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We enjoyed Breeders as well - yes the grandad character is ace but also funny when you realise he was David St Hubbins in Spinal Tap (and loads more obv - but that is the one many people of a certain age will remember)

I agree with so much of JA posts But the cautious optimism about Truss? Not for me I will have optimism when a British minister displays any grasp of Irish history or awareness. She has zero

Johnson earlier this year https://news.sky.com/story/amp/brexit-boris-johnson-rejects-claim-uk-australia-trade-deal-would-see-farmers-lose-their-livelihoods-12310969 ? Brexit: Boris Johnson rejects claim UK-Australia trade deal would see farmers 'lose their livelihoods' The Department for International Trade says any trade deals signed will not "undercut UK farmers" or compromise high standards.? Lies like this are not sustainable Large parts of Tory constituencies are fisher/farmer based. Telling them in a haughty voice ?net win tho!!! Think of the manufacturing chaps!? Won?t pay their bills. There will be consequences for any govt screwing over their voters like this.

Easy to avoid discussing damage to farming and fishing (despite promises made to them) when you can just go ?someone I disagree with on the internet? ?I?d remind you? like some cheap Rees Mogg clone I know what I raised. I know what points I made. And I know why you ignore them

I?d say you should be looking at the promises made to fishermen and farmers before the referendum Not only have they been shafted But without their vote Brexit wouldn?t have happened. Still it only took several posts for you to clear your throat and do a very Johnson ?I?m not unsympathetic? Translation: ?I could give a flying f@@@? It?s all a con And you, with no skin in the game, grift away Price of everything. Value of nothing.

I think you may have misread my "let's see" I don't actually mean "let's see" - I was clear I think the projections are "optimistic", I was clear that the main people affected who voted for brexit will suffer badly and they were lied to unacceptably. You are very airy in your dismissal of these problems And then there are other details like the UK dropping environmental standards to get the deal Of course - it has yet to be ratified by UK parliament You seem to think it's some kind of marvellous win. So that will be the govt (who we know are pretty useless) and you

"not a half-arsed knee-jerk comment about 'farmers being sold down the river'..... " But I didn't I said fishermen voted for sunny uplands And they aren't getting them As even you concede The ?2.3bn impact is only an "expected" number - expected by a Govt desperate to crow about anything positive,- so let's see shall we.

Sunlit uplands.. for Australia British fishermen - not so much https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-australia-trade-deal-94m-hit-uk-farming-forestry-and-fishing-government-study-reveals-1361797 But in 10 years they will be winning because... fish?

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"It does bemuse me how much my very existence clearly irritates you." Absolute scenes an absolute chance for the shyster-in-chief to parlay his position into real world "look farming chaps - I know it;'s tricky - but sunlit uplands ahead!!" A chance to talk about victims, cost and he makes it about him! he always always always swerves the issues. he should replace Boris for all that we would notice

Let's leave the elitist-brexit-is-a-gamble-worth-taking-think-about-it-yeah? discussion aside for a moment Let's dip into leave-voting Wales, and hear what leave-voting farmers are saying https://nation.cymru/news/brexit-too-hard-and-uk-govs-trade-deals-naive-says-welsh-farming-union-boss/ well... it's not good is it? I'd say the "give it 10 years" merchants are f***ed - but hey. The absolute JOY of a "give it 10 years" plan is... no-one will remember!! Meanwhile real lives and jobs and industries are being screwed. If it was short term pain for long term gain you might try and mitigate it - but these people (and their kin in other industries) are being simply abandoned Cat has no words for these people Cat has many many many many words for his opponents on here - because that's his only battleground. He literally stands to lose nothing and lacks the empathy to care about those that do

the person at the top very much relies on enough of "the little people" siding with them Irish people of a certain vintage will be very familiar with the Haughey years and similar vibes

so when police were fining people for sitting on park benches or even sending them home at the same time, people should have just said "I'm outside - I'm here anyway" Tug Forelock Doff cap

and the previous one

Labour are in better shape than they were, but still not where I would want them to be. And they were shit partly because of Brexit and Corbyn yes Are they SHIT now tho? Are they quantifiably as bad as this lot in power? Not in a million years Vote them in and see

it's absolutely bonkers how you divorce WHY we have an incompetent government from the fact that we do We have an incompetent government because, having lied to get Brexit, having lied to get rid of May, having lied to "get brexit done" in a general election and having defenestrated anyone with even the slightest criticism of Brexit, all that's left is dross And Brexit is the common thread - it's why we have had 3 prime ministers and 3 general elections in a 4 year period (with another change imminent). This is nor normal and it's not healthy

People like Cat get to play a great-craic intellectual game where they rip up /ignore every international rule, claim it needs more believers/more time, and no matter how badly it goes wrong they will always always be able to blame poor implementation/external forces There will be zero accountability - none

it's precisely that DKH

"Liz - forget the EU. Brexit is done. Focus on Global Britain! Get great trade deals from around the world (even if it means those countries come out on top and we get some Tim tams) Oh but while you're here Liz - Brexit.. yeah.. it's not done. never will be. So we've given you the brief to get a better deal with the EU as well as better deal for global Britain. Conflicting messages? No no no. Not at all. Sure America blew us out of the water with the NIP, and Frosty resigned but we believe in you. Just tell America NI is safe with us, do trade deals with conflicting countries and tell the EU go hang. No-one will know. We had someone leaking a week or two back but think we have that under control now" quotes my own this time - not a quote from twitter. Rod for my own back there eh? yes facile and sneery - but also... accurate in it's message

How do we think Truss is going to do? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/19/liz-truss-to-take-on-brexit-brief-after-lord-frost-resignation

""So, I'm apparently a member of a 'vanishingly small collection of oddballs'? " Well yes - again, objectively so. Polls continue to show support for Brexit falling, as people who voted for their brexit (very different from yours) realise they are being screwed. But the oddballs are out there for everyone to see - the ones pushing for this weird, hard, pretend EU doesn't exist - the Bakers, The Frosts, the Mordaunts and yes the Trumps of this world - they are in a tiny minority. Everyone can see this "t's worth remembering that the Brexit campaign was backed by former party leaders, former foreign secretaries and chancellors of the exchequer. It was backed by historians, economists and political theorists" if you are going to highlight such luminaries, it would be dishonest if you didn't also point out that all of those categories had members against Brexit, and in fair greater numbers and with far more credibility than any of the ones you care to name? Economists? Minford and his cohorts? That simply isn't credible? Anyone you name in that list will be seen as on the crankish end of their spectrum, and in very small numbers Am I wrong or factually incorrect with that statement? But putting that aside - even if all too esteemed leaders were ALL campaigning for brexit - it wasn't this brexit. It wasn't YOUR brexit. It's a all a lie, a fantasy and a scam. You can have a brexit - but you won't be happy with it and neither will any other brexit faction "Well.....I'd really love to know what overwhelming credentials you have? what your towering achievements are, that you can look down your nose at all these people and dismiss their considered judgement out of hand? Not even worthy of an 'agree to disagree' concession, as you've mentioned many time before.....? " Who claimed overwhelming credentials? Just a voter like you - but one who recognises that if I listen to all of the professions you claim to be in support of brexit - they all come down on side of Remain, in big numbers. So I listen to them -because they know more than their kookish compadres Promises made by Brexiteers are not in their gift to deliver - and that is not something we can "agree to disagree on"

Cat Not wound up Nope Official

why bother? because they make succinct arguments in a small amount of words. I was on a phone and thought they were points well made that pro brexit people like yourself could refute (ha!) Normally if I post a tweet from someone else I say "via so and so" - with the DG tweet, I was on a phone and decided against trying to type the name and just leave it in quotes. I think the previous tweet was a similar reasoning, albeit with a much easier spelling of the tweeter. Is this REALLY now about me trying to pass off other peoples tweets as my own? Because that is absolute Grade A shitehousery you are still avoiding addressing any points made. Because of course you are ok so - given the huge majority, given the "get brexit done", given the ferocity of "Frosty" and given the complete absence of any success - what would you do now? You can blame Johnson and "the establishment" (embarrassing as that would be given some of the establishment lined up on your side) so would a more capable government have done better? Who would that govt comprise of? And why (not how) but why would they have done better. You couldn't have a more PRO Brexit govt. You could have an even less capable one (indeed that might be incoming with Truss, IDS, Baker et al having more prominent roles) You could have a MORE capable one - but that would mean keeping more capable, saner MPS, like Grieve etc Uk has cut itself adrift - no-one cares about it (other than to dip in an skim off some of the easy fat). Hence Mordaunts humiliating appearance in USA last week Either it continues down this ridiculous path (with all of the economic and reputation damage that entails) or it starts to reverse course That's it. Your fantasy/fantasist supply-side Brexit simply has no traction or support Does anyone on here share anything remotely like Cat's view? Because the country as a whole sure as hell doesn't. And trying to Trojan horse this nonsense on the back of Brexit is morally bankrupt

Also, anyone reading this thread still, will be fairly across the kinds of twitter trade/political commentators posting regularly on the subject Chances of anyone passing off someone else?s tweet as their own are nil Regardless, DG point stands You got the majority You removed the dissenters You appointed the ideologies And you achieved jack shit And the reason for that is nothing to do with partisanship. And entirely down to objective reality. Cat is living in a tiny tiny bubble which has zero mandate for their Brexit. But still they plough on causing damage to peoples lives and livelihoods. It?s a disgrace and needs calling out

Correct. I put it in quotes so make it obvious it wasn?t mine. But on a phone keyboard the chances of me typing his name were minimal.