Delbow 682 #2785 Posted April 22, 2021 12 hours ago, Longcol said: Pot / Kettle springs to mind 😎 https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/466860-consequences-of-brexit-part-7-read-first-post-before-posting/page/224/?tab=comments#comment-8237222 https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/390024-the-labour-party-all-discussion-here-please/page/673/?tab=comments#comment-8238929 https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/466860-consequences-of-brexit-part-7-read-first-post-before-posting/page/234/?tab=comments#comment-8238951 OWNED 😆 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
altus 533 #2786 Posted April 22, 2021 (Australian) Liberal MP accuses UK of ‘amateurish’ tactics by insulting Australia’s trade minister Quote An Australian government MP has blasted the British government’s “amateurish” tactics to influence trade talks between the two countries, suggesting post-Brexit negotiating inexperience could be behind the “megaphone” diplomacy. Allies of the British trade secretary, Liz Truss, are reported to have disparaged her Australian counterpart, Dan Tehan, as a novice and the cause of “glacially slow” progress on a free trade agreement just before his arrival in London for talks beginning on Thursday. The Sydney-based Coalition MP Dave Sharma, who is a former Australian ambassador, hit back at what he said were “grossly wrong” comments about Tehan. “This isn’t the way you conduct negotiations by briefing against your counterpart in public,” Sharma told Sky News Australia on Thursday. “You’re much better off having frank and fulsome and forthright discussions in private. Using a megaphone to try to conduct them or [to] shame your counterpart is amateurish.” The government really do need to get their heads around the idea that they've got the behave like grown ups when it comes to international negotiations. Slagging of the EU at every opportunity to cover up the fact that they were never going to give you the unicorns and rainbows trade deal you promised leave voters is one thing, others won't be so patient with us. (I wasn't sure weather to put this here or in the Conservative Party thread but decided that 'inability to adjust to negotiating trade deals like an adult' is a hang over from Brexit hubris so here was more appropriate.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Delbow 682 #2787 Posted April 22, 2021 45 minutes ago, altus said: (Australian) Liberal MP accuses UK of ‘amateurish’ tactics by insulting Australia’s trade minister The government really do need to get their heads around the idea that they've got the behave like grown ups when it comes to international negotiations. Slagging of the EU at every opportunity to cover up the fact that they were never going to give you the unicorns and rainbows trade deal you promised leave voters is one thing, others won't be so patient with us. (I wasn't sure weather to put this here or in the Conservative Party thread but decided that 'inability to adjust to negotiating trade deals like an adult' is a hang over from Brexit hubris so here was more appropriate.) I think it's probably doing what Trump did - playing to your base. The idea is that if you can get voter loyalty from enough people to guarantee you election victory, it doesn't matter what else you do or how crap you are or who you alienate: if you can keep your base loyal by getting up to the sort of antics they like then you're golden. This has worked well for Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi and the like, and is probably particularly effective in a first past the post system. Either that or they're just idiots. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Magilla 510 #2788 Posted April 22, 2021 UK’s Post-Brexit Mexican Trade Deal Left Obsolete: https://bylinetimes.com/2021/04/22/uks-post-brexit-mexican-trade-deal-left-obsolete/ "The UK’s trade deal, which was meant to replicate the existing EU deal with Mexico, will now face stiff competition from EU countries, which have negotiated better terms to sell their manufactured goods and other products to Mexico." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Delbow 682 #2789 Posted April 22, 2021 I can't work out who's benefiting from that. Hopefully Mexico, who need all the help they can get to normalise their society. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad 3,935 #2790 Posted April 22, 2021 20 hours ago, Longcol said: Pot / Kettle springs to mind 😎 https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/466860-consequences-of-brexit-part-7-read-first-post-before-posting/page/224/?tab=comments#comment-8237222 https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/390024-the-labour-party-all-discussion-here-please/page/673/?tab=comments#comment-8238929 https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/466860-consequences-of-brexit-part-7-read-first-post-before-posting/page/234/?tab=comments#comment-8238951 That was when I was an angry young man . I have developed since then . 7 hours ago, Delbow said: OWNED 😆 Do the kids still use this term? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99 772 #2791 Posted April 22, 2021 5 hours ago, Delbow said: I can't work out who's benefiting from that. Hopefully Mexico, who need all the help they can get to normalise their society. My sombrero's good but I could do with a new poncho, if that helps out? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Delbow 682 #2792 Posted April 22, 2021 37 minutes ago, hackey lad said: Do the kids still use this term? We also have "get rekt, scrub" and "Dogshot!" available Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad 3,935 #2793 Posted April 22, 2021 43 minutes ago, Delbow said: We also have "get rekt, scrub" and "Dogshot!" available Very old school . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Longcol 592 #2794 Posted April 22, 2021 4 hours ago, hackey lad said: That was when I was an angry young man . I have developed since then . Lol - you've aged a lot in a couple of years then. I'll keep an eye out for the new "developed" hackey lad. https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/471637-consequences-of-brexit-part-9-read-first-post-before-posting/page/253/?tab=comments#comment-8410138 Looks like the same old, same old so far. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad 3,935 #2795 Posted April 23, 2021 19 hours ago, Longcol said: Lol - you've aged a lot in a couple of years then. I'll keep an eye out for the new "developed" hackey lad. https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/471637-consequences-of-brexit-part-9-read-first-post-before-posting/page/253/?tab=comments#comment-8410138 Looks like the same old, same old so far. I am flattered to have you as a follower . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mister M 1,599 #2796 Posted April 27, 2021 Sales of milk and cream to EU down 96% and chicken and beef by almost 80% Brexit: Sales of milk and cream to EU down 96% and chicken and beef by almost 80% | The Independent Food and Drink Federation pleads with Boris Johnson to ‘urgently’ restart talks to resolve the crisis. I wonder what Boris Johnson's response will be? After his latest comments about covid victims I dread to think Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...