Bulletguy Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Brexiter Botham as trade envoy and prisoners bussed in to execute cows – yes, the UK has officially lost the plot 8-) The headlines tonight: labour shortage sees prisoners bussed in to execute cows, and Lord Ian Botham named as Her Majesty’s trade envoy to Australia. If you’re under the age of 30, there’s precious little chance you’ll be able to see the actual UK as what it really is these days, which is an extremely well crafted tribute to a cult TV show from 1994. How else to explain it really? Well, there is an explanation, and it’s one word long and about five years or so ago it didn’t actually exist. The word, naturally, is Brexit, and it has sent us all so unequivocally crackers that the only psychological coping strategy is to stop caring. Around about this time last year, when there was a deadly pandemic doing the rounds, there was much disgust at the mass national clearout of the supermarket shelves. The panic buying, the hoarding of pasta and toilet paper. These days, the shelves are looking arguably worse than they were back then, but nobody really seems to care. They can’t cope with caring. We’ve been through too much. Reality is too torturous to contemplate. It’s better to just ignore it. Better to ignore the actual, detailed plans that are in place to get the army to start delivering food to supermarkets, because there’s a shortage of 90,000 HGV drivers. This shortage is invariably blamed on Brexit and Covid, even though, when asked, every industry association wastes no time at all in making clear it’s nothing to do with Covid and absolutely everything to do with Brexit. The rest of the article is in the link......it goes from bad and mad to worse! https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ian-botham-brexit-prisoners-abattoirs-b1907269.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdbrain Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Chuckle ... This piece from 2018 which I believe was sometime before leaving the EU is interesting https://www.bifa.org/news/articles/2018/dec/truck-driver-shortage-crisis-now-spreading-across-the-whole-of-europe ... Germany at that moment had a 45.000 shortfall and correct me if I am wrong but I dont remember Germany leaving the EU ... Chuckle ... "Where have all the waiters gone" all over again ... Hate over hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Birdbrain - 2021-08-24 8:24 PM Chuckle ... This piece from 2018 which I believe was sometime before leaving the EU is interesting https://www.bifa.org/news/articles/2018/dec/truck-driver-shortage-crisis-now-spreading-across-the-whole-of-europe ... Germany at that moment had a 45.000 shortfall and correct me if I am wrong but I dont remember Germany leaving the EU ... Chuckle ... "Where have all the waiters gone" all over again ... Hate over hope The squad wont like that :D ......... (lol) (lol) (lol) ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 When Ian Botham was appointed to the House of Lords in October last year, he even said himself that he would get involved “when they are debating something I know about – like sport or the countryside. Not much point if it’s a trade deal with Japan.” But still, here we are. We’ve got Ian Botham in Australia, sorting out the finer points of the deal for the import of hormone-imported beef. And when it gets here, it’ll be packed up by prisoners on day release then driven to the supermarket in an army truck, a gloriously mad triptych for a nation that’s fully lost it and absolutely isn’t going to regain it in the very long, mad years ahead. *-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdbrain Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Lets be honest ... Ian Botham is representing the Tories and the UK, both things the OP very clearly hates with his/her endless hate thread obsession ... Life, get maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Birdbrain - 2021-08-25 5:48 AM Lets be honest ... Ian Botham is representing the Tories and the UK, both things the OP very clearly hates with his/her endless hate thread obsession ... Life, get maybe He wouldn't know what to do with it he got one (lol) (lol) (lol) ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 pelmetman - 2021-08-25 8:12 AM Birdbrain - 2021-08-25 5:48 AM Lets be honest ... Ian Botham is representing the Tories and the UK, both things the OP very clearly hates with his/her endless hate thread obsession ... Life, get maybe He wouldn't know what to do with it he got one (lol) (lol) (lol) ............ Just what they did to Corbyn Ignore what he is saying and just attack his character As long as there are enough like you who are daft enough to suck it up, it works :-S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 John52 - 2021-08-25 9:27 AM pelmetman - 2021-08-25 8:12 AM Birdbrain - 2021-08-25 5:48 AM Lets be honest ... Ian Botham is representing the Tories and the UK, both things the OP very clearly hates with his/her endless hate thread obsession ... Life, get maybe He wouldn't know what to do with it he got one (lol) (lol) (lol) ............ Just what they did to Corbyn Ignore what he is saying and just attack his character As long as there are enough like you who are daft enough to suck it up, it works :-S In my experience its best to ignore what terminally stupid folk like the Corbyn's say *-) ......... Best watch what they do :-| .......... Jeremy lays flags on the graves of Terrorists and Piers campaigns against COVID vaccines >:-( ....... Yet folk like you, BG and CurtainTwitcher believe every word those pair of Twerps utter 8-) ........ Worra bunch of Cretins (lol) (lol) (lol) .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted August 25, 2021 Author Share Posted August 25, 2021 pelmetman - 2021-08-25 9:39 AM John52 - 2021-08-25 9:27 AM pelmetman - 2021-08-25 8:12 AM Birdbrain - 2021-08-25 5:48 AM Lets be honest ... Ian Botham is representing the Tories and the UK, both things the OP very clearly hates with his/her endless hate thread obsession ... Life, get maybe He wouldn't know what to do with it he got one (lol) (lol) (lol) ............ Just what they did to Corbyn Ignore what he is saying and just attack his character As long as there are enough like you who are daft enough to suck it up, it works :-S In my experience its best to ignore what terminally stupid folk like the Corbyn's say *-) ......... Best watch what they do :-| .......... Jeremy lays flags on the graves of Terrorists and Piers campaigns against COVID vaccines >:-( ....... Yet folk like you, BG and CurtainTwitcher believe every word those pair of Twerps utter 8-) ........ Worra bunch of Cretins (lol) (lol) (lol) .......... JC is yesterdays man yet you still fret and obsess over him. As for "Piers"......Piers who? Piers Morgan? *-) It's also about time you began linking your wild allegations with some credible factual evidence as without, it's just more tales from Pinocchios land of make believe. You never addressed the issue over your Cronyvirus parties links to neo-Nazism and anti-Muslim parties in Europe. A Tory peer concerned over it's association with such vile groups, promptly got shut down and kicked out. It's easy to see the attraction of these evil mindsets for you which work on the weak feeble minded who are easily influenced. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-tory-neo-nazi-anti-islam-hitler-conservative-party-b1254794.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 I find it immensely amusing to see the usual two defending their heroes with vigour. It's true ..... birds of a feather flock together. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 747 - 2021-08-26 10:45 PM I find it immensely amusing to see the usual two defending their heroes with vigour. It's true ..... birds of a feather flock together. :D Apparently they both have dolls of their Beloved Boris they bow before and a book of Brexit slogans they parrot as a daily mantra. :-S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Today's Brexit news Food and drink exports to the EU are down £2,000 million in the first 6 months of 2021. But Liz Truss reached a deal to sell British bacon to Mexico, worth an estimated £50 million over 5 years. Like burning down your house, then using the charcoal to draw. Oh and by the way the EU trade deal with Mexico (that we used to share in) already covered pork products, but Liz Truss only managed a fuzzy photocopy of it, which is why she's had to do a separate deal for bacon now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 12:33 PM Today's Brexit news Food and drink exports to the EU are down £2,000 million in the first 6 months of 2021. But Liz Truss reached a deal to sell British bacon to Mexico, worth an estimated £50 million over 5 years. Like burning down your house, then using the charcoal to draw. Oh and by the way the EU trade deal with Mexico (that we used to share in) already covered pork products, but Liz Truss only managed a fuzzy photocopy of it, which is why she's had to do a separate deal for bacon now. Hmmm.......the first 6 months of 2021? :-S ......... Now I'm pretty sure there was summat going on then?? (?) (?) (?) ........ No dont tell me.......I'll remember soon enough :-| ......... Oh yeah 8-) ........... There was GLOBAL PANDEMIC *-) .......... Worra Chump that CurtainTWITcher is (lol) (lol) (lol) ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 pelmetman - 2021-09-03 12:51 PM CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 12:33 PM Today's Brexit news Food and drink exports to the EU are down £2,000 million in the first 6 months of 2021. But Liz Truss reached a deal to sell British bacon to Mexico, worth an estimated £50 million over 5 years. Like burning down your house, then using the charcoal to draw. Oh and by the way the EU trade deal with Mexico (that we used to share in) already covered pork products, but Liz Truss only managed a fuzzy photocopy of it, which is why she's had to do a separate deal for bacon now. Hmmm.......the first 6 months of 2021? :-S ......... Now I'm pretty sure there was summat going on then?? (?) (?) (?) ........ No dont tell me.......I'll remember soon enough :-| ......... Oh yeah 8-) ........... There was GLOBAL PANDEMIC *-) .......... Worra Chump that CurtainTWITcher is (lol) (lol) (lol) ......... Didnt have the same impact on the EU though did it? https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/december/tradoc_151969.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 1:00 PM pelmetman - 2021-09-03 12:51 PM CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 12:33 PM Today's Brexit news Food and drink exports to the EU are down £2,000 million in the first 6 months of 2021. But Liz Truss reached a deal to sell British bacon to Mexico, worth an estimated £50 million over 5 years. Like burning down your house, then using the charcoal to draw. Oh and by the way the EU trade deal with Mexico (that we used to share in) already covered pork products, but Liz Truss only managed a fuzzy photocopy of it, which is why she's had to do a separate deal for bacon now. Hmmm.......the first 6 months of 2021? :-S ......... Now I'm pretty sure there was summat going on then?? (?) (?) (?) ........ No dont tell me.......I'll remember soon enough :-| ......... Oh yeah 8-) ........... There was GLOBAL PANDEMIC *-) .......... Worra Chump that CurtainTWITcher is (lol) (lol) (lol) ......... Didnt have the same impact on the EU though did it? https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/december/tradoc_151969.pdf That's because the EU's economy has been limping along for decades ;-) .......... So when it hit the buffers, it didn't make much of a difference >:-) .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 pelmetman - 2021-09-03 1:27 PM That's because the EU's economy has been limping along for decades ;-) .......... So when it hit the buffers, it didn't make much of a difference >:-) .......... Care to evidence that ridiculous suggestion. Or just let your stupidity hang out there for all to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 1:38 PM pelmetman - 2021-09-03 1:27 PM That's because the EU's economy has been limping along for decades ;-) .......... So when it hit the buffers, it didn't make much of a difference >:-) .......... Care to evidence that ridiculous suggestion. Or just let your stupidity hang out there for all to see. :D ......... "In new research forthcoming in the economics journal Kyklos, which we co-authored with Mikkel Barslund from the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, we looked at whether joining the EU has actually increased domestic economic growth for EU member states on average over the past few decades. In a nutshell, ***most probably it has not.***" https://theconversation.com/eu-membership-has-many-benefits-but-economic-growth-is-not-one-of-them-new-findings-111206 (lol) (lol) (lol) .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 pelmetman - 2021-09-03 2:01 PM CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 1:38 PM pelmetman - 2021-09-03 1:27 PM That's because the EU's economy has been limping along for decades ;-) .......... So when it hit the buffers, it didn't make much of a difference >:-) .......... Care to evidence that ridiculous suggestion. Or just let your stupidity hang out there for all to see. :D ......... "In new research forthcoming in the economics journal Kyklos, which we co-authored with Mikkel Barslund from the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, we looked at whether joining the EU has actually increased domestic economic growth for EU member states on average over the past few decades. In a nutshell, ***most probably it has not.***" https://theconversation.com/eu-membership-has-many-benefits-but-economic-growth-is-not-one-of-them-new-findings-111206 (lol) (lol) (lol) .......... Please read your links! "It could be that EU membership is more economically beneficial than it seems. GDP is a poor measure of the economic effect of certain new phenomena like Facebook, for example, as well as smartphones. Equally it could be that cause and effect are just too complicated for EU economic benefits to be properly captured in the data. If either of these are true, however, it doesn’t mean our conclusion is wrong – only that we should remain agnostic about the EU’s growth impact. Whichever way one chooses to interpret our results, our inability to find a significant positive economic benefit from EU membership runs contrary to many official reports arriving at the opposite inference. The OECD’s Brexit report, for example, claims that the EU has contributed in no small measure to British prosperity. The Danish government recently commissioned a study which found that EU membership had made Danes much richer. And the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, an independent part of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, has found that EU membership had made the Dutch much richer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 2:11 PM pelmetman - 2021-09-03 2:01 PM CurtainRaiser - 2021-09-03 1:38 PM pelmetman - 2021-09-03 1:27 PM That's because the EU's economy has been limping along for decades ;-) .......... So when it hit the buffers, it didn't make much of a difference >:-) .......... Care to evidence that ridiculous suggestion. Or just let your stupidity hang out there for all to see. :D ......... "In new research forthcoming in the economics journal Kyklos, which we co-authored with Mikkel Barslund from the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, we looked at whether joining the EU has actually increased domestic economic growth for EU member states on average over the past few decades. In a nutshell, ***most probably it has not.***" https://theconversation.com/eu-membership-has-many-benefits-but-economic-growth-is-not-one-of-them-new-findings-111206 (lol) (lol) (lol) .......... Please read your links! "It could be that EU membership is more economically beneficial than it seems. GDP is a poor measure of the economic effect of certain new phenomena like Facebook, for example, as well as smartphones. Equally it could be that cause and effect are just too complicated for EU economic benefits to be properly captured in the data. If either of these are true, however, it doesn’t mean our conclusion is wrong – only that we should remain agnostic about the EU’s growth impact. Whichever way one chooses to interpret our results, our inability to find a significant positive economic benefit from EU membership runs contrary to many official reports arriving at the opposite inference. The OECD’s Brexit report, for example, claims that the EU has contributed in no small measure to British prosperity. The Danish government recently commissioned a study which found that EU membership had made Danes much richer. And the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, an independent part of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, has found that EU membership had made the Dutch much richer." Try reading to the end >:-) .......... " If the EU does not in fact deliver prosperity, it could profoundly affect the future of the project." (lol) (lol) (lol) ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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