Europe --- In or Out

[Isegrim 11895]

 

[Isegrim 11895]

 

[Dr Gloom 26363]

It’s what they voted for 

[Alex 42155]

27 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

It’s what they voted for 

They lost. They need to get over it

[Sonatine 13487]

 

[Renton 27787]

 

Mais non. 

[Howmanheyman 43941]

At last! Some good news.....

 

 

 

 

[Alex 42155]

I had a very tedious summer job putting those on (after testing the beer glasses) about 30 years ago. It was at the metrology lab on Saltmeadows Road in Gateshead. 

[Dr Gloom 26363]

triumphant  

[Howmanheyman 43941]

That last smaller line, though.

 

'As it should be: Beer will taste as it used to again....At last!'

 

They've got to be trolling and must truly hold their readers in contempt. It's like a 1920s advert.

Edited September 13, 2021 by Howmanheyman

[Alex 42155]

The Mail is obviously contemptible but The Express? I don’t even know what to make of it, it’s so ridiculous. 

[Meenzer 18039]

[RobinRobin 14509]

17 hours ago, Howmanheyman said:

At last! Some good news.....

 

 

 

 

No doubt 500ml glasses, though

[Alex 42155]

Also, unless it’s one of those glasses marked ‘one pint to line’, which you hardly ever see, you’re not getting a pint  if it’s beer with a head 

[ewerk 39243]

 

So much for the Tories being the party of business. It's hard to grow the economy when you've shut off one of your main supplies of labour.

[Dr Gloom 26363]

bloody immigrants, coming over here, taking all the jobs that british people don't want to do 

[Renton 27787]

36 minutes ago, ewerk said:

 

So much for the Tories being the party of business. It's hard to grow the economy when you've shut off one of your main supplies of labour.

 

If you look at the economic models for the FTA style Brexit we have undergone there were two issues which were forecast to hold back our economy by 5% GDP. First was non-tariff barriers to trade. Second was labour shortage. The predictions look spot on so far. 

[Alex 42155]

58 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

bloody immigrants, coming over here, taking all the jobs that british people don't want to do 

That’s unfair. It’s also the jobs they’re unable to do

[Renton 27787]

So..... We're pushing back import checks yet again, this time until January next year or July next year (but no doubt will be extended past this date). Frost says it is to give businesses more time to prepare. Which businesses, EU exporters? That's the only group this will help. So once again we prolong the asymmetrical position where UK businesses have to endure a raft of non-tariff barriers, rigorously enforced by the EU, whilst EU companies can export what they like with minimal paper work, completely unchecked? The only reason for this I can make out is that we simply don't have the capacity to enforce the terms of the TCA we negotiated. Why the fuck is this not being adequately reported @Dr Gloom?

 

This is a nation slowly committing suicide, it really is. 

[ewerk 39243]

Trade imbalances and non-tariff barriers don't tend to catch the public's imagination.

[Renton 27787]

1 minute ago, ewerk said:

Trade imbalances and non-tariff barriers don't tend to catch the public's imagination.

 

Not as much as empty shelves, which we're getting as well in any case. 

[Dr Gloom 26363]

6 minutes ago, Renton said:

So..... We're pushing back import checks yet again, this time until January next year or July next year (but no doubt will be extended past this date). Frost says it is to give businesses more time to prepare. Which businesses, EU exporters? That's the only group this will help. So once again we prolong the asymmetrical position where UK businesses have to endure a raft of non-tariff barriers, rigorously enforced by the EU, whilst EU companies can export what they like with minimal paper work, completely unchecked? The only reason for this I can make out is that we simply don't have the capacity to enforce the terms of the TCA we negotiated. Why the fuck is this not being adequately reported @Dr Gloom?

 

This is a nation slowly committing suicide, it really is. 

i posted a link to this story from the FT on the previous page

[Renton 27787]

1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said:

i posted a link to this story from the FT on the previous page

 

Your FT link was actually about the UK unilaterally extending the grace period of the NI protocol. The FT is a pay walled paper read by few people. The fact that we have decided not to control our borders with the EU, to the great detriment of UK businesses who want a level playing field, should be major news. I bet it won't get on the BBC news at 10 tonight, or if it does the implications won't be explained.  (I notice Gove's disgusting racist remarks didn't get aired either btw). 

[Dr Gloom 26363]

oh, yes, you're right of course. where did you read about this story? it is being reported in the FT and Bloomberg today, as you'd expect

https://www.ft.com/content/e32dda1b-7dbe-454e-ab32-3d80604df431

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-14/u-k-delays-brexit-border-checks-on-eu-goods-as-shortages-hit

 

[Dr Gloom 26363]

MSM is covering this FWIW