Consequences Of Brexit [Part 9] Read First Post Before Posting

[Litotes 63]

9 hours ago, West 77 said:

is it was a no brainer to leave the EU

Correct. We are now paying the price for those who didn't understand the full consequences.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57282379

 

https://www.nytimes.com/article/brexit-uk-eu-explained.html

 

How anyone can claim this to be a success is beyond me.

 

Edited May 28, 2021 by Litotes

[Longcol 596]

15 hours ago, West 77 said:

Most Brexiteers are just quietly getting on with their lives and enjoying living in a sovereign country again.  Now lockdown restrictions are being lifted I've had a chance to engage with normal  real people and the consensus it was a no brainer to leave the EU.  The only regret is that the UK didn't leave the EU sooner.

We've really taken back control of our borders 😎

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/cult-britain-boris-johnson-prime-minister

 

"Elsewhere, it has emerged that a government that came to power promising to control our borders has allowed 1.59 million – ONE POINT FIVE NINE MILLION – travellers to fly into the UK in the four lockdown months from January to April alone, two-thirds of whom were not UK nationals."

[Delbow 686]

It looks like the trade deal with Australia will allow Australian companies to sue future UK governments if they pass policies that hit Aussie firms' profits. Literally giving away control. Surrendering UK sovereignty and giving the whip hand to Australian businesses. Well done everyone. This lot really have had your pants down.

 

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-australia-trade-deal-liz-truss-271725/

Edited May 30, 2021 by Delbow

[RollingJ 1,999]

1 minute ago, Delbow said:

It looks like the trade deal with Australia will allow Australian companies to sue future UK governments if they pass policies that hit Aussie firms' profits. Literally giving away control. Surrendering UK sovereignty and giving the whip hand to Australian businesses. Well done everyone. This lot really have had your pants down.

That link doesn't seem to go anywhere other than back to this topic?

[Delbow 686]

Yeah I put a new one in

[geared 302]

Yet more reports of Turkeys complaining about their votes. 

 

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Floodlights at a Brexit lorry park in Kent have "destroyed" the night sky, residents say.

 

The site near Ashford, Kent, was built to cope with extra customs checks after Britain left the European Union.

 

Asford area voted 60% in favour of leave.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-57299121

 

 

[Guest sibon]

47 minutes ago, West 77 said:

That's really scraping the barrel to make the headlines because of Brexit.  All over the country residents living where new industrial estates have been built over the years will suffer negatives as a consequence.  I suspect the residents in Kent are more concerned about illegal immigrants entering the country both before and after the UK left the EU rather than floodlights.  In years gone by residents views have been blighted by big chimneys and other things associated with industry that provides jobs.

I presume that the lights are for the Farage Garage. A direct result of Brexit.

[Magilla 510]

2 hours ago, West 77 said:

That's really scraping the barrel to make the headlines because of Brexit.

Hardly, it's a direct consequence of Brexit, and yet another example showing people who voted leave really had no idea what they were voting for.

 

2 hours ago, West 77 said:

I suspect the residents in Kent are more concerned about illegal immigrants entering the country both before and after the UK left the EU rather than floodlights.

Odd then that they would vote to make it worse by removing the UK from the Dublin agreement, the legislation that gave the UK the ability to return them to the first safe country they passed through

[melthebell 862]

3 hours ago, West 77 said:

That's really scraping the barrel to make the headlines because of Brexit.  All over the country residents living where new industrial estates have been built over the years will suffer negatives as a consequence.  I suspect the residents in Kent are more concerned about illegal immigrants entering the country both before and after the UK left the EU rather than floodlights.  In years gone by residents views have been blighted by big chimneys and other things associated with industry that provides jobs.

But, this lorry park was built as a direct consequence of Brexit?

 

So is brexit related despite what happens with new housing builds

[Baron99 778]

And here's me thinking that you're only allowed to deal with EU countries as a collective? 

https://knews.uk/france-italy-and-germany-vie-for-post-brexit-deals-with-britain-brexit/

 

Looks like the 'Big 2 (3)', can make their own rules?   As ever the case when it comes to Germany & France.  You only have to go back to the years when they continued to break EU rules on budgetary constraints. 

Edited May 31, 2021 by Baron99

[altus 537]

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

And here's me thinking that you're only allowed to deal with EU countries as a collective? 

https://knews.uk/france-italy-and-germany-vie-for-post-brexit-deals-with-britain-brexit/

 

Looks like the 'Big 2 (3)', can make their own rules?   As ever the case when it comes to Germany & France.  You only have to go back to the years when they continued to break EU rules on budgetary constraints. 

Despite some Brexiters complaining about plans to subsume the UK into an EU army, defence has never been a EU competence and there's always been lots of cooperation between the UK and EU countries - whether that be though NATO or projects like the UK/German/Italian Tornado aircraft.

 

BTW, if you're going to link to a Guardian article it's probably good form to link to the original on the Guardian site rather than some copy and pasted version on a news aggregator site that hasn't even bothered to change the internal links in the article.

[Magilla 510]

2 hours ago, Baron99 said:

And here's me thinking that you're only allowed to deal with EU countries as a collective? 

https://knews.uk/france-italy-and-germany-vie-for-post-brexit-deals-with-britain-brexit/

The EU merely tries to present a coherent/common policy from members in relation to the bloc as a whole.

 

With respect of relations with non-members it's up the each member state to set their own policy, always has been

 

Hence there is no restriction on the EU members highlighted making their own deals in this regard.

 

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Looks like the 'Big 2 (3)', can make their own rules?

Or you haven't a clue what you're on about as usual

 

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   As ever the case when it comes to Germany & France.  You only have to go back to the years when they continued to break EU rules on budgetary constraints. 

Q.E.D!

Edited May 31, 2021 by Magilla