**Brexit Jokes & Comments Thread**

[flatandy]

Anyway, I hope you're all utterly thrilled that it won't be quite as bad as Mad Max. Yay for modern Britain.

[Deleted]

"A global race to the top"

It defies belief.

[perrykneeham]

What's wrong with it, exactly?

[Deleted]

What's wrong with it?...

[... is] "that a section of the Tory right is prepared to use language close to incitement against Corbyn? What’s at stake is the entire corrupt system which pays for the yachts, ski lodges and offshore accountancy industry that the elite relies on.

For the tax dodgers, their law firms and accountants, the Empire 2.0 fantasists and the privatisation leeches, a Corbyn government really will feel like the world ending.

What they really fear is that, with a social democratic government committed to liberal, universal principles of human rights and justice, the British people get to see – for the first time in many decades – a Britain committed to peace, coexistence and international justice – and that the majority of British people will prefer it to the Tory project of post-imperial bluster, xenophobia and random expeditionary wars."

I'm no Corbyn supporter, but forgetting him, the rest of the article makes interesting reading.

[Deleted]

“Theresa May cannot deliver the Brexit deal Britain needs. She is too weak to face down the fanatics in her own party and to deliver a final deal that protects jobs and the economy.”

link


Tory Party in disarray? Not much.

[mids]

Not really. It's not ideal having a remainer (May's on your side) in charge of Brexit but being a Tory she's bound by democracy to deliver.

[perrykneeham]

Yeah, the Bremainers really need to believe it's not going to happen. Bless.

[mids]

So, in the EU, we're looking at the return of Senor Berlusconi.

[unclejunior]

Feb 21, 2018 12:00:40 GMT mids said:

So, in the EU, we're looking at the return of Senor Berlusconi.

...yet another Centrist then ?

[mids]

Maybe even a touch centre-left.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

There are some F*cked up economic figures being touted about in the Italian election.

[mids]

They're on the brink of econogeddon, aren't they?

[flatandy]

I think the Italians (and the Spanish) have reputedly been on the brink of econogeddon my entire life.

[mids]

That's probably true. It's only the Greeks that tipped over the brink. Or, rather, were pushed.

[flatandy]

It's a little disturbing over the last few days how many Brexiters (Kate Hoey, Daniel Hannan, Owen Patterson, etc) have been attacking the Good Friday Agreement, telling us how it's no longer needed.

Which is complete nonsense, of course.

But they're freaking out that it won't allow a hard Brexit, so they're happy to throw Irish peace, along with everything else, onto the bonfires in order to get their hard borders.

[perrykneeham]

Odd, I can't see any economy news on BBC tonight.

Very odd.

[perrykneeham]

The BBC news website does tend to lag behind the radio though.

[mids]

They need to wait to hear what the line is from the Guardian.

[perrykneeham]

Here we go:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43140646

"The UK has seen the strongest two quarters of productivity growth since the recession of 2008, according to the latest data.

Output per hour rose 0.8% in the three months to December, the Office for National Statistics said. It follows growth of 0.9% in the previous period.

There was also a better than expected rise in wages. Excluding bonuses, earnings rose by 2.5% year-on-year. "

Shocking.

[perrykneeham]

Like buses:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43139077

"UK borrowing for the year to date is at its lowest level since the financial crisis, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Public sector net borrowing, excluding state-owned banks, fell to £37.7bn between April and January, down £7.2bn on the comparable period.

It is the lowest figure for the period since January 2008, the ONS said."