Thread: Brexit - It's Still On!

Originally Posted by david44

Greenland was actually quite green more than 2.5 million years ago.

A bit before Erik the Red's time though?
A few more years of global warming and our grandchildren won't even think of the name as strange.

Originally Posted by david44

Erik The Red, an Icelandic murderer who was exiled to the island.

He did indeed have a bit of a temper, and was handed a 3 years "lawless" sentence; meaning that anyone could kill him on sight.

He therefore found Greenland to be a safe place.

Originally Posted by david44

He called it “Greenland” in hopes that the name would attract settlers.

True

False advertising.

Who was the genius that baptized 'Iceland' ?

Originally Posted by helge

Who was the genius

Floki if I know, I personally aver if was Grettir the Strongpong's gik Helgemund S∅ndagswallower . Nicknamed Norah Dickoff she hailed from Wick Low.

Yet other Beau Wolf and Magnum Icecreamson suggest feist Firbolgs aka Tuath da Manaam / Irishmen rowing an inflatable seal with a missing head pulled into Wreck's R Vick for revalving and opened the fist frozen food outlet with whale oil lit cabinets, Brendon FitzEdmund and Edmund FitzBrendon were said to be very close and rowed all the way to America to avoid redheaded lasses from the Danelaw.

You don't need reindeer to be an anorak , innit, get onnit like a car innuit

^

That explanation is as good as I've seen them

Put it on Wiki

Originally Posted by david44

get onnit like a car innuit

Nanook !

Originally Posted by cyrille (Brexit - It's Still On!)
Before falling foul of the authorities.



Explain this utter lie, or apologise for it.
More than 3 weeks ago, but still no reply or acknowledgement. I wonder why?

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Apropos one of my prognostications concerning the aftermath of Brexit, all coming true it seems, I see that BMW are transferring all of their UK electric Mini production to China and any combustion motor production of the model will cease there in 2030. I believe I told Tax this would likely happen over three years ago.

And of course, the much vaunted boasts by BoJo The Clown and Quasikwarteng that British Volt would straddle the world in car battery production like a Brexitonian Colossus, has gone bust owing £280 million.

You know, at what stage will the silly fuckers ever admit that Brexit was nothing but a calamitous mistake that has so far cost Britain over £100 billions, seen its labour resources slashed impairing all sectors of the economy, consigned the £ to emerging world status, diminished its stature globally to a degree the country is little more than museum piece relic and has produced a political scene the entire civilised world considers to be a joke.

Still, it provides me with great entertainment.

Oh I forgot the good news, Britain will not have the lowest growth rate next year among the G20, that will be Russia. Britain will be the next lowest.

Unlike you and Cyrille, I understand the difference between Facts, and Opinions. I can also tell the difference between politics and economics, a difference which you both seem incapable of grasping.

Please think carefully before applying another of your economic missives.

Originally Posted by taxexile

s.a.



....... and in relation to just one of the other many brexit related predictions, projections and prognostications you are endlessly braying about, has that mother of all your predictions, the much mentioned £/$ and £/E parities that you claim are just around the corner, happened yet?

and if not, why not?


(just asking for a friend)

Tax, have you had some sort of episode and under medical supervision?

In any fucking analysis, since Brexit, Britain has fucked itself.

Given the current inflation rate, the poor salaries that are now the norm for the average worker, the dreadful deteriorating state of British public services, it’s appalling road system, it’s collapsing transport services, it’s almost emerging world health service, it’s dire economic growth, the worst in the G7, it’s poor productivity and woeful education standards, I rather think the £ sterling has to all practical purposes reached parity with the US $ and the €.

And the Brexshitory party has yet to launch Austerity 2 to recover the billions spunked out by The Wobblehead and the Trusspot.

Engerlandia is a fucking abortion Tax that makes Thailand look almost competent.

And with the insane property boosting by The Wobblehead through his stamp duty waiver the average price to earnings ratio is now 7.2 times. When mortgage interest rates hit the projected 6%, and higher, the blood will be swirling on the floor and stagflation caused by ever increasing wage demands will mean higher inflation rates and a collapse in the property market.

All of this was predicted.

You Tax are simply ill-equipped to deal with reality now, you are in denial. And I don’t mean in Cairo.

will you just answer my question.

can you have a word with your chicken innards and tea leaves and tell me when the £/$/E parity bomb you promised will actually explode.

Originally Posted by Switch

Unlike you and Cyrille, I understand the difference between Facts, and Opinions. I can also tell the difference between politics and economics, a difference which you both seem incapable of grasping.

Please think carefully before applying another of your economic missives.

Like you, he can't tell from shinola, despite spreading the former all over the forum on a daily basis.

Originally Posted by taxexile

will you just answer my question.

can you have a word with your chicken innards and tea leaves and tell me when the £/$/E parity bomb you promised will actually explode.

Were you unconscious last month when for a succession of days £ sterling was $1.06 cents and on commercial rates for most folk trading their spending money they were getting .98 cents or less for each £.

The current rate of $1.15 is to all intents and purposes parity when compared to the pre-Brexit rate of $1.54.

Tax, about time for your GP dementia test, yes?

Brexit has been a palpable failure in every field of endeavour, it has destroyed the Conservative party, it has made the country an international laughing stock, it has broken the economy and has been a stake through the heart of the GFA paralysing the NI Assembly.

And the question still remains, what is it that Britain is going to sell to the fucking world it couldn’t before Brexit?

Brexit has fucked Britain.

But the disciples of this cult of the stupid are so fucking dimwitted and blinkered they can’t see it because their pointy little heads are permanently stuck up their arses.

$1.15 does not, and never will equal parity you smug moron. That silly statement is just as irrelevant as you are.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Like you, he can't tell from shinola, despite spreading the former all over the forum on a daily basis.

Did you lie or not?

Current Post Office rate seems to offer US1.11 for a £.

Pretty well parity for most normal folk but then, Chas, you ain’t normal.

Smug? Me? I ain’t smug, you dumb fuck, I was right.

Brexit has fucked Britain.

i think you will find that the euro has also tanked against the $ over a similar time period.

the uk, thanks to a combination of world events, pandemic issues and push me pull you governance, has sadly been unable to take advantage of the many opportunities brexit undoubtedly offers, but for some time now the eu area also finds itself riven by political disagreements, and teeters on financial implosion. the fracture lines in the eu are becoming more evident each day. it wont exist in its present form in 20 years time.

in the end, the uk as a smaller self governing independent entity, (and even smaller if the irish join the euro and the jocks jump ship) is much better positioned to survive in the coming usa/putin/chink engineered economic and military apocalypse that is much less than a generation away.

you can cite all the graphs and figures you like, but the fact remains that a small state, financially beholden only to itself, not part of a large entity over which it has little control, will in the long run result in a stable, securer and happier population. there is more to life than £/$ rates and imported german cars, french wines and chinese shite.

its long game, longer than i initially though it would be, but brexit was, is and will be the correct decision. and our kids and grandkids will thank us for it.

you, in your pattaya isolation, seriously need to look a bit further forward than the next set of OBR stats, BOE predictions, BBC propaganda or bangkok post editorials.

be told will ya!

Tax, the economy needed migration to function efficiently and within the EU we had the perfect solution that fed our needs while offering a fertile market for our manufactured goods, some 49% of our production.

All that has gone now, Brexit turned the clock back to a time when Britain was a parochial vestige of a faded and redundant imperialist power facing bankruptcy.

Incidentally, I have seen the malaise for myself in Blighty, and prospects are indeed grim.

Covid and Ukraine have been used to mask the consequences of Brexit and typically the stupid English are content to swallow that propagandist pap churned out by Brexitory snake oil charlatans in much the same way the dumb fucks sucked it up in 2016.

Tax you and your ilk are to Britain what republican Trumpanzees are to the US.

The property market is heading for a crash, banks are setting aside billions to account for negative equity and bankruptcy, the pool of employment necessary to sustain the nuts and bolts of our service based consumer economy has shrunk and short of over a million workers, investment in R&D and education is abysmal, and inflation has seen incomes and assets devalue.

Britain is fucked but rejoining the custom union and regaining free movement, as now advocated by Brexiteer financiers, is the only solution to the current recession.

But the Brexit loony wing which has formed the Brexshitory Party and is the current government of the day will not accept that reality since it will mean admitting the entire experiment was a fraud perpetrated on a stupid and credulous electorate by a bunch of old Tory dinosaurs and their sycophants.

You really are a bit of a tit Tax.

I have seen the malaise for myself in Blighty, and prospects are indeed grim.

of course you have. they must been dropping like flies in the leafy lanes of budleigh salterton as they struggled to pay for their artisan sourdoughs and fill up their range rovers. poor darlings.

you turned on bbc news, opened the guardian, and like so many were soon brainwashed into depression, confusion, misery and anger.

black against white, muslin against hindu against christian, rich against poor, left against right , men against women and women against men, gays against straight against trans, cyclists against pedestrians against motorists, and the eco loons against everybody. society is fractured into hundreds of competing groups, all fuelled by the mainstream and social media. fucking whingers the lot of em, pleading hunger and poverty on their £600 i phones and designer clothes. everyone isolated in their own little bubbles of aggression and entitlement.

you can feed a family of 4 healthily for a week on 25 quid if you use some common sense, but no. its deliveroo and burgers on the credit card.
and a smart mobile phone can be bought for £40.

some enforced hardship should knock some of the complacency out of these bovine spongers of the medias relentless onslaught of doom and destruction. trouble is nobody thinks for themselves these days.

these people should look at their lives and think how fucking lucky they are to be living in the uk. look at china, look at russia, look at ukraine, look at fucking afghanistan and iran.


ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

Tax you and your ilk are to Britain what republican Trumpanzees are to the US.

now youve really gone too far.

Originally Posted by taxexile

you can feed a family of 4 healthily for a week on 25 quid if you use some common sense

Now, that's cheap

Originally Posted by taxexile

you turned on bbc news, opened the guardian, and like so many were soon brainwashed into depression, confusion, misery and anger.

black against white, muslin against hindu against christian, rich against poor, left against right , men against women and women against men, gays against straight against trans, cyclists against pedestrians against motorists, and the eco loons against everybody. society is fractured into hundreds of competing groups, all fuelled by the mainstream and social media. fucking whingers the lot of em, pleading hunger and poverty on their £600 i phones and designer clothes. everyone isolated in their own little bubbles of aggression and entitlement.

Rant of the year!

A fair bit of truth in that

Originally Posted by taxexile

these people should look at their lives and think how fucking lucky they are to be living in the uk. look at china, look at russia, look at ukraine, look at fucking afghanistan, Jomtien and iran.

Fixed that for you Tax

Originally Posted by Joe 90

There may be a rebellion from the monotony in the ranks

Not here, but I wouldn't like to live on that.


Only thing that's cheap here is ......Beer.


1 litre of milk is approacing the price of 1 litre of diesel or about 8-10 beers.

Its possible, I spend about £200 a week on my family food shop and that included eating out a few times a week.

If I cut back I reckon its doable.

our food bill for 2 is around £100 to £120 a week, but we dont skimp and we eat well.

at the moment i go to a cookery school one day a week, this terms course concentrates on economical meals and we are being shown how to prepare well balanced meals ( mostly veg, it must be said, but deliciously flavoured with herbs and spices) for a couple of quid. preparation and cooking time is never more than an hour. i posted above that a family of 4 could eat for £25 a week, that was incorrect. it is more like £40 a week.


batch cooking followed by freezing means most families if they so wished could cut down on their bills and kitchen time, and reduce diabetes and obesity rates.

but no.

the media, instead of showing how this could be done choose to relentlessly bombard us with doom and gloom and tories this and brexit that and look at the oil company profits and sunak is a billionaire and climate change is going to kill us and those poor illegal asylum seekers paying £4000 for a dinghy at calais need hotels and urgent medical treatment and how downtrodden the "working people" are (especially those lazy fuckers on strike! ) , and how unfair everything is and of course its always somebody elses fucking fault and the government MUST do something.

Striking rail union boss steps down amid sexual harassment inquiry

dirty fucker looks like fred west.

The head of a rail union at the centre of this year’s strike chaos has stepped down after an inquiry into allegations against him of sexual harassment and bullying was extended.



Manuel Cortes retired as general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) this week, the union confirmed in response to questions from The Telegraph.

He has been one of three figureheads of a wave of industrial action on the railways alongside Mick Lynch, the head of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union (RMT) and Mick Whelan, general secretary of drivers union Aslef.

Mr Cortes, 55, is facing allegations of unwanted touching and demands for kisses from at least two women, The Guardian reported in September.

The union leader has denied claims of harassment but has apologised for any hurt caused by his behaviour.

Last month, Baroness Helena Kennedy KC was appointed to conduct an independent inquiry into claims of sexual harassment and bullying at the TSSA following specific allegations against Mr Cortes.

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