The Sunny Uplands Of Brexit

[Hymie]

Over the last year or so, as a remoaner I have been posting details of the impact of Brexit on the UK economy. This has included the loss of billions of pounds worth of exports (which is continuing on a daily basis), a shortage of HGV drivers (and other key workers), and many other negative effects of Brexit on the UK populous (unless you are the CEO of a mobile phone company). Others have posted news items in a similar vein – to avoid sounding like a broken record, I have not posted details of a number of negative Brexit news items (which are legion).

For some reason, Brexiteers on this site seem reluctant to post pro-Brexit news items - such as a fantastic trade deal with the USA, or some other similar such benefit of no longer being a member country of the EU. In order to redress the balance, I offer this thread in which Brexiteers can post details of news items detailing how our lives have been improved by Brexit.

I’ll kick the list off with blue passports (although mine is black), and a news story you might have missed – that the CE mark on pint glasses is to be replaced with the ‘Crown’ mark (confirming the volume of the glass to be a pint).

Over to you Brexiteers to add to the list.......

[Hymie]

I read somewhere that the trade-deals made with other countries (post-Brexit) are basically the same as when we were members of the EU (so no change) – perhaps I (if I can find it) or someone else will post a link confirming the above.

[davebro]

so what?

[dannyk13]

https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+trade+agreements+post+brexit&client=avast-a-1&biw=1372&bih=664&ei=91RhYcHmC-W78gK7rKK4AQ&oq=uk+trade+agreements+post+brexit&;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYATIECAAQDTIECAAQDTIECAAQDTIECAAQDTIECAAQDTIGCAAQDRAeMgYIABANEB4yBggAEA0QHjIGCAAQDRAeMgYIABANEB46CggAEOoCELQCEEM6DQgAEOoCELQCEEMQiwM6DQguEOoCELQCEEMQiwM6BQgAEJECOgUILhCRAjoLCAAQgAQQsQMQgwE6BQgAEIAEOg4ILhCABBCxAxDHARDRAzoICC4QsQMQkQI6BAgAEEM6CggAELEDEIMBEEM6CAgAEIAEELEDOgsIABCxAxCDARCRAjoICAAQsQMQkQI6CwguEIAEEMcBENEDOgcIABCABBAKOggIABAWEAoQHjoGCAAQFhAeOgcIABDJAxANOggIABAIEA0QHkoECEEYAFC7uyZYyuYmYO-CJ2gBcAJ4AIABjQGIAacOkgEEMTAuOJgBAKABAbABCsABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

[Hymie]

Brexiteers are citing trade-deals (having not changed) as a benefit of Brexit, blue passports and the Crown mark on pint glasses it is.

[Peter Pedant]

// All the farmers I know voted "Leave".//
all the cornish vote leave
and when someone said - you are the main consumers in England ( "not england!" of moolah from the europreans, what now?

they all said - well London of course!

( for the very many slow, on AB - the Cornish were pocketing gold from Brussels and expected the same gold from London once everything was done and dusted) simples

[douglas9401]

You could liken the benefits of leaving to those that viewers of art get.

A nice, warm and fuzzy feeling, indefinable and, in the end non-existant.

[Peter Pedant]

oh I love the crown mark on pub glasses
and all the cabinet are old etonians and have good english christian names

(Pretty and Rishi - short for Richard I suppose)

[Peter Pedant]

// A nice, warm and fuzzy feeling, indefinable and//
come on come on

A nice, fuzzy feeling, indefinable and makes you feel warm inside

[douglas9401]

Some might say Kwasi-English. :-P

[gulliver1]

It's all about Sovereignty .....just keep repeating that to yourself when you are in a queue for petrol or looking at empty shelves .....Sovereignty.....

[pat2604]

Again, I absolutely agree with New Judge. Exactly the reasons I voted for Brexit. I Anticjpated problems for a good few years. Nobody antipated Covid.

[New Judge]

//I read somewhere that the trade-deals made with other countries (post-Brexit) are basically the same as when we were members of the EU (so no change)…//

Some EU trade deals have been duplicated as bilateral trade deals with the UK alone. But you are wrong in one important respect. That does mean a change. It means that if the UK wants to withdraw from the deal unilaterally it is able to do so and if it wants to modify it in any way it only has to negotiate with the other partner. We do not have to pacify 27 other nations, whose individual needs and requirements may be very different to our own.

//Brexiteers are citing trade-deals (having not changed) as a benefit of Brexit, blue passports and the Crown mark on pint glasses it is.//

Not all of them have.

BTW, the shortage of HGV drivers that you cite is not related to Brexit. I have made a number of posts on here which have provided evidence from independent sources (including the Office of National Statistics) which demonstrate that Brexit had scarcely any – if any at all – effect on that reduction. If you have any support for the opposite view, perhaps you could post it up. I’ve had a good scout round and I cannot find any. As I said in some of those posts, repeating a supposition enough times does not see it eventually become a fact.

[Togo]

I contend that we should not be trading with any country that is an habitual user of slave labour. Slave labour facilitated by the people smugglers with the complicit connivance of the Governments of EUSSR states. That is how they maintain an economic advantage ... by enslaving thousands of illegal immigrants to work the vineyards and farms. Ever likely the "asylum seekers" get off the mainland as quickly and by any means, however perilous. Europol have been making wholesale arrests and breaking up criminal organisations mainly in France, but also in Spain. Have you had this reported by you sponsored state news outlet? Wicked beyond belief. Not content with millions of willing slaves and vassals, they have an innate need to take more captive.

[Peter Pedant]

// Some might say Kwasi-English. :-P//
that really is very very good - thx

[Peter Pedant]

// Europol have been making wholesale arrests and breaking up criminal organisations//

any refs - even from forrin - - I do read forrin ( variety of dialects)

[Togo]

//THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Law enforcement authorities clamping down on the exploitation of agricultural workers raided hundreds of vineyards and farms across Europe last month, the European Union police agency Europol announced Tuesday//

Plenty of sites reporting it. ^^ that should help you find them. Or get your secretary to do it for you if you re unable to.

[Gromit]

Hymie
The list isn’t long.

We don’t really have a competent Government. Comparing the tyranny of EU bureaucracy with the Johnson regime under performing doesn’t look like progress or a desirable conclusion.

[Peter Pedant]

Eight suspects were arrested in France and four in Spain;

yeah foo thousands. My secretary found them - damn farsans - Essex girl she is. Happy as Larry oop t' North her

OK the full quote is
Eight suspects were arrested in France and four in Spain; a total of 54 suspected human traffickers were identified in France, Italy, Spain and Latvia; and authorities found more than 250 possible victims of exploitation in the raids between Sept. 9-16,

[Hymie]

Gromit – although the list might not be long, at least publish details for the remoaners such as myself.

[Togo]

""One operation in France dismantled a criminal network responsible for depriving victims and tax authorities of some 5 million euros. Investigators targeting the network searched 25 locations and arrested grape growers and other suspects. The operation involved police, immigration and border guards, labour inspectorates and tax authorities from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands and Spain. It sparked 126 new investigations in six countries, most of them in France.""