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Brexit: give me a positive effect (2022 remastered edition)
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eternumviti
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Leaving the EU was indeed the primary function of Brexit, and thus its first gain. What successive future governments do with that step will define successes and the failures of leaving.
So too will the future policies of the EU itself, as it faces a substantial number of challenges ahead, many of them conflicting, and all of them potentially divisive. I suspect the first will evolve quite rapidly as an effect of the globe entering into a rapid inflationary cycle, something that the 20 year old Euro has not yet has to weather. Others will revolve around the reach of EU law into the member constitutions, immigration and global geopolitics, particularly energy, Russia and Russia/Ukraine.
The EU appears to have learned nothing from Brexit. I have no more faith in its leadership than I do in our own, with the proviso that ours is at least subject to the ballot box.
Your post, incidentally, makes a distinction between the EU and the Common Market. There are currently no distinguishing advantages from having left the latter, and many more considerable disadvantages. The problem is that membership of the EU (or pretty much absolute submission to its legal edicts) is obligatory upon membership of the CM.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Yes, I’m sure the first post war governor of Stalingrad said the same- mustn’t grumble, things can only get better.
eternumviti
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He may well have done, but that isn't what I said.
ff1d1l
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"Has sir ever considered dressing to the left rather than the right?"
TheDecameron
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While EV steps out of his smouldering Brexit barn to warn of possible fires across the Channel, permanent damage is being done right now to U.K. business as a direct consequence of Brexit:
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...u-trade-says-food-body?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Britain’s small businesses should expect trade with the EU to be “permanently damaged” from 1 January, the refrigerated supply chain trade body has said, after new customs checks take effect that it says will make imports from the bloc “more expensive, less flexible and much slower”.
Amid growing public dismay at the negative impact of Brexit, the Cold Chain Federation said speciality food imports could face the same 70% decline that affected exports of food by small businesses this year after Britain quit the EU single market and customs union.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...u-trade-says-food-body?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Britain’s small businesses should expect trade with the EU to be “permanently damaged” from 1 January, the refrigerated supply chain trade body has said, after new customs checks take effect that it says will make imports from the bloc “more expensive, less flexible and much slower”.
Amid growing public dismay at the negative impact of Brexit, the Cold Chain Federation said speciality food imports could face the same 70% decline that affected exports of food by small businesses this year after Britain quit the EU single market and customs union.
russel
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Sadomasochism is a popular pastime and a lot of Tories do seem quite keen on punishment in all forms.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Still, good news for U.K. food businesses- they can use lb & oz and Pints with the crown mark again, free from the chains of EU hegemony ( but alas free from EU customers as well).
Through ideology. I heard more than one person say "at any cost" and repeat it. At any cost. If that's what you say then you are not optimistic about the outcome.
Yeah, I'm made up.
tones
Tones deaf
As Stewart Lee said, it wasn't just racists that voted for Brexit....
Nick_G
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chartz
If it’s broke fix it!
You’re being ironical aren’t you?
russel
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Is there really a demand for lbs and oz to return?, anyone who was used to them must be at least 70.
Barrymagrec
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I was just getting indignant over your statement - then I remembered - I`m 71.
I don`t really mind either way but metrication started a long time ago, I remember back around 1973 I noticed in the Drawing Office "Metric Standard Drawing General arrangement 1/4 inch Tape Deck"
simon g
Older, wiser but no longer retired
Oi! I'm 63 and grew up with lbs, ozs, shillings, half crowns, pennies, etc. I can still multiply/divide those units very easily. I still (in my domestic life) think in terms of pints, ounces, et al.
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