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Brexit was a huge mistake and it's ruined the UK

It's also revealed what a backwater country it is.

by Anonymousreply 320November 2, 2024 5:21 AM

Stating the obvious. i know firsthand that shipping goods to Europe is a nightmare now. I curse the utter idiots that voted for Brexit, fooled as they were by pompous buffoons like Johnson, fascists like Nigel Garbage and Putin, who clearly had a hand in swaying the vote through his online machinations.

by Anonymousreply 1April 11, 2024 9:13 AM

[QUOTE]Brexit was a huge mistake

I could have told you that before it happened. As could the vast majority of people with common sense.

by Anonymousreply 2April 11, 2024 9:32 AM

I voted Remain and live in a city that voted 50/50.

Patronising attitudes like R1 is why people rejected the status quo. Your poor, poor postal costs.

by Anonymousreply 3April 11, 2024 9:48 AM

Yes, a truly bad idea that I hoped (against all evidence to the contrary) wouldn't go through. And yet it did.

It's turned out worse than I had expected for the UK, and without any sense of upturn in the future. Contrary to predictions that the UK's divorce would leave the EU would damaged and imperilled, it's weathered the change rather easily. The loss to the EU budget was about 5% (I think the UK was contributing an annual net €19 Billion to the EU - of which they received back €7B).

One report estimates the average Briton was £2000 worse off in 2023, the average Londoner down nearly £3400, and with 2 Million fewer jobs in the UK.

All because 51.8% of voters succumbed to populist fears of Polish tradesmen ruining an image Traditional Britain that was already decades gone?

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by Anonymousreply 4April 11, 2024 10:09 AM

I'll never forget how many American DLers cheered them on when the vote happened, projecting their own misguided sense of independence onto the cause, which was CLEARLY cooked up by right-wingers and Russia to weaken both the Union and Britain.

I'm in the EU and I hope they return soon as full members. We're stronger together.

by Anonymousreply 5April 11, 2024 10:09 AM

[quote]i know firsthand that shipping goods to Europe is a nightmare now.

Of course. I won't buy anything from the UK because the cost and nuisance to receive it in the EU is too much. What had been very easy is now complicated and expensive. But Brexiters were keen to stand up and show that they didn't have any use for the Continent.

by Anonymousreply 6April 11, 2024 10:15 AM

[quote] I'm in the EU and I hope they return soon as full members. We're stronger together.

Nah, they can fucking stay out. It’s great now that travel is more difficult but their tourists still fuck up everywhere they go. If they do come back they can adopt the euro, no special exceptions or privileges anymore, and they all have to learn another language.

by Anonymousreply 7April 11, 2024 10:25 AM

[quote]Nah, they can fucking stay out. It’s great now that travel is more difficult but their tourists still fuck up everywhere they go. If they do come back they can adopt the euro, no special exceptions or privileges anymore, and they all have to learn another language.

I've travelled to the EU twice this year. It's not more difficult in the slightest.

by Anonymousreply 8April 11, 2024 10:28 AM

I voted to remain. It gives me no pleasure to see the disastrous outcome and lost opportunities as a result of ignorance of what people were really voting for.

by Anonymousreply 9April 11, 2024 10:34 AM

When it happened there was all that noise and excitement about other countries following suit but you never hear a word about that now after Britain showed us all what a pointless and self-defeating exercise it was.

by Anonymousreply 10April 11, 2024 10:40 AM

Sorry R1 and R5, but that argument is ridiculous. Before the sanctions levied against Russia in 2022, Russia's main trading partner was the EU and it would have been counterproductive for them to weaken the Union. In fact, when the first round of sanctions were imposed, everyone assumed that the Russian economy would crumble to dust because they had lost their main trading partner. Had it not been for the rest of the BRICS block rallying around Russia and strengthening their commercial ties, the Russian economy would have unravelled.

Brexit was promoted by the US, because the EU's many regulations prevent American companies from easily accessing the European market, and the UK is America's closest and most subservient subject in Europe - even more so than Poland and Spain, in fact. As Pence correctly said, we're a new market for America with 72 million consumers. Weakening Europe and turning it into a US vassal doesn't benefit Russia, but the neocons - which is why Trump imposed sanctions on Nordstream and Biden has sabotaged it. Now, we don't have anywhere else to turn to. Our fates are ties to America's and if the US collapses, it will irremissibly drag us down.

Yes, Brexit was a huge mistake, but seeing how the EU is committing economic suicide, I would say that the UK might yet find a way to stay afloat when the Union flounders.

by Anonymousreply 11April 11, 2024 10:50 AM

Would love to hear from our UK members. Share your anecdotes how Brexit has influenced your day-to-day lives. This is a serious request.

I really don't know much about the entire plan, and I fell a lot of people simply regurgitate what they read in the newspaper, online or see on social media (not doubting the varacity of those channels). Ultimately, how has it impacted the general public?

Please and TIA.

by Anonymousreply 12April 11, 2024 11:01 AM

Brexit was popular among Trumpers rather than Americans per se. Very clear it was an anti-immigrant, xenophobic movement promoted by scum such as Nigel Farage with no discernible benefit.

by Anonymousreply 13April 11, 2024 11:23 AM

Of course a fucking disaster for the UK, and also a real loss for the EU. We are stronger together, and an EU without one of the “big 3” (Germany, France, UK), is a somewhat diminished EU.

However, Brexit was so acrimonious, the UK being so malevolent and untrustworthy in their negotiations with the EU, that there is absolutely no chance for the EU to open rejoining negotiations for probably a generation, even if a Starmer government wanted it., which they don’t. It would take general consensus across both political parties in the UK for the EU to even consider a new membership application, like in 1974. At the moment, there is no such consensus. The Tories will never admit for a generation they royally fucked up. And Labour who are on the cusp of power, are too scared to alienate the remaining 30% or so of the electorate who still believe Brexit was a good idea. What will happen is the UK will become an associate country, like Switzerland, taking orders from the EU. with zero say in the decisions.

by Anonymousreply 14April 11, 2024 11:39 AM

[quote] All because 51.8% of voters succumbed to populist fears of Polish tradesmen ruining an image Traditional Britain

Not just Poles.

by Anonymousreply 15April 11, 2024 11:45 AM

And?

by Anonymousreply 16April 11, 2024 11:50 AM

Left the UK after COVID for an EU country. It's become a very difficult, unkind society post-Brexit, more like the tensions in America.

by Anonymousreply 17April 11, 2024 11:51 AM

I hate what has happened here since Brexit. People only listen to what they want to have reinforced. There are few people courageous enough to challenge it because the atmosphere has become so fraught. There has been a massive increase in hate crimes because all that pent up dislike is spilling over into public arenas.

by Anonymousreply 18April 11, 2024 11:56 AM

R2

Not everyone agreed with you. Trump said leave was a great idea. Obama said the opposite. Who to believe?

by Anonymousreply 19April 11, 2024 11:57 AM

Trump and Biden both told the UK that they aren't getting a trade deal from the US.

by Anonymousreply 20April 11, 2024 12:00 PM

R17 which? the UK?

by Anonymousreply 21April 11, 2024 12:01 PM

Texan here (but pretty big UK- o-phile; have visited many times before and after and my son lived there for six months last year) and the day Brexit passed, I turned to my son and husband and said, “this is going to be so much worse than people think” and being appalled at the exit polls showing that many voters had no idea what Brexit truly meant. I think some thought it just meant that the UK would keep their double-deckers or something else superficial.

And I don’t know a single American who supported Brexit as a foreigner - it was such a transparently bad idea pushed by transparently bad actors.

by Anonymousreply 22April 11, 2024 12:02 PM

[quote]Not everyone agreed with you. Trump said leave was a great idea. Obama said the opposite. Who to believe?

Obama didn’t just say the opposite. He threatened the UK by saying if they voted for Brexit, they would go to the back of the line in US trade deals.

Trump really doesn’t figure into this. At the time of the Brexit vote, he was on the campaign trail but nobody really thought he was going to win.

by Anonymousreply 23April 11, 2024 12:02 PM

[quote]Trump and Biden both told the UK that they aren't getting a trade deal from the US.

Where do you get that idea? Trump was for Brexit. He kept saying, “We’re gonna make some huge trade deals.” He wanted Brexit because he liked the wheeler-dealer aspect of it.

by Anonymousreply 24April 11, 2024 12:06 PM

[quote]Not everyone agreed with you. Trump said leave was a great idea. Obama said the opposite. Who to believe?

How about the guy who's not a blithering idiot?

by Anonymousreply 25April 11, 2024 12:07 PM

[quote] Patronising attitudes like [R 1] is why people rejected the status quo.

Amen to that. That should be the big lesson of the early 21st century. Instead of listening to people with different opinions, they are being called idiots. Not exactly a practical way to sway them over and reach consensus. Insults and shouting instead of talking and compromising.

by Anonymousreply 26April 11, 2024 12:20 PM

So Brexit is suddenly … America’s fault? The infantilization of Europeans continues apace.

Obama was president when that nonsense was being discussed and he did everything but jump up on his desk and say “DONT DO IT!” I felt a sense of dread as the vote approached and disbelief when Leave won. But if it makes you feel better to drag in the universal scapegoat, be my guest.

by Anonymousreply 27April 11, 2024 12:20 PM

I might be wrong, but I don't believe that it was all that relevant to UK voters what Americans (presidents or others) thought about Brexit.

by Anonymousreply 28April 11, 2024 12:23 PM

Historically, the UK has always had issues with Europe. In the 1970s, when they tried to join the EU’s predecessor, they were rejected twice.

by Anonymousreply 29April 11, 2024 12:24 PM

‘Britain is broken.’ Dire poverty could usher in Victorian-era inequality

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by Anonymousreply 30April 11, 2024 12:24 PM

Next up, Texas secedes from the Union.

Oh, wait, I forgot, Boris and the Russian Troll farm want Californian to secede. They float that idea every years for the last 2 decade or so. Imaging the state with the fifth largest economy in the world suddenly left America. Putin would be popping cork bottles, yet another divide and conquer strategy accomplished.

by Anonymousreply 31April 11, 2024 12:35 PM

Who’s this Californian you’re referring to?

Why is there so much deflection to the USA in the replies? The British and the Europeans were the involved parties.

by Anonymousreply 32April 11, 2024 1:02 PM

OP- I don’t know if I ruined the entire United Kingdom but it certainly ruined London. London was probably the most important city on the planet until Brexit. Many European citizens have fled London since Brexit.

by Anonymousreply 33April 11, 2024 1:40 PM

And yet London is more expensive ever. Why is that?

Oh, that’s right, because Brexit’s goal was to make London more attractive to money from Asia and the Middle East.

by Anonymousreply 34April 11, 2024 1:48 PM

Trump:US::Brexit:UK

by Anonymousreply 35April 11, 2024 2:41 PM

Indeed but groveling is a great comfort.

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by Anonymousreply 36April 11, 2024 2:44 PM

UK is not ruined, Boris. I try to visit a couple times a year and love it.

by Anonymousreply 37April 11, 2024 2:50 PM

I’ve posted in these threads before so will rehash what I’ve said previously.

Membership of the EU, specifically free movement of people worked for a lot of people including myself. European staff in the NHS etc, as well as a plentiful supply of lower paid staff in the service industry including caring, shop work and cleaning.

A lot of employers were able to pay lower wages because EU staff were prepared to work for them. For a lot of people it wasn’t great.

And then there is public services - housing, transport, health, education, all under pressure and in short supply and wealthy elites telling those missing out we’re lucky to have immigration. The government and local councils are always playing catch up with service provision.

Seeing media personalities complain about having to join a queue at an Italian airport isn’t going to change people’s minds.

An economic union rather than a political union is preferable. Ukraine has shown that the UK outside the EU works fine.

by Anonymousreply 38April 11, 2024 2:58 PM

R26 what? This isn’t about differing opinions. People were lied to, deceived and manipulated. That’s an objective fact. I still don’t know how people couldn’t see through the lie they were being sold. The Brexiteers deliberately stirred up a racist, xenophobic and toxic nationalistic frenzy. They also tried to target people’s greed too, promising we’d be much better off. In actuality, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

by Anonymousreply 39April 11, 2024 3:01 PM

R31

That will NEVER happen. We get far too much money from the federal government. Secession idiots just like to spout jingoistic bullshit without thinking of the ramifications. No NASA, no military bases, no federal border protection/support.

by Anonymousreply 40April 11, 2024 3:04 PM

Just like when Trump won in 2016 in the US and will likely win again this year.

Despite all the wealth and advancement in the US, there is a reason there is a 1% here. Most Americans were just born lucky by virtue of having parents who lived here when their eggs and sperm fused and produced them 9 months later. They did nothing. Most Americans are inherently stupid and lazy and self-centered.

Our backwater, boorish ways have come out since 2016 and we're actually regressing as a society now that it's all out there.

by Anonymousreply 41April 11, 2024 3:08 PM

Many cities are lovable when you blow in for a few weeks to a nice hotel or apartment, up for adventure, with a pocket full of credit cards, R37.

London, like NYC, has an inescapable hardness, where everything requires a lot of effort, and that's after the insulation. It's a city where no matter how much one has, how much one has achieved, there's always someone at the ready to grind your face in what you don't have, to remind you of what you lack and your shortcomings generally. In boom times (for some) that's easier to live with than when health systems and other structures narrow services and become more complicated, when the sense of any mobility has been removed, when the economic growth forecast is that it might rise as much as 1% by the end of 2026.

Living in, working in, availing yourself of the local services in a city is much different for tourists than for residents.

by Anonymousreply 42April 11, 2024 3:10 PM

Perhaps short term, but I think in few years EU will be over.

by Anonymousreply 43April 11, 2024 3:14 PM

R43 So true.

San Francisco here and people think it's an *AMAZING* city because they saw a row of pretty Victorians they saw on Full House, ate clam chowder at Fisherman's Wharf, and got to experience how *walkable* of a city it is because they walked everywhere from their hotel/Airbnb (i.e. a few blocks max).

In reality, locals are highly insular too (especially the gays), competitive, and stressed. Everything is literally a competition with someone else as is the reality when you cram millions of people from all over the world into a place with limited capacity for them all. The tech industry further pushes this as bouncing around is expected (move on to move up) so people are always competing with themselves too.

Everything is expensive just because there is demand and local politics capitalizes on the wealth of locals and their *desire* to be *liberal.* People end up never leaving their little bubble of the Bay Area surrounded by people they're "like" but still compete with.

Even people from LA who have similar issues think its heaven. I just have to laugh. Try living here.

by Anonymousreply 44April 11, 2024 3:19 PM

All of this was an inevitable outcome.

I don't understand why anyone is surprised.

It was ALWAYS going to turn out this way, yet people are SHOCKED, I tell you, SHOCKED?

by Anonymousreply 45April 11, 2024 3:24 PM

r37, you don't live there.

by Anonymousreply 46April 11, 2024 3:24 PM

[quote]All because 51.8% of voters succumbed to populist fears of Polish tradesmen ruining an image Traditional Britain that was already decades gone?

Meanwhile over in the EU:

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by Anonymousreply 47April 11, 2024 3:26 PM

The Brits, of which I once was one, are some of the most beaten down humans on the planet. They then voted to be beaten a little harder. I attribute it to a form of Stockholm syndrome. My relatives who live there can't step an inch of their lines or it all comes crashing down. It's painful to visit them.

by Anonymousreply 48April 11, 2024 3:32 PM

I remember the shocked looks on all the faces of Brits living in Spain when they found out they had to leave that country immediately after voting 'Yes' to Brexit. Sorry, R26, but you can't fix stupid.

by Anonymousreply 49April 11, 2024 3:41 PM

I am from EU and it is a failed project, everyone seems to hate it. It only serves big corporations and corrupted politicians. Brits might have a hard time now, but in few years from now they will say: I told you so.

by Anonymousreply 50April 11, 2024 3:53 PM

I remember reading an article how British dairy farmers were mad because the UK had to buy cheese from France. So I can understand, with a threat to your livelihood, how you would vote Leave.

by Anonymousreply 51April 11, 2024 4:21 PM

This end of this video (well, the whole song, really) parodies when Britain first entered the EU. Good for a laugh.

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by Anonymousreply 52April 11, 2024 4:23 PM

[quote] I remember the shocked looks on all the faces of Brits living in Spain when they found out they had to leave that country immediately after voting 'Yes' to Brexit. Sorry, [R26], but you can't fix stupid.

No one had to ‘leave immediately’ FFS. The referendum was in 2016 and Britain didn’t leave until 2019.

Why lie about things?

And there are plenty of British people still living in Spain.

by Anonymousreply 53April 11, 2024 4:25 PM

It's a symptom of American egomania that they seem to think than anything that happens around the globe must have been caused or hastened by America.

Ukraine War? Cause of NATO and America

Brexit? Cause Obama was not as nice and Trump something something

Israel? America gives them some money for military equipment so it's all Biden's doing

It's childish and boring and bespeaks an ignorance of the world.

by Anonymousreply 54April 11, 2024 4:54 PM

[quote] I remember the shocked looks on all the faces of Brits living in Spain when they found out they had to leave that country immediately after voting 'Yes' to Brexit. Sorry, [[R26]], but you can't fix stupid.

No one had to ‘leave immediately’ FFS. The referendum was in 2016 and Britain didn’t leave until 2019.

R53 - They had to leave immediately after Brexit, for which they voted in 2016, went into effect in 2019. They had 3 years to figure out the impact of their actions and they were STILL shocked, SHOCKED when the clock ran out.

FFS - Stop being an apologist for ignorant people, but thanks for proving my point that YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID.

by Anonymousreply 55April 11, 2024 5:02 PM

[quote] [R26] what? This isn’t about differing opinions. People were lied to, deceived and manipulated. That’s an objective fact.

R39, my post was indeed not about differing opinions. My post referring to R3 was about patronizing and vitriolic styles of debates. Sure there was lie and deception. But if I keep telling you over and over that you are completely gullible and an idiot for believing these deceptions would you actually listen to me? You would call me a name too, maybe punch me in the face and do the exact opposite of what I want you to do. It's just not the right way to conduct a debate. So, no, it's not about opinion. But it's not about lies and deceptions alone either.

by Anonymousreply 56April 11, 2024 5:30 PM

Honestly, what a bunch of hysterical loons on this thread! I voted to remain in the EU, spent quite a while after it enraged by the decision to leave, but more and more the hostility seems absurd. I still think Brexit was a mistake, but the anger that that decision was reached is even more ridiculous. Britain held a democratic vote and honoured the result. Fini.

And life has gone on. Neither the Eu or the UK are going anywhere and both need each other. If anything, Russia has brought both sides closer together than for decades, because Britain remains a major military and diplomatic power, which frequently acts faster to bolster the defence needs of Eastern Europe (and Scandinavia) than other powers such as the current hesitant German government seems able to manage.

Brexit was a mistake, but both sides have moved on and are finding new ways to cooperate. That will only accelerate this year when Britain gets rid of the Conservatives and usher in Labour. There will be no return to the EU any time soon, but expect bilateral agreements on many fronts, starting with all the easy agreements like Erasmus.

Like all divorces, Brexit was painful and highly emotive and provoked the most chaotic period of UK politics in my lifetime, but it’s done now, and both parties are finding a way to live together. It remains to be seen how much economic damage it does to the Uk. Divorces are expensive things, but they also give people the freedom to be who they really are.

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by Anonymousreply 57April 11, 2024 5:51 PM

Love you, r57! Just for bringing sanity back to the table.

by Anonymousreply 58April 11, 2024 6:03 PM

For those on this thread who love to be cuckolded by Brussels, let me suggest that you pack up and hop the Channel on a one-way passage.

by Anonymousreply 59April 11, 2024 6:11 PM

No shit Sherlock

by Anonymousreply 60April 11, 2024 7:01 PM

Funny how the British lefties still long to be a part of the EU as it lurches to the far right.

by Anonymousreply 61April 11, 2024 7:07 PM

[quote][R53] - They had to leave immediately after Brexit, for which they voted in 2016, went into effect in 2019. They had 3 years to figure out the impact of their actions and they were STILL shocked, SHOCKED when the clock ran out.

Why lie? No one had to leave immediately. There were a tiny minority who didn't complete the paperwork required but even in those case they were not deported.

by Anonymousreply 62April 11, 2024 7:11 PM

Like Trump, Brexit was a bill of goods sold on a false premise. Both countries have (mostly) regret how their reactionary votes took their country down a very bad path.

by Anonymousreply 63April 11, 2024 7:23 PM

[quote]It's a symptom of American egomania that they seem to think than anything that happens around the globe must have been caused or hastened by America.

Is this in reply to to R11? I don't know if they are American, but the idea that Brexit was the fault of the U.S. is ridiculous.

by Anonymousreply 64April 11, 2024 7:29 PM

Mass migration and the ongoing islamization of the UK and Europe are the biggest mistakes and will lead to their demise as liberal, secular democracies. I hope they are enjoying their dhimmitude.

by Anonymousreply 65April 11, 2024 7:39 PM

[quote]I remember the shocked looks on all the faces of Brits living in Spain when they found out they had to leave that country immediately after voting 'Yes' to Brexit. R49

[quote]No one had to ‘leave immediately’ FFS. The referendum was in 2016 and Britain didn’t leave until 2019. R53

R53 is right, if underselling the generous.amount of time Brits were given to get their paperwork in order

UK citizens living in Spain were granted a long period to reconcile their rather simple requirements for residence and work permits, to 31 July 2021. Of course many delayed doing anything to the last moment or opted against Spanish residency because they didn't want tax liability if they lived more than 183 days in Spain in any rolling year.

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by Anonymousreply 66April 11, 2024 7:46 PM

Thanks R66.

I don’t know if the ‘leave immediately’ poster is just lying or has a false memory.

by Anonymousreply 67April 11, 2024 9:12 PM

You've made your bed, now feel the pain...

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by Anonymousreply 68April 12, 2024 2:31 AM

R26/R53/R56/R62/R66/R67 are completely FULL OF $h!t and/or are the ones with faulty memories or who are outright LYING:

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by Anonymousreply 69April 12, 2024 2:42 AM

No R69, look at the fucking date on your article posted as evidence of your mistaken argument: 31 march, 2021

That's [bold]5 years after the referendum vote. And 14 months after Brexit was scheduled to go into effect[/bold]. If Spain had a financially interest in dealing with dizzy, busy Brits who couldn't get a simple residence permit application or work permit application in some state of process in more than 5 years, whose fault is that? They didn't even need the papers in hand, only to have applied for them.

You can't claim claim anyone was swept up in the suddenness of a decision that was a certainty for 5+ years, and it's deadline extended and conditions relaxed more than once.

No was was tossed out of Spain the day after the Brexit vote. Your own article states that almost 2000 days later, the deadline was still was still being extended for applications for Spanish residency or work permits 5 years and 2 months later without any violation of Schengen rules being filed.

5 year and 2 months and counting is not being thrown out if the country overnight. It's not a sudden surprise. At that point it's down to dizzy, lazy bitches who can't be bothered to find an hour to spend filing their applications in a local Spanish police station. It's not a tricky thing to do.

by Anonymousreply 70April 12, 2024 3:21 AM

OP is delusional.

by Anonymousreply 71April 12, 2024 3:29 AM

Here's a video of R70, who cannot face reality and is living in denial:

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by Anonymousreply 72April 12, 2024 3:31 AM

R41 " Most Americans were just born lucky by virtue of having parents who lived here when their eggs and sperm fused and produced them 9 months later. They do nothing"

You can always count on Brits to have zero self awareness. Hilariously thick dolts .😂

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by Anonymousreply 73April 12, 2024 4:50 AM

[quote]Who’s this Californian you’re referring to? Why is there so much deflection to the USA in the replies? The British and the Europeans were the involved parties.

Connect the dots Sherlock. Putin wins by divide and conquer. The smaller each country is, the more powerful he becomes. If California were to leave the US, it would be a major blow to the US economy as well as power structure. The same goes for Brexit. Only that seems to have worked. Get the people to fight amongst themself, they do the work for you. All you need is to plant a few seeds on social media.

by Anonymousreply 74April 12, 2024 5:09 AM

A majority of British voters now believe the split was a mistake.

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by Anonymousreply 75April 12, 2024 5:04 PM

As an objective observer from the US I didn't expect UK voters to actually believe the Brexit arguments because they were mostly bogus and the ramifications of leaving the EU appeared to all be negative.

by Anonymousreply 76April 12, 2024 6:18 PM

A cautionary tale for all the nationalist/populists here in the U.S. The republican candidate for president wants to tariff us into a Brexit of our very own making…

by Anonymousreply 77April 12, 2024 6:20 PM

[quote] both sides have moved on and are finding new ways to cooperate

The EU and UK had irreconcilable differences that made both unhappy. The EU tried to save the marriage because those countries were afraid of relationship change. When the marriage couldn’t be saved, the EU became extremely vindictive, even though they were better off without the UK hindering them from fully choosing their desired path. Now with the moment of separation firmly in the past, they can be friends and find new ways to cooperate. The UK being worse off economically doesn’t negate these things.

by Anonymousreply 78April 12, 2024 6:41 PM

What a shitty, qualitative assessment r78.

by Anonymousreply 79April 12, 2024 6:47 PM

It's not as if the EU is doing that splendidly either.

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by Anonymousreply 80April 12, 2024 6:48 PM

The UK was always an ambivalent member with one foot out. It’s all or nothing, bitches!

(But I do somewhat miss you lot..)

by Anonymousreply 81April 12, 2024 6:51 PM

R78 Dumbest argument I heard in a very long time. Take a bow.

by Anonymousreply 82April 12, 2024 6:52 PM

[quote]The UK was always an ambivalent member with one foot out. It’s all or nothing, bitches!

In fact. They kept their currency rather than switching to the Euro.

by Anonymousreply 83April 12, 2024 7:00 PM

O actual reveal—we knew it from the mid-50s TBH.

by Anonymousreply 84April 12, 2024 7:12 PM

Corrected:

Op, no actual reveal—we knew it from the mid-50s TBH.

by Anonymousreply 85April 12, 2024 7:13 PM

I think it was the gay Luxembourg Prime Minister who said "The UK wanted to be inside the EU with lots of opt outs, now it wants to be outside the EU with lots of opt ins".

Of course had Tory moderates and Labour been willing to vote for Theresa May's deal which was the best possible option - effectively single market access without freedom of movement - then we'd all be better off, but no. Lifelong anti EU campaigner Jeremy Corbyn got to deliver a hard Brexit and an 80 seat Tory majority.

by Anonymousreply 86April 12, 2024 7:55 PM

They'll be back in the customs union/EEA as soon as the Brexit cultists are out of power.

by Anonymousreply 87April 12, 2024 8:04 PM

[quote] I think it was the gay Luxembourg Prime Minister who said "The UK wanted to be inside the EU with lots of opt outs, now it wants to be outside the EU with lots of opt ins".

It’s rational to want to want to find the optimal point to maximize benefits while minimizing the strings attached, with weighting for which is more important.

by Anonymousreply 88April 12, 2024 8:44 PM

Yet they acted most irrationally, didn’t they?

by Anonymousreply 89April 12, 2024 8:46 PM

[quote]The UK wanted to be inside the EU

Pics please.

by Anonymousreply 90April 12, 2024 8:50 PM

[quote]The UK wanted to be inside the EU. Pics please.

Bossy bottoms. Big Bush supporters.

by Anonymousreply 91April 12, 2024 8:54 PM

Well I’m just glad the UK didn’t adopt the generic and boring euro. Pounds Sterling sounds so lovely and regal. Did you know bids at racehorse auctions are denominated in guineas even today?

by Anonymousreply 92April 12, 2024 9:15 PM

Americans raised on Downton Abbey think most Brits sit around sipping tea with Lady Mary. The realty of 21st century UK ,the people who voted for Brexit, is quite different.

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by Anonymousreply 93April 13, 2024 3:32 AM

R92: Bigot!

by Anonymousreply 94April 13, 2024 3:44 AM

“Americans raised on Downton Abbey think most Brits sit around sipping tea with Lady Mary”

by Anonymousreply 95April 13, 2024 3:45 AM

[quote]The realty of 21st century UK ,the people who voted for Brexit, is quite different.

That photo. Would you describe all the Europeans wanting stricter immigration laws bigots as well?

by Anonymousreply 96April 13, 2024 3:51 AM

Hey r74, want to try again, this time actually responding to the text you quoted?

by Anonymousreply 97April 13, 2024 3:59 AM

Britain isn't like many other European countries in terms of immigration and integration.

A lot of British Asians and Africans voted to leave the EU - they didn't see the benefits of free movement for white Europeans when their own family members didn't get the same freedoms.

[quote]Bashir says he and his followers want a fair immigration system that does not discriminate against “auntie from Pakistan”. He does not want an influx of low-skilled workers from the EU into a jobs market already overflowing with low-skilled Asian workers. “Look, I’m not saying close the doors, but we need to manage this migration,” he says.

I know everyone wants to live in a polarised world these days but it's easy to admit people voted to leave the EU for a number of different reasons, that they weren't all stupid and racist.

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by Anonymousreply 98April 13, 2024 7:08 AM

Is it time for the spotted dick jokes yet?

by Anonymousreply 99April 13, 2024 11:43 AM

Pudit in your (Yorkshire) puddin’

by Anonymousreply 100April 13, 2024 12:03 PM

I watched a couple of documentaries on this recently and the overall impress I got was that the people were much worse off and many were regretful of voting to leave and they believe they were sold lies - but the oligarchs got what they wanted.

by Anonymousreply 101April 13, 2024 2:16 PM

I'm curious what the oligarchs got r101. I got the impression the rich mainly wanted to "remain" and the poor, or poorer, wanted to leave. But maybe that's wrong.

by Anonymousreply 102April 13, 2024 2:27 PM

I believe it was business regulatory changes and relaxations R102. I watched the documentaries about 6 months ago so I'm not 100% sure. The oligarchs/business barons behind all of the push to leave the EU sold the British people lies. I'm just reporting what I learned - I have no side in this. I'm not British.

by Anonymousreply 103April 13, 2024 2:32 PM

That wouldn’t explain why the Tory right was so pro-Brexit, r102. The ultra-rich who were for Brexit (and still are) had one aim: free themselves of the shackles of EU regulations, most of which limited their ability to do as they wished, setting up monopolies to further guarantee stellar profits while selling cheap goods and services at the higher prices. They were smart enough to strategize communication so that the main point in all this for the poor was that leaving the EU would put paid to freedom of movement, opening up the job market and thus guaranteeing higher wages, plus the enormous porkie that the NHS would benefit from all the money that would no longer be going to the unelected EU fat cat bureaucrats.

It was mainly the middle-ground entrepreneurs, the mid-size and small-size concerns that were mainly against Brexit.

by Anonymousreply 104April 13, 2024 2:42 PM

There are 2 different things here.

The concept of the UK being outside of the European Union and sovereignty, impact on trade, dual nationality, Northern Ireland, immigration levels etc

Then there's the quality of the government delivering that. Theresa May did her best and had she won a big majority in 2017 then we would have had her deal which was the best deal possible, Unfortunately we had 2 dreadful oppositions - the Tories who didn't think any deal was acceptable and the Labour Party, a pro European party led by a pro Brexit anti NATO anti West nutjob.

I voted Remain but as a democrat the idea that we could just disregard the poll result and have another vote was ridiculous. And then there was Corbyn's 2019 election offer that as PM he would renegotiate Theresa May's deal, put it to a referendum to leave on those terms or remain in the EU and then be neutral during the campaign, despite countless Labour MPs saying they would campaign against the new leave deal.

I suspect a Starmer government will start moving towards closer working with the EU and maybe go into a second term election with a pledge to join the customs union and maybe revisit May's deal which was the benefits of the single market without free movement of people.

by Anonymousreply 105April 13, 2024 2:45 PM

[quote]In fact. They kept their currency rather than switching to the Euro.

They were hardly the only ones.

by Anonymousreply 106April 13, 2024 2:53 PM

[quote] Unfortunately we had 2 dreadful oppositions - the Tories who didn't think any deal was acceptable and the Labour Party, a pro European party led by a pro Brexit anti NATO anti West nutjob.

Yes, r105, it was the worst possible nightmare. I could understand where the recalcitrant Tories were coming from (they’ve always been exceptionalist and sovereignist cunts), but Corbyn was truly unfathomable. So utterly unreconstructed in his mid-20th-century Marxist view of the working class that he didn’t realize that leaving the EU would leave these same workers exposed to a ruthlessly Tory-leaning, anti-working class system. The best we can say about Corbyn is that he’s not the brightest spark, and his mouldy old fossilized ideology was making his decisions for him.

by Anonymousreply 107April 13, 2024 3:18 PM

Interesting that Americans are seen in this thread as pro-Brexit or gullible enough to believe Downton Abbey shows a true slice of life.

by Anonymousreply 108April 13, 2024 4:21 PM

[quote] Interesting that Americans are seen in this thread as pro-Brexit

That’s completely understandable that Americans would be. What’s a mystery is why any Americans would be upset that it happened.

by Anonymousreply 109April 13, 2024 4:27 PM

Once Great Britain is a decrepit theme park managed by cosplay cartoon characters. You should charge admission.

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by Anonymousreply 110April 13, 2024 5:20 PM

Did I say I was upset? I think it's inteeresting how wrong you folks can get it, see Brexit.

by Anonymousreply 111April 13, 2024 5:37 PM

Speaking of Northern Ireland. Does the compromise they settled on work?

by Anonymousreply 112April 13, 2024 6:29 PM

Yes, but it's given the Republic of Ireland a load of problems it didn't ask for.

by Anonymousreply 113April 13, 2024 8:27 PM

In what way, r113?

by Anonymousreply 114April 13, 2024 9:41 PM

Girles, girles, EU is a shitshow now, UK lost nothing by leaving it, it is old news.

by Anonymousreply 115April 13, 2024 10:44 PM

R115 = Ahnold

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by Anonymousreply 116April 13, 2024 10:48 PM

[quote] Not everyone agreed with you. Trump said leave was a great idea. Obama said the opposite. Who to believe?

Uhh, Obama? Are you for real?

by Anonymousreply 117April 19, 2024 10:37 PM

It's not the only huge mistake that's ruined the UK...

by Anonymousreply 118April 19, 2024 11:42 PM

A lot of people were like the Bernie bros - they wanted their protest vote and relied on responsible voters to vote Remain. It was so entitled wanting and expecting it both wayss.

by Anonymousreply 119April 20, 2024 12:05 AM

Oh, now they’ve figured it out…

by Anonymousreply 120April 20, 2024 12:34 AM

Protest votes have real life ramifications. A protest vote works only if you are part of a small minority and will not affect the election results.

by Anonymousreply 121April 20, 2024 1:40 AM

I'm going to hope and pray that nobody, absolutely nobody, in Britain voted for any reason so stupid as "Trump said it was a good idea." Seriously, if anybody voted for that reason, please punch yourself in the dick a thousand times and then throw yourself off a building.

by Anonymousreply 122April 20, 2024 1:43 AM

[quote]"Trump said it was a good idea."

Reminds me that bonkers grinning competition-winning ex-PM Liz Truss is now doing the rounds to sell her new 'book.' Interviewed, she said she wants Trump to win the election because when he had power 'the world was safer.' OK then Liz. Controversy sells, and here I am referencing you, but not close to in a good way.

by Anonymousreply 123April 20, 2024 9:21 AM

Truss was opposed to Brexit. She campaigned to remain. She used to be a traditional centre right liberal - conservative on economic issues, liberal on social issues. Truss voted to legalise abortion and gay marriage in Northern Ireland and defended those votes when she campaigned to become Tory leader.

She's become radicalised by her failure as PM and is bearing a grudge against those she saw responsible for her downfall, including Biden. Being pro Trump also guarantees a future income from that wing of the Republican Party when she stops being Liz Truss MP

Her support for Trump is also completely at odds with her stance on Ukraine. Totally batshit.

by Anonymousreply 124April 20, 2024 9:49 AM

No R122, nobody voted in favour of Brexit because of that. Most people supported Brexit for three equally stupid reasons that are much older: "foreigners are to blame for everything that is wrong in our lives", "Britain is still an empire and Europe is holding us back" and "Centrist and so-called Leftist millionaires claim to support the EU, so we're going to listen to the Conservative neoliberal billionaires and vote to leave it!".

As you can see, arrogance, ignorance, imbecility and puerile self-delusion do not make a good combination.

by Anonymousreply 125April 20, 2024 9:51 AM

R125 - have you ever met any Brexit votes in real life and talked to them?

by Anonymousreply 126April 20, 2024 10:01 AM

Leaving the EU would cause more economic damage to the UK than if it never joined the union to begin with. Many economic and trade agreements and methods of business that were advantageous while in the EU now have to be completely reconsidered.

by Anonymousreply 127April 20, 2024 5:14 PM

Border checks on goods arriving from the EU come into effect today. So far it will affect meat, plants and flowers. Businesses are already saying that it is massively bureaucratic and will be expensive to implement. The costs will inevitably be passed on to the consumer. Thanks, Nigel!

by Anonymousreply 128April 30, 2024 5:13 AM

Freedom isn't free.

by Anonymousreply 129April 30, 2024 5:30 AM

There haven’t been border checks until now?

by Anonymousreply 130April 30, 2024 8:39 AM

Have you heard of Google R130?

by Anonymousreply 131April 30, 2024 8:46 AM

They're about to get hit with ESTA-like electronic visas in the EU later this year, which require biometric registration at their first border entry. The lines will be terrible. They're waiting until the Americans go home after the summer to do it.

by Anonymousreply 132April 30, 2024 9:20 AM

Huge act of self-harm that's costing this man's business £200-225 a year. 20 year mistake.

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by Anonymousreply 133April 30, 2024 10:43 AM

UK is a cesspool

by Anonymousreply 134April 30, 2024 11:12 AM
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by Anonymousreply 135April 30, 2024 11:33 AM

England prevails!

by Anonymousreply 136April 30, 2024 11:53 AM

R83- That and continuing to drive on the wrong side of the road.

by Anonymousreply 137April 30, 2024 12:56 PM

[Quote] voted Remain but as a democrat the idea that we could just disregard the poll result and have another vote was ridiculous.

Being democratic doesn’t mean everything has to be decided by a majority of a popular vote. Two reasons.

One is, there’s simply too much to decide, of course.

But another is, some issues are just too important to leave to a referendum, too complex and liable to be got wrong by the majority of voters, many of whom will not understand the issue or be subject to manipulation.

by Anonymousreply 138April 30, 2024 1:11 PM

One of the first time white people had to face the consequences of their racism. Sucks to suck.

by Anonymousreply 139April 30, 2024 1:17 PM

In the meantime, in the real world, EU-UK relations are fine, and the EU is extremely keen on building links with the next generation of Brits (and the Labour Party, which will be in power in a few months).

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by Anonymousreply 140April 30, 2024 1:23 PM

Sunak rejected the offer, r140. They also are dumping refugees on Ireland as a means to get their inhumane Rwanda transports off the ground l.

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by Anonymousreply 141April 30, 2024 1:32 PM

R141, I know the offer was rejected. It was rejected by Starmer too. However, given that so many on this thread seem to think that EU-UK relations are abysmal, it’s an interesting sign that the EU is thinking differently. Starmer and Sunak both rejected the offer because they favour making agreements with individual countries, since EU immigration into the UK has always been disproportionate to the numbers of Brits emigrating to Europe.

Regarding Ireland, Britain has no power to dump refugees/immigrants into Ireland. However, it also cannot stop anyone crossing the internal border between Norther aireland and the Republic, since both the Republic of Ireland and the EU insisted, as part of the Brexit Agreement, that the border should remain open inder all circumstances.

by Anonymousreply 142April 30, 2024 2:54 PM

This is why people are finished with you.

by Anonymousreply 143April 30, 2024 2:58 PM

[quote] This is why people are finished with you.

Link?

by Anonymousreply 144April 30, 2024 4:27 PM

[quote] But another is, some issues are just too important to leave to a referendum, too complex and liable to be got wrong by the majority of voters, many of whom will not understand the issue or be subject to manipulation.

Which is certainly an argument not to have the referendum in the first place. But it was obvious that once the idiotic referendum was done for silly grandstanding reasons, and went the "wrong" way, the government was doing everything in its power to simply pretend the result hadn't happened. And that is actually a very different situation, and in the end just unsustainable.

by Anonymousreply 145April 30, 2024 6:04 PM

Oh Gawd, we'd much rather deal with the EU than the U.S., that will never change.

LONDON ― It should be a dream Brexit scenario for the City of London: a chance to break away from the EU and move closer to the U.S.

The square mile has been offered the opportunity to modernize with New York and immediately reap the benefits of a faster-moving financial system, rather than wait around for the slow-churning bureaucracy of the EU.

But, as has proved the case several times in the recent past, the City seems reluctant to take advantage of this particular potential Brexit dividend. Its denizens would rather stick with the EU, even if the whole point of leaving the bloc was to be able to go it alone on financial rules.

It fears potential for disruption without the EU on board, given the amount of business that still function across borders.

This time, the qualms center around the technical issue of securities settlement — or how quickly shares are exchanged for cash.

The U.S. will move from a two-day to a one-day cycle by May, in a bid to make markets safer by freeing up cash and reducing the risk that the other side of the trade goes bust.

But the American plan has created a Brexit flashpoint between the U.K. and EU, where a two-day window is still the norm, because Britain has the means to move faster without 27 other countries in tow.

And a government-backed report, published Thursday, said the U.K. should be willing to go ahead on its own if the EU is not ready by the end of 2027.

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by Anonymousreply 146April 30, 2024 6:40 PM

[quote]One of the first time white people had to face the consequences of their racism. Sucks to suck.

Fortunately the EU is getting tough on immigration too.

by Anonymousreply 147April 30, 2024 7:14 PM

R139 you are stupid. White elites still rule the world. Not only WASP are white. Ashkenazi Jews are white too. So are Russians. It is just white serfs that are losers along with colored people.

by Anonymousreply 148May 1, 2024 1:32 PM

The UK is fucked for good. It’s the armpit of Europe overrun with Muslims.

by Anonymousreply 149May 1, 2024 1:36 PM

Here's your link, you smug asshole. The world is tired of your supercilious schtick and it's working less and less.

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by Anonymousreply 150May 2, 2024 8:38 AM

R150, the Rwanda bill gives the UK government the right to deport migrants. That’s the UK’s decision. The UK government has no ability to dump migrants on Ireland, but under the Brexit agreement neither the UK nor Ireland can close the Irish border.

The decision on how to handle migration to Ireland is a decision which only the Irish government can make. Given the reaction of Irish voters to the arrival of migrants in the kind of numbers the UK has been used to for decades, I’d bet on the Taoiseach reaching a decision on that fairly quickly.

by Anonymousreply 151May 2, 2024 12:31 PM

What you're leaving out is that these migrants crossing the border from Northern Ireland into Ireland cause tension about the open border, which is a hallmark feature of the good Friday agreement. Sunak is loving this. Unionists are loving this.

by Anonymousreply 152May 2, 2024 12:37 PM

Bertie Ahern sticks it to r151 better than I can.

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by Anonymousreply 153May 2, 2024 1:06 PM

Prime minister of Poland says ‘it’s better to be in the EU’ as he argues GDP per capita will be higher in his country than the UK by 2030.

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by Anonymousreply 154May 2, 2024 1:10 PM

[quote] What you're leaving out is that these migrants crossing the border from Northern Ireland into Ireland cause tension about the open border, which is a hallmark feature of the good Friday agreement. Sunak is loving this. Unionists are loving this.

I’m happy to discuss that if you like. The UK (under the lamentable Boris) wanted to have the ability for both the UK and the Republic to decide to monitor the border as much as they wished (which would have stopped the necessity to treat Northern Ireland differently from the rest of the UK), but Dublin and the EU insisted that the border remains open. And they got their way, which is why Northern Ireland has a closer relationship with the Eu than the rest of the UK does. A consequence of that is that the Irish now find they themselves cannot close the border. So of course the Unionists are loving this - they have been proven right, and the Irish public can see that too!

The UK receives a flow of migrants across the Channel from France. Regardless of the reasons which have led these migrants to cross the Channel, once they hit the shores of the UK, the UK has responsibility for them. Why should it be any different when migrants pass from the UK to Ireland?

by Anonymousreply 155May 2, 2024 2:44 PM

Fuck off.

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by Anonymousreply 156May 2, 2024 3:10 PM

Ah well, if your credible sources are Rees-Mogg (who is about as representative of the UK as Lauren Boebert is representative of the US) and Bertie Ahern(!), then sensible discussion probably isn’t your strong point, so I’ll desist.

Thoughts and prayers - have a nice day.

by Anonymousreply 157May 2, 2024 3:36 PM

The Conservative/Tories are English Capitalists who have run the country forever. More interested in low taxes, profits and land ownershi.

They are the ones who took the UK out of the EU to increase their own profits at the expense of everyone else.

Time for them to be a minority party for a while.

by Anonymousreply 158May 2, 2024 3:44 PM

Rees-Mogg was a minister. Nice try. Why do British people have such a hard time taking responsibility for themselves and their government?

by Anonymousreply 159May 2, 2024 3:56 PM

R1 UK is still in Europe

by Anonymousreply 160May 2, 2024 4:09 PM

r160, technically, but not in the EU. They were specific in their propaganda that they would not toe the Continental line.

Pity they had to drag Scotland with them.

by Anonymousreply 161May 2, 2024 4:22 PM

You the US please ship dental equipment to the UK tariff free ASAP

by Anonymousreply 162May 2, 2024 4:30 PM

I’m an American. - Please send Ozempic and ammo!

by Anonymousreply 163May 2, 2024 4:55 PM

There are local elections in the UK today. It will be interesting to see how badly the Tories lose.

by Anonymousreply 164May 2, 2024 5:08 PM

The Tories are trying to distance themselves from their toxic brand.

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by Anonymousreply 165May 2, 2024 5:10 PM

Why are migrants so determined to reach the UK? Why not stay in Ireland or France or wherever they land on the continent?

by Anonymousreply 166May 2, 2024 5:15 PM

R166, the English language is a big draw, plus the fact that the UK does not have a policy of compulsory identity cards, which are mandatory in much of mainland Europe. It makes it easier for migrants to get work even before they get leave to remain in the country. This is much harder when you have an ID card system.

Also, despite the usual D/L denunciations of Britain as a racist hell-hole, most migrants integrate into society quickly, and feel at home here.

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by Anonymousreply 167May 2, 2024 5:41 PM

Yeah the Brexit vote was fucking stupid. The depressing thing is that, if a vote were held today, remain would easily win. Not that we'll get a chance to rejoin.

by Anonymousreply 168May 2, 2024 5:42 PM

[quote]most migrants integrate into society quickly, and feel at home here.

They integrate quickly into their own ethnic enclaves...and feel at home there.

by Anonymousreply 169May 2, 2024 5:53 PM

They do this everywhere.

by Anonymousreply 170May 2, 2024 6:04 PM

Not a mistake. It was to show you everything that was wrong with the UK just like we got stuck with Trump to see everything that was wrong with the US. When this is all over we will have fixed most of the problems and end up being better countries.

by Anonymousreply 171May 2, 2024 6:16 PM

R161 EU and Europe are two totally different things

by Anonymousreply 172May 2, 2024 6:20 PM

Once again, European whites and that includes of course, the trashy inbred Brits, have shown how well they can maintain their little quaint countries so well, while we ignorant Americans lurch from crisis to crisis

by Anonymousreply 173May 2, 2024 6:21 PM

[quote] Also, despite the usual D/L denunciations of Britain as a racist hell-hole, most migrants integrate into society quickly, and feel at home here.

The victims of the Rochdale child sex ring would like a word if you don’t mind.

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by Anonymousreply 174May 2, 2024 6:48 PM

Tory bloodbath.

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by Anonymousreply 175May 3, 2024 4:08 AM

R175 Yep not surprising. And I bet Sunak still won’t call a general election.

by Anonymousreply 176May 3, 2024 6:02 AM

[quote]I bet Sunak still won’t call a general election.

He's never lost anything in his life. Naturally he's terrified of pulling the trigger on electoral demolition, and being the final slick poster boy for national Conservative failure.

by Anonymousreply 177May 3, 2024 7:13 AM

Reptilian bubble boy, that Sunak. Like all Tories, he needs to get out more.

by Anonymousreply 178May 3, 2024 7:19 AM

R177 But the longer he leaves it, the more heavy his defeat is likely to be. The Rwanda thing is a mad panic to try and pull back some votes, but everyone knows it's a disaster and not workable.

With floating voters more likely to vote Labour this time and many traditional Tory voters choosing independents or the awful Reform UK, the Conservatives face electoral oblivion. I expect he's already getting job offers, though.

by Anonymousreply 179May 3, 2024 9:02 AM

England is what will remain. Scotland, Northern Ireland, and perhaps Wales will declare independence, Regardless of what the UK courts says.

by Anonymousreply 180May 3, 2024 1:11 PM

There’ll always be an England.

by Anonymousreply 181May 3, 2024 4:04 PM

And a Queen,

by Anonymousreply 182May 3, 2024 4:22 PM

Feel the pain colonial cunts, enjoy

by Anonymousreply 183May 3, 2024 5:18 PM

R183, I feel the need to “oh, dear” your poor grasp of language and history.

Colonials are not those who stayed out in the UK (although many were undoubtedly imperialists).

“Colonial cunt” is, however, the perfect definition of those who sailed off and stole the North American continent from the native Americans, but you really should not hold it against those Americans who continue benefit from the murder and ethnic cleansing carried out by their forefathers before and after the Revolution.

by Anonymousreply 184May 3, 2024 7:11 PM

R184 👍

by Anonymousreply 185May 4, 2024 6:54 AM

Once agai, telling part of the story and trying to get away with it. I don't see the US trying to whitewash their past with a "Commonwealth"

by Anonymousreply 186May 4, 2024 7:00 AM

The U.S. whitewashes with a different brush as fits their own history. Since they were never a commonwealth, there's no more reason that they should cast their past as a commonwealth nor excuse their non-existent commonwealth past. Nor more than they try to excuse their past as the monarchy they never were.

You have to bolster the U.S. for not claiming to have been a commonwealth? You may as well oat them in the back for never having Chinese as an official language

by Anonymousreply 187May 4, 2024 8:12 AM

You are perfectly British. You sound like you have substance here but you keep going off on tangents that have nothing to do with what you're talking about and don't tell the full story. To suit your own aims. Biggest con in the world.

by Anonymousreply 188May 4, 2024 8:25 AM

Who are you talking to, R188?

by Anonymousreply 189May 4, 2024 9:02 AM

".... the overall picture for the Conservatives is bleak. The party has suffered about 400 council seat losses and the BBC calculated that its projected national vote share was 25 per cent, a record low."

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by Anonymousreply 190May 4, 2024 9:46 AM

R186 is an idiot. British have Commonwealth to push their economic interests in their ex colonies.

How does US need Commonwealth when it genocided the indigineous people and took their land. Pushed few who survived in some Gaza like reservations on the worst soil that could be found.

Where Americans go, only burned land remains (Iraq, Lybia, Syria etc). Unlike Britain, who was and is an exploiter, but some of her colonies are thriving and became more powerful than the UK, look at India.

And I say this as someone who is neither British nor American and have no dog in this fight. I don't hate the US, but this is reality.

by Anonymousreply 191May 4, 2024 10:10 AM

Sunak and his Conservative Party will lose the general election big time. Sunak might as well get it over with at this point instead of waiting until the last minute to call it.

by Anonymousreply 192May 4, 2024 10:20 AM

And Afghanistan. It has always been poor tribal place, but the Anericans financed and practically creted Mujahid, who opened the place to Talibans, just to spite the Soviet union, back in late 70a, 80s.

Also Iraq and Lybia, they have been two rather advanced and secularised societies under the authoritarian Saddam and Gadaffi regimes, until the US destroyed them. Of course, Blair was their faithful, but the blood is utmost on Bush and St. Obama' s hands.

by Anonymousreply 193May 4, 2024 10:21 AM

Blair was their faithful servant*

by Anonymousreply 194May 4, 2024 10:23 AM

[quote]Sunak might as well get it over with at this point instead of waiting until the last minute to call it.

I’ll give him succor. I like the geeky guys.

by Anonymousreply 195May 4, 2024 11:53 AM

[quote]Where Americans go, only burned land remains

And what about Japan? Germany?

by Anonymousreply 196May 4, 2024 4:47 PM

Yep, burned them.

by Anonymousreply 197May 4, 2024 4:52 PM

Ukraine needs to invade Poland...and surrender.

by Anonymousreply 198May 4, 2024 4:54 PM

I just discovered Andy Street and Michael Fabricant are a couple. There's a mental image I could have lived without.

by Anonymousreply 199May 4, 2024 8:21 PM

UK worst performer in the G7.

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by Anonymousreply 200May 4, 2024 9:52 PM

[quote] Sunak and his Conservative Party will lose the general election big time.

That’s what happens to the party in power when people are unhappy. Nothing unusual about that. We are likely to see something similar in the U.S. in our election in November.

by Anonymousreply 201May 4, 2024 10:42 PM

R197, have you ever heard of the Marshall Plan? The US did not leave behind burned lands in Germany or Japan.

by Anonymousreply 202May 4, 2024 11:46 PM

Pedantic much, R202?

by Anonymousreply 203May 4, 2024 11:53 PM

Our postwar record has not been great. Honestly, don't fuck with us, we tend to lose our shit and all sense of perspective.

You wouldn't like us when we're angry. Not kidding. You wouldn't.

by Anonymousreply 204May 4, 2024 11:57 PM

#BrexitDisaster is trending on Twitter.

by Anonymousreply 205May 8, 2024 12:49 PM

R205, it has been trending on twitter since 2016. People are peeved.

by Anonymousreply 206May 8, 2024 1:11 PM

Today just before PMQs another Tory MP defected to sit on the Labour benches. The new 'Private Eye' magazine cover depicts the Tory party as the descending Titanic. If the Conservative party were an old pet, the vet would know the kindest course of action. The British electorate is that vet.

by Anonymousreply 207May 8, 2024 2:31 PM

I wonder what David Cameron is thinking now.

by Anonymousreply 208May 8, 2024 2:37 PM

Let’s not forget that Sunak is the man who lost to … QUEEN KILLER LIZ TRUSS.

He was defeated by her.

by Anonymousreply 209May 8, 2024 2:40 PM

Change happens pretty quickly and comprehensively in UK politics and within a year the Labour Party will have annihilated the Conservatives. Polls currently suggest they will win less than a hundred Commons seats, and some commentators on the Right are predicting that the UK. Tories could suffer the same fate as the Canadian Tories did i. The nineties, when they were reduced to a handful of MPs.

The average age at which a UK voter is more likely to vote Conservative than Labour is now 70 years-old. Tories are despised by the young, by graduates, and by pro-Europeans, and they are also despised by some on the Right, who have split away to support Reform, which is actually legally OWNED by Nigel Farage.

As entertaining as the next election will be, the real fun will be the post-election blood-letting in the Tory Party. They are really good at attacking each other, as anyone who remembers the state of them after Blair ejected them from power in the 1990s can attest. The interesting thing will be if they turn to the Right and seek to court Farage and his supporters, or if they try to move to the centre and pretend as if the shit-show of the last 14 years has never happened.

Whatever happens, the next election will change things utterly, and the Tory opposition will be left in tatters. That’s the point where Starmer will be able to get closer to the EU. - I don’t personally see the UK rejoining in the next parliament, but there will be bilateral agreements on a huge range of issues, and there will be very little serious opposition to stop it happening.

by Anonymousreply 210May 8, 2024 3:44 PM

But the old fucks didn't like Polish people, so Brexit had to happen.

by Anonymousreply 211May 8, 2024 3:53 PM

Wrong stupid cunt, that you alternative facts of course, stupid British and Spanish committed genocide, try to deflect all you want, everybody knows, you can't change history, furthermore, I really don't give a shit about you oh dear either. You type CUNT, you must be, please eat rat poison soon.

by Anonymousreply 212May 8, 2024 3:54 PM

I hope they get customs union back fast. It's a fucking mess.

I also think the Europsceptics/European Research Group/Brexit cultists like Johnson and Rees-Mogg went hard on Brexit knowing full well it wouldn't survive.

by Anonymousreply 213May 8, 2024 4:06 PM

It is funny how the progressive Brits want the UK back in the EU, as the EU veers solidly to the right and Georgia Meloni is quickly becoming the EU's most powerful politician.

by Anonymousreply 214May 8, 2024 4:17 PM

[quote]I wonder what David Cameron is thinking now.

"This is a degrading shambles, but it must be observed that I'm largely adjacent to it all. I'm in my natural place in The Lords; I've revived my international profile at a volatile time; and my fresh inside knowledge of foreign affairs will ensure I'm later consulted publicly and privately - for an acceptable fee. Yes of course there's that Brexit matter. But all in all, I'm rather appreciative to Rishi for giving me this very agreeable role in my golden years - rather like a distinguished actor being tempted out of retirement for a big part all but written for him. Rishi will not be forgotten in the circles I inhabit. Words to the wise indeed. And now, time to arrange that next call to Volodymyr."

by Anonymousreply 215May 8, 2024 4:18 PM

Wibble. Drool. Bonk. Fart. Wibble.

by Anonymousreply 216May 8, 2024 7:51 PM

No kidding- knew it then and now. UK has always depended on the freest and wide range trade as possible for obvious reasons. In a surge of self destructive nationalism the nation shot itself in the foot. So did the US with Trump and the willfully ignorant MAGA crowd he incited.

by Anonymousreply 217May 8, 2024 8:03 PM

You’ve started drinking rather early today, R212!

by Anonymousreply 218May 8, 2024 8:15 PM

It will be interesting to see what happens in June...

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by Anonymousreply 219May 8, 2024 10:17 PM

"British food?” asks one Thai woman with a perplexed pause. “Um… I’m not really sure what that is. Is that, like, sausage?”

A Malaysian man nearby was less hesitant to offer his opinion: “It’s boring! Definitely nothing special,” he laughs.

These are sobering words for British exporters, who were promised easy access to lucrative new markets after Brexit."

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by Anonymousreply 220May 10, 2024 5:24 AM

I imagine British food is a hard sell on Asia. In Spain and places in the EU where large numbers of Brits live or spend time, it's easy enough to find cheddar cheese, Christmas crackers, shortbread biscuits, crumpets, frozen "chip shop style" cod fillets... And there are online ships to order most British foods for delivery. The post-it exit complaining about the scandalous prices and not being able to bring suitcases and cars laden with the stuff across the reinstated borders has only begin to wind down for the "We love Spain but only eat British!" segment.

by Anonymousreply 221May 10, 2024 8:05 AM

*in Asia

*The post-Brexit complaining

by Anonymousreply 222May 10, 2024 8:06 AM

[quote] Yeah the Brexit vote was fucking stupid. The depressing thing is that, if a vote were held today, remain would easily win.

No, it wouldn’t.

by Anonymousreply 223May 10, 2024 10:49 AM

It wouldn't because the British are sentimental about their precious Pound and can't let go of the belief that God favours them more than others. I'm happy to eat popcorn and watch them continue colonising themselves now that they've no one left to colonise. This internal come to Jesus has been long overdue.

by Anonymousreply 224May 10, 2024 11:06 AM

Meanwhile, in the real world…

UK food and drink exports hit record highs in 2022 27 February 2023

The UK’s largest manufacturing sector has posted record figures for exports in 2022, according to the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF) full-year trade snapshot.

The FDF has compiled the latest trade figures released by His Majesty’s Customs and Excise, which show there’s been a resurgence in export sales in food and drink, with most categories now exceeding pre-pandemic levels to reach a record £24.8bn.

Exports to Europe rose 22% to £13.7bn and developing markets did well too, with fast-growing economies like Vietnam nearly doubling. For the very first time, exports to non-EU markets have broken through the £10bn barrier, hitting £11.1bn.

While supply chain disruption and high energy bills have played a part in the rise in value of UK exports, there has also been strong volume growth in most product categories over the last 12 months. This shows that the global appetite for high quality UK food and drink products continues to grow around the world.

Chocolate remains the UK’s top food export, worth £824m, but there are clear indications that next year this could be overtaken by cheese, which has achieved rapid growth in overseas sales.

Head of International Trade, Dominic Goudie said:

“UK food and drink continues to be recognised around the globe for its high quality, safety, and sustainability credentials, with demand as strong as ever across the EU and at record levels in developing markets. As the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, dynamic trade is vital if our sector is to deliver the robust growth we’d like it to in the coming months and years, benefitting communities in every part of the UK.

“Imports are essential for the success our sector, adding value to UK produce while ensuring consistent availability and value for shoppers. There also remains substantial opportunities to deliver further export growth, but this will require government to use all the trade policy levers at its disposal in support of the food and drink sector, to ensure that our producers can access competitively priced ingredients and sell into the fastest-growing markets.”

UK Food and Drink Exporters Association director Nicola Thomas said:

“These cheering export growth figures are testament to the dogged determination of UK food and drink exporters, not only to exploit global commercial opportunities, but also to break down the myriad of barriers which hindered their international trade drive in 2022.

“We are encouraged to see the increasing demand for British products in emerging markets such as Vietnam and the MINT territories which are helping to up new sales avenues for our more established exporters; in addition, recent FDEA research among our network of overseas in-market partners highlights a wide range of product categories in almost universal demand including snacking, non-alcoholic drinks, health & wellness, dairy and private label. There is huge scope for UK companies to seize further opportunities in 2023.”

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by Anonymousreply 225May 10, 2024 8:05 PM

Inertia!

by Anonymousreply 226May 10, 2024 9:31 PM

I'm sure those industry association-provided figures are neutral.

by Anonymousreply 227May 10, 2024 9:32 PM

England still has the most fiendish crossword puzzles and quiz games. And Marina Hyde. Too bad about the bullshit PMs though.

by Anonymousreply 228May 10, 2024 9:41 PM

Alrighty, R225. Everything's right as rain, then.

by Anonymousreply 229May 11, 2024 2:53 AM

Null points.

by Anonymousreply 230May 11, 2024 10:40 PM

UK goods exports fell by 2.2% (£0.5bn) in 2023. 2024 so far, goods exports to non-EU countries fell by 4.3% (£0.6bn) but this was offset by goods exports to the EU – which increased by just under £0.1bn.

Struggling but the next wave of custom controls will wipe out those gains.

by Anonymousreply 231May 12, 2024 2:34 PM

Should've kept me on as "British Trade Envoy," I must say.

by Anonymousreply 232May 13, 2024 6:47 PM

[quote] I'm sure those industry association-provided figures are neutral.

We can be sure the anti-Brexit, pro-EU figures aren’t neutral.

by Anonymousreply 233May 14, 2024 11:57 AM

I think it was a mistake but for all the people I know in the UK, nothing much has changed. (I know this is only anecdotal and not representative.) However, I think the rhetoric of the pro-EU squad by the EU, dismissing every argument against bureaucratic overreach from the get-go and deriding everyone with the "wrong" opinion was a huge mistake. GB is dearly missed in the EU. The EU should have insisted on a regulation allowing GB into the EU again at any time with minimal formalities, and that another referendum would be set five years in the future or something. People in mainland Europe who are gloating over GB's perceived misery are idiots.

by Anonymousreply 234May 14, 2024 1:07 PM

Lol, what a crock of anecdotal, cherry-picking shit, r234. The history of the EU and UK was full of tailor-made concessions from word go.

by Anonymousreply 235May 14, 2024 1:24 PM

R212 sounds stable

by Anonymousreply 236May 14, 2024 1:33 PM

R235 Yes maybe but we're making concessions to other countries too. The UK isn't special in this respect.

by Anonymousreply 237May 14, 2024 7:45 PM

[quote]GB is dearly missed in the EU. ...People in mainland Europe who are gloating over GB's perceived misery are idiots.

Not from my observations living in the EU with lots of friends in the UK, R234.

The UK's decision is widely regarded as unfortunate, not for anything in particular that the EU (nor the UK) lost specifically, but for the loss of a sense of common purpose and strength in common interests.

I don't see many people gloating in the EU. What's to gloat about? To be sure it has been pointed out that parts of UK government pushed and pushed and allied themselves by way of prejudice and other means with easily persuaded voters who then feigned surprise that the outcome was not an immediate showering of prosperity and independent minded innovations, nor a return of the plucky old UK. For the UK to want to make its own way apart from the EU but then whine when they had to abide by non-EU visa and travel requirements was a little rich. Of course there were two sets of voters, but Brexit was a majority decision. It's not gloating to point out that a nation debated a matter for years then voted to extricate itself from the EU only to complaining of, well, extricating itself from the EU.

[quote]I think it was a mistake but for all the people I know in the UK, nothing much has changed.

Nothing much specifically has changed on either side of the Channel for either side if you look at average people and their day to day lives. The.same.isnt true for.people who engage or engaged in UK-Europe trade, for example, nor for UK citizens who worked in the EU and vice versa. If you look beyond tangible change absolutely pain able cause-effect to Brexit, it's hard to say with certainty that an economic and social slump in the UK has anything/nothing to do with Brexit.

by Anonymousreply 238May 14, 2024 11:28 PM

Ok, girl.

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by Anonymousreply 239May 16, 2024 2:50 PM

Entropy.

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by Anonymousreply 240June 2, 2024 1:10 PM

Just wait until Scotland and Wales walk away and Cornwall and Devon declare independence as a separate country with Charlotte as queen.

by Anonymousreply 241June 2, 2024 1:50 PM

How come no one ever mentions the Brexit mean the exit to the States? So many Brits showing up in Los Angeles the last few years. I don't mind, I just find it odd that LA is their first choice. It's cheaper than London, but not the cheapest place in the US. Is the the "glamor" of Hollywood? The weather?

by Anonymousreply 242June 2, 2024 8:12 PM

R242 You mean the "glamour"?

by Anonymousreply 243June 2, 2024 11:22 PM

Excellent. Everyone's in place for the next 10 Downton Abbey movies!

by Anonymousreply 244June 2, 2024 11:27 PM

Endless Farage sounds like the hell these people deserve.

by Anonymousreply 245June 4, 2024 6:23 AM

It was glorious to see the paratroopers get checked customs after dropping in for the D-day commemorations.

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by Anonymousreply 246June 6, 2024 6:57 AM

Are you British bitches feeling the pain yet? I hope so, you deserve it.

by Anonymousreply 247June 6, 2024 2:51 PM

The EU elections are happening from today through the weekend.

Expect the far-right to make huge gains.

by Anonymousreply 248June 6, 2024 3:08 PM

they are all cunts

by Anonymousreply 249June 6, 2024 6:41 PM

Far right didn't do well in The Netherlands.

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by Anonymousreply 250June 7, 2024 6:47 AM

I shouldn't mind if it meant I have to see less of this cunt, R250

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by Anonymousreply 251June 7, 2024 4:27 PM

R250 Actually he made further gains this election.

by Anonymousreply 252June 7, 2024 5:30 PM

[quote] Actually he made further gains this election.

True, seven times better than before.

by Anonymousreply 253June 7, 2024 5:48 PM

Sorry for that news, R252/R253. I've been mostly news media-free this week but normally that posh looking prick is impossible to escape any day, every day on the TV.

by Anonymousreply 254June 7, 2024 6:25 PM

It's literally a shitty situation,.not having those EU regulations.

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by Anonymousreply 255June 14, 2024 9:47 AM

[quote]Net migration 2013-2016 = 800,000

[quote]Net migration 2021-2024 = 1.9 million

Says it all, doesn't it?

by Anonymousreply 256June 14, 2024 4:00 PM

Nobody wants to invest in the UK.

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by Anonymousreply 257June 18, 2024 6:44 AM

Except private equity, which bought up UK high street businesses for cheap because of Brexit.

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by Anonymousreply 258June 19, 2024 3:14 PM

"Brexit" - a still life

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by Anonymousreply 259June 25, 2024 3:42 PM

Edward Luce is a privately educated aristocrat working at the Financial Times sneering at ‘common people’ and their basic tastes.

Hilarious!

by Anonymousreply 260June 25, 2024 5:31 PM

Ah, yes, r259, I do miss wine…

I do have that very large bottle of Greek olive oil though. It was smuggled out of the European Union, wrapped in the stripey pullover of a sailor who beat the Brexit blockade by transporting his cargo first to the Faroe Islands and then onwards to Orkney and the British mainland.

We haven’t quite lost hope here in Blighty yet: one day, God willing, there will be oranges again!. And enough sausage to satisfy everyone.

by Anonymousreply 261June 25, 2024 8:49 PM

"We haven’t quite lost hope here in Blighty yet" - I think we have, actually.

by Anonymousreply 262June 25, 2024 8:55 PM

[quote] We haven’t quite lost hope here in Blighty yet

Last year a deranged FBPE type was ranting on Twitter that her husband had bought some chives in the supermarket and when she opened them they were soft and wet and blamed Brexit because they didn’t have a use by date on them and if Britain was still in the EU there would be a use by date and loads of people replied that having use by dates on fresh food was not a EU requirement and that she should blame her husband for buying manky chives.

by Anonymousreply 263June 25, 2024 9:05 PM

Wily Brits always find a way to get the upper hand over the Continentals, though they surrender it just as easily it seems.

by Anonymousreply 264June 25, 2024 11:19 PM

R19 are you being sarcastic?

by Anonymousreply 265June 26, 2024 8:28 AM

So much for a trade deal with the US.

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by Anonymousreply 266June 29, 2024 7:48 PM

The election today in France.

NYTimes Jun 30th:

"French Far Right Scores Big in a First Round of Voting, Polling Suggests"

"A surprise decision by President Emmanuel Macron to hold a snap election appears to have backfired badly, giving the National Rally a decisive victory, early returns showed."

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by Anonymousreply 267June 30, 2024 7:19 PM

I have the champagne chilling for Thursday's reckoning for the destructive Breixteer cons who ruined Britain.

by Anonymousreply 268July 1, 2024 6:13 AM

After all that complaining about EU regulation strangling the UK, Eli Lilly says it's easier to build new factories in places like EU member Ireland because of British red tape. Can't blame this one on Brussels!

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by Anonymousreply 269July 1, 2024 8:38 AM

The Irish whore themselves out to corporations.

by Anonymousreply 270July 1, 2024 3:15 PM

Like the British don't?

by Anonymousreply 271July 1, 2024 3:25 PM

What's wrong with that, R270?

by Anonymousreply 272July 1, 2024 3:26 PM

An interesting article from El Pais (Spain) about expats from the EU working in London and their positiion under Brexit.

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by Anonymousreply 273July 3, 2024 10:40 AM

Today is the day the chickens come to roost for those Brexiteer cunts. Champagne is chilling.

by Anonymousreply 274July 4, 2024 6:33 AM

[quote] The Irish whore themselves out to corporations.

The Irish people are also greatly suffering from forced multiculturalism.

by Anonymousreply 275July 4, 2024 12:44 PM

The Irish people are also greatly suffering from foreign influences saying there's a multicultural problem when there isn't, as the lackluster performance by the far right in the European elections shows. At most, there is a problem with the ruling parties handling housing Ukrainian and other refugees with the local governments, on top of a critical housing shortage that the government has seems to have no vision to fix. Try posting about something you know about next time.

by Anonymousreply 276July 4, 2024 1:33 PM

Receipts, so there is no doubt.

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by Anonymousreply 277July 4, 2024 1:35 PM

It would be better to have sympathy for the victims of forced multiculturalism in Ireland rather than trying to wish them away.

by Anonymousreply 278July 4, 2024 1:59 PM

There is nothing to wish away. It has been proved with links. You are a troll looking for a reaction, and you have shot your wad. 🚫

by Anonymousreply 279July 4, 2024 2:06 PM

The Irish diaspora is ten times the population of the Irish in Ireland. How could any major Irish issue not be discussed widely?

by Anonymousreply 280July 4, 2024 2:09 PM

More fun from this troll.

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by Anonymousreply 281July 4, 2024 2:12 PM

Arch-Brexiteer Dyson laid off one third of his UK staff today, laughing his way to the bank.

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by Anonymousreply 282July 9, 2024 6:46 PM

Worst finances for the UK since WW2.

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by Anonymousreply 283July 10, 2024 1:57 AM

The conservatives there must be so proud of themselves.

by Anonymousreply 284July 10, 2024 2:04 AM

The sad irony is that Brexit worsened the problems that the pro-Brexit people said were caused by EU membership.

by Anonymousreply 285July 10, 2024 10:35 AM

From the article published at R282:

"Dyson moved its head office to Singapore in 2019 to be closer to its manufacturing sites and supply chains. Asian markets account for more than half of its sales and Singapore also has a free trade agreement with the EU."

Guess what, you had that free trade deal with the EU when the UK was in the EU.

by Anonymousreply 286July 10, 2024 10:39 AM

Don’t laugh too hard. We’re headed to the same destination. UK: Brexit = US: Trump.

by Anonymousreply 287July 10, 2024 10:41 AM

[quote]The conservatives there must be so proud of themselves.

Conservatives are kings of compromise.

It hurts them more to jeer than to applaud.

by Anonymousreply 288July 10, 2024 10:47 AM

Re R287, Trump's promised trade wars will be a disaster.

by Anonymousreply 289July 10, 2024 10:50 AM

And Trump won't do a trade deal with the UK, ever, that will be favourable to the UK.

by Anonymousreply 290July 15, 2024 6:33 AM

Three people went to see Boris Johnson at the Republican national convention, eliminating any notion that American right wingers care about the UK.

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by Anonymousreply 291July 17, 2024 6:49 AM

Johnson had a half-hour meeting with Trump to lobby for continued Ukraine support. The picture of their meeting dominates today's Daily Telegraph front page. A new Tory leader will soon need to be found. Johnson's tiny audience will be irrelevant compared to his Still Here news-splash.

by Anonymousreply 292July 17, 2024 8:36 AM

Bloody Torygraph can't help being the bloody Torygraph. Looking forward to getting to the point where Tories finally reckon with how much Eurosceptic doctrine destroyed the party, full frontal and with fur flying.

by Anonymousreply 293July 17, 2024 8:42 AM

R291, I want an even more humiliating “crowd” if Truss holds an event. We all know Farage hasn’t got the guts to turn up to an empty room.

by Anonymousreply 294July 17, 2024 3:01 PM

Expensive divorce, that Brexit.

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by Anonymousreply 295July 19, 2024 4:06 PM

Truly expensive divorce.

by Anonymousreply 296July 26, 2024 8:23 AM

Oops... link

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by Anonymousreply 297July 26, 2024 8:23 AM

UK Universities in deep shut because there's not enough tuition money coming in from international students and not enough UK students earning places at unis.

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by Anonymousreply 298August 10, 2024 1:00 AM

The Brits like to think of themselves as so much better than the US. But when you get right down to it, they’re trash. Just like us. Idiots.

by Anonymousreply 299August 10, 2024 1:19 AM

The real problem R298, is that when the Tories eliminated the cap on tuition fees (with the help of the dastardly Lib Dems) in order to dramatically reduce the funding for higher education, universities felt that they were entitled to charge exorbitant amounts of money in order to become degree factories.

As time has passed, people have realized that unless you graduate from one of the Russell Group institutions, your chances of rising in the social scale are minimal and now, you're saddled with a £40 thousand student loan while doing a job that you could have gotten with an NVQ, for much less money. Also, there are plenty of graduates who are desperate for any job they can find and have ended up working in call centres... In short, the Tories' dogmatic privatizing obsession and the greed of universities has created the perfect storm for a deep crisis in the higher education sector.

Good luck to most universities, because they're gonna need it.

by Anonymousreply 300August 10, 2024 1:57 AM

So much insecurity, R299.

by Anonymousreply 301August 10, 2024 9:17 AM

We stopped falling for that the nine zillionth time,.r301. All hat and no cattle, as they say in America.

by Anonymousreply 302August 10, 2024 9:20 AM

This is from 2018.

Uk has become the living 1984th. People got arrested 7 times more than in Putin's Russia over verbal crime, for posting their opinion on social media.

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by Anonymousreply 303August 10, 2024 10:32 AM

Sorry, it is 8,25 times more than the arrests made in Russia.

by Anonymousreply 304August 10, 2024 10:39 AM

I don’t understand what you are trying to say, R302 - hopefully you do.

by Anonymousreply 305August 10, 2024 10:52 AM

[quote]The real problem [R298], is that when the Tories eliminated the cap on tuition fees (with the help of the dastardly Lib Dems) in order to dramatically reduce the funding for higher education, universities felt that they were entitled to charge exorbitant amounts of money in order to become degree factories. As time has passed, people have realized that unless you graduate from one of the Russell Group institutions, your chances of rising in the social scale are minimal and now, you're saddled with a £40 thousand student loan while doing a job that you could have gotten with an NVQ, for much less money. Also, there are plenty of graduates who are desperate for any job they can find and have ended up working in call centres... In short, the Tories' dogmatic privatizing obsession and the greed of universities has created the perfect storm for a deep crisis in the higher education sector.

Yes a lot of young people have been hoodwinked that getting a degree that won't help you find employment is a worthwhile investment.

A lot of young people have been hoodwinked into the idea that jobs like retail, social care, admin work is for people who aren't clever like them.

by Anonymousreply 306August 10, 2024 11:06 AM

Wonder if the numbers would be the same if they had to drop the Pound.

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by Anonymousreply 307August 13, 2024 4:20 PM

"he boss of drugs giant Eli Lilly, David Ricks, is one of the business leaders attending the summit.

The company announced on Monday that it anticipated making a new investment of £279m into the UK, including studies into tackling obesity.

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Ricks said that the UK had to take a new approach now that it was no longer part of the EU.

"I think the difference in the UK is - separate from Europe - it’s a relatively small market for most multinationals and certainly for Americans, so something needs to be quite different to make it interesting," he said."

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by Anonymousreply 308October 14, 2024 8:50 AM

Brexit showed just how Americalike the UK has become. Well, that and voting Boris Johnson into office. The voters there are just as gullible as Republican voters in the US.

by Anonymousreply 309October 14, 2024 10:22 AM

11 Jul 2024 | London, GB Foreign Direct Investment: UK's project total grows as Europe’s falls

The UK recorded 985 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2023, up 6% from 2022 and ranking it second in Europe The UK saw its share of Europe’s inward investment market grow to 17.3%, up from 15.6% in 2022 UK FDI growth driven by resurgence in digital investment, securing over a quarter (27%) of all European tech projects last year Greater London recorded 359 FDI projects in 2023, a 20% increase on 2022, making it Europe’s highest performing region for investment. The West Midlands was Europe’s seventh best performing region for FDI, securing 127 projects in 2023, 72% higher than in 2022. EY investor survey finds that a record 69% intend to invest in the UK in 2024, with more than half planning to invest in London. The UK remains second in EY’s annual ranking of European countries by their ability to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects and was the only country in the top three to see project numbers increase year-on-year. France ranked first in Europe for the fifth consecutive year, while Germany followed in third place, according to the EY 2024 UK Attractiveness Survey. The UK was home to 985 FDI projects in 2023, which was a 6% increase from 2022.

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by Anonymousreply 310October 14, 2024 12:47 PM

Had to dig pretty deep for that one, and 6% growth after all that sounds like a dead cat bounce to me.

by Anonymousreply 311October 14, 2024 1:58 PM

The clever ones went to Portugal and never looked back.

by Anonymousreply 312October 15, 2024 5:52 AM

40,000 finance jobs went poof because Blighty thought they were God's favourite.

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by Anonymousreply 313October 16, 2024 11:50 AM

£40 billion in cuts and news taxes for Britain to be announced today, and much of it could have been prevented with a no vote on Brexit,.

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by Anonymousreply 314October 30, 2024 8:08 AM

Do conservative, MAGA-like Britons recognize how they're the architects of their own misery? Not the Farages or Rees-Moogs, but average voters who said "yes."

by Anonymousreply 315October 30, 2024 8:40 AM

No, it's always someone else's fault. This is middle-of-the-road Britain revealed for what it is.

by Anonymousreply 316October 30, 2024 8:42 AM

Just like us. Misery/company/sympathy/empathy...

by Anonymousreply 317October 30, 2024 8:49 AM

[quote] Do conservative, MAGA-like Britons recognize how they're the architects of their own misery?

No. They think the world owes them something.

by Anonymousreply 318October 31, 2024 5:09 PM

The data just keeps rolling in.

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by Anonymousreply 319November 2, 2024 5:13 AM

My favorite Bregret story:

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