwis
@judirayner
I love the Dutch. I love their no nonsense attitude. I've worked with them internationally and they are an absolute delight.
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