**Brexit Jokes & Comments Thread**

[Deleted]

Feb 26, 2018 14:20:09 GMT mids said:

Agent COB seems to be proposing that the EU would have some control over our trade deals with other nations while we would have no reciprocal say. If I've read it right.

Isn't this what May wants?

[mids]

No.

Surprisingly good article in the Stalinist. There's no "soft Brexit". There's just Brexit or staying in the EU.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/27/customs-union-brexit-european-union-eu-turkey

[flatandy]

It looks like Boris Johnson has either gone completely crazy or come to his senses.

He thinks that the border between the EU and the UK should be like the "border" between Camden and Islington.

Now, if he genuinely thinks this, then that's great. Because goods, services, people, money and everything else can move between Camden and Islington without any interference from government; they use the same currency, have the same tax code, same regulations. Camden and Islington might, in fact, be more integrated than would be desirable for, say the UK and Finland.

But I think he's actually just totally lost it and is doing some Baloo-like blustering on the Irish border issue because he refuses to accept that there actually isn't a working solution that coincides with the government's position.

[mids]

We all want a soft border between Britain and Ireland. All. Brexiteers. Want. A . Soft. Border. Always have, always will.

[Deleted]

Ireland? Or Northern Ireland...

See the problem now?

[mids]

There isn't one. We'll keep our border as it is. What the EU do with their border is up to them.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Quite interesting:

www.economist.com/news/britain/21736178-harrogates-downward-migration-trend-few-years-ahead-britains-how-it-faring


One is a tighter labour market. On the high street, dozens of shops display help-wanted notices. Care homes, of which the town has several, have seen a jump in vacancies. Waiters are in high demand. Costas, a Greek barman, has had three jobs in the past few months. When a branch of the Ivy, a fancy restaurant, opened in November it sucked in roughly 100 staff from local eateries, says the manager of a pizza joint. Unemployment has fallen to 3.6%, below the national and regional levels, allowing some workers to drive harder bargains. Though real median wages in Harrogate have not changed much since 2014, at the lower end they have risen by 9%.

Another strategy is to lure younger and older workers into the labour market. Some businesses in Harrogate are paying teenagers well above their minimum wage of £4.05 ($5.70) per hour, to tempt them into work. Matthew Roberts, an economic-development officer at Harrogate Borough Council, says that as the population continues to age, employers will have to rely on older people to fill jobs.


it's not something I've ever really understood, this fixation that cheap immigant labour is a good thing for the economy. it may well be for employers and businesses.
There's been repeated insistence that it doesn't drive down wages but I fail to understand that. Last week I had a team of Romanians clean my car for a pittance, a Polish woman clean chateau ming and a Hungarian install my bathroom. The Hungarain I get, because he is f*cking good at what he does and reliable, but how is it good to have a team of romanians living in a skip cleaning cars?

[bertruss2]

I had a team of Romanians clean my car for a pittance

That's capitalism. It's the gig economy.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Feb 28, 2018 10:05:26 GMT bertruss2 said:

I had a team of Romanians clean my car for a pittance

That's capitalism. It's the gig economy.

I know what it is.

[Repat Van]

Feb 28, 2018 9:55:50 GMT Minge är en jävla besserwisser said:

Quite interesting:

www.economist.com/news/britain/21736178-harrogates-downward-migration-trend-few-years-ahead-britains-how-it-faring


One is a tighter labour market. On the high street, dozens of shops display help-wanted notices. Care homes, of which the town has several, have seen a jump in vacancies. Waiters are in high demand. Costas, a Greek barman, has had three jobs in the past few months. When a branch of the Ivy, a fancy restaurant, opened in November it sucked in roughly 100 staff from local eateries, says the manager of a pizza joint. Unemployment has fallen to 3.6%, below the national and regional levels, allowing some workers to drive harder bargains. Though real median wages in Harrogate have not changed much since 2014, at the lower end they have risen by 9%.

Another strategy is to lure younger and older workers into the labour market. Some businesses in Harrogate are paying teenagers well above their minimum wage of £4.05 ($5.70) per hour, to tempt them into work. Matthew Roberts, an economic-development officer at Harrogate Borough Council, says that as the population continues to age, employers will have to rely on older people to fill jobs.


it's not something I've ever really understood, this fixation that cheap immigant labour is a good thing for the economy. it may well be for employers and businesses.
There's been repeated insistence that it doesn't drive down wages but I fail to understand that. Last week I had a team of Romanians clean my car for a pittance, a Polish woman clean chateau ming and a Hungarian install my bathroom. The Hungarain I get, because he is f*cking good at what he does and reliable, but how is it good to have a team of romanians living in a skip cleaning cars?

What puzzles me the most is it’s so often left-wingers who seem to be fine with this.

[bertruss2]

I know what it is.

How is Brexit going to help? Are you going to pay top money for a team of 100% British car-washers?

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

What puzzles me the most is it’s so often left-wingers who seem to be fine with this.


very odd. Exploitation of the poor is a bastion of left wing thinking



And the youths of today who overwhelmingly voted for East europeans to take their jobs, which seems an odd way to go about things.

largesse, I assume.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Feb 28, 2018 10:46:48 GMT bertruss2 said:

I know what it is.

How is Brexit going to help? Are you going to pay top money for a team of 100% British car-washers?

No, I'm all for a crack team of Romanians providing for my every need at a pittance. That's why I voted remain. imagine having to pay decent money for services rendered. quelle horreur

[bertruss2]

imagine having to pay decent money for services rendered. quelle horreur

When Corbyn takes over, you'll get your chance.

it is not migrants that drive down wages, it is bad employers that cut pay and bad governments that allow workers to be divided and undermined, and want unions to be weak and passive. (Jeremy Corbyn)

[wetkingcanute]

it is not migrants that drive down wages, it is bad employers that cut pay and bad governments that allow workers to be divided and undermined, and want unions to be weak and passive. (Jeremy Corbyn)


Which of course is utter bollocks.

The worst pay and most strikes were in the Nationalized Industries.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Feb 28, 2018 11:01:25 GMT bertruss2 said:

imagine having to pay decent money for services rendered. quelle horreur

When Corbyn takes over, you'll get your chance.

it is not migrants that drive down wages, it is bad employers that cut pay and bad governments that allow workers to be divided and undermined, and want unions to be weak and passive. (Jeremy Corbyn)

clearly he's wrong. The answers are all there.

[Repat Van]

Feb 28, 2018 11:01:25 GMT bertruss2 said:

imagine having to pay decent money for services rendered. quelle horreur

When Corbyn takes over, you'll get your chance.

it is not migrants that drive down wages, it is bad employers that cut pay and bad governments that allow workers to be divided and undermined, and want unions to be weak and passive. (Jeremy Corbyn)

And employers can easily cut wages back when there is a large, willing over supply of workers.

[nobody]

Corbyn will demand minimum wage for all, and push up the cost of living

[mids]

Feb 28, 2018 12:15:58 GMT nobody said:

Corbyn will demand minimum wage for all, and push up the cost of living

Equality though.

[nobody]

Feb 28, 2018 11:01:25 GMT bertruss2 said:

imagine having to pay decent money for services rendered. quelle horreur

When Corbyn takes over, you'll get your chance.

it is not migrants that drive down wages, it is bad employers that cut pay and bad governments that allow workers to be divided and undermined, and want unions to be weak and passive. (Jeremy Corbyn)

Corbyn will never “take over” get used to it