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Oh Britain, what have you done (part ∞+11)?

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HairyHaggis said:
Sockshop is your friend. Wonderful
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Clothing shop specialisation is interesting.

We have accepted that some mongers of wares could specialise. Cobblers became shoe shops. At a certain level of complexity and cost the dressmaker and the bespoke tailor exist. The odd milliner. But most clothing has followed a centralised store model. Be it department stores or the M&S, Next model.

In the 80s we saw the big bang and boom replace the miners strike and death of steel. Ghost Town was replaced by The Only Way Is Up. And we got the sock shop. Tie rack. Extreme clothing specialisation. Eventually in the next recessional dip these stores had to diversify. Bracers, scarves, belts, cufflinks, slippers, waistcoats. But this was not enough. They eventually died off.

But it showed us the way. We will know that we truly live in a time of prosperity if we have to go to separate shops for each article of clothing. As our wealth will support such enterprises, and we will have the leisure to inefficiently walk between them.

We will have reached the zenith of our civilisation when the first "Left Sock Shop*" opens.


* your left
 
tuga said:
Britain’s imperial history and 45 years of membership in the EU — where London was a dominant voice — is why it is struggling to conduct diplomacy as the middling power it is now becoming. Accustomed to issuing colonial diktats or throwing its medium-sized weight around a medium-sized pond, the U.K. simply doesn’t seem to know how to play the game of give and take needed to negotiate with a far larger partner.
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We could point Trident at the EU, but we'd get blow-back and France could actually retaliate in kind. I'd imagine both David Davis and Boris have "gamed" this - Boris with the sound effects added.
 
It's good to know that Brexit is in competent and capable hands:

https://twitter.com/LiamFox/status/1073298501746991104

Liam Fox said:
I welcome the approval of the EU-Japan economic partnership agreement yesterday, which could boost UK GDP by up to £3bn in the long run. Japan is a vocal defender of free trade and this agreement will form the basis of our new, stronger trading relationship as we leave the EU
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I mean WTAF?

What an idiot.
 
notaclue said:
Uh oh. I have a horrible feeling they're going to blinking do it https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...-flourish-prosper-walks-away-eu-without-deal/
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The public reaction to empty supermarket shelves, their holiday flights grounded and gran’s heart tablets running out would be something to behold. They’d try to pin the blame on the EU but that would only have a short shelf life. Maybe Chunt is just ad libbing the threats to show Brussels we still mean business? The Barclays are full of sh*t as everyone knows and their pamphlet is the out pipe.
 
The Sunday Times has better news, but they are saying it's being done behind May's back and the options being considered are only May's deal and 'no deal'. A Russian roulette referendum. Though Parliament may be able to legislate to include Remain.

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notaclue said:
The Sunday Times has better news, but they are saying it's being done behind May's back and the options being considered are only May's deal and 'no deal'. A Russian roulette referendum. Though Parliament may be able to legislate to include Remain.

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They try that and I'm going hi vis.
 
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HarryB said:
For clarity

"Yes, I'm more than happy to take that bet.

To be clear "Labour form the next government". £50 bet. Not to charity. I'll have it.

You OK with that or would you prefer to lob your earlier personal insult that got deleted?"

That's the deal. Take it or leave it.
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I've told you the bet I'm offering, in line with your post and my comments. Now you take it or you leave it, remember I'm the one who offered the bet, not you.
 
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