Brexit

Meep wrote:They do realise that a hard Brexit would mean tariffs that completely annihilate the UK fishing industry, right? I swear, I have all kinds of sympathy for people in hard up coastal towns but some people are just too stupid for their own good. Farage helping them campaign for their own doom is yet further proof of what a horrible toad he is.

Hardship is worth it for freedom.

I just burst out laughing

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Errkal wrote:

Meep wrote:They do realise that a hard Brexit would mean tariffs that completely annihilate the UK fishing industry, right? I swear, I have all kinds of sympathy for people in hard up coastal towns but some people are just too stupid for their own good. Farage helping them campaign for their own doom is yet further proof of what a horrible toad he is.

Hardship is worth it for freedom.

The problem is most of their heads were turned years ago (some 10 or even 20 years ago) before anyone tried to point out the negatives of Brexit. By the time people started to argue against leaving, their minds had been made up and it was very easy to dismiss the arguments are scaremongering etc.. as they still do now.

Taking back control

Lagamorph wrote:I just burst out laughing

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Hahaha outstanding.

How much of this gooseberry fool will take to make people see we aren't independent and can't be due to the sheer volume of random stuff we import as we can't be strawberry floated to make it.

I wonder how much passports will cost to import once the tariffs kick in?

It's alright, we will have our amazing fishing industry to get money from. Its immense gains will bolster our treasuries.

Squinty wrote:It's alright, we will have our amazing fishing industry to get money from. Its immense gains will bolster our treasuries.

We have no fish left, Farage killed them all and chucked them into the Thames.

Moggy wrote:

Squinty wrote:It's alright, we will have our amazing fishing industry to get money from. Its immense gains will bolster our treasuries.

We have no fish left, Farage killed them all and chucked them into the Thames.

We'll just fish for barnacles then. I'm willingly to take the hit to get behind my country.

That passport story is so deliciously funny, I can just see the wall of gammon turning purple at this news

Preezy wrote:That passport story is so deliciously funny, I can just see the wall of gammon turning purple at this news

Hopefully the blue passport will be the same shade of blue as that in the French flag.

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:That passport story is so deliciously funny, I can just see the wall of gammon turning purple at this news

Hopefully the blue passport will be the same shade of blue as that in the French flag.

They should make the pages different colours so side on it is the french flag.

Errkal wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:That passport story is so deliciously funny, I can just see the wall of gammon turning purple at this news

Hopefully the blue passport will be the same shade of blue as that in the French flag.

They should make the pages different colours so side on it is the french flag.

Moggy wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Preezy wrote:That passport story is so deliciously funny, I can just see the wall of gammon turning purple at this news

Hopefully the blue passport will be the same shade of blue as that in the French flag.

They should make the pages different colours so side on it is the french flag.

That would actually be possible to do, have a close up of the union jack on the pages and then when its closed and youre looking from the side it would be a French flag.

Lagamorph wrote:I just burst out laughing

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Couldn't make it up. UK is a laughing stock. What a gooseberry fool country. An international embarrassment.

Presumably it'll still be designed in the UK, the French will just be doing the printing.

Blue Eyes wrote:Couldn't make it up. UK is a laughing stock. What a gooseberry fool country. An international embarrassment.

We are lucky that Trump is President, the US continues to shield us from being the most embarrassing Western nation.

I look back at just a few years ago and it’s amazing how this country turned to gooseberry fool. London 2012 seems to have been the high point of the UK being a tolerant and open nation, since then we just seem to have been sliding backwards into a far right mess.

Moggy wrote:

Blue Eyes wrote:Couldn't make it up. UK is a laughing stock. What a gooseberry fool country. An international embarrassment.

We are lucky that Trump is President, the US continues to shield us from being the most embarrassing Western nation.

I look back at just a few years ago and it’s amazing how this country turned to gooseberry fool. London 2012 seems to have been the high point of the UK being a tolerant and open nation, since then we just seem to have been sliding backwards into a far right mess.

I don't know we're definitely gooseberry fool but a lot of countries seem to be doing their best to be as gooseberry fool as possible. Look at the Italian election the other week.

Moggy wrote:

Blue Eyes wrote:Couldn't make it up. UK is a laughing stock. What a gooseberry fool country. An international embarrassment.

We are lucky that Trump is President, the US continues to shield us from being the most embarrassing Western nation.

I look back at just a few years ago and it’s amazing how this country turned to gooseberry fool. London 2012 seems to have been the high point of the UK being a tolerant and open nation, since then we just seem to have been sliding backwards into a far right mess.

You that probably contributed to this, people felt very patriotic and "we are awesome" after that and it made it easy for UKIP etc. to drive the "we are the best, we should be in control" message home.