How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

So here's yet another Brexit benefit

I need to replace the battery on my electric bike ,,,, whilst the bike is a Raleigh the battery comes from JD Europe Components in Germany

The battery is £495

Import duty £125 plus £25 for the transportation of ''dangerous goods''

There will be a six week delivery time as a minimum


F@CKING BRILLIANT ...
 
Ifwecouldjust....... said:
So here's yet another Brexit benefit

I need to replace the battery on my electric bike ,,,, whilst the bike is a Raleigh the battery comes from JD Europe Components in Germany

The battery is £495

Import duty £125 plus £25 for the transportation of ''dangerous goods''

There will be a six week delivery time as a minimum


F@CKING BRILLIANT ...
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The Raleigh bike isn't British-made.
 
Ifwecouldjust....... said:
Wait until you get into a spot of bother .... whilst we were in the Eu you could access the Embassy / Consulate of any member country for assistance. No longer the case.

There are 55 countries that do not have any British Embassy / Consulate (admittedly these are mainly small countries or war zones)......but in the past these were covered by any Eu embassy.
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Fuck. The only places I go are war torn small places. It’s enough to make a man weep.
 
i kne albert davy said:
To be honest mate i don’t believe it to be true that the vast majority who voted to leave believed Farage and Johnson, working people who used to work in skilled manufacturing work saw absolutely no benefit whatsoever from our time in the EU, people usually vote for the status quo so it should have been a doddle for the remain campaign but it wasn’t why do you think that was ?. Majority votes in Labour strongholds to leave weren’t by the over 65s the constituency I live was packed with manufacturing work now next to nothing voted 62% to 38% to leave not returned a Tory MP for over a century. People were genuinely pissed off with the status quo and for better or worse voted accordingly.
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They couldn’t see benefits of EU membership because they didn’t take a single fucking minute to actually look. Not having facts about how it actuakky was, left an open door for decades of Rightwing press denigrating and lying about it. Straight bananas etc, they bought it. They FAFO just like a lot of the MAGA morons, duped into believing it’s a guy from a dinghy who has kept his wages low. Now living it up in Mayfair, with a string of racehorses and a Bentley.
 
I think things seem a lot more positive in terms of rejoining sooner rather than later. One great thing about the Ukraine war is it has caused a real thaw in relations between the EU and UK with Starmer clearly favouring ties with macron, Der leyen etc rather than trump. These ties will only accelerate if the us abandon Ukraine.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
I think things seem a lot more positive in terms of rejoining sooner rather than later. One great thing about the Ukraine war is it has caused a real thaw in relations between the EU and UK with Starmer clearly favouring ties with macron, Der leyen etc rather than trump. These ties will only accelerate if the us abandon Ukraine.
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I don't think I can recall British Politics ever being in such a state of flux and confusion.

Your observations about Brexit and the EU and the mayhem that is Trump are IMO bang on.... then add to that the fact that Labour are so unpopular with the electorate despite having such a huge majority less than twelve monhs ago.... Farage is just cherry on to of the shit cake we are being served up.

Very confusing indeed.
 
BigJoe#1 said:
I don't think I can recall British Politics ever being in such a state of flux and confusion.

Your observations about Brexit and the EU and the mayhem that is Trump are IMO bang on.... then add to that the fact that Labour are so unpopular with the electorate despite having such a huge majority less than twelve monhs ago.... Farage is just cherry on to of the shit cake we are being served up.

Very confusing indeed.
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you don't remember the mid to late 70's then when the country was literally in a state of near collapse
 
bluethrunthru said:
you don't remember the mid to late 70's then when the country was literally in a state of near collapse
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Yes I do very well.... but to me that was somewhat different, we were quite literally (more than we are today - IMO) a two party state - the Liberals were nothing to write home about, and we never had Brexit..... I do think Reform are a bit more of a challenge so we were basically stuck with what we had.... Red or Blue.

The difference is we were in a right mess back then... the winter of discontent, Arthur Scargill running the country and IMO it was all orchestrated by Wilson and Callaghan, the trouble is it gave Thatcher an open goal that even Hojland wouldn't miss. And look what that led to.... miners strikes, privatisation all a fucking mess, but again IMO. I think we are on the precipice of something much worse today.

What is even more worrying is I have absolutely no faith in any of todays leaders having the balls to take us forward.

But yes I remember very well the seventies and the winter of discontent (reminiscent of Birmingham today) and the mess the Labour party left us in in 2010.
 
BigJoe#1 said:
Yes I do very well.... but to me that was somewhat different, we were quite literally (more than we are today - IMO) a two party state - the Liberals were nothing to write home about, and we never had Brexit..... I do think Reform are a bit more of a challenge so we were basically stuck with what we had.... Red or Blue.

The difference is we were in a right mess back then... the winter of discontent, Arthur Scargill running the country and IMO it was all orchestrated by Wilson and Callaghan, the trouble is it gave Thatcher an open goal that even Hojland wouldn't miss. And look what that led to.... miners strikes, privatisation all a fucking mess, but again IMO. I think we are on the precipice of something much worse today.

What is even more worrying is I have absolutely no faith in any of todays leaders having the balls to take us forward.

But yes I remember very well the seventies and the winter of discontent (reminiscent of Birmingham today) and the mess the Labour party left us in in 2010.
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errr - we joined the Common Market in 1973 having first applied in 1961 - as that failure to join was a work of DeGaulle from there on in there were anti ( Brexit style) political movements
 
bluethrunthru said:
errr - we joined the Common Market in 1973 having first applied in 1961 - as that failure to join was a work of DeGaulle from there on in there were anti ( Brexit style) political movements
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yes.... and...? What has that to do with the winter of discontent et al?

You blaming the Common Market for Labours woes and failures?
 
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