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Brexit - The Chequered Flag


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13 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

For me BREXIT is the easy part. Increasing our trade with the rest of the world is the harder part.

Brexit should have been the easy part but four and a half years of obstruction and politicking has already cost the country. Increasing our trade with the rest of the world is at least a possibility now that we aren't constrained by EU trade restrictions. It won't be easy but standing on your own two feet and prospering by your own actions seems like a privilege to me.

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It's appalling news about Brexit that will be a bitter disappointment to some. Apparently trucks are moving freely in both directions between France and the UK, without delays or inconvenience. This is such a disaster that mainstream media have had to abandon all reporting of cross-Channel traffic. Which comes as a surprise to no one. 

 

In other Brexit developments, sterling hasn't collapsed as expected, the stock market hasn't been trashed and as yet there has been no thermonuclear armageddon across Britain. Even Godzilla failed to show.

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4 hours ago, Bill said:

Apparently trucks are moving freely in both directions between France and the UK, without delays or inconvenience.

In other Brexit developments, sterling hasn't collapsed as expected, the stock market hasn't been trashed

Aye but the BBC have an article titled 'Brexit: How will it affect my holiday to Spain?', so let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Bill.  Disaster may just be around the corner...

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8 hours ago, Bill said:

It's appalling news about Brexit that will be a bitter disappointment to some. Apparently trucks are moving freely in both directions between France and the UK, without delays or inconvenience. This is such a disaster that mainstream media have had to abandon all reporting of cross-Channel traffic. Which comes as a surprise to no one. 

 

In other Brexit developments, sterling hasn't collapsed as expected, the stock market hasn't been trashed and as yet there has been no thermonuclear armageddon across Britain. Even Godzilla failed to show.

Ah, but did the pied piper come to lead the poor children of Hamilton away into the bowels of some hard right infrastructure ?

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11 hours ago, Bill said:

It's appalling news about Brexit that will be a bitter disappointment to some. Apparently trucks are moving freely in both directions between France and the UK, without delays or inconvenience. This is such a disaster that mainstream media have had to abandon all reporting of cross-Channel traffic. Which comes as a surprise to no one. 

 

In other Brexit developments, sterling hasn't collapsed as expected, the stock market hasn't been trashed and as yet there has been no thermonuclear armageddon across Britain. Even Godzilla failed to show.

The media scaremongering really was all piss and wind.

 

Not only have all the accused over Brexit campaign funds been found not guilty and some have had damages paid to them (Nice one Carole Cadwalldr of the Guardian) we now have the very essence of their calamity arguments destroyed for all to see.

 

They can now turn their focus entirely on Covid, though lets hope the electorate don't forget the lies come election time.  

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21 hours ago, ChelseaBoy said:

The media scaremongering really was all piss and wind.

 

Lets see how things pan out.  The worst case scenario (no deal) was only avoided at the last minute and a lot of businesses were stockpiling in the last quarter of 2020 and several of the ports are operating under normal capacity.   The devil will be in the detail, of which there is plenty still to work through.  

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6 hours ago, stewarty said:

Lets see how things pan out.  The worst case scenario (no deal) was only avoided at the last minute and a lot of businesses were stockpiling in the last quarter of 2020 and several of the ports are operating under normal capacity.   The devil will be in the detail, of which there is plenty still to work through.  

True, but the edge of the cliff/end of the world bluster was always going to be just that.

 

Whatever people think of the EU, it was not about to add billions in tariff costs to its own industries, many of which are already teetering on the brink as are many in the UK and with the additional 750bn it has had to find in pandemic relief. 

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7 hours ago, stewarty said:

Lets see how things pan out.  The worst case scenario (no deal) was only avoided at the last minute and a lot of businesses were stockpiling in the last quarter of 2020 and several of the ports are operating under normal capacity.   The devil will be in the detail, of which there is plenty still to work through.  

As an addendum, it is interesting that the representatives of both UK and French fishing industries are upset with the deal.

 

The UK due to the transition and catch quotas not increasing as quickly as they believed would happen and the French that the quota changes over the next few years will result in a much lower catch for French fishermen - so have the negotiators managed finalise a deal that sits so finely balanced as to be correct? 

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