Why is Britain so great?

still waiting

 

Sorry mate, been watching match, proper fan me.

 

apart from your posts 21 and 19 minutes ago. While the match was on.

Proper. fan.

 

Yer know what, what’s the point. You’ll only come back with a silly comment, then insinuate I’m a racist, then disagree(which I don’t mind tbh). Ok, go on, I’ll give you one benefit of leaving the EU, seeing all the remoaners on here having kittens, it’s fuckin.g priceless. Enjoy yer night

 

well done...
You lost we won, get over it

4 years and counting, and it's all you've got.

You trashed the country for my grandkids, and your only benefit is that you picked the winning team.

 

Britain is great because it still has some politicians who are prepared to say it exactly
how they see it irrespective of what effects that might have on their future political aspirations.

Rory Stewart the former Tory Cabinet Minister was expelled from the party by Boris and is
now working in the USA as a lecturer at the prestigious Yale University.

He was a remote guest on Thursdays edition of Question Time and on the subject of the PM, described
him as " the most accomplished liar in public life." Well said that man and well done for having
the actual bottle to say what a lot of people must think, but to protect their future career in politics, darent say.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-liar-rory-stewart-b1614957.html

 

The predicted cost of customs paperwork, permits and conformance with non tariff barriers for imports and exports to the EU is expected to be around £12bn per year from January 1st 2021 - in a no deal its over £15bn. The setting up of alternative systems, such as the British version of REACH is predicted to cost BASF £1bn alone. This is passed on by the importers to the consumer (e.g. you and me) instead of the government. That doesn't look at the losses to service industries - which we sold across Europe - the loss to the creative arts industry *alone* is expected to be several times more than the entire fishing industry is worth.

So Brexit *could* save the government the £9bn (or so) EU contributions per year - minus the cost of customs facilities and setting up the British equivalent of the shared services - EMA, EBA, Euroatom, etc - but cost British business and customers significantly more. The cost to government of customs infrastructure and staffing is predicted to be over £3bn alone. For the first few years, the government will be lucky to break even.

The British government forecasts that Brexit (with the deal the government wants) will make every person in the UK over £2000 per year worse off. No deal will make that worse and was predicted by the new (Brexit supporting) head of the Bank of England to have a bigger impact on the British economy than Covid just last week.

On a person level, I am now priced out of jobs working across Europe at the top of my industry while colleagues working in the same office and living in the same town can still do simply because they were born in a different country.

 

All? Kittens?

 

The majority (over half) of the voting population has not voted for anything in the UK since well before WW2. Brexit was voted for by 17.4m out of an electorate of 46 registered voters - or 38% of the electorate. The recent election saw the Tories take a majority with 14m votes - or 30% of the electorate.

 

I'm talking about the voting population i.e. those who bothered to vote.

Not those who were eligible to.