Brexit Fallout

Both my husband and I have had a few long waits and occurs with some of our meds, mine for diabetes and pain patches, his for heart tablets.

We are not better off away from the EU and I’m still patiently waiting for the oven-ready deals

The ones feeling uncomfortable are those who voted for Brexit. It was a disaster as voters were lied to. Those liars should be made accountable. Travelling for instance, has been affected.

Gisela Stewart on this very forum told us all we’d have cheaper energy bills….

Grantanow

Andrea ('I'm a mum') Leadsom told Kate Burley that businesses simply needed to adapt when Kate skewered her about the £330 million of extra costs they will incur as a result of border checks with the EU. Translation: the Tories don't care about small businesses going to the wall.

Yes, that's been all over my twitter timeline this morning. I liked this comment:

To be fair (at least initially) she is saying businesses knew that there would be extra costs.
She's right and they were telling people like Leadsom this all the time, but she and her friends refused to accept it. She and her friends also lied to the public about it constantly.

Pity Burley didn't challenge her on that.

After all, we were were told things like:

"No-one is talking about leaving the Single Market" Hannon

"We'll have a deal like Norway" Farage (clearly oblivious to the fact that he and the rest were campaigning against Free Movement in the guise of unwelcome immigration, when the Norway deal depends on accepting free movement)

Of course, we might have people claiming that the £330million extra costs to business is more than compensated for by that £350 million a week we're spending on the NHS 👿

Oreo

Groan, this old record being played again?
My Mum has no probs getting her diabetic type2 meds, I know cos I pick them up for her.
All this years down the line bellyaching has to stop at some point, it’s like some just enjoy being prophets of doom.
I didn’t vote for it but more people did and I accept that.Have to say I haven’t noticed anything changing since then.The pandemic was the worst thing and thank God that’s over.

Bit selfish that…I haven’t noticed a problem…but many of us have …I’m a small specialist self-employed trader and cannot sent to France, Germany or Spain any longer due to ‘packaging restrictions’ , customs taxes, etc, and general red tape to other countries. The stockpiling referred to May have an effect on medications on the near future and trade agreements are almost impossible to get since Brexit.
YOU might not have noticed a difference in your world, I and others certainly have!

The Canada deal has not been abandoned. We failed to agree on chlorinated chicken and beef imports. The deal can still be brokered but I hope without the chicken.

glammagran

Hormone fed beef cattle imported from Canada? No thanks! Apart JRM who I’m sure thinks it’s fine.

Plus Chlorine washed chickens which are not allowed in UK

Maremia

Democracy means you may vote again. Let's put this whole issue to bed, and see how many folk still agree with Brexit. Simples.

So we simply keep on voting till we the anti Brexiteers get the result they want. Shall we do that at every general election when the minority dislike the result ?

Not just medications, can't get anyone in Europe to ship us a new exhaust for our old LHD van!

Andrea ('I'm a mum') Leadsom told Kate Burley that businesses simply needed to adapt when Kate skewered her about the £330 million of extra costs they will incur as a result of border checks with the EU. Translation: the Tories don't care about small businesses going to the wall.

Galaxy

I am not sure that people on University Challenge are representative of anything really, even university students

😂

Or it could mean that if they lower their standards we could lower ours even further. It a little world of wonder people like JRM live in Whitewave

Love this twitter feed by Brian Cox - the physicist

So JRM on GBNews

Jacob Ree-Mogg says we don't need to apply the terms of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, because food standards in the EU are much higher than they are in the UK.

And by applying them, we turn the UK into a miniature EU.

Brian Cox

This is worth watching for the cognitive dissonance on display. As far as I can tell, the argument is that implementing Brexit in the form of a customs and regulatory border between the U.K. and EU damages Brexit.
Furthermore, the argument continues, we don’t need to implement border controls on food because the EU has higher standards than we do. Therefore, it follows, as long as we maintain lower standards than the EU, we don’t need to implement Brexit.
And furthermore (II) the EU are criticised for having higher standards, which presumably means that they should lower their standards, which would then necessitate the introduction of border checks, which would damage Brexit.

Oh dear😀😀

I am not sure that people on University Challenge are representative of anything really, even university students

Maybe they all misunderstood the question.

True. So were they all asleep in 2016?

varian

I suppose some students are only eighteen or so and therefore hardly remember the fraudulent referendum of 2016 when they were only about ten.

Many young people seem to take no interest in current affairs, even quite clever young people.

But it still shocks me.

But the Open University team were much older!

Actually I am not sure that's true, they consume news in a different way, I think the popularity of the long form podcasts shows that. They just consume current affairs in a different way.

I suppose some students are only eighteen or so and therefore hardly remember the fraudulent referendum of 2016 when they were only about ten.

Many young people seem to take no interest in current affairs, even quite clever young people.

But it still shocks me.

On University Challenge last night both teams seem to have forgotten that we were no longer in the EU. And one team was the Open University one! I couldn’t believe it.

ronib

Dinahmo it was fine. Having a tooth filled is much worse. Four weeks of eye drops, no bending , no heavy lifting no housework for a week…… such hardship.

Thank you.

Dinahmo. Allotments, community allotments, grow bags re flat dwellers wanting to grow produce.

Dinahmo it was fine. Having a tooth filled is much worse. Four weeks of eye drops, no bending , no heavy lifting no housework for a week…… such hardship.

It’s sickening. So much trouble caused by lies, the Daily Mail, Johnson and people who voted for Brexit in the belief that immigration figures would go down and we would have straight bananas.

The US…………..made it clear that one of the terms of a potential deal was that foodstuffs wouldn’t be labelled as from the USA

That would of course make it very difficult to reject American foods. No wonder we failed to get a trade deal, and I say thank goodness for that. I guess that I, along with others who have travelled, have probably eaten meat produced in this inferior way at some point in our lives, but we can normally avoid it by buying British or European goods when at home, which is most of the time.