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The Brexit Bad News Just Keeps On Coming
I posted a link to this guy’s youtube video for July 2022 detailing Brexit disasters for nearly every day of the month.
The horror continues – see the youtube video for August 2022.
I’ve search the internet for someone posting similar on the Brexit benefits and found nothing; despite being a remoaner, I’m about the only person posting Brexit benefits.
So in the interest of balance, below is my list of Brexit benefits:-
- Blue passports
- The Crown Mark on pub glasses
- Mobile phone companies able to make roaming charges
(when using your phone in mainland Europe)
- Killing our honey-bees with EU banned pesticides
- Not having to insure ride-on lawnmowers used on private land
- Signage within Dartford tunnel spaced at yardage distances (in round numbers)
- The freedom to release as much raw sewage as we like into our rivers and coastal waters (and doing so), without fear of being prosecuted by the European Commission
Our water companies are certainly taking full advantage of that last benefit!
The horror continues – see the youtube video for August 2022.
I’ve search the internet for someone posting similar on the Brexit benefits and found nothing; despite being a remoaner, I’m about the only person posting Brexit benefits.
So in the interest of balance, below is my list of Brexit benefits:-
- Blue passports
- The Crown Mark on pub glasses
- Mobile phone companies able to make roaming charges
(when using your phone in mainland Europe)
- Killing our honey-bees with EU banned pesticides
- Not having to insure ride-on lawnmowers used on private land
- Signage within Dartford tunnel spaced at yardage distances (in round numbers)
- The freedom to release as much raw sewage as we like into our rivers and coastal waters (and doing so), without fear of being prosecuted by the European Commission
Our water companies are certainly taking full advantage of that last benefit!
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jno: "Now they're trying to close the debate down and telling remoaners to keep their mouths shut." - we ain't the ones bringing it up all the time, how many pro brexit threads are there compared to the 100s of 5C sour grape whinging threads? What do you expect us to do just let the 5C write their BS unchallenged?
//Brexists are quite relaxed about giving up a bit of sovereignty for the benefit of trade if it's for the USA or the CPTPP or the WTO...//
Let’s leave aside the fact that any trade agreements the UK reaches will be solely on its terms and that of the partner (rather than being railroaded into a deal which must satisfy the needs of 27 other nations). Instead, tell us which of the articles of “sovereignty” I mentioned at 19:24 on 7th September in this question, do you think the USA, the CPTPP or the WTO will insist on:
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//..all of which either or do or would expect us to toe their lines even if they don't bother with courts or parliaments...//
Of course, courts and Parliaments are a side show. It doesn’t really matter whether the UK is subject to their rulings or not, I suppose.
//... the bit of "sovereignty" that Brexists really had a problem with was free movement... that was it... I do wish they would do the rest of us the courtesy of being honest about it.//
As I explained earlier, I decided I’d like the UK to leave the EU in 1992. At that time, free movement was not such an issue for anybody and certainly wasn’t for me. However, let's assume that it was a major or even the sole decisive factor for some people? So what? Are they not entitled to have an opinion on such an important matter? Do you think the UK electorate has no cause for concern that 450m people have the unfettered right to settle here legally? Are they supposed to just bear their serious concerns with stoicism because it’s for “the greater good”?
Let’s leave aside the fact that any trade agreements the UK reaches will be solely on its terms and that of the partner (rather than being railroaded into a deal which must satisfy the needs of 27 other nations). Instead, tell us which of the articles of “sovereignty” I mentioned at 19:24 on 7th September in this question, do you think the USA, the CPTPP or the WTO will insist on:
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//..all of which either or do or would expect us to toe their lines even if they don't bother with courts or parliaments...//
Of course, courts and Parliaments are a side show. It doesn’t really matter whether the UK is subject to their rulings or not, I suppose.
//... the bit of "sovereignty" that Brexists really had a problem with was free movement... that was it... I do wish they would do the rest of us the courtesy of being honest about it.//
As I explained earlier, I decided I’d like the UK to leave the EU in 1992. At that time, free movement was not such an issue for anybody and certainly wasn’t for me. However, let's assume that it was a major or even the sole decisive factor for some people? So what? Are they not entitled to have an opinion on such an important matter? Do you think the UK electorate has no cause for concern that 450m people have the unfettered right to settle here legally? Are they supposed to just bear their serious concerns with stoicism because it’s for “the greater good”?
ToraToraTora
//jno: "Now they're trying to close the debate down and telling remoaners to keep their mouths shut." - we ain't the ones bringing it up all the time, how many pro brexit threads are there//
Why would that be? Possibly because there aren’t any on the horizon?
Sovereignty won’t pay the bills nor get the economy moving, it’s just a jingoistic wet-dream that means very little.
We’re held up even longer at borders now than we ever were, we have taken back ‘zero’ control and illegal immigration has increased dramatically, not decreased.
So tell me what the benefits of this ‘sovereignty’ are, we’re all ears, explain it to us oh wise one?
//jno: "Now they're trying to close the debate down and telling remoaners to keep their mouths shut." - we ain't the ones bringing it up all the time, how many pro brexit threads are there//
Why would that be? Possibly because there aren’t any on the horizon?
Sovereignty won’t pay the bills nor get the economy moving, it’s just a jingoistic wet-dream that means very little.
We’re held up even longer at borders now than we ever were, we have taken back ‘zero’ control and illegal immigration has increased dramatically, not decreased.
So tell me what the benefits of this ‘sovereignty’ are, we’re all ears, explain it to us oh wise one?
New Judge
//...illegal immigration has increased dramatically, not decreased.//
/As I'm sure you know, Fatticus, illegal immigration and membership of the EU are completely unrelated. /
So why did the government make such a song and dance about ‘sorting it out’ as a benefit of Brexit??
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//...illegal immigration has increased dramatically, not decreased.//
/As I'm sure you know, Fatticus, illegal immigration and membership of the EU are completely unrelated. /
So why did the government make such a song and dance about ‘sorting it out’ as a benefit of Brexit??
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