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same tone deaf response every time "A government spokesperson said: ?The British people repeatedly voted to end free movement and take back control of our immigration system. Employers should invest in our domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad?. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/25/the-anxiety-is-off-the-scale-uk-farm-sector-worried-by-labour-shortages They should stop faffin abaht growing' stuff and just buy it in, innit. In ten years, all those farms could be 'aaaahses, people will have somewhere to live, and we won't have no forrins knocking' abaht. Win win see

and it all speaks to the same lack of seriousness that has underpinned the whole thing - never addressing real problems, always conjuring up some distant point in the future where markets will have corrected this sort of thing, with scant regard for the self-inflicted suffering it all causes We were told last year when we expressed concerns about NI that we were wrong to worry - yet just a few months later UK govt threaten to break international treaties because they didn't understand what was in them and the country was suffering because of them At some point, Leavers will have to look at a problem, address it and not dismiss it, all the while blaming others

because economic theory is all fine and well in theory - but it often doesn't survive contact with reality. And all of these economists who might agree with Lynn are not forming queues to agree with him on the wider points of his article Higher value industries? yes please - now, what are they? They don't exist in any tangible, meaningful way do they? The govt isn't poised to unveil any Higher animal welfare and better deals for UK farmers were explicit promises made to Leave voters - following Lynn's recommended course of action puts paid to both of those promises (convenient now the whole thing is done) And simply saying "chicken is a solved problem - just import it" is ignoring the supply issues the UK is currently facing. He does mention haulage but he doesn't appear to recognise that chicken imported from wherever still needs to reach shops - and if everyone has buggered off to higher value industries or the EU then we still face supply problems It's all just vapid, wishful thinking. If a country wants to rebalance it's economy it doesn't need something like Brexit to do it. As it is Britain is heading for the same spot it was in before it applied to join the EU - ie poor, disrupted and in need of joining the EU.

Another look into the fevered mind of the deranged https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/08/23/now-not-time-chicken-brexit-end-mass-immigration/

Given current situation, how do people feel about Johnson these days (eg after Afghanistan events) I?ve been mocked for saying he will be gone by now but his presences isn?t just down to how people feel about the opposition He is toxic for the country yet people still find ways to excuse him. I was wrong that he wouldn?t last this long but my reasoning was sound. He is not a normal functioning leader and this government are not normal conservatives They are inadequates who exist only because of loyalty to an already insane ideology. When you look at the calibre of tories expunged (grieve/Stewart/ even hunt) and what remains. How can you not howl at the craziness of it all?

Beyond disgraceful but entirely in keeping with this clueless, feckless, moral-free bunch of shysters https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/19/guards-at-kabul-embassy-told-they-are-ineligible-for-uk-protection?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other In the words of someone else from today: ?The Govt wants to free itself from the shackles of the EU, flex its newly-independent muscles, and to evade (and row back from) its international commitments. Yet, somehow it seems to expect its influence not to be diminished.?

Aye - lived locally to me in Sussex his sitcom 15 stories high is an under appreciated gem

yep - but then we go back to the fundamentals of this whole venture. Should we have gone in the first place? How long do we commit to staying? After 20 years do you just say "well, forever if necessary?". If our problem is the way a country treats it's women are we going to tackle other big countries? Of course not What the UK can do now (now that it was ignored in this) the one thing it is sovereign over, is decide how it treats refugees from Afghanistan - and that's not looking good is it?

It's a big ugly, no easy-wins situation, with horrific consequences currently unfolding I don't think blaming Biden for implementing the deal Trump did twith he Taliban is quite the gotcha people who make the comment think it is. I'm not absolving Biden of anything - but let's not pretend Trump would somehow be doing better

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It?s not healthy is what I?m saying. And bad things will come of it

It would appear that no, people don?t care anymore Why that is remains a mystery given what is transpiring versus what people were complaining about in 2016 Still brits be brits. Outward appearance: Cuppa tea. Mustn?t grumble Actuality: silent, seething, endless unhappiness and victimhood

I see Nando?s have more than 10% of restaurants shut today because of ?supply issues? Supply issues not affecting their branches in Ireland Wonder what those supply issues are

This one stood the test of time Santerme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > karter Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > and what would happen if ALL troops left > > Afghanistan? The people need protecting but > > stamping out the Taliban? An impossible task. > > If all troops left > > It would be Saigon all over again with helicopters > collecting the last one's out from the roofs

Absolute scenes ???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well that?s because Ireland, like Belgium, is > opposed to any vaccine war as they realise what > the long term effect will be on inward investment > into the republic. Got to say, all this vaccine > stuff is exposing all the things that the long > term critics of the EU said - inefficiency, > unaccountability, over bureaucratic and dancing to > the tune of the French and Germans. I certainly > feel less bad about our decision to leave than I > did a year ago.

Some of the nonsense spouted earlier this year still makes me gasp Trolley Snatcha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The successful vaccine rollout has made Brexit all > worthwhile. Imagine still being in the EU, and sat > squabbling with all the other countries about who > gets how much of the available vaccine- no > thanks. > > We should vaccine every single person in the > country, including both shots of the Pfizer > vaccine, before we even consider looking beyond > our borders to help others. For once, we need to > look after ourselves, because if we dont this > illness and death (which is getting boring now), > will chug on for god knows how much longer.

Permanent you say? Not just teething troubles then https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/10/emergency-brexit-powers-for-lorry-queues-to-be-made-permanent?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Given the concerns about supply chains, jobs, prices etc, this continued obsession about getting the vaccine a couple of weeks early is flimsy at best and just downright weird. In no way does it constitute any kind of genuine benefit" This from December stands up well I think (now that 6 EU countries have overtaken UK with double-jab rates)

"Many business people in the north-east tell me the only way to improve the situation is to go back into the single market." - CEO of North East England Chamber of Commerce https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/09/no-strategic-plan-brexit-james-ramsbotham-north-east-chamber-of-commerce plus talk of Army on the streets to get food delivered to supermarkets The only country to deliberately slap itself in the face

Amazing how Cummings keeps saying how dumb and doltish all of the Brexit mps are - yet won?t draw a line between that and the idea itself (because it would mean? yep)

Someone posited that he is another version of Peter North from Leave Alliance Brainyish self-regarding nerds whose lack of empathy for others cause them to be rejected by peers so they are gaining revenge with all of this toxic nonsense

Imagine being on same side as Rees Mogg on, well, anything But on this specifically? proper Comical Ali/ doublethink stuff https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/3333961/businesses-face-brexit-chaos-despite-rees-mogg-great-success-claim/

I?d be beyond amazed to the point of stupefaction if boris was genuinely interested in levelling up anywhere. Maybe as an intellectual exercise that would make him popular But the detail is way beyond him As is the fact they the other B word has scuppered any possible chance of having the money/logistics to do it. (Oops)

The opening ceremony doesn't seem to have impressed global audience - but they did play musical themes from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest amongst other games - so I was pleased to see that at least

You're going to have to do better than that if you want people to not mention the other B word - Remainer this, Leaver that! ;-)