Crosswords0 min ago
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!
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by Hymie. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
//So why did the government make such a song and dance about ‘sorting it out’ as a benefit of Brexit??//
Didn't know that they did 'cos I didn't listen to the pre-referendum ramblings of politicians (from either side). If they did then it illustrates quite clearly that my philosophy is sound - never believe what politicians tell you. It only leads to misunderstandings.
Didn't know that they did 'cos I didn't listen to the pre-referendum ramblings of politicians (from either side). If they did then it illustrates quite clearly that my philosophy is sound - never believe what politicians tell you. It only leads to misunderstandings.
Maybe if all those who voted brexit and still think it was a good idea stopped responding these pointless threads would stop. Or maybe if you all just said 'it's a fair cop.. we wuz wrong..... we were fooled.... we should of listened to you in 2016' maybe the threads will stop.
Maybe one day hymie or those like gulliver or fatticus will actually say what they want to actually happen..... maybe a remote or start a new rejoin party.. .then the threads might be constructive rather than taking us down the same rabbit hole everytime.
Maybe one day hymie or those like gulliver or fatticus will actually say what they want to actually happen..... maybe a remote or start a new rejoin party.. .then the threads might be constructive rather than taking us down the same rabbit hole everytime.
Bobbinwales
//Maybe one day hymie or those like gulliver or fatticus will actually say what they want to actually happen//
Do you purposely go out of your way to look silly?
Have a look again at the YouTube clip, where is what was promised?
Why haven’t we ‘taken back control’?
Where is the booming economy?
Where are the sunlit uplands?
Answer the questions, you seem to have a lot to say, unfortunately with zero substance.
//Maybe one day hymie or those like gulliver or fatticus will actually say what they want to actually happen//
Do you purposely go out of your way to look silly?
Have a look again at the YouTube clip, where is what was promised?
Why haven’t we ‘taken back control’?
Where is the booming economy?
Where are the sunlit uplands?
Answer the questions, you seem to have a lot to say, unfortunately with zero substance.
New Judge,
//Didn't know that they did 'cos I didn't listen to the pre-referendum ramblings of politicians (from either side). If they did then it illustrates quite clearly that my philosophy is sound - never believe what politicians tell you. It only leads to misunderstandings.//
Yet you’re happy to believe then when they tell you we’ve taken back sovereignty?
Where’s their proof?
//Didn't know that they did 'cos I didn't listen to the pre-referendum ramblings of politicians (from either side). If they did then it illustrates quite clearly that my philosophy is sound - never believe what politicians tell you. It only leads to misunderstandings.//
Yet you’re happy to believe then when they tell you we’ve taken back sovereignty?
Where’s their proof?
//Yet you’re happy to believe then when they tell you we’ve taken back sovereignty?//
I keep telling you - I don't believe anything any politician tells me. I wouldn't believe them if they told me the sun will rise tomorrow. It's simply not something I do. I draw my own conclusions from what has happened.
As far as Brexit goes, we're no longer subject to EU laws or directives (which claim supremacy over our own domestic law); we're no longer bound by the bilge that spews out of the EU Commission, we're not subject to adjudication by the European Court (bar matters relating to Northern Ireland which I hope will soon be addressed), our government's fiscal policies are no longer scrutinised by the EU, we can conclude our own trade deals with whom we wish whenever we wish, the 450m EU citizens who had an unconditional right to settle here no longer have that right, I no longer have "European Union" embossed (more prominently than the "United Kingdom") on the front cover of my passport. (As trivial as it may appear, that is very important to me).
These are not matters of opinion, they are matters of fact. I do not need politicians to tell me they are facts; I've discovered it for myself.
I keep telling you - I don't believe anything any politician tells me. I wouldn't believe them if they told me the sun will rise tomorrow. It's simply not something I do. I draw my own conclusions from what has happened.
As far as Brexit goes, we're no longer subject to EU laws or directives (which claim supremacy over our own domestic law); we're no longer bound by the bilge that spews out of the EU Commission, we're not subject to adjudication by the European Court (bar matters relating to Northern Ireland which I hope will soon be addressed), our government's fiscal policies are no longer scrutinised by the EU, we can conclude our own trade deals with whom we wish whenever we wish, the 450m EU citizens who had an unconditional right to settle here no longer have that right, I no longer have "European Union" embossed (more prominently than the "United Kingdom") on the front cover of my passport. (As trivial as it may appear, that is very important to me).
These are not matters of opinion, they are matters of fact. I do not need politicians to tell me they are facts; I've discovered it for myself.
NJ: // I don't believe anything any politician tells me //
// we can conclude our own trade deals with whom we wish whenever we wish //
Presumably in order to position the second sentence as a good thing, you believed the politicians when they told you that these new trade deals would be good for the UK?
For balance here is how New Zealand are reporting the new trade 'deal' we are soon to have with them. The rejoicing Kiwi farmers can't believe their luck, calling UK farmers the sacrificial lamb.
I'd trust the EU with my trade deals over our lot.
// we can conclude our own trade deals with whom we wish whenever we wish //
Presumably in order to position the second sentence as a good thing, you believed the politicians when they told you that these new trade deals would be good for the UK?
For balance here is how New Zealand are reporting the new trade 'deal' we are soon to have with them. The rejoicing Kiwi farmers can't believe their luck, calling UK farmers the sacrificial lamb.
I'd trust the EU with my trade deals over our lot.
//..you believed the politicians when they told you that these new trade deals would be good for the UK?//
Grief, this is hard work! I don't believe any politicians, whatever they tell me.
It is a fact that we can now conclude our own trade deals. Whether it is good or bad is immaterial and doesn't concern me. If I thought about it I's imagine it is quite a good idea because the deal can be negotiated to suit us and our partner rather than having to suit 27 other very disparate nations. It's something that normal countries are able to do. They don't contract it out to others.
Grief, this is hard work! I don't believe any politicians, whatever they tell me.
It is a fact that we can now conclude our own trade deals. Whether it is good or bad is immaterial and doesn't concern me. If I thought about it I's imagine it is quite a good idea because the deal can be negotiated to suit us and our partner rather than having to suit 27 other very disparate nations. It's something that normal countries are able to do. They don't contract it out to others.
-- answer removed --
Related Questions
Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.