Best make that 48.
It' actually brilliant and much needed.Good that you’re enjoying it.
Suez* was a damn smart piece of thinking and a triumph of international diplomacy.I'll stick with 50. It's is a nice round number. To be fair its our dumbest brainfart since Suez, but I couldn't be arsed to work out how many years ago that was.
Still, any moment now, sunlit uplands ahead and all that. Probably on a lorry stuck at the border waiting for the paperwork to clear.
Ah, you have to laugh. Well, I am anyway.
It wasn’t a repost. A repost is when you post the same thing again. It was a reply, and it can be considered a riposte.Lol, what a repost.
Was there any Gammon on the menu?Just finishing a week’s holiday on the Norfolk Broads. Every pub and restaurant understaffed, big delays for all meals and queues at bars.
Been in a car crash that wasn’t your fault? Yes, Brexit,you silly simple minded bastards.
ToucheIt wasn’t a repost. A repost is when you post the same thing again. It was a reply, and it can be considered a riposte.
But something being described as one thing when it is in fact something else completely is sort of apt in this thread, don’t you think?
The thread is very good, not sure anybody can say the same about the subject matter...It' actually brilliant and much needed.
Cheers.
To be fair, “to give us freedom” is followed by “to free up and liberalise our economy domestically, to restore genuine political choice to our electorate, and to rebuild the country from some of the distortions created by EU membership.”Frost is banging on about the NI protocols, usual moaning about what we signed up to, blah, blah, but it was notable for the following
"Brexit is not a thing in itself. It is not a choice to live in permanent confrontation with our.. neighbours. Rather it is a 1st stage, a necessary gateway through which this country had to pass in order to give us freedom"
And therein lies the problem. We are telling 27 sovereign nations that they are not free because they chose to enhance trade and opportunity and eliminate borders. Whereas the UK which limits its citizens and hides behind borders insists it is ‘free’.
This is a frame of mind that will be met with incomprehension by 27 other nations. It is in essence saying we will live in permanent confrontation because there is no way to reconcile these opposing views.
To be fair, “to give us freedom” is followed by “to free up and liberalise our economy domestically, to restore genuine political choice to our electorate, and to rebuild the country from some of the distortions created by EU membership.”
Of course what the disingenuous turd doesn’t recognise is that there are consequences that we’ve got to accept if want to set our own economic rules, the consequences that are becoming clearer every day and are manifesting themselves in empty supermarket shelves, fields full of unpicked produce, a downturn in exports due to the inevitable red tape associated with having our own rules and the extra costs for setting up a whole new independent framework to facilitate our “freedom”. All for what? To allow us to import some cheap meat from Oz to put our farmers out of business and to buy some even cheaper trainers from Malaysia. In return we can export an extra couple of tons of cheese to Japan if it doesn’t go off on the journey.