BREXIT - Is This Really Still Rumbling On? 😴

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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    "Look, I'm too fucking stupid to understand the deal I signed" is a hell of a play.

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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,428
    From the Telegraph: cheeky but quite amusing :)


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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,387
    I've just read the article, and if the messaging is coming from the Government, it's an absolute mess: they appear not to have read anything, or, if they did, didn't understand anything they were signing, and they are just babbling 'stuff' now, blaming everyone else but their own ineptitude. If you're going to blame foreigners, at least make it coherent, and don't own up to lack of basic comprehension skills.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,387
    I suppose the tactic might be to look really really stupid, and they'll pull a blinder when they just look plain stupid. One way or another, this does look like a Baldrick 'cunning plan'.

    Get Baldrick Done.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,331
    briantrumpet said:

    I've just read the article, and if the messaging is coming from the Government, it's an absolute mess: they appear not to have read anything, or, if they did, didn't understand anything they were signing, and they are just babbling 'stuff' now, blaming everyone else but their own ineptitude. If you're going to blame foreigners, at least make it coherent, and don't own up to lack of basic comprehension skills.

    I'll get back when something surprises me...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I can’t even imagine what May’s lot are thinking right now.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cannot get over how stupid this all is
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Stevo_666 said:

    From the Telegraph: cheeky but quite amusing :)


    Can somebody explain why that is funny to me
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    Cannot get over how stupid this all is


    But ignoring all that, it is exciting and from an academic economics point of view absolutely fascinating.

    We have been in the SM so long it is almost incomprehensible how it effects so much of our every day lives. Or are the loons are right and we won’t even notice.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    On the World stage the UK is now seen as unreliable, shifty and incompetent.

    It has assumed the persona of BoJo 😂
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited September 2020
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Cannot get over how stupid this all is


    But ignoring all that, it is exciting and from an academic economics point of view absolutely fascinating.

    We have been in the SM so long it is almost incomprehensible how it effects so much of our every day lives. Or are the loons are right and we won’t even notice.
    In my youth I read all there was to read about the battle of stalingrad.

    Doesn't mean I want to live through it.

    (A lesson in why centralised dictatorial decision making usually ends in disaster, fyi)
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Cannot get over how stupid this all is


    But ignoring all that, it is exciting and from an academic economics point of view absolutely fascinating.

    We have been in the SM so long it is almost incomprehensible how it effects so much of our every day lives. Or are the loons are right and we won’t even notice.
    In my youth I read all there was to read about the battle of stalingrad.

    Doesn't mean I want to live through it.

    (A lesson in why centralised dictatorial decision making usually ends in disaster, fyi)
    Obviously I would rather have watched Greece leave the Euro and Scotland leave the UK/EU but the sheer stupidity is fascinating to watch. What makes it especially exciting that everything anybody has ever known about economics is wrong and it will be a success.
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,357
    Stevo_666 said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Peston in the Spectator explaining the government's thinking

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-boris-thinks-no-deal-might-be-worth-the-pain/amp

    Sounds like some sensible long term thinking with the overall good of the UK in mind, backed up by the lessons of history :smile:

    Albeit a bit socialist in approach when seen from some angles. Cue the usual suspects...

    Don't people know best where to spend their money, not the government?
    Maybe we're saying that as governments go, ours knows better than the EU?
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,331
    surrey_commuter said:



    Can somebody explain why that is funny to me

    The guy at the front is aiming his gun in the wrong direction and is losing his hat?
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,357
    surrey_commuter said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    From the Telegraph: cheeky but quite amusing :)


    Can somebody explain why that is funny to me
    because at that angle johnson is about to get a high speed ducking
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    pblakeney said:

    surrey_commuter said:



    Can somebody explain why that is funny to me

    The guy at the front is aiming his gun in the wrong direction and is losing his hat?
    The EU are getting on with fishing while Boris is p!ssing about on a water-ski?
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,387
    William Hague the lone voice on the front of The Telegraph...


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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Is it irony that the boats are depicted as being the same size?
    Is the twelve stars on the EU flag an in joke?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    edited September 2020
    surrey_commuter said:

    Is it irony that the boats are depicted as being the same size?
    Is the twelve stars on the EU flag an in joke?

    I don't think so, the EU flag does have 12 stars on it.
  • pinkbikini
    pinkbikini Posts: 876
    surrey_commuter said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    From the Telegraph: cheeky but quite amusing :)


    Can somebody explain why that is funny to me
    Navigator looking through the telescope the wrong way?
    Captain looking backwards?
    Unable to make speedy progress due to towing a fat lump?

  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    rick_chasey said:



    (A lesson in why centralised dictatorial decision making usually ends in disaster, fyi)

    You have just described the EU political class. Well done for finally getting it!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    God I wish this forum got the ignore function back.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    "Britannia waives the rules" - not my line....
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Remember when BoJo's gov't blocked the attempts to allow more time to scrutinise the WA?
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,921
    I'm slightly disappointed, but not in the least surprised that there is no discussion of the actual issues or proposed legislation.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,331
    TheBigBean said:

    I'm slightly disappointed, but not in the least surprised that there is no discussion of the actual issues or proposed legislation.

    That's because the rules of the game are constantly being revised so nobody knows what's going on, including the leadership. Confuse the enemy at all times.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,574
    TheBigBean said:

    I'm slightly disappointed, but not in the least surprised that there is no discussion of the actual issues or proposed legislation.

    Aside from reinforcing the rest of the world's view of us as unreliable and in the grip of some sort of nervous breakdown, from what I've read this potentially ends in a long drawn out dispute with the EU over whether we have or haven't breached our obligations. Depending on what points the EU choose to go for this may involve the ECJ.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,428
    coopster_the_1st said:

    rick_chasey said:



    (A lesson in why centralised dictatorial decision making usually ends in disaster, fyi)

    You have just described the EU political class. Well done for finally getting it!
    Rick walked straight into that one. Best quote it for posterity :)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    God you're both so thick.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,387
    Stevo_666 said:

    coopster_the_1st said:

    rick_chasey said:



    (A lesson in why centralised dictatorial decision making usually ends in disaster, fyi)

    You have just described the EU political class. Well done for finally getting it!
    Rick walked straight into that one. Best quote it for posterity :)

    Can you describe how the EU is a centralised dictatorial decision-making organisation?
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