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

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glasgowcyclist

glasgowcyclist

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Fab Foodie said:
This is a crying shame....

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ds-brainiest-birds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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That’s a shame. Many folk seem to dislike that bird family but I love corvids, they’re so clever.
 
Wobblers

Wobblers

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Fab Foodie said:
This is a crying shame....

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ds-brainiest-birds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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This is just one example amongst many.

UK science has always punched far beyond its weight, in terms of size and funding. This has been as a result of being able to attract the best minds, and being able to collaborate with other groups in (especially) the EU. This, to a large extent, has ceased. We're not participating in the EU's horizon program, and with the escalation of the NI dispute, there is no realistic prospect of our joining it for the foreseeable. That's £5 billion in funding - gone. Tens of thousands of highly paid jobs, gone. And the government's promises of making up any gaps has has been, well, it's a Johnson promise, isn't it? Just as bad are the collaborations that UK research groups are no longer a part of. It's difficult to understate the lasting damage that's being wreaked here: it's no exaggeration to say that the future of the UK as a major science player is under threat. And that, like it or not, will have serious economic consequences down the road.
 
Mr Celine

Mr Celine

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Crows can GTF. A pair built a nest in one of the Celine Towers trees last year. One of them stole some mince I'd left on the kitchen windowsill to thaw out. I saw it, or its mate, steal some baby chaffinches from a nest in the hedge. The crows and their own offspring used to argue loudly every morning from 4 am for two hours.
Their nest was quite impressive, it survived storm Arwen and last winter's other storms. It also protected them from air gun pellets when they tried to move back in this year, but they eventually got fed up and moved elsewhere.
 
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AuroraSaab

Squire
I've got more interested in birds of late. There's a robin that sings all day long, loudly, from the tree opposite, and we've had a jay in our garden on and off over the last few weeks. Best was when we had a flock of parakeets visiting our pear tree for a week.
 
All uphill

All uphill

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Mr Celine said:
Crows can GTF. A pair built a nest in one of the Celine Towers trees last year. One of them stole some mince I'd left on the kitchen windowsill to thaw out. I saw it, or its mate, steal some baby chaffinches from a nest in the hedge. The crows and their own offspring used to argue loudly every morning from 4 am for two hours.
Their nest was quite impressive, it survived storm Arwen and last winter's other storms. It also protected them from air gun pellets when they tried to move back in this year, but they eventually got fed up and moved elsewhere.
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Jay zus, are you raven mad?
 
Mugshot

Mugshot

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View: https://twitter.com/CountBinface/status/1538816086103183361?t=kbUrtTRH97T8amlrIVklWw&s=19
 
newfhouse

newfhouse

pleb
Boris Johnson famously led the campaign to take the UK out of the European Union. But on the six-year anniversary of the vote, his team struggled to come up with ways in which the country is better off.

“We’re committed to realizing the benefits of Brexit,” the prime minister’s spokesman, Jamie Davies, told reporters on Thursday, when asked to identify the biggest gains from divorcing the UK’s biggest trading partner. He pointed to new trade deals, as well as a “bill of rights” and a plan to repeal laws inherited from the EU -- just announced on Wednesday -- as examples.
Those slim pickings are part of the reason Johnson is in such political trouble -- alongside various scandals -- as even some Brexit supporters have become disillusioned with how the project is turning out.

Take those vaunted trade deals, the bulk of which are simply roll-over, like-for-like agreements designed to maintain what the UK already had as an EU member. Even the new pacts -- including with Australia and New Zealand, plus ongoing negotiations with India -- are expected to have a marginal impact on the size of the UK economy.

At the same time, the government’s independent budget watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, says the UK is taking a 4% hit to GDP from Brexit.

Meanwhile the bill of rights referred to by Davies is unrelated to Brexit. It will allow the UK to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights -- but the ECHR is a separate institution from the EU.
The UK’s plan to repeal EU laws is still in its infancy, and the government is asking the public to use a new website to identify which rules they want to scrap. Doing things differently from the EU has been mooted as a potential upside of Brexit, but it also carries risks: If regulations in the UK and EU are different, companies may have to make products to different specifications to access both markets, and services firms may face extra red tape.

Davies declined to comment on whether Brexit had left British firms facing more or fewer trade barriers. Quitting the single market and customs union means they have to file additional paperwork when sending goods to the EU.

The government’s aim is to “remove as many trade barriers as possible,” Davies said. But he cited the UK’s efforts to reduce the customs burden on goods crossing the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland -- a burden that exists because of the terms of the divorce deal Johnson signed with the EU.

A bill allowing British ministers to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol, the portion of the Brexit deal setting out trading rules for that region, is due for debate in Parliament on Monday.

Johnson frequently talks up post-Brexit opportunities for Britain to trade with other nations, and moments after Davies’s briefing, the premier gave a speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali.

In typical fashion, he included a pop at the EU.

“I remember the UK helped to found the European free trade area many years ago, which then got taken over by something called the European Union,” he said. “I don’t necessarily advise, by the way, that you turn the Africa free trade area into a single currency -- but I leave that wholly to you.”

As Britons emerge from the pandemic to a cost-of-living crisis that many economists say Brexit is not helping, the risk for Johnson is that his trademark jokes and bullishness are falling increasingly flat.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ary-uk-struggles-for-answers-on-what-s-better
 
Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

Legendary Member
newfhouse said:
Boris Johnson famously led the campaign to take the UK out of the European Union. But on the six-year anniversary of the vote, his team struggled to come up with ways in which the country is better off.

“We’re committed to realizing the benefits of Brexit,” the prime minister’s spokesman, Jamie Davies, told reporters on Thursday, when asked to identify the biggest gains from divorcing the UK’s biggest trading partner. He pointed to new trade deals, as well as a “bill of rights” and a plan to repeal laws inherited from the EU -- just announced on Wednesday -- as examples.
Those slim pickings are part of the reason Johnson is in such political trouble -- alongside various scandals -- as even some Brexit supporters have become disillusioned with how the project is turning out.

Take those vaunted trade deals, the bulk of which are simply roll-over, like-for-like agreements designed to maintain what the UK already had as an EU member. Even the new pacts -- including with Australia and New Zealand, plus ongoing negotiations with India -- are expected to have a marginal impact on the size of the UK economy.

At the same time, the government’s independent budget watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, says the UK is taking a 4% hit to GDP from Brexit.

Meanwhile the bill of rights referred to by Davies is unrelated to Brexit. It will allow the UK to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights -- but the ECHR is a separate institution from the EU.
The UK’s plan to repeal EU laws is still in its infancy, and the government is asking the public to use a new website to identify which rules they want to scrap. Doing things differently from the EU has been mooted as a potential upside of Brexit, but it also carries risks: If regulations in the UK and EU are different, companies may have to make products to different specifications to access both markets, and services firms may face extra red tape.

Davies declined to comment on whether Brexit had left British firms facing more or fewer trade barriers. Quitting the single market and customs union means they have to file additional paperwork when sending goods to the EU.

The government’s aim is to “remove as many trade barriers as possible,” Davies said. But he cited the UK’s efforts to reduce the customs burden on goods crossing the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland -- a burden that exists because of the terms of the divorce deal Johnson signed with the EU.

A bill allowing British ministers to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol, the portion of the Brexit deal setting out trading rules for that region, is due for debate in Parliament on Monday.

Johnson frequently talks up post-Brexit opportunities for Britain to trade with other nations, and moments after Davies’s briefing, the premier gave a speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali.

In typical fashion, he included a pop at the EU.

“I remember the UK helped to found the European free trade area many years ago, which then got taken over by something called the European Union,” he said. “I don’t necessarily advise, by the way, that you turn the Africa free trade area into a single currency -- but I leave that wholly to you.”

As Britons emerge from the pandemic to a cost-of-living crisis that many economists say Brexit is not helping, the risk for Johnson is that his trademark jokes and bullishness are falling increasingly flat.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ary-uk-struggles-for-answers-on-what-s-better
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Yeah but, it's all going nicely....

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-grind-david-frost?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
 
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