Remember this?

[Bulletguy]

 

When Johnson and Gove said "Fuel bills will be lower for everyone” during the Leave campaign?

 

They were LYING to you.

 

Energy prices are increasing markedly across Europe – but the problem is particularly intense in the UK.

 

This is frustrating, given that politicians have been warned for years of energy prices rising after Brexit, in the event that close harmony wasn’t maintained with the continent.

 

In March, the House of Lords EU Environment Sub-Committee published a new report, warning that energy prices would rise due to the inefficiency of current cross-border electricity trading arrangements between the UK and Europe.

 

“As an EU member state, the UK played a leading role in developing EU energy policies. These in turn shaped how the UK could pursue secure, affordable, and clean energy supplies. The UK was part of the [internal Energy Market’s] price coupling arrangements for cross-border electricity trading as an EU member state, but left the arrangements at the end of the transition period.

 

The UK’s departure from the Internal Energy Market is particularly a problem for the supply of electricity, which is governed by the auctions. “Britain has lost access to implicit day-ahead and intraday market coupling arrangements on electricity interconnectors,” says the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.

 

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/20/the-brexit-tax-how-boris-johnson-broke-his-promise-on-energy-prices/

 

Here is Johnson LYING again to red wall folk in 2019. Why do you dummies believe and fawn over this serial LIAR? :-S

[Bulletguy]

 

The Resolution Foundation predicts higher energy bills, stagnant wages and tax rises could leave households with a £1,200 a year hit to their incomes.

 

It says a 1.25% increase in National Insurance contributions will cost the average household £600 a year while the higher energy bills cap is expected to add an additional £500 to spending. Both will come into force in April.

 

Meanwhile, the cost of living in the UK surged by 5.1% in the 12 months to November - the highest increase in 10 years - Office for National Statistics data showed.

 

Resolution Foundation chief executive Torsten Bell, said: "The overall picture is likely to be one of prices surging and pay packets stagnating."

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59814598

 

[Barryd999]

But but but Pelmet was telling us the other day just how well off everyone is, wages soaring ahead of inflation he reckoned, millions of jobs up for grabs. Whats going on?

[Bulletguy]

Barryd999 - 2021-12-29 10:44 PM

 

But but but Pelmet was telling us the other day just how well off everyone is, wages soaring ahead of inflation he reckoned, millions of jobs up for grabs. Whats going on?

He's finding it impossible to dispute what his Glorious Leader said or any others that championed Brexit as it's irrefutable. It's all there, on record...all the lies and "promises".

[Guest pelmetman]

I dont remember Remoaners warning us we were about to bit hit by a worldwide Pandemic *-) .........

 

Worra bunch of pathetic LOSER Chumps (lol) (lol) (lol) .........

[Barryd999]

pelmetman - 2021-12-30 6:19 PM

 

I dont remember Remoaners warning us we were about to bit hit by a worldwide Pandemic *-) .........

 

Worra bunch of pathetic LOSER Chumps (lol) (lol) (lol) .........

 

Thats true but "some" Brexiteers are so thick it should be an easy job to convince them its all Brexits fault especially as 2022 looks certain to be financially crippling for many come April.

 

It might have been a good idea not to have ignored the operation Cygnus recommendations or disband the government pandemic team to focus on Brexit though dont you think? Oh and lets not forget when it all kicked off, Johnson chose to campaign for Brexit Big Ben Gongs instead of focusing on protecting the nation.

 

Still, I bet he thanks the lord every day for Covid 19 and "Chimps" like you who think they can use it to disguise the impact of Brexit. It wont matter long term though, Johnson is already on the skids and once people are really hit hard in the pocket next year they will all be toast.

[Bulletguy]

pelmetman - 2021-12-30 6:19 PM

 

I dont remember Remoaners warning us we were about to bit hit by a worldwide Pandemic *-) .........

Forget hiding behind that smokescreen because it won't work for you. The pandemic has absolutely nothing to do with increased energy prices or taxation. What Johnson, Gove and Smog told you were blatant LIES. You can even hear your Glorious Leader openly LYING on that clip. You've been conned.

[CurtainRaiser]

pelmetman - 2021-12-30 6:19 PM

 

I dont remember Remoaners warning us we were about to bit hit by a worldwide Pandemic *-) .........

 

Worra bunch of pathetic LOSER Chumps (lol) (lol) (lol) .........

 

You do realise that when all the corporate financiers have left the city that the "little man" (that's you by the way) will have to pay more tax?

 

https://www.cityam.com/brexit-passporting-rules-little-appetite-among-eu-finance-firms-to-remain-authorised-in-the-city-as-applications-disappoint/?fbclid=IwAR2k1ukkE7VhAumyL_xUKeEwI4m8NZKGQm3LcZbII11eobLoX0mAg7U_wg0

 

Mind the pandemic did mask the full impact of Brexit

 

https://www.cityam.com/lockdowns-blessing-in-disguise-for-the-city-and-canary-wharf-strict-travel-restrictions-slowed-brexit-exodus-of-bankers/

[John52]

CurtainRaiser - 2021-12-30 9:22 PM

 

pelmetman - 2021-12-30 6:19 PM

Worra bunch of pathetic LOSER Chumps (lol) (lol) (lol) .........

 

You do realise that when all the corporate financiers have left the city that the "little man" (that's you by the way) will have to pay more tax?

 

I don't think he has realised that yet

He still thinks he is not one of the pathetic LOSER Chumps (lol) (lol) (lol)

[CurtainRaiser]

Fintan O’Toole: It’s the first birthday of the Brexit hole and they have to keep digging

 

Those who sold it are slithering away from responsibility for its consequences. Those to whom it was sold are left to bear them

Brendan Behan claimed he had passed a hole in which the workers had laid down their shovels to sing Happy Birthday. He asked which of them the celebration was for. “Ah no, it’s not one of us. It’s the first birthday of the hole.”

 

On Saturday it will be the first birthday of the hole that is Brexit.

 

It seems, surely, that the squalling brat must be old enough to have started primary school. But that is just because it had a gestation period longer than an elephant’s. Arguably, it only becomes fully born on Saturday, when Britain finally gets around to imposing customs controls on EU imports.

 

Remembering how young the Brexit baby really is, you are struck by how quickly disillusion has set in among those who embraced it in 2016. A poll in the Observer at the weekend found that 42 per cent of Leave voters now have a negative view of how it has turned out.

 

The effects of import controls – especially on just-in-time supply chains in industries like car manufacturing – have yet to be felt. The fog of the pandemic (in which it is hard for voters to distinguish one set of consequences from another) will slowly lift. It does not, therefore, seem too much of a stretch to suggest that by the end of 2022, a majority of those who voted for it will have concluded that the great gamble has turned into a beaten docket.

 

It’s hard to think of any other successful revolution whose fires have burned out so soon after the victory beacons were lit. It is one of the peculiarities of this project that it seems simultaneously to slow time down to an excruciating crawl and to hurry it up to warp speed.

 

As is the way of these things, the reasons are both highly contingent and deeply inevitable.

 

The contingency has a local habitation and a name: Boris Johnson. It is hard to overstate how crucial he was in turning Brexit from an obsession of cranks and swivel-eyed loons into a popular cause. Polling throughout the referendum campaign found an almost perfect correlation between how people felt about Johnson and how they intended to vote.

 

But he is one of those toys that is powered by batteries that have a short life, can’t be removed or replaced and eventually start to leak corrosive acid into the mechanism. The kiss of reality was always going to turn Brexit’s clown prince into a slimy frog.

The longer-term inevitability derives from the fundamental reason why the UK joined the European Communities in the first place. Without the empire, it had to learn to live with its place in the world, which is, after all, in Europe.

 

As the 1971 White Paper proposing entry put it, if the UK stayed out, “In a single generation we should have renounced an imperial past and rejected a European future. Our friends everywhere would be dismayed. They would rightly be as uncertain as ourselves about our future role and place in the world…Our power to influence the Communities would steadily diminish, while the Communities’ power to affect our future would as steadily increase”.

 

This logic is inescapable. A bigger neighbour will always exert a huge gravitational influence on a smaller entity. The only way to “take back control” was to influence the European future from the inside. Leaving the EU is not, for Britain, a great new departure. It is simply a return to the fundamental dilemma of 50 years ago.

 

The fantasy was that, contrary to the realism of 1971, Britain could reject a European future while pretending that it had not “renounced an imperial past”. Global Britain is, to adapt Thomas Hobbes, the ghost of the British Empire “squatting on the grave thereof”.

 

But it no longer really matters whether Britain has renounced its imperial past – its imperial past has long since renounced Britishness. The old colonies really don’t care very much one way or the other about Brexit.

 

They will do – as Australia has – trade deals that exploit the mother country’s weakness and desperation. They will not sacrifice their own interests, or their own hard-earned sense of where they sit in the real world, for a supporting role in a bad British costume drama.

 

But it’s too late to stop now. The tragedy of Brexit is that it is a temporary reaction with permanent effects, a crime of momentary passion that carries a life sentence.

 

To even begin to deal with those outcomes, the decadent ruling class that has created them would have to grasp the one thing it will avoid at all costs: responsibility. The buyers of Brexit may be experiencing remorse, but those who sold it are remorseless in their determination to slither away from blame or acknowledgement.

 

Most of them have done so already. David Frost has now joined them in comfortable exile on a political Costa del Crime, the never-never land that has no extradition treaty with the country of consequence.

 

Soon enough, Johnson will join them there and return to tossing off columns and giving after-dinner speeches to the well-heeled and well-oiled. Only those who followed him will be left in the hole.