? He was replying to a post from a Brit (trying to get citizenship of an EU country)You're talking to an Irish fella about Brits. Arethebritsatitagain.com
? He was replying to a post from a Brit (trying to get citizenship of an EU country)You're talking to an Irish fella about Brits. Arethebritsatitagain.com
Fairly sure Eamonn is Irish vic, check and come back to me? He was replying to a post from a Brit (trying to get citizenship of an EU country)
You can convince yourself and your acolytesCorrect, but the point you fail to appreciate is that the issues that emerge are a feature of Brexit, not a bug because of lack of planning or incompetence.
If you raise trade barriers and introduce friction where previously there was none you will have issues because management of these issues is now in the hands of Govt officials and management of an issue will never be as efficient as eliminating the issue.
The referendum could only be won by falsely pretending that we would have no issues if we left, indeed the claim was things would be better. As soon as we raised a trade barrier, built a lorry park or introduced an internal customs border, Brexit was lost.
Even worse, the UK then signed a deal where seeking mitigation of the effects of Brexit hands power to the EU, and this on top of leaving one sovereign UK nation still under the EU economic writ.
Our choice is stark, seek to diverge in an attempt to make Brexit ‘worth’ four years of division and pain and we will have more pain. Tack closely to EU rules and regulations to ease the pain and we become rule takers with no ability to shape the rules.
Reality is a woman.
Spot onI think the point has got lost in the telling. The simple truth is that some of these frictions could have been eased by better planning and implementation. In effect that is what the Scottish Salmon producer accused the government of yesterday. He wasn’t railing against Brexit. He was simply asking for clarity of process so he and his delivery line could comply.
as I said to vic yesterday, take the piss all you like but despite all the additional frictions, this would have been better with a semi competent government planning and implementing the bloody thing properly.
You can convince yourself and your acolytes
People that understand the reality of these matters can just disregard the extent to which your glee is just exaggerated nonsense
Yes - of course there will be issues arising from friction being introduced to trade - that hardly makes you some sort of guru.
But - if you are really seeking to suggest that had Brexit been managed by professionals as a major change programme then a lot of the policies, requirements and actions needed to address a host of problems would not have been dealt with - then you really are just utterly blinkered
Now you are conflating thingsI don’t disagree that proper management would have mitigated some of the consequences. What I don’t agree is that it is purely an issue of poor management. If the unnecessary obstacles hadn’t been introduced there wouldn’t be a need for careful management of the issues. If there were some tangible benefits to make it worth having to manage a whole load of issues then I am yet to see what they are - not even one. In the meantime I will continue to take the piss out of anyone who thinks problems are just down to bad planning.
They are taking turns in searching for the apocalyseIs it just you three in here now?
Fully agreeIt will never be as friction free as the friction free we had. Thats for sure. The lack of effort around services is stunning.