Another new Brexit thread

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

I still can't see any sense in these lorry parks if trade with the EU is going to be so hard hit and difficult. Absolute waste as there is going to be so little trade.

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[BobKowalski]

I still can't see any sense in these lorry parks if trade with the EU is going to be so hard hit and difficult. Absolute waste as there is going to be so little trade.

I don’t think a career in comedy beckons. Keep trying and don’t lose heart.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I don’t think a career in comedy beckons. Keep trying and don’t lose heart.

Not comedy, common sense - less trade equals less lorries.

 

[mat]

I still can't see any sense in these lorry parks if trade with the EU is going to be so hard hit and difficult. Absolute waste as there is going to be so little trade.

Could be the economic bounce the carpet industry needs as it turns into a mass grave for prossies instead.

 

[west didsblue]

Not comedy, common sense - less trade equals less lorries.

You’re milking it now. It wasn’t particularly amusing first time round. Just a bit sad now.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

You’re milking it now. It wasn’t particularly amusing first time round. Just a bit sad now.

Less trade equals less lorries - no lorry park.

 

[west didsblue]

Less trade equals less lorries - no lorry park.

Yes. You’ve said.

Less trade means less lorries not no lorries. If there’s 10% less trade there’s still 90% of the lorries.

But you know that.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Yes. You’ve said.

Less trade means less lorries not no lorries. If there’s 10% less trade there’s still 90% of the lorries.

But you know that.

Check change and go :-)

 

[BobKowalski]

Not comedy, common sense - less trade equals less lorries.

Seriously, you can’t be this stupid.

 

[Vic]

I don't know how some climb out from under their duvets in the morning on here?

We're not exporters or hauliers or farmers. I build lorry parks for a living, and you're paying for them.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I suppose all those lorries of chlorinated chicken and substandard food from the US will need somewhere to park.

 

[Vic]

I still can't see any sense in these lorry parks if trade with the EU is going to be so hard hit and difficult. Absolute waste as there is going to be so little trade.

The ironymeter is off the scale, and I really don't know where your reality and inanity meet.

 

[west didsblue]

The ironymeter is off the scale, and I really don't know where your reality and inanity meet.

He’s just attention seeking.

 

[Vic]

Not comedy, common sense - less trade equals less lorries.

Good grief. You're serious (I think). It's true, but if Leavers now think that's a good thing, I'm afraid you really don't care about how stupid Brexit is.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

More lorry parks equals more lorries then and more trade - have it either way. Just logic, no axe to grind from me.

 

[bluethrunthru]

More Brexit positivity - massive trade deal with Rockall to be announced soon? We are about to enter "The Mouse that Roared" equivalence

 

[lancs blue]

More Brexit positivity - massive trade deal with Rockall to be announced soon? We are about to enter "The Mouse that Roared" equivalence

Tories getting a couple of tax havens sorted as a priority, who would have guessed that?

 

[mcfc1632]

Still beats me how people can support Brexit whilst the Government are sitting on a report (despite a petition demanding it be released) which allegedly confirms Russian interference in the referendum (If it didn't it would've been released by now)..... the similarities to the support of Trump are mind blowing.

Surely the Government should be forced to release it / make the results public (no redactions) .... discuss it in parliament and then a decision should be made.

Given your habit of scouring the internet to post (perceived) relevant links - surprised you have not already posted this............

"Russia attempted to “influence” the result of the Scottish Independence Referendum but not the Brexit vote, according to reports."

"The Telegraph newspaper quoted sections of the report and said MPs and peers described the Kremlin's role in the vote that could have split the UK as "the first post-Soviet interference in a Western democratic election"

"But the 18-month investigation by the ISC found there is nothing to suggest the Kremlin played any part in the UK's 2016 vote in independence from the European Union, according to the newspaper."

https://www.lbcnews.co.uk/uk-news/r...-in-scottish-independence-vote-but-not-brexi/

I can understand the disappointment that some must be feeling.

 

[Vic]

After the EU summit and agreement on a virus recovery package, I did go trawling for what mcfc1632 had said about the difficulty of that for the EU. I found one cut and paste quote from a few weeks ago calling any deal "smoke and mirrors" (I didn't fully understand the arcane financial argument and suspect he didn't); I checked the source and saw it was being quoted sceptically in another article from American site naked capitalism which had added

The Brexit freight train continues to bear down at full speed at the EU and UK. Since virtually nothing the EU has said seems to have gotten through to the UK negotiators, Barnier has become even more blunt. I can’t imagine he’s gone off the reservation in becoming so pointed, so I assume he either has license or has been told to signal EU exasperation (which is not news; sources like Politico have been mentioning it regularly for at least nine months). Barnier warned of a no-deal Brexit thanks to the UK walking back major commitments in the Political Declaration. More from Euronews:

After almost three weeks, Brexit talks are back on Tuesday….

In an interview to British newspaper The Times, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said that “the UK has taken three steps back from the commitments it originally made”, adding that the EU wants the UK to respect them “to the letter”…

“We are much less exposed than them because only 7% of our exports go to the United Kingdom, when 47% of British exports go to the EU,” he said.

In another sign as to how sour things have become, fishing, which was seen as a contentious but soluble problem, looks more and more like an impasse, according to Politico.

The Telegraph, relying on the UK’s political funhouse mirror, presented that as Barnier trying to deny the UK its Brexit. And the Brexit fans are particularly steamed up that Sadiq Kahn wrote a letter to Boris Johnson pleading for a Brexit extension.

There was also this quote from Charles Grant (from think tank Centre for European Reform) at the end of May:

"Recently spoke to a group of senior business leaders. All believed that not extending Brexit transition would be v bad for their businesses and the economy. But none was willing to speak out in public, for fear of punishment by No 10. Not a healthy way to run UK."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/06/eu-stimulus-fakery-as-brexit-stumbles-forward.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+NakedCapitalism+(naked+capitalism)

The site is currently quoting Varoufakis on the threat from more austerity in the EU, but the UK is not going to escape more austerity.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

It will be shit.

The clairvoyance society is still going strong I see, even after multiple disappointing
predictions, faith is still strong.