Brexit

People blaming Brexit and the folk who voted for it are missing the point. At no point when I voted for it (only second time I've voted in 30 years) did I vote on the previso that the well paid government officials were not up to the task of implementing what we were voting on.
And it still boils down to the fact that they never ever thought that the British public would vote for such a thing. I'm now changing my mind, not because I necessarily disagree with leaving, I still think there are advantages to it, but I cannot trust a government who plainly incompetent and immoral to actually get anything right anymore. And with that in mind we might as well stay as we are.

 

Pull yerself together man...

 

Trouble is we have a civil service who are largely against Brexit and it shows in our weak preparations and lack of enthusiasm to plan, The old saying "Fail to plan means plan to fail " springs to mind.
Boris and his mate are trying to remove the blockages but it can be almost impossible with gold plated contracts at the top, The First Division Union is very powerful and believes it has the right to run the country with politicians largely put up with but rarely respected and expendable when required

 

There are many false claims going around, Peter Bone rubbished the leaked letter from Liz Truss, he had am an answer for every question asked, even Hilary Benn couldnt disagree on much of what he said.

 

Jesus. Are you Dominic Cummings in disguise? You're obsessed by the Civil Service. It's not the Civil Service that got us into this mess, it's the Tory Party. As with the pandemic, they make bold statements and promises, but have no grasp of the detail and complexities of making them happen. This is Johnson's stock in trade and always has been - promise big and worry about the details later. They are the most incompetent government in living memory, by a country mile.

If Trump loses in November then a trade deal with the USA is years away (thank goodness, considering the disaster it is shaping up to be). Joe Biden thinks Brexit was an idiotic idea and has clearly stated that it will be well down his list of priorities.

We are falling out in lumps with China over Hong Kong. So don't look for an early trade deal there.

Other big economies like India and Brazil are up to their eyeballs in Covid 19 and we'll be miles away from their priority issues.

Add in the massive unpreparedness highlighted by Liz Truss and we are going to be adrift on a sea of WTO tariffs with no one interested in helping us out.

 

Not obsessed but having some experience of the poor standards the civil service provides they are even criticised by senior Politicians as not fit for purpose in large areas and a large percentage would struggle to hold down a job in private industry.
As for a trade deal with our largest trading partner as a country the USA it would be nice to do a trade deal but not a problem if it does not happen, The tariffs involved are not huge, I buy some goods from the USA and the general tariff is between 2.5% and 3.5% not a deal breaker and on smaller amounts it is zero

 

New immigration bill announced today, Should hopefully keep most of the riff raff out

 

50 years too late...!!

 

Just noticed Andrzej Duda has been reelected in Poland with a majority of 51.2% - 48.8%. Just to be clear on how a vote works, the guy with 51.2% has won. Good news for Poland, not so good news for the EU.

 

To be fair to the British public they told the politicians year after year they were not happy with mass immigration, When at last they were forced in to action by UKIP and asked the EU for help to change some of the rules and they refused the die was set and Brexit was almost a certainty

 

Criminals, Fraudsters, Rapists, Murderers, Thieves, Terrorists, Those wishing to take advantage of our benefits system who only take from our society and offer nothing to this country but grief and misery and who under EU laws we find it hard to refuse entry to even if known criminals, Being allowed entry to this country is a privilege and as such those granted to come here should add to our wealth and society.

 

And thats just parliament....

 

Plus we have enough home grown 'riff raff' without importing any more thank you...

 

This is brilliant, hilarious and utterly frightening, in equal measure.

But as we've always known, and has now been openly admitted on this thread, Brexit was never about economics for most Brexit voters.
Still, the economic devastation will be worth it to keep out a few more of the foreign riff, raff, eh.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/13/gove-delivers-lorry-load-of-oven-ready-brexit-with-no-ingredients?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Oh how we laughed.................
Read the papers, you lost, it's over ffs...

 

The Guadian , a credible source for unbiased news . ? Your having a laugh arn't you . Bog role of a paper that wont easily flush away .

 

Does it block your u bend up?