gordondaviesmoustache
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It wasn't easy, but shifting nearly a stone in five weeks has helped soften the blow.
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Political relations between UK-EU
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I’ve drank on just four occasions since the first lockdown last March: birthday, the day lockdown ended, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.I’ve no idea how people have managed it in lockdown to be honest.
I wanted to do dry Jan but failed immediately
In normal times I go for a couple at the local on a Friday after work and out all day and sometimes night for City games on a weekend.
I’m like a new man!
stonerblue
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Yeah, forget about, or just ignore, real consequences of brexit and post baby gifts and call the FrenchNone of that matters any more because ... vaccines.
Cheer up lads....
Have they not been negotiating deals within the EU for the last 40 years?
I can see a lot of attraction in being part of a genuine and 'somewhat more modern' trading bloc.Great news. Rumour has it Biden will take the US into TPP also, so looks like a free trade deal with the US is incoming.
The EU is so bureaucratic that I can see in years to come there will be better terms to come for the UK with the EU - if negotiated between blocs
Great thing is we will still be clear of the superstate project and avoid the mess that will come forwards - win - win
Probably both TBF - along with being an undeniably a logical outcomeNot sure if this counts as hyperbole or hysteria...
BobKowalski
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Have they not been negotiating deals within the EU for the last 40 years?
No.
So all the countries within the EU agreed a deal 40 years ago and nothing has changed since ok cheers for that.
BobKowalski
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So all the countries within the EU agreed a deal 40 years ago and nothing has changed since ok cheers for that.
You’re welcome.
All good commentsI was reading last week that Britain’s tech industry is growing at six times the rate of Britain’s general GDP, and Manchester is the hub for this. Manchester is the fastest growing tech city in Europe (overtaking the second which was also a British city, Cambridge, with Liverpool also growing faster than most).
There will be a lot of opportunities for Britain, and specifically Manchester, for global reach for this as there is going to be a lot of countries wanting a bit of it.
I always thought that in the EU, Britain was basically London as part of the EU, and the rest of the country were a fringe. But now we need to be Britain in the world, not just London in the EU in the world, and it would make sense for the economy of Britain to drive places like Glasgow Manchester Birmingham as well as the small capitals Edinburgh Belfast and Cardiff forward with specificity. So while the North West seems to be tech, there could be scope for other economic sectors to grow in other areas.
Make Britain a place that the rest of the world want to work with for a variety of reasons.
Some of the Remainers take solace in the immediate/short-term friction issues, but - because of the lack of strategic planning - for which the Remainer led government between 2016-2019 shoulder a lot of blame - such issues are not a surprise.
Things could shake out very well for us once people and businesses start to look to the future and stop looking back to when we were EU members
But, as a nation, we will be net better off being out of the EU anyway by just being increasingly distancing from the problems that are inevitable
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