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- Nairn1
Now that we're on a path out of Europe, it'll be good to have representation by fully elected offici... oh, wait.
Boris's Dad is acting as a liaison with the Chinese State and sending emails on the subject directly to private email addresses?
Excellent?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…
(apologies for DM link)
- noticing more and more negative coverage in the Mail - although I defy anyone to put a positive spin on Stanley Fucking Johnson.Fax_Benson
- New-ish editor, innit?Nairn
- https://www.pressgaz…Nairn
- shapesalad1
"Guernsey banned French fishing boats in a 12 mile radius. So French fishing boats blocked Guernsey's fishing boats from landing fish in French ports. Then Guernsey remembered it was surrounded by French water. Then Guernsey backed down"
https://www.reddit.com/r/brexit/…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world…
Yep... Brexit. Why is it still going ahead? Why are the idiots running the show?
- The fish guernsey fishermen couldn't off load, had to be dumped...shapesalad
- PhanLo1
Yes! We're not caving into those insane EU rules anymore. Back to being the 'dirty-man of Europe', beacuase we're the best!
'UK councils are increasingly pumping raw sewage onto British beaches in anticipation of the UK government no longer enforcing the EU’s “bathing water directive “ post Brexit'
- who cares? we can always go to some nice clean beaches elsewhere, like france, or spain or portugal or...hans_glib
- I actually remember people complaining about the EU saying we should tidy our beaches. The beach near me had a no swimming sign because of pollution.PhanLo
- Actually, this is one thing we're good at as we don't fudge the reporting, unlike our European cousins. All EU countries have their share of fouled beachesNairn
- In or out of the EU doesn't make much difference. We don't have any rivers that currently meet EU safe to swim standard. Dirty fuckers will dirty.Fax_Benson
- grafician0
- by Anti-Brexit Alien
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on twittergrafician - Threat to overall EU peace project should be much much higher on the list...scruffics
- This is a bit biased.Khurram
- Do you guys make anything in GB? I can't ever recall seeing a Made in Great Britain sticker on anything except on the fuel pumps on our MGA and MGB growing up.robotron3k
- Yeah, hard to believe Mexicanos drive MGs...robotron3k
- eBay has done made in Uk stuff, vintage, from over 45 years ago. That’s about all.shapesalad
- I don't know a lot about the topic but I spotted at least two faked points (about Galileo and Erasmus)...gonzalle
- by Anti-Brexit Alien
- Nairn3
It would be fucking hilarious if the bridge between Scotland and Nornireland went ahead and, jusrt after it was completed, both countries decided to leave the union and re-join the EU.
- Post-brexit, we'll be free to build bridges between random places around the world.Fax_Benson
- Even Earthworm Jim* thinks it's a shit ideaBluejam
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https://twitter.com/…Bluejam - Flol - "we can get there by road as there isn't water between it and the country, thus circumventing the need for bridge you mahogany frog"Nairn
- Bluejam2
"The follow up to the hit debut ’A Brief History of the World (1953-2018)’ is a high resolution, free to download and display exhibition for the people."
- Bluejam3
"From the "frictionless" trade with EU Member States that we have enjoyed since the advent of the Single Market (and were promised would continue during the referendum campaign), we now revert to the full panoply of border checks on incoming goods, including veterinary inspections of animals and products of animal origin in as yet non-existent border control posts."
- i for one am stunned at this shock developmenthans_glib
- Expect big marches and protests this summer to revert Brexit.shapesalad
- ..in London. And for those marches to go wholly ignored by the rest of the country.Nairn
- Fax_Benson3
Good article from last May about the benefits of HS2 - and especially the disadvantages of alternatives - finally doing the rounds.
- Good article, thanks.
And from The Indie, no less.Nairn - mad that entirety of media and politicians unable to actually communicate what it is and how it works, pros as well as cons.
*see EU membershipFax_Benson - Seems this article may have had a role in pushing Joris to pull the trigger. Nice mix mix of righteous anger and rail-geekeryFax_Benson
- https://twitter.com/…Fax_Benson
- I thought Joris only subscribed to Bus Enthusiast publications?Nairn
- Good article, thanks.
- Bluejam1
Voters in 'red wall' seats won by Tories to lose out disproportionately from universal credit, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/poli…the report
https://www.resolutionfoundation…
- Bluejam6
- "This isn't the Brexit I voted for."
sums it up so well.deadsperm - duh, what did you expect, colin?hans_glib
- I want to laugh at them, but as someone who goes to the continent three times a year or so, the joke's on me too.Nairn
- life's to short to stress about a queue but long enough to laugh at another's stupidityBluejam
- Life's too short to spend 55 minutes a journey in queues for passport checks and customs... :\Nairn
- Why won't they let us to the front of the queue, we're legends? Lol. I suppose once it's fully Brexit, it'll be even worse.PhanLo
- years of this ahead, I'd like to say it will be entertaining but it won't be really will it? The reality will be hard for some to take. And they will continuefadein11
- to blame the EU for all their woes. At least the tories own it now, perhaps in 5 to 10 years time we may see a better way.fadein11
- Rees Mogg, reckoned it would take 50 years to get back on track, we'll probably all be dead by then. Lol.PhanLo
- sounds a lot like a Trump voter.utopian
- Always takes ages at Schipol, all the FIFO stoners getting their Tesco club cards out instead of their passport.MrT
- "This isn't the Brexit I voted for."
- Nairn0
re: Boris Bridge to Ireland.
I'm doing some long-process jobs on a Saturday, so am idling my time otherwise on stupid thoughts.
I think it'd be better to make a connection - be it bridge or tunnel, or both - between Holyhead and Dublin.
It's a lot longer, but the lie of the land is much simpler. The distance is about 75 or so miles versus the 30 odd miles it would require under the current proposition.
It's only 2 times the longest tunnel ever dug, or 3 times longer than the chunnel. Easy, right?
A shame we're not in the EU any more - would make a lot more sense that way,
- Seems like a couple of extra-large trebuchets on each side would be easier.robotron3k
- I will never - ever - disavow the potential use of trebuchets.
+1 roboNairn - dublin -> holyhead at least there's a chance one of them will still be britian by the time it's built.kingsteven
- i can do belfast to glasgow in 2 hours from my house atm (45 min flight) and pick up viz in the airport on the way...kingsteven
- fuck driving it... 6 hours and via the twinned shitholes of larne and stranraer! it takes less time to get to corkkingsteven
- Went on the ferry last trip over, got in the truckers lounge, the food was decent, made the crossing a bit less brutal. Getting back from Larne is grim tho.PhanLo
- I suppose the benefit of a physical link is less about driving cars through than it is rail passengers and freight. The Boris bridge would bairly dent eitherNairn
- bairly?Nairn
- monoboy1
Anybody else getting these google privacy pop-ups and emails?
_____From 31 March 2020, Google Services in the UK will be provided by Google LLC.
_____Reading into it, all the privacy protections provided by the EU including GDPR will cease to have jurisdiction in the UK. And we will instead go back to US-style deregulation.
All the data they hold on you will be transferred to US servers from the current Irish ones on this date. Giving who knows who, full access to it.
A new era of digital cuntery is upon us. I for one can't wait for the first client request to spam a scraped database.
Oh, and the conversation I'll have with my Brexit voting inlaws as to why they're getting all these horrible emails, junk mail and phone calls from scammers.
Which reminds me. Anybody know how I can get hold of a Daily Mail database. I have an idea.
Muhahahah.
- Non compliance with GDPR is reason enough for Brexit. You still don't realize how privileged you are to not have to accept cookies for every site you visit.deadsperm
- Which is to say - it'll go back to how it was pre-GDPR and how it is for the rest of the world. It's also likely a temporary ass-covering measureNairn
- Cookie acceptance in return for protection and recall is a very tiny price I'm happy to pay.monoboy
- Without it, we will have no jurisdiction and absolutely no say over how it's handled.monoboy
- @monoboy
I know. It's too late now.deadsperm - The implications are high. I'm sure Insurance companies would love more of your FitBit and Facebook data with no strings.monoboy
- I find it funny/sad that some only now realize the amount of "small" things that were overlooked when making the choice.deadsperm
- In conversations with your folk I realized how little some of them know of how things actually work.deadsperm
- Totally. I had particularly tough convo with an aunt years ago who was aghast at the amount of 'filthy' spam emails she was getting.monoboy
- Bluejam5
Meanwhile...
"It is quite remarkable however, that the entire media corpus has seemingly failed to put two and two together, and remark that the Heathrow judgement shows the government to be chasing after a fantasy in respect of the forthcoming EU negotiations."
- "if you want total regulatory independence, don't live directly next door to the number one global regulatory superpower".kingsteven
