E.U: Leave or Stay? Your thoughts.

Wait wait wait, what happened to "sunny uplands", "only upsides, no downsides" and "we hold all the cards"?

 

* Looks at deck *

All Jokers mate.

 

Let's decide to renege on the money we've agreed to pay to the EU. That'll help whentryign to negotiate new favourable trade deals with other nations: "we'll back out on our promises at the drop of a hat if we feel like it".

Three Magikarps, a Yu-Go-Oh card, the poker hand rules card, and a "Go Directly to Jail" Community Chest.

 

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant

 

Which Tory will be first to say: "What is so bad about being a rogue nation? North Korea got 50000 tons of free rice out of it"?

 

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I did not know this! Does make sense though. But just so we're clear, my comment was tongue in cheek. Except the last paragraph, I do believe that's exactly what will happen when we come to do our own trade deals.

 

Makes you wonder what it will be in another 3 years, rationing is not inevitable, these power cuts won't last forever, at least sterling is still worth something.

 

And for those who think the EU won't play tough with the UK, just ask Switzerland...

https://think.ing.com/articles/swiss-eu-negotiations-a-dangerous-leap-into-the-unknown/

 

Chinese Diesel?

 

For all the obvious badness, I can't help but find this incredibly interesting.

From an economic standpoint and from a human standpoint.

There's so many businesses and institutions that've basically said "This is looking like a shitshow, we're off." and the Brexit camp still seems to believe it's the right thing to do. Not to mention politicians saying things like "People voted to be poorer in favour of sovereignty" despite all the bluster that everyone would be better off.

Denial is one hell of an interesting phenomenon.

I wonder what'll happen when Brexit actually happens and the Brexiteers realise that a lot of the money making institutions have gone. I wonder if they'll even make the connection to their newfound poverty and what they voted for. I wonder what happens when politicians who enabled this shitstorm die and younger, more EU-friendly, politicians take their place.

 

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Says it all. Bloody fools.

 

Boy oh boy are they embarrassing.

 

Still an improvement over how they behaved under the UKIP label:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ament-nigel-farage-live-updates-a7348026.html

 

They've only been there a day, give them a chance... The bar probably isn't even open yet.

 

Brexit Party have done something I agree with, so fair's fair i'll post that too.

They've joined the SNP, LibDems and Greens in calling for a People's Assembly to investigate voting reform.

 

Leave voters will never admit that their getting poorer is a logical consequence of their vote. Already the narrative is to blame the EU; it is obstructive, spiteful, it wants to see the UK fail. Once the UK has left without a deal and the inevitable decade-long process of negotiating a new relationship from scratch follows --in which the UK will get its ass handed to it over, and over, and over-- the anti-EU narrative will continue just as before: Britain heroically fighting for freedom from the oppressive EU. Plus ca change...

Which is why I plan to be out of here within the next 5 years. Things were hard before? They are going to be bleak. Everyone working in the NHS and social care is seeing it coming, and it is frankly scary. People have no idea what's coming.

 

Well I told an old guy he was going to die alone and cold in a puddle of piss trapped in his own home because of the coming NHS cuts and care shortages, but my boss told me I wasn't allowed to make people cry at work on purpose.

On that note, rumblings from the General Optical Council are that subsidised eye tests for people over 60 are on the chopping block if health trust budgets stagnate or fall. With the sheer number of 'low risk' people I've sent to hospital based on a 'free' eye test there's going to be a huge spike in blindness in the elderly if it happens.

 

While I expect you're right for the most part, I can't help but wonder how many will realise their mistake. I know some already have, I just wonder how many more will by the time it gets really messy over there.