Brexit.

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

And the more the UK diverges from the EU regulations, the longer checks at port will take and the harder it will be to agree (again) on Ireland.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain

As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Sid]

Ah well.... at least there is very little chance of a Marmite crises.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Sid]

I guess soon paramedics, trauma doctors and nurses without any education in that direction will become a thing in the UK too.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

It's fun to see what we're doing with teacher licensing here in the U.S.

 

[Khamon]

Truck (lorry) drivers as well. We’re pumping them out in Alabama with a few weeks instruction and little experience. Our Interstates are now parking lots due to multiple daily accidents up and down the state.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I remember this video from the campaign

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

There are plenty of criticisms of freeports but I struggle to recognise his dystopian vision:

What are freeports and will they help the economy?

Two freeports have been named in Wales, joining eight sites in England and two in Scotland.

www.bbc.co.uk

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8823/

 

[Sid]

The pro and contra Brexit sides constantly blaming each other will not bring the UK any further. Not now, not in the foreseeable future.
Continue to discuss what should have been discussed before Brexit took place isn't really relevant any more IMHO.
Brexit is a fact now, so unite and try to make the best of it.
I told you so, does not help the case.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The pro and contra Brexit sides constantly blaming each other will not bring the UK any further. Not now, not in the foreseeable future.
Continue to discuss what should have been discussed before Brexit took place isn't really relevant any more IMHO.
Brexit is a fact now, so unite and try to make the best of it.
I told you so, does not help the case.

The problem here, though, is that the pro-Brexit side is still unwilling to acknowledge that any problems have, in fact, been caused by Brexit.

Instead, they suggest, they have all been caused by something else, often by EU intransigence in sticking to the agreement the British government negotiated and signed or by "Brexit not having gone far enough."

This makes uniting to try to make the best of it rather difficult, since most of the current government seem determined to make things even worse.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This makes uniting to try to make the best of it rather difficult, since most of the current government seem determined to make things even worse.

[Overly simplistic]The entire Anglo world has had the right leaning faction split off into a "Stick it to the Libtards" political platform.[/Overly simplistic]

 

[Govi]

Somehow this reminds me of the Hanseatic League which, I argue, formed to provide trade advantages to its members because the central government of the Holy Roman Empire could get almost nothing done towards governing. The contrast is that today, we have a de facto abdication by the UK government of its duty to lead, whereas then, the Emperor was hampered from governing by jealousies of the member states of the Empire and their delegates. Mutatus mutandum.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

[Overly simplistic]The entire Anglo world has had the right leaning faction split off into a "Stick it to the Libtards" political platform.[/Overly simplistic]

I don't think that's it, or not the whole story, here in the UK.

It's simpler than that -- the leadership of, and most MPs in, the Conservative Party either supported, or came round to supporting, Brexit. That's why they're in power.

To admit that it's not going terribly well, as clearly it isn't, and most of the public, not being fools, see that it isn't, means admitting they were either mistaken or lying about its supposed benefits, which they, along with their supporters in the press, are most unwilling to do.

We're stuck with them and their self-serving nonsense until the next election, when I hope Labour, or a coalition of Labour and the Lib Dems, will be able to start trying to make things work again.

Everyone accepts that Brexit's now a done deal and won't be undone in the foreseeable future. The only people who don't want to move on from Brexit are the Brexiteers in the current government, because Brexit, and benefits the unicorns would bring us once it was achieved, was the only policy they had, and they can't find another one.