Brexit Thread 2

[Lagamorph]

I’m not surprised the military option is the least viable, we hardly have any bloody ships left. Let alone ones that could be converted for freight.

Not to worry anyway, the DM is running it’s weekly ‘Brexit breakthrough’ story.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6308325/EU-set-offer-UK-wide-customs-deal-bid-solve-Brexit-talks.html

Haven't the EU been offering that since day 1?

[Pacman]

Dyson chooses Singapore for first electric car plant

Singapore has trade agreements with China, the largest electric car market in the world, and Japan, and a pending free trade deal with the EU.

https://www.ft.com/content/2695b8b0-d60 ... e0dcf18713

I was just about to post that.

It’s amazing, Dyson was one of the biggest name business Brexit supporters but he doesn’t seem to “believe” in Britain.

Some of the comments on the BBC:

People don’t seem to understand that leave was about two-fingers to the rich and privileged. If in every way we’re less successful and less educated, that makes us happier.

Yes Brexit will cost billions and probably affect a couple of generations. It may be 100 years, maybe 1,000 to recover, but that will teach you to respect the underdog.

"An actual human being"

[Garth]

twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1054848168268099585

twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1054851062920896514

twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1054847324525154304

[Rocsteady]

Dyson chooses Singapore for first electric car plant

Singapore has trade agreements with China, the largest electric car market in the world, and Japan, and a pending free trade deal with the EU.

https://www.ft.com/content/2695b8b0-d60 ... e0dcf18713

I was just about to post that.

It’s amazing, Dyson was one of the biggest name business Brexit supporters but he doesn’t seem to “believe” in Britain.

Some of the comments on the BBC:

People don’t seem to understand that leave was about two-fingers to the rich and privileged. If in every way we’re less successful and less educated, that makes us happier.

Yes Brexit will cost billions and probably affect a couple of generations. It may be 100 years, maybe 1,000 to recover, but that will teach you to respect the underdog.

That's 100% a parody.

[Moggy]

twitter.com/juliegirling/status/1054769926106501121

[Moggy]

These idiots are never going to take responsibility, it’ll always be the fault of somebody else.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

These idiots are never going to take responsibility, it’ll always be the fault of somebody else.

‘Shocked cabinet’ how on earth can they be shocked by the news when people have been saying that could happen for 2 years.

[Squinty]

FT is reporting about plans for a flotilla of vessels carrying supplies in the event of no deal.

Insanity.

[Moggy]

‘Shocked cabinet’ how on earth can they be shocked by the news when people have been saying that could happen for 2 years.

Because they are very stupid people that just wrote everything bad off as Project Fear.

[Cheeky Devlin]

FT is reporting about plans for a flotilla of vessels carrying supplies in the event of no deal.

Insanity.

I'm picturing a Brexit version of Dunkirk.

[Camp Freddie]

Dunkirk... but with Chris Grayling in charge of logistics.

I think it'll be quicker to swim to France to pick up my medicines.

[Garth]

twitter.com/Peston/status/1055022127521370112

Essentially, we're nowhere near ready for a no deal scenario.

twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1055027902331449345

That's a Tory MP suggesting Number 10 created a false flag, lol.




They've changed their tune.

[Winckle]

Peston:

A shocked Cabinet was today told of Department of Transport contingency plans to own or lease roll-on roll-off lorry ferries to make sure vital supplies of goods, food and medicines continue to reach these shores if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

According to work commissioned by Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, a possible French decision to reintroduce customs checks could reduce freight coming into the UK via Dover and the Channel Tunnel by around 85%.

So the UK would in those circumstances have to bring in vital imports to other ports such as the Port of London, Tilbury and Liverpool.

The proposed scheme is called GOOL, or Government Owned or Operated Logistics.

“It’s the kind of stuff governments do in a time of war” said one member of the cabinet. “It is as serious as that”.

That said the best precedent for the plan was the creation by Clement Atlee’s Labour government in 1948 of the National Freight Corporation, which was originally known as British Road Services.

In the case of GOOL, three options are being examined: buying ships, leasing them or converting military vessels.

I am told the military option is thought to be the least viable.

“This was the bombshell in a meeting that contained lots of dull stuff” said another minister.

He added that perhaps it would be the “sobering moment” that showed colleagues why a no-deal Brexit would be “so damaging”.

https://www.facebook.com/pestonitv/post ... 4667677933

The Tories are strawberry floating things up so much they're nationalising industries by mistake.

[Moggy]

Dunkirk... but with Chris Grayling in charge of logistics.

I think it'll be quicker to swim to France to pick up my medicines.

So they weren’t lying when they said things would go swimmingly...

[Squinty]

Read a bit of NAO report. What the hell are we doing.

2.23 One of the government’s key contingency requirements is to manage any traffic impacts in Kent if ferry or rail services are disrupted, so as to reduce impacts on the road network, the economy and local communities.

Project Brock is an interim solution specifically for EU exit that aims to hold up to 1,900 coast-bound lorries on
the M20 motorway while allowing non-port traffic to continue to move in both directions.

The Department for Transport plans to take the decision to implement Project Brock at the end of February 2019. It will take between two and three weeks to put in place the
contraflow infrastructure and then can be switched on within a few hours.

Anybody willingly supporting this nonsense at this point deserves a kick in the balls or fandango.

[Moggy]

twitter.com/markjohnstonld/status/1055006049156128768

[Igor]

This is doing the rounds on Facebook, perfect analogy.

LEAVER: I want an omelette.

REMAINER: Right. It’s just we haven’t got any eggs.

LEAVER: Yes, we have. There they are. [HE POINTS AT A CAKE]

REMAINER: They’re in the cake.

LEAVER: Yes, get them out of the cake, please.

REMAINER: But we voted in 1974 to put them into a cake.

LEAVER: Yes, but that cake has got icing on it. Nobody said there was going to be icing on it.

REMAINER: Icing is good.

LEAVER: And there are raisins in it. I don’t like raisins. Nobody mentioned raisins. I demand another vote.

DAVID CAMERON ENTERS.

DAVID CAMERON: OK.

DAVID CAMERON SCARPERS.

LEAVER: Right, where’s my omelette?

REMAINER: I told you, the eggs are in the cake.

LEAVER: Well, get them out.

EU: It’s our cake.

JEREMY CORBYN: Yes, get them out now.

REMAINER: I have absolutely no idea how to get them out. Don’t you know how to get them out?

LEAVER: Yes! You just get them out and then you make an omelette.

REMAINER: But how?! Didn’t you give this any thought?

LEAVER: Saboteur! You’re talking eggs down. We could make omelettes before the eggs went into the cake, so there’s no reason why we can’t make them now.

THERESA MAY: It’s OK, I can do it.

REMAINER: How?

THERESA MAY: There was a vote to remove the eggs from the cake, and so the eggs will be removed from the cake.

REMAINER: Yeah, but…

LEAVER: Hang on, if we take the eggs out of the cake, does that mean we don’t have any cake? I didn’t say I didn’t want the cake, just the bits I don’t like.

EU: It’s our cake.

REMAINER: But you can’t take the eggs out of the cake and then still have a cake.

LEAVER: You can. I saw the latest Bake Off and you can definitely make cakes without eggs in them. It’s just that they’re horrible.

REMAINER: Fine. Take the eggs out. See what happens.

LEAVER: It’s not my responsibility to take the eggs out. Get on with it.

REMAINER: Why should I have to come up with some long-winded incredibly difficult chemical process to extract eggs that have bonded at the molecular level to the cake, while somehow still having the cake?

LEAVER: You lost, get over it.

THERESA MAY: By the way, I’ve started the clock on this.

REMAINER: So I assume you have a plan?

THERESA MAY: Actually, back in a bit. Just having another election.

REMAINER: Jeremy, are you going to sort this out?

JEREMY CORBYN: Yes. No. Maybe.

EU: It’s our cake.

LEAVER: Where’s my omelette? I voted for an omelette.

REMAINER: This is ridiculous. This is never going to work. We should have another vote, or at least stop what we’re doing until we know how to get the eggs out of the cake while keeping the bits of the cake that we all like.

LEAVER/MAY/CORBYN: WE HAD A VOTE. STOP SABOTAGING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. EGGSIT MEANS EGGSIT.

REMAINER: Fine, I’m moving to France. The cakes are nicer there.

LEAVER: You can’t. We’ve taken your freedom of movement.

[Moggy]

Can we have scrambled eggs instead?

[Squinty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-north ... d-45967507

[Moggy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-northern-ireland-45967507