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Brexit: give me a positive effect (2022 remastered edition) II

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There was some polling out yesterday that said the vast majority of Europeans were quite happy to remain in the EU. Here in high wage, high-skilled Britain, JRM, 6 years after the referendum "unveils a new 'dashboard' of more than 2,400 EU rules and regulations which are still tying down Britain's ambition to move forward with an appeal to politicians, businesses and members of the public in helping scrap them." Our economy will, no doubt, boom (world-beating etc, etc) once all 2400 rules and regs are removed.
 
TheDecameron said:
Redwood punting the calamitous Francoist model that economically turned Spain back for almost half a century- grow all our own food, make all our own products, import nothing and stand proud and alone. Not so much North Sea Singapore, more Pyongyang on Thames.
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Lynton is back in cabinet meetings so Redwood and his ERG mates will continue to push for autarky.
 
Tony L said:
The inflation will really hit the elderly gammon pensioner demographic who many view as the main ‘marks’ for the Brexit project as their savings are now dropping in value by pretty much the inflation rate year on year.
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Expect a couple of final salary pension schemes to implode if the stock markets keep slumping and pensions attempt to something like index link. The pensioners receiving these were solidly Brexit
 
What 40 years of Daily Mail does to the human body:

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(Courtesy, BBC Question Time)
 
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"The mediocrity of Lord “Frosty” Frost isn’t ordinary. There is an epic quality to his failings. The parochialism of his nationalism and irresponsibility of his conspiracy theories have allowed one paunchy man to embody the entire collapse of modern conservatism into know-nothing paranoia.

No serious person outside the ruling elite doubts that Frost and Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit heightened the misery of millions. They have raised inflation, cut the national wealth and diverted the energy of Britain’s rulers away from the economic crisis into needless disputes with our neighbours."

Quite. A complete disaster, on a scale beyond some of the worst projections.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...iters-exploiting-to-explain-away-the-disaster
 
The Observer has been following several small businesses here in the UK since Brexit. Not pleasant reading. They have also included another quote from useful idiot JRM:

"Rees-Mogg said last week he had no intention of monitoring the economic effects of Brexit. I’m not going to make those sorts of assessments because lots were made before the referendum and they are all bilge, he said."

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...one-six-years-on-uk-counts-the-cost-of-brexit
 
Kirk said:
The Observer has been following several small businesses here in the UK since Brexit. Not pleasant reading. They have also included another quote from useful idiot JRM:

"Rees-Mogg said last week he had no intention of monitoring the economic effects of Brexit. I’m not going to make those sorts of assessments because lots were made before the referendum and they are all bilge, he said."

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...one-six-years-on-uk-counts-the-cost-of-brexit
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Bearing in mind this is a Cabinet Minister who’s second job is as an Investment Fund manager from which (along with other sources) he’s reputed to have accumulated £100 million. He was previously monitoring the economic effects of Brexit with sufficient enough scrutiny that he chose to move his investments out of Brexit Britain and into Ireland, so laughable to claim disinterest now.

No, this is an ideological zealot and a highly dishonest influencer who provides cover for his corrupt Prime Minister. Unlike Johnson who is a crook hiding in plain sight, this one masquerades as a Christian moralist while hypocritically chastising others who don’t measure up. A more blatant example of the one rule for them principle you’ll have difficulty finding.
 
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"The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but Democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit."
 
Why on earth would British subjects want to get Irish Passports and why oh why do we keep having to see these adverts on British social media?

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eternumviti said:
To, um... just over 1000 last year.

Truly shocking!
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This number is for ‘ new’ citizenship.

If you are born abroad ( ie not in Ireland) to a parent who was born in Ireland before 2005 you are entitled to an Irish passport.
If a grandparent was born in Ireland you may be entitled to an Irish passport.

There were 420,000 applications for Irish passports made in GB in the years 2016-2020

Note that not all are new applicants, some will be renewals. Acquiring a passport under such rules does not mean that partners and children automatically will qualify for one.
Application for citizenship by descent is tricky because of the documentation that is required so not all applications succeed initially.
I can’t find any exact figures online though.
 
^ and let's face it there would be millions of British applications if no restrictions. Most of the Brexit voters would apply too :rolleyes:
 
eternumviti said:
To, um... just over 1000 last year.

Truly shocking!
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This number is for ‘ new’ citizenship
If you are born abroad ( ie not in Ireland) to a parent who was born in Ireland before 2005 you are entitled to an Irish passport.
There were 420,000 such applications for Irish passports made in GB in the years 2016-2020
Not all are new applicants, some will be renewals. Some will be on parentage rules, some on grandparent rules, some will not meet the documentation requirements.
As far as I am concerned, all are welcome!
 
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