Thread: Brexit - It's Still On!

Originally Posted by Chico

You'd Think they'd forget there summer break considering Armageddon is supposed to be just around the corner.

Nothing comes before one's holidays. Not even Brexit. They booked their holidays a year ago and didn't get insurance against a hard Brexit. They thought it'd be all dun and dusted by now.

Maybe it is already done and dusted.

Originally Posted by Chico

Maybe it is already done and dusted.

Yaso, are you in the know?

No. Its a conspiracy.

The UK is just grandstanding. They'll sign up to whatever is needed to ensure a transition period, which will put off the nightmare a little longer.

The fear is getting to much

Brexit threat to sandwiches



Sandwiches would be one of the first victims of a breakdown in the food supply chain in the event of a disorderly no-deal Brexit, according to a senior grocery executive.

"If you look at the ingredients - a bit of lettuce, tomato, maybe avocado, chicken with a bit of mayonnaise - all prepared fresh and kept chilled, sandwiches would be some of the most vulnerable products if food supply chains were interrupted."

The space between two pieces of bread is perhaps unlikely new territory for Brexit contingency planning but it reflects an area of serious concern that government ministers have been quizzed over this week.

Although they have said they hope and expect a deal to be done - they are making emergency preparations for the potential interruption to vital supplies like fresh food now that they have said planning for "no deal" is being stepped up.

Responses from Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab have been slightly evasive on this issue. When asked by MPs whether the government was stockpiling food he said: "It would be wrong to describe it as the government doing stockpiling but we will look at this issue in the round and make sure that there is adequate food supply."


This has led to images being conjured of massive warehouses being filled with emergency rations to see the nation through as if on a war footing. So, if the government isn't stockpiling food, is anyone else? Is it even necessary?

Food retailers are understandably reluctant to talk openly about empty shelves but this is what I've learned.

First - every major food retailer I've spoken to is quite clear they have NOT been approached by government to start redirecting any food to some sort of emergency reserve.

"It wouldn't work anyway," said one. "Fifty percent of the food we eat is either fresh or chilled - that includes ready meals - so warehousing wouldn't help".

There is another problem according to another.

'Massive problem'
"There simply isn't any spare slack in the supply chain to do this. There are no slightly-under-packed lorries or empty warehouses available to do this at scale. To suggest it could even be done if required is incredibly naive."

Most agree there is a real potential threat.

The Beast from the East was essentially two days of snow and it resulted in empty shelves starting to appear in some supermarkets. "Crashing out of the EU without a deal could potentially see the ports overwhelmed, with gridlock that could take days to work through and that would be a massive problem."

So neither the government, nor industry, is stockpiling food - but that does not mean that food retailers aren't making contingency plans.

Most of them get a lot of fresh food from the southern hemisphere in winter and the northern hemisphere from spring onwards - some are looking at extending their southern hemisphere sourcing longer into the spring.

'Price increases'
That makes sense according to Lord (Mark) Price, former boss of Waitrose and trade minister. "In late March/early April you would be switching from southern to northern hemisphere providers for some produce so it would make sense to stretch that."

Lord Price downplays the chances of shortages of food availability but concedes that prices would probably rise. "If you are suddenly operating on WTO rules (which impose tariffs on most agricultural products) then clearly there are going to be price increases in some goods and the extra demand for supplies from outside the EU will also push up prices."

There is another option to solve a potential food shortage - and one that some grocery executives think will be exercised if the UK looks like it could run out of food. "The soundings we are getting from government is that if we are facing disaster, we could simply extend Article 50 (the two-year Brexit stopwatch that started running when it was triggered in March 2017), said one.

Staying in the EU for a bit longer would keep the chiller cabinet full of sandwiches - but it would doubtless raise the political temperature.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44960293

Originally Posted by Switch

Both sides are on summer break you fucking moron. F F S how long do we have to put up with the Belgian troll on this thread?

Except that Raab and Barnier will be meeting again in a couple of weeks time. Looks like that third option May dreamt up to collect customs money didn't go down too well.

Article 50 extension? That'll please you all...

Raab needs to get up to speed and quickly. He will have been chosen by May for his bottom licking abilities and briefed accordingly.
Depends on the response he gets from the EU end of the deal, so, yes, delays are inevitable.

If he’s really smart he will tell Barnier where to get off and put the U.K. back in the driving seat. Given that he is Mays lackey, I doubt that will happen.

I don’t have a dog in this fight so I just want it resolved quickly so we can all get on with whatever mess we’re left with.

Speaking in cliches is somewhat typical of the unimaginative but when they think in such terms then matters become very dull indeed as they grapple with complexities far beyond what their impoverished intellect can bear.

The phenomenon seems to have found a natural home among the Brexit stupid and ignorant, and poor old Switch/Chas is perhaps its valiant standard bearer for the TD lumpen as he stumbles along the path of his dreary mediocrity.

Originally Posted by Troy

Article 50 extension? That'll please you all...

The systems needed to implement May's customs plans won't even be available until 2020 at the earliest.

Barnier would also have to perform an unexpected u-turn and accept them, of course.

An article 50 extension seems almost inevitable before this unprecedented act of economic hara-kiri is undertaken.

I guess/hope Trump rather shook up Juncker and now he's dawdling closer to reality. If so, the message will pass to Barnier et al that it's in everyone's interest to get this thing sorted and on track.

TDS victims will intuitively diss this simply because Trump was mentioned, but there's something to be said for at least trying to save the EU. Probably wishful thinking, but imho Brexit will turn out to be a practical guide for future exiteers.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Speaking in cliches is somewhat typical of the unimaginative but when they think in such terms then matters become very dull indeed as they grapple with complexities far beyond what their impoverished intellect can bear.

The phenomenon seems to have found a natural home among the Brexit stupid and ignorant, and poor old Switch/Chas is perhaps its valiant standard bearer for the TD lumpen as he stumbles along the path of his dreary mediocrity.

Lumpen and mediocrity are part of your overarching nomenclature. You really would be better served with a sandwich board on Hyde Park Corner.

Originally Posted by taxexile

^^
Indeed, and in 5 years time, when the UK is thriving after throwing off the shackles of Brussels, the protectionism of french farmers and the devious greed of the german industrialists, other countries will follow in the uks footsteps.

No pain no gain, but it will be well worth it.


Meanwhile, over in gay paree, rumour has it that macron, the POF and the husband of the wrinkled prune, has been brownhatting his north african bodyguard.

Oooooh macron!

What a degenerate and disgusting race

Feeeling for the early Brits that had to cope with being joined to them, before the Channel came along to drift us away.

Originally Posted by taxexile

^^
Indeed, and in 5 years time, when the UK is thriving after throwing off the shackles of Brussels, the protectionism of french farmers and the devious greed of the german industrialists, other countries will follow in the uks footsteps.

No pain no gain, but it will be well worth it.


Meanwhile, over in gay paree, rumour has it that macron, the POF and the husband of the wrinkled prune, has been brownhatting his north african bodyguard.

Oooooh macron!

What a degenerate and disgusting race

that little rant along with the other one on the BBC is starting to portrait you as a crazy old fool

Farage nails it.

Nigel Farage: “Trump Has Achieved More In One Day Than Theresa May Has In Two Years"

http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenter...here-26-07-18/

What the fuck are you babbling about? Trump's achieved fuck all except to initiate a trade war which he was losing from day one, that threatened American jobs and reduced stock markets across the fucking world. The stupid Orange Cvunt gets glad handed by Juncker and then blethers utter bollocks about how every thing is good again and everyone will have no trade barriers. Except next week when the Orange Pig fucks around with something else all will be forgotten, the same fucking tariffs will remain except maybe next week there'll be a wee tweak on this and that.

Farage is a conman, a dissembling, egregious propagandist whose rhetoric is aimed fair and square at morons, ignoramuses, racists, bigots and old fuckwits reading their tattered Telegraph in a bathchair wrapped up in their incipient dementia dreaming about when Britain was mostly white.

Anyone crediting anything that prick spews is clearly a fucking imbecile.

Seekingass I take it you don't follow the Daily news?

No, I am not a swivel-eyed, monkey-shagging, simian, sister- fucking, ignorant, frazzled fuck-witted moron who voted for Brexit or Cvunt Trump, I do not "follow" news, certainly not the drivel regurgitated by hack agencies through the prism of a warty old fascist who can't keep a hold of his women he's so fucking geriatric and shrivelled, type news.

I have a brain.

Jees, thegent has gone full texpat!

Hold the front page!

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

to escape the effects of EU dismantlement of offshore tax havens available to EU states,hiding profits and ill-gotten gains from the taxman.

That is what this fraud of Brexit is all about.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

No, I am not a swivel-eyed, monkey-shagging, simian, sister- fucking, ignorant, frazzled fuck-witted moron who voted for Brexit or Cvunt Trump, I do not "follow" news, certainly not the drivel regurgitated by hack agencies through the prism of a warty old fascist who can't keep a hold of his women he's so fucking geriatric and shrivelled, type news.

I have a brain.

Well I'm sure your aware that the EU and Japan and the EU and USA are working on removing all tariffs on trade deals now?

Whilst the UK which contributes 13.4% to the EU budget are getting shat on from a great height.

And will appoint a new PM on the return of there Summer break, who possibly has the balls to throw shit back at the EU.

Hence my post about Trump,someone who has balls.

It does seem odd that Junker can fly off to the US, talk to Trump for an hour or so then they both say some deal has been struck with no or low tariffs, but Junker cannot or will not do the same for the UK.

Originally Posted by Neverna

It does seem odd that Junker can fly off to the US, talk to Trump for an hour or so then they both say some deal has been struck with no or low tariffs, but Junker cannot or will not do the same for the UK.

I have to agree there Nev. That Junker is one devious bastard. Outta greens so get ya next time.