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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    We've been through this before, many times, and you just make stuff up...

    Here's some of your mates:

    Indeed, this man is so popular and widely feted by the Irish people that in the Clare election he garnered over ..........1.18% of the vote before elimination.

    As ever, Batty has his finger on the pulse ..........

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    They still lovingly maintain the Cadbury museum in Bournville.
    But I miss the old factory shop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Hopefully the Cadbury factory will be relocated back to Bournville where it belongs, and came from.


    I assume the yank owners wants to have a foot in the EU come next year.

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    Fish in a barrel, Lom, fish in a barrel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    But I miss the old factory shop.
    You went there in your Morris Minor or daddy's Austin Healey?

    The times they are a-a-chaanging

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    Given Britain is now returning to the 1960s I rather think he will feel more comfortable in his Hillman Imp.

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    Lets take stock,

    1. EU looking for a WTO trade stance - check
    2. Jimmy Krankie wooing the EU and pushing for another IndyRef - lets hope Boris doesn't blow the chance - check
    3. The WA and Oirish elections playing into an Oirish re-unification - PikeyReUniRef - check
    4. Labour looking likely to not get a sniff at Govt for a generation - check

    It all looks swimmingly good from here.

    Now lets have a look closer to home and sort the 800 odd leeches in HOL out.

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    what a trainwreck to come, and we thought Maybot was bad

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    Nope, its great. NI return to the fold and the bossom of the EU, it'll only cost Eng a few years support costs. Of course we'll tank out of the G10.

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    The rather more worrying feature of BoJo and his cabinet of crazy Orcs is not only the desire for a universal re-introduction of tariff barriers and a bureaucratic export/import licensing and compliance certification regime, but the rather more pressing nature of his addiction to ridiculously stupid white elephant projects.

    In truth, I rather think he could give Ceaucescu a run for his money were he still alive.

    Remember BoJo has an abysmal failure rate when it comes to initiatives viz. his disastrous Routemaster fleet of buses all other cities have banned, his Flower Bridge that was abandoned in the planning stage costing £56 million and his bizarre idea to scrap LGW/LHR and build a mega-airport out in the Thames/Medway.

    Barking mad and quite incompetent but this history pales into insignificance when compared to his new plans which, oddly enough, echo his previous hobby horses.

    Yep, it's that bridge thing again. He's going ahead with that span across the Irish Sea linking fucking nowhere to bugger all, a sparsely populated benefit state shortly to be unified with another sovereign state within a decade ( and member of a socio - economic club Bojo has quit ) to a rural backwater in a country that is in the process of breaking away from England and will join that same club he hates so much.

    So, irrespective of the sound economic and engineering reasons for not attempting such a daft thing, just why would you build it for two soon-to-be foreign states that cannot nor could not be integrated into the legacy English economic community given its desire for tariff and other barriers?

    The other madcap scheme goes back to his pre-occupation with buses - yep, he's going to spend £1 billion on northern buses to make them more useful. Err, the reason why no-one uses buses "oop north" in the barren hinterlands surrounding their predominately redundant urban centres, other than the five cities, is because no one wants them. Only the very poor, the infirm, the aged and refugees use buses, everyone else drives. A stupid and utterly futile waste meant as a hollow empty gesture but then, that's BoJo.

    And this is the buffoon leading the country to a Brexit disaster and the new union of Engerwales.

    Actually, it's bloody marvellous and is going to make the next decade so amusing while the lumpen poor and stupid get pissed on from high.

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    don't worry, BoJo will be voted out eventually when he starts falling on all his pet projects,

    funny you mention the bus route project, this is one of Macron pets project, and it's a big failure too, only used by immigrants and the poor

    everyone else take the TGV, or their cars, and for millennials, their blabla cars

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    When I try to find a comparison in modern British history to match the utter stupidity of Brexit I genuinely do struggle such is the breathtaking enormity of its imbecility but if one was pushed to offer up an example I think the destruction of Britain's rail network in the 1960s by the adoption of the Beeching plans must rank near the top.

    It utterly changed the fabric of society and was completed in such a way that the change was permanent.

    If those branch lines emanating outwards from the provincial hubs that connected the myriad national junctions feeding the cities were still about today road use would be halved and pissing about in the rain waiting for a bus would be a thing of the past.

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    Only the very poor, the infirm, the aged and refugees use buses
    Well thats most of the UK population innit? Save the lucky few that escape to Pattaya.
    And I'll have you know I rolled up to the Cadbury's factory shop in a company Sierra, carrying my Grandad's employee discount card.

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    ^^ WW1? Ay, them were the days. Now Britain can declare war on Europe again.

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    UK government wants ‘permanent equivalence’ for London’s financial center after Brexit, report says

    The British government wants its financial center, known as the City of London, to have permanent access to the European market once the Brexit transition period is over, according to the Financial Times.


    The U.K. stopped being a full member of the European Union on January 31, but it has yet to define its future trading arrangements with the other 27 EU countries. A negotiating paper, caught by a long-lens camera, showed Monday that the government is looking to get a “comprehensive, permanent equivalence decisions” for its financial industry, according to the report.
    UK wants permanent equivalence for its financial centre post-Brexit


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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    ^^ WW1? Ay, them were the days. Now Britain can declare war on Europe again.
    in essence, it's exactly what it is. Trying to find meaning in a past, even if it was difficult.

    Of course, if things were so great in the UK, why would the populace need to go back to a past where there was food ration, constant bombardment, and the whole country barely survived if it was not for the US allies to use England as a base to attack Europe.

    We are just repeating history here, and the populace is going to suffer again.

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    regardless, the Queen will not be amused if going back to war time

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    Top Trump Adviser Says U.K. Slips Behind EU in Trade Priorities

    After months of promises that the U.K. would be next in line for trade negotiations with the Trump administration, U.S. officials are signaling the European Union might still be the easier target for a quick outcome aimed at avoiding a transatlantic tariff battle.

    Trade talks with the EU and U.K. are on separate tracks but because of “some structure” on the EU side, “reigniting that will be easier” than starting from scratch with the U.K., White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said in an interview.
    Bloomberg

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I rolled up to the Cadbury's factory shop in a company Sierra, carrying my Grandad's employee discount card.
    Nothing but style . . . and frugality.

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    surprise, surprise


    UK economy saw zero growth at the end of 2019 - BBC News

    The UK economy saw no growth in the final three months of 2019, as manufacturing contracted for the third quarter in a row and the service sector slowed around the time of the election.

    The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the car industry had seen a particularly weak quarter.

    The ONS figures also showed the economy grew by 1.4% in 2019, marginally higher than the 1.3% rate in 2018.

    Recent surveys have suggested that the economy has picked up in the new year.

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    Truly, it's embarrassing but the recent mocking jibes from the EU as they heap derision upon the fatuous, flap-arsed Tory dicks uttering drivel from the Cummings sound machine suggest the forthcoming negotiations will be a farce in which the English are the hapless jokers walking into closed doors and slipping on banana skins.

    That Von Leyen woman is a class act and has more intelligence in her wee toe than the entire Tory cabinet.

    The English are truly trash in this cabaret of the absurd but at least they will get their just desserts come October - they pay for those cherries : free trade, access to financial markets but pay an annual fee, stay on the same playing field and take it up the arse from the ECJ.

    In practice, EU membership but treated like coons with no control.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    That Von Leyen woman
    Being pedantic here, actually it's 'Ursula von der Leyen' . . . and don't heap too many praises on her as she's German and that evokes all kinds of hysteria among some of our Brexiteer friends about German domination and similar tripe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    surprise, surprise


    UK economy saw zero growth at the end of 2019 - BBC News

    The UK economy saw no growth in the final three months of 2019, as manufacturing contracted for the third quarter in a row and the service sector slowed around the time of the election.

    The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the car industry had seen a particularly weak quarter.

    The ONS figures also showed the economy grew by 1.4% in 2019, marginally higher than the 1.3% rate in 2018.

    Recent surveys have suggested that the economy has picked up in the new year.
    Dragon why don't you post up the German economic figures, you know the country that keeps saving all your arses then I suppose you could post up the rest of the EU figures.

    Just a quick look at the Belgium economic growth,has that doing again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    Just a quick look at the Belgium economic growth,has that doing again.
    Try that again, in English . . . no need to be frightened of words

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chico View Post
    Dragon why don't you post up the German economic figures, you know the country that keeps saving all your arses then I suppose you could post up the rest of the EU figures.
    Yeah why don't we talk about something more comfortable for you than what Brexit does to Britain.

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