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Post by ootlg on Apr 11, 2021 14:59:01 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 11, 2021 15:09:43 GMT
Hahaha. Founder of a Scottish dogwood business. I saw that the other day. What an utter cock. He moved to the of FFS. He probably likes skiing and cheap factory warehousing. It's an odd choice according to location theory. |
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Post by mids on Apr 11, 2021 15:26:06 GMT
Global Britain's booming.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 11, 2021 15:33:45 GMT
I deal with loads of UK business. None of them have had any Brexit issues. Not one. The Guardian has been working it's bollocks off to find some whelk-diggers or dog-treat boutique shop who are too thick or or lazy to get their shite together.
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Post by ootlg on Apr 11, 2021 15:46:12 GMT
It's good to hear. The sooner everyone overcomes the obstacles Brexit has imposed the better.
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Post by mids on Apr 12, 2021 15:16:02 GMT
Good, unbiased article in the good, unbiased Spectator by the good, unbiased Matthew Lynn. "The country would remain implacably divided for a generation, with Remain and Leave replacing class and geography as the new fault line in British politics. International investors would take a generation to come round to the idea. And campaigns to re-join the EU would grow in strength as the chaos deepened. Even a few months ago, it was possible to argue that Britain's tortured debate about leaving the EU would run and run without any seeming end. And yet since then something very interesting has happened. The UK’s comparative success at rolling out Covid-19 vaccines has in effect sealed the Brexit deal. The debate is now over, both here, and around the world. A poll out today – carried out by JL Partners for the often fanatically pro-Remain Bloomberg – shows that 62 per cent of people believe that leaving the EU helped the UK roll out vaccines more quickly than it could have done as a member. Another 67 per cent believe the EU has been ‘hostile’ to the UK during the row over vaccine supply. And, reflecting on all that, 54 per cent of people would vote to stay out in a rerun of the referendum, one of the highest margins in favour of our departure since the vote itself back in 2016. Bre-mourse? Bre-grets? Those it seems are now safely in the past. If there was a vote – a People’s one, or some other sort – we know what the result would be. Brits are now firmly of the view that we did the right thing by getting out. In effect, it has shifted public opinion decisively in favour of leaving. The effect may be even more dramatic internationally. Over the last five years, most businesses, trade bodies and governments bought into the standard hardcore Remainer narrative. Inside the boardrooms of Tokyo, San Francisco, or Dubai, insofar as they took any interest in the matter, they largely accepted it was a vote driven by racists, nostalgic for the Empire and hoodwinked by some deceitful slogans on the side of a bus. And they accepted the view that it would be catastrophic for the economy, and that on the whole the UK was best avoided until the British got over the whole episode and asked to re-join. And yet, over the last few weeks they have instead seen a fairly modern, well-organised nation rolling out vaccines pretty successfully – and that too is changing perceptions. It is not hard to see what has happened. For both domestic and international audiences, the UK has demonstrated scientific prowess, regulatory efficiency, and innovative, effective government. And the EU? Well, without rehashing the whole sorry mess, not so much. The vaccines may or may not end the Covid-19 pandemic. We will have to wait and see, although the figures so far suggest the impact on deaths, hospitalisations, and even infections, have been dramatic. But they already seem to have ended the debate over Brexit – which, come to think of it, is almost as miraculous an achievement." www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-uk-s-vaccine-roll-out-has-ended-the-brexit-debate |
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Post by ootlg on Apr 12, 2021 15:56:09 GMT
The 62 and 67% who 'believe' are those who read the right-wing rags which have consistently smokescreened Brexit collateral with false vaccine propaganda and attacks on the EU. I don't disbelieve the figures at all, in fact I think they're probably higher overall.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 12, 2021 17:47:00 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 13, 2021 7:01:05 GMT
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Post by ootlg on Apr 13, 2021 10:28:50 GMT
Yeah, everything's great. We don't hear a thing about it down here.
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Post by ootlg on Apr 15, 2021 14:39:52 GMT
“Half of my fellow MPs are intolerant ideologues and we just don’t share the same principles. They are throwbacks and nationalists … their actions will diminish Britain,” he writes in April, resolving to quit parliament. In December he did just that, disenchanted after 27 years as an MP.
Alan Duncan. "In the thick of it."
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Post by mids on Apr 15, 2021 14:47:25 GMT
"December"
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Post by perrykneeham on May 27, 2021 17:51:44 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on May 27, 2021 17:58:31 GMT
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Post by mids on May 27, 2021 22:26:38 GMT
I see the EU's at war with Switzerland now.
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Post by Repat Van on May 27, 2021 23:00:37 GMT
“ D’Alberti planned a road trip from his home in Côte d’Azur as a pleasant diversion during the pandemic on his way to Ireland to meet his wife’s family in Kerry. Instead, he said, he was held for hours, fingerprinted and photographed “like I was a criminal” as he had not booked every hotel for his trip after quarantine and he did not have a return ticket.” Sounds like UK border officials have never been travelling. Also that they’re massively incompetent if they took 7 hours to put him through their security procedures and checks. “ They fingerprinted me. I asked them: is this normal, to fingerprint visitors? Do you do this to everyone at the border? They fingerprinted every finger. Then they took a picture of my face like I was a suspect.” Why are they recording the biometric data of would be visitors? I know the USA does that but that’s because the USA is backwards. But now the UK? |
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Post by Repat Van on May 27, 2021 23:02:16 GMT
Even three week holidays to the UK are no longer permissible?!
“ His ordeal in Calais was matched by the experience of Angelina, a Danish pastry chef who had made a 10-hour trip from Jutland with her boyfriend. “I just went with him to visit his family. I have a job here in Denmark and was planning to stay three weeks.”
Like D’Alberti, Angelina was turned away two weeks ago but decided to return home because Border Force agents at Calais had told her that if she turned around voluntarily then her encounter with them would not be registered. They issued her with an IS81 stamp on her passport indicating “a person had made an application to enter” but no decision on that could be made because they had subsequently withdrawn it.
When she made another attempt to enter the UK, arriving at Heathrow on Sunday night, she discovered the full impact of IS81, which flagged her previous attempt, and she spent the next five hours crying in an airport detention room.”
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Post by ootlg on May 28, 2021 6:25:42 GMT
Yep, Johnson's coup. Police state. Orban's visiting today to discuss human rights and how to improve citizens' lives.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 28, 2021 8:29:14 GMT
The answer's in the article. He was considered a stay risk.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 28, 2021 8:53:34 GMT
Here: "Sergio D’Alberti, a 51-year-old Italian hotel manager currently out of work due to the Covid pandemic, told the Guardian he was held for seven hours at the French port after UK Border Force officials concluded he would be a potential drain on the benefits system.
They said his €4,500 (£3,870) in funds was “not sufficient to cover all reasonable costs in relation to your being without working or accessing public funds” and that his lack of return ticket and job added to suspicion he was lying."
Not too tricky, that.
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