Brexit.

[Aribeth Zelin]

When I read such threads, I always wonder if Yes Minister really is a satire sitcom or just a documentary about RL politics.

Why not both?

Seriously, I think Satire has always been an exaggerated commentary on real world politics of the time - like Gulliver's Travels

Which makes me wonder just how much better it was to read in its day, since its still pretty good.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Sid]

I'm afraid, that the UK has one of the worst governments at the moment that I've ever witnessed in Western Europe.
So I can totally understand the tweet from the German journalist Annette Dittert.
Though times for the UK. I hope BJ will be send home soon by Parliaments.

 

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[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

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Evernote link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Not quite what the Mail, the Express and Nigel Farage said would happen.

Million foreigners offered UK visas despite delays

More than a million foreigners were offered visas to live in the UK over the last year, the highest figure on record, Home Office figures show. The UK granted

www.thetimes.co.uk

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The rate is significantly higher than previous years as 2021 was the first year in which Britain was no longer a member of the EU’s Dublin agreement, which allowed the UK to reject applications on the basis that asylum seekers should make their claim in other European countries which they passed through before coming to Britain.

 

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[Sid]

Well, if he includes Hungary and all leave and or stay out of the EU...... I'm not totally opposed to the plan.*
Although loosing the Baltic States would be a loss for the EU.

* If BJ can talk totally bogus, so can I.

 

[Luisa Land]

Well, if he includes Hungary and all leave and or stay out of the EU...... I'm not totally opposed to the plan.*
Although loosing the Baltic States would be a loss for the EU.

*

I don't think that the Baltic States have much interest in joining this illustrious club, as Johnson imagines, according to the report.
As a substitute for the Baltic states, Johnson could perhaps inspire Hungary with this grandiose idea.
but this report probably belongs in the category "fake news".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread by Phillips P OBrien is worth reading.

 

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Like so many things, they announced this a while ago, too, and nothing happened

Boris Johnson’s plan to revive imperial measurements | The Week UK

The return of pounds and ounces is part of a ‘nostalgia war’, says historian Mary Beard

www.theweek.co.uk

ETA

 

[Govi]

Like so many things, they announced this a while ago, too, and nothing happened

Boris Johnson’s plan to revive imperial measurements | The Week UK

The return of pounds and ounces is part of a ‘nostalgia war’, says historian Mary Beard

www.theweek.co.uk

Dumping decimal currency would be next?

Aside: As a visitor to England, I was quite proud of myself for gaining a slight proficiency in calculations involving £.s.d. denominated currency.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

So how many furlongs is the queue of trucks waiting at Dover? At least they won't have to wait in kilometers anymore.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

“Don’t smash yourself in the face with that shovel, it will hurt.”

“I’M A REAL MAN AND CAN TAKE IT DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

If anything ever actually happens as a result of the announcement, and some regulations are actually changed, it's going to be utterly trivial and have very little effect -- manufacturers aren't going to redesign their packaging, and certainly aren't going to change the size/volume of their products without having very good commercial reasons, and now that we've had metric measures for decades, even people like me who grew up with imperial measures (and £sd) are now accustomed to thinking in metric.

In practical terms, it makes very little difference, I think. I know how much of something/how many I want to buy, and it makes every little difference whether I'm buying 454 g of sausages (i.e. 1lb) or 400 g, or 410 g, or various other weights offered by my local supermarket. What matters is whether I'm buying 6 or 8 of them, and what size they are.

It's just Johnson desperately trying to look as if he's doing something, possibly because of this


though heaven knows why they think it's going to make much difference.

 

[Govi]

If anything ever actually happens as a result of the announcement, and some regulations are actually changed, it's going to be utterly trivial and have very little effect -- manufacturers aren't going to redesign their packaging, and certainly aren't going to change the size/volume of their products without having very good commercial reasons, and now that we've had metric measures for decades, even people like me who grew up with imperial measures (and £sd) are now accustomed to thinking in metric.

In practical terms, it makes very little difference, I think. I know how much of something/how many I want to buy, and it makes every little difference whether I'm buying 454 g of sausages (i.e. 1lb) or 400 g, or 410 g, or various other weights offered by my local supermarket. What matters is whether I'm buying 6 or 8 of them, and what size they are.

It's just Johnson desperately trying to look as if he's doing something, possibly because of this


though heaven knows why they think it's going to make much difference.

What does that mean, if it persists, for control of Parliament? Will it compel the Tories to find a weak partner to form a government? Or a shift to control by Labour?