Oh no!! Brexit not going quite as well as hoped

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Well yes. They had a choice of who to believe.

Professors Cox and Hawking, almost every actor and comedian, almost every accountant, political analyst, and economics expert

or

Boris Johnson, James Dyson, Nigel Farage, Tim Martin, Priti Patel, and the Right Said Freds.

Forget the pros and cons being argued - just look at the people arguing for each side. It isn't rocket science.

If you choose to believe liars lying, then don't be surprised when your brexit banquet turns out to be plates of mud.
Except many of the big leave voting areas such as my own (Blackpool) were the economically disadvantaged and low skilled ‘left behind’ communities that were struggling after years of austerity.Poverty was a easy market to tap into !
I feel for anyone who was fooled into voting leave on some promise of NHS riches or jobs for themselves.
My blame lies with sharks that sold the lies and will reap the benefits.Im all to aware of the con.
 

Xipe Totec

Something nasty in the woodshed
I don't think thicko racists know what is good for the country, they win but the country loses. They are, therefore, not a genuine cause of hilarious mammary gland disposal.
They do though, in a sense - there are lots & lots of them and the bent, unrepresentative electoral system in the UK means they get to be the de facto majority and decide the government. And what's best for their country is what they get - kicked violently and repeatedly in the bollocks by a government they will cheer and applaud and defend and re-elect, just as long as it keeps booting the bollocks of all the people they hate just a little bit harder.

Vox populi, vox dei, and all that.
 
Whilst I get your point, 60% of people in Newark voted for Brexit. Sympathy does become a little muted when it is for those who have shot themselves in the feet.

And the 110 people losing their jobs were definitely in the 60% who voted Leave presumably. Even if every worker there voted Leave, so what? It's the same logic as Leavers who gloat over EU families returning home after Brexit. I wouldn't wish misery on anyone regardless of how they voted in the referendum.
 

Fab Foodie

Legendary Member
Really? 110 people are losing their jobs. Regardless of whose constituency they work in, and regardless of how they voted, it's hardly something to cheer about.

No, not really, but time and time again, remainers and the nation as a whole are paying the price for the rank stupidity of the leave campaign and lying Johnson's crap deal.

My empathy cup is running low, but I don't wish job losses on anyone, though I'll make an exception for Jenrick....
 
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No, not really, but time and time again, remainers and the nation as a whole are paying the price for the rank stupidity of the leave campaign and lying Johnson's crap deal.

My empathy cup is running low, but I don't wish job losses on anyone, though I'll make an exception for Jenrick....

It would take the magniminity of some kind of saint to express much sympathy for those people who spent years slinging dull headed insults at us 'metropolitan elite remoaners'.

Of course we don't want to see job losses, down turns in prosperity, or less favoured areas such as Cornwall struggling even more.

But it wasn't that difficult to predict what would happen when we removed ourselves from the richest global trading block, deliberated erected barriers to trade, and our own freedoms.

It appealed to nonsense ideas of British exceptionalism, and no little nationalism, and xenophobia.

Populist press and media, stoked up these ideas.
Blamed austerity on those not responsible.



It's almost as if the population was been deliberately educated into ignorance, or were they complicit?.

Some of the stuff that you heard people say about the EU and what it 'made us do' certainly points that way.



What could possibly have caused all those unharvested crops and unplanted fields, John?


View: https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1517379583653339137?s=21&t=LKvHLgvXBViXA9caZirDrA
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Mmm.

Maybe they might have considered an ag policy that ensured food security, and which properly supporting farmers and food growers before they started down the brexit road 🤔

Just a minor thought from an 'umble West Country farmerista..
 
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Fab Foodie

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What could possibly have caused all those unharvested crops and unplanted fields, John?


View: https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1517379583653339137?s=21&t=LKvHLgvXBViXA9caZirDrA


Tories - for the hard of thinking....
 

Mugshot

Über Member
That was a while ago now wasn't it..??



Which leaves me wondering..

"What became of the bro' cum arses ??
- who had love, that's now departed..."

Apols in advance to the memory of Jimmy Ruffin.
😕

It was a good while ago, I remember posting it on the other cheek.
However, given the queues, I'd guess the bottoms are still there.
 
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It was a good while ago, I remember posting it on the other cheek.
However, given the queues, I'd guess the bottoms are still there.

Well I imagine, so long as they keep them in the dark, away from UV* degradation, they'll keep a while..

🤔

*Other forms of degradation may be harder to avoid ...
 
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