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MaggieTulliver Mon 04-Oct-21 07:30:56

The foreign media seem to think we only have ourselves to blame for the current shortages because we voted for Brexit and I totally agree. The current posturing of this hopeless government says it all and the fact that Boris is offering temporary visas to foreign drivers is pathetic and an admission that it’s Brexit that has caused the current problems. Please try to convince me that Brexit has been good for our country - I’ve been angry about it since 2016! www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/03/only-yourselves-to-blame-uks-shortages-seen-from-abroad

GrannyGravy13 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:24:12

MaizieD unbelievable ??

MerylStreep Mon 04-Oct-21 10:24:12

The only thing I’m a little peeved about is the fact that my daughter has cancelled lunch because she has too much work filling job vacancies.
Another daughter left her job ( payroll ) with the police force last week and walked straight into another one with a substantial increase in pay.
So it’s not all bad ?

Whitewavemark2 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:25:35

GrannyGravy13

Jackiest

The problem with Brexit is that I can no longer find enough bricklayers to build a wall long enough to line 17,410,742 people up against.

I have reported your post.

It is offensive, and those agreeing should be ashamed.

That is a tad snowflake -y.

maddyone Mon 04-Oct-21 10:26:09

Massive shortages of doctors and nurses and GPs.

Thank you Maizie, I’ve been banging on about this for months on other threads, and have been shouted down by many posters. Not all by any means but definitely many.

growstuff Mon 04-Oct-21 10:26:31

Jane43

I didn’t vote for Brexit but my friend in America says there are very similar problems over there so although Brexit has played a part it isn't the only cause of our present problems.

I agree, but it's a major contributory factor.

Back to the OP ...

Can anybody persuade MaggieTulliver that Brexit has been good for our country?

growstuff Mon 04-Oct-21 10:27:47

maddyone

^Massive shortages of doctors and nurses and GPs.^

Thank you Maizie, I’ve been banging on about this for months on other threads, and have been shouted down by many posters. Not all by any means but definitely many.

I haven't seen people disagreeing with you. I have seen people (including me) objecting to your trying to blame patients.

Lincslass Mon 04-Oct-21 10:28:14

Eviebeanz

I may not be the right person to respond as I can't convince you that Brexit has been a good thing because I don't believe that. I didn't believe it before it happened and I'm more convinced now. It angers me to know that people who had made lives here and worked here happily were made to leave and that people from these same countries are now being begged to return and have to be paid a premium to do so. When will we ever learn. ?

No one was made to leave, we still have plenty of Polish nationals in our town, and others from Spain, working in the hospital, and Portuguese working in hospitality. Just had to follow different rules, as we do when we go to live anywhere else in the world.

maddyone Mon 04-Oct-21 10:28:53

Course you have growstuff.

maddyone Mon 04-Oct-21 10:29:26

Perhaps selective reading growstuff.

Kandinsky Mon 04-Oct-21 10:29:35

I’ve reported it too GrannyGravy13 & I never report anything!
Absolutely awful post & those laughing it off are just as bad.
It’s up to HQ to decide if it’s just ‘banter’ or offensive.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:29:54

Well it seems to be good for the very wealthy who have made a killing in tax avoidance, and hedging.

So I suppose that can be considered a benefit, although their wealth is mostly held off shore and no tax comes to benefit the country, so the benefit is very limited.

growstuff Mon 04-Oct-21 10:30:36

Exactly! Our freedom/choice of movement has been restricted, which has repercussions on a personal and economic level.

growstuff Mon 04-Oct-21 10:31:27

maddyone

Course you have growstuff.

Yes, I have. Maybe your interpretation is somewhat biased.

Lucca Mon 04-Oct-21 10:32:02

the far left contributors on here

Like who ? Anyone who voted Remain? Anyone who doesn’t approve of Boris etc ?

Lincslass Mon 04-Oct-21 10:33:27

growstuff

The best solution long-term would be to reunite the island of Ireland.

In your eyes maybe, do you really think the people of NI want this, letting EU annexe part of the UK , to suit their protectionist one size fits all (it doesn’t) agenda. There would then truly be a border in NI , is that what you really want.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:33:31

Lucca

*the far left contributors on here*

Like who ? Anyone who voted Remain? Anyone who doesn’t approve of Boris etc ?

Reds under the beds????

vegansrock Mon 04-Oct-21 10:34:10

No one can say what the practical benefits of Brexit are apart from ideological sound bites about sovereignty etc which when we’ve got the likes of Liz Truss scrabbling around for trade deals and trying to join other trading blocs - will we get a referendum on whether we want to join that Far Eastern one?- Which maybe indicates we can’t cope in isolation. All very well to talk about wage rises but if wages go up we all know that leads to price rises and inflation which negate those wage rises and make those whose incomes haven’t risen poorer. Plus over a million of those who voted in 2016 have since died so they certainly won’t be reaping any benefits and those who have reached adulthood since then had no say and will suffer the removal
If the freedoms and prosperity we enjoyed whilst members. Anyone who things David Frost some sort of intellectual giant should question his negotiating skills in the first place.

Lucca Mon 04-Oct-21 10:36:49

Lucca

*the far left contributors on here*

Like who ? Anyone who voted Remain? Anyone who doesn’t approve of Boris etc ?

Having voted Lib Dem more often than not I suddenly find at the age of 71 I must be a far leftie? I am singing the Red Flag as I write.

GrannyGravy13 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:37:56

If Jackiest’s post was towards Myslims, Afro Caribbean’s or the Jewish Community would that be banter ?

I am amazed at those who cannot see it’s wrong and offensive?

GrannyGravy13 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:41:59

Whitewavemark2 I am not a snowflake as you suggest.

My moral compass is not set in a way that I find Jackiest funny or acceptable it amounts to a joke referring to mass genocide?

Alegrias1 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:44:08

This is going well, isn't it?

Any benefits? Any at all?

Guess not.

GrannyGravy13 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:49:00

It might have if a remain voter didn’t advocate mass genocide for those who voted to leave…

MaizieD Mon 04-Oct-21 10:49:14

Anyone who things David Frost some sort of intellectual giant should question his negotiating skills in the first place.

Funny you should mention that, Lucca because Frost is getting a bit of a pasting on twitter at the moment.

Apparently he's just told the tory conference that the NIP is a terrible thing and that it was the Remainers that made him do it. In view of all the statements he made at the time that the 'deal' was being trumpeted as the best thing since sliced bread, which are being highlighted on the thread, he is certainly a past master at mental gymnastics, even though his negotiating skills leave much to be desired.

twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1444948134824718337

(Not that I can see any Leavers reading this grin )

Whitewavemark2 Mon 04-Oct-21 10:49:21

Alegrias1

This is going well, isn't it?

Any benefits? Any at all?

Guess not.

The very wealthy won’t agree.

Laughing all the way to the bank.

growstuff Mon 04-Oct-21 10:50:28

GrannyGravy13

It might have if a remain voter didn’t advocate mass genocide for those who voted to leave…

One poster, not all of us.