After reading that article its just another example of how all of this is inconsequential to the reality of the UK leaving the EU. This is a media stance war, a war between two sides, one of which wholly backed remaining in the EU and must now be seen to discredit any news connected to brexit and the other which praises anything to justify the decision. Its more that they have an issue with the other side promoting or demeaning brexit rather than discuss the reality and facts of the situation as neither is prepared to move on from insulting the other sides stance. "You think this is a good thing and that it's down to brexit? Here's why it's NOT!" "You still think brexit was a bad decision? Well get prepared to be proved WRONG!"
Its nonsense, it helps nobody and doesn't reflect the reality of the situation. Is a £100bn trade deal with India good news? Yes. Does it "justify brexit" as is being argued here? It has no bearing on it whatsoever. People like Ben Chu (who after reading his other articles can be described quite accurately as a remoaner in every sense of the word) and others like him who feel the need to pour scourn over every trade agreement going forward need to realise that your argument is over.
The UK is no longer a member of the EU, that is the only 'reality' that needs addressing. A £100bn trade agreement with India neither condemns or justifies brexit. If you have an issue with the good news hungry press promoting such news stories, surely you must also have an issue with the bad news hungry press, spinning the same news stories into a negative slant. Other example;
Pre-brexit: Leave media - "What about the fish?" Remain - "Who gives a fuck about fish?"
Post-brexit: Remain media - "What about the fish?" Leave - "Who gives a fuck about fish?"
And on and on it goes. Its getting boring, guys, reading every article that has a obvious bias attached. Lets start promoting articles that discusses the situation and is informative without trying to force an opinion on it, yeah?
The fish point is actually incredibly true.
Nearly every person on here who voted remain was saying to fuck the fishing industry as its 0.01% of GDP, if it meant a deal over no deal, myself included.
Now they spend every waking minute posting articles at how bad the fishing industry has gone.
I am consistent, I feel bad for those who work in that industry but on the scale of things, there’s far worse issues affected by Covid and it’s still 0.01% of GDP. The industry isn’t totally fucked but even if it was I’d have sacrificed it for a deal, over no deal.
This whole thread is a point scoring exercise and I actually saw one poster, who’s guilty of doing just that, accusing someone of scouting the internet to find negative Biden articles, in another thread, whilst he does the same all day every day in here.
It’s just bizarre stuff really but it is somewhat explainable.
Some of them haven’t got what they wanted at the ballot for 11 years. That’s a pretty long time to see your fellow citizens continuously rejecting your views every time of asking. They’re bitter and look at everything with a negative slant now. Not just this thread but the others on this sub forum. Apparently the UK is “regressive little shit hole country” according to some.
The reality is the vast vast majority of people aren’t really affected by Brexit. The job market saw no dip over December and January, in fact it grew in the sectors I work in. Salaries haven’t been affected, food still costs the same. The economy is set to do reasonably well. The biggest economic issue is still the pandemic. Yes, some companies have had issues exporting and yes the fishing industry is struggling, but fuck me, cheer up, the cliff edge hasn’t happened, we’re better clear of them for the sake of vaccines, which is far more important than selling shellfish and life is good.
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