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Dec 24, 2020 18:37:31 GMT
Post by Brick Wall on Dec 24, 2020 18:37:31 GMT
Yo, Britain. Fuck you. Don't let the door hit you in the ass. That is all.
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Brexit
Dec 24, 2020 18:50:36 GMT
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Dec 24, 2020 18:50:36 GMT
Apart from that prick who keeps turning up here under wanky nicknames, did anything give the impression that anyone from the U.K. here thinks the whole Brexit shit show was a good idea?
The best thing I can say about today is that Johnson’s a dead man walking now he’s played his one hit.
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Dec 24, 2020 23:08:31 GMT
Post by guffman on Dec 24, 2020 23:08:31 GMT
But.............the FISH! We win on fish! Sure, everything else might be fucked, but.............FISH!
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Dec 29, 2020 0:09:48 GMT
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Dec 29, 2020 0:09:48 GMT
The only good thing about the blue passport is that they’re made in Poland, so at least the racist, thick as shit morons (aka 52% of the British population) are providing jobs for Europeans.
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Dec 29, 2020 2:01:04 GMT
Post by hoffa_nagila on Dec 29, 2020 2:01:04 GMT
I always wonder why those fucks are always going on about needing a blue passport again. It is not as if those idiots are ever going to leave the country. Do they think they need to show it in order to be let through the gate at Butlin's? Off to a rave in Ibiza
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Post by Chicken in Black on Dec 29, 2020 9:11:03 GMT
The only good thing about the blue passport is that they’re made in Poland, so at least the racist, thick as shit morons (aka 52% of the British population) are providing jobs for Europeans. Made in Poland by a French-Dutch company. The British competitor lost the bid. And the UK was allowed to have a blue cover when it was a member of the EU. The brown cover was just a recommandation.
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Dec 29, 2020 9:15:20 GMT
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Post by aaa-appreciator on Dec 29, 2020 9:15:20 GMT
There’s no reasoning with stupidity.
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Dec 29, 2020 14:03:45 GMT
Post by Sanjay Gupton on Dec 29, 2020 14:03:45 GMT
My USA passport has a blue cover. Who do the Brits think they are? Get your own color, England. Or Britain. Or whoever you say you are these days.
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Dec 29, 2020 16:31:22 GMT
Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 29, 2020 16:31:22 GMT
Fuck dead eyed bastard Johnson. The UK is over.
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Dec 30, 2020 21:13:26 GMT
Post by Brick Wall on Dec 30, 2020 21:13:26 GMT
The European Union called. They said they are planning a big welcome for Scotland.
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Dec 30, 2020 21:36:32 GMT
Post by Ago on Dec 30, 2020 21:36:32 GMT
UK resident here. I voted to remain and have been upset about ever since (kinda like your average SHite and Chappie Day). Me and the wife have seriously considered moving to Scotland but money-wise we're stuck. We're fucked.
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Dec 30, 2020 22:15:38 GMT
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Dec 30, 2020 22:15:38 GMT
Scotland is second on my list of places to relocate. I’m mercifully married to someone who has an EU passport and doesn’t mind moving back to the mainland. We speak seven languages between us (well she speaks seven, I only speak three) so it’s not a far fetched idea.
I don’t talk about Brexit with anyone because it caused me genuine anxiety and depression. It was a prime catalyst for seeking therapy (which was helpful), and even now it’s ‘finished’ and I can wake up without a lurching dread in my stomach, I still have nothing but white-hot burning hatred for every fucker that enabled this shit and all the little-Englander closet racists who voted because they didn’t like hearing Polish being spoken on their high streets. I wish nothing but unpleasant futures for all of them.
I’ll tell you why it really hit home - my wife moved here about two years before the Brexit vote, having been an Anglophile for years beforehand, and loving the U.K. and everything about it. To see her then be reduced to tears because she felt a nation she loved reject her based on where she was born, or to be asked by her colleagues when she would be ‘going home’ was absolutely heartbreaking to me and I will never be able to forgive that even some of my immediate family voted to leave.
The good part is that we now get to watch the public disintegration of Boris Johnson, who will quickly exhaust whatever goodwill he’s shored up in his party and be slowly picked apart by opportunist rivals. He clearly hates being Prime Minister as much as most people hate him, so I hope it’s a slow, humiliating descent.
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Dec 31, 2020 2:43:41 GMT
Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 31, 2020 2:43:41 GMT
Scotland is second on my list of places to relocate. I’m mercifully married to someone who has an EU passport and doesn’t mind moving back to the mainland. We speak seven languages between us (well she speaks seven, I only speak three) so it’s not a far fetched idea. I don’t talk about Brexit with anyone because it caused me genuine anxiety and depression. It was a prime catalyst for seeking therapy (which was helpful), and even now it’s ‘finished’ and I can wake up without a lurching dread in my stomach, I still have nothing but white-hot burning hatred for every fucker that enabled this shit and all the little-Englander closet racists who voted because they didn’t like hearing Polish being spoken on their high streets. I wish nothing but unpleasant futures for all of them. I’ll tell you why it really hit home - my wife moved here about two years before the Brexit vote, having been an Anglophile for years beforehand, and loving the U.K. and everything about it. To see her then be reduced to tears because she felt a nation she loved reject her based on where she was born, or to be asked by her colleagues when she would be ‘going home’ was absolutely heartbreaking to me and I will never be able to forgive that even some of my immediate family voted to leave. The good part is that we now get to watch the public disintegration of Boris Johnson, who will quickly exhaust whatever goodwill he’s shored up in his party and be slowly picked apart by opportunist rivals. He clearly hates being Prime Minister as much as most people hate him, so I hope it’s a slow, humiliating descent. I live in London. My company is pulling out of here and relocating to Frankfurt. I might just move there.
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Dec 31, 2020 4:25:25 GMT
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Dec 31, 2020 4:25:25 GMT
Please forgive my ignorance on this topic. I'm hoping you can educate me. I never really picked up on what "Brexit" is all about. Great Britain is leaving the EU? If someone could give me the bottom line of what it means and why it's so bad, I'd appreciate it. God knows I've had my hands full with president chuckles and his group of dipshits.
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Dec 31, 2020 9:37:52 GMT
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Dec 31, 2020 9:37:52 GMT
Please forgive my ignorance on this topic. I'm hoping you can educate me. I never really picked up on what "Brexit" is all about. Great Britain is leaving the EU? If someone could give me the bottom line of what it means and why it's so bad, I'd appreciate it. God knows I've had my hands full with president chuckles and his group of dipshits. The U.K. is leaving the EU (Great Britain is the island of England, Scotland and Wales, U.K. is that island plus Northern Ireland). Broadly, the upshot is that a bunch of people who like to yell slogans like ‘Two world wars and one World Cup’ when they’re drunk or in a foreign country didn’t like the fact that free movement of people (one of the central tenets of the EU) meant that there were scant barriers to people from other EU countries coming over here to live. Added to that a perpetual stream of right-wing journalism informing them that the EU was making rules and laws that affected them adversely led to an underlying (and predominantly xenophobic) mindset of sovereignty being threatened, hence the vote to leave. The fact that the U.K. received pretty much the highest level of financial subsidy from the EU and was one of its most powerful members, as well as the architect of most of its laws gets conveniently overlooked by stupid people who see it as Germany trying to keep the U.K. under its control, and still bear a grudge for a war that ended 75 years ago (I’m not making this up). There were people who claimed they were not voting for reasons of anti-immigration (like my naive Dad who claimed he didn’t like bureaucrats in another country making rules for him, or my brother who claimed he voted to leave as a protest vote against the ‘political elite’, another narrative variation in the city vs country rivalry that got amplified while this was going on), but most voted because they are flat-out racist. Even when a far-right nut job shot a left-wing politician dead in broad daylight a week before the vote while yelling slogans about keeping Britain great or some shit, they still won the vote to Leave. The problem is that no one exactly defined what ‘leaving’ meant. It’s like saying you’re voting for red over green, but no one has agreed on what shade of red you want. Leaving could have meant rescinding membership of the EU but continued membership of stuff like a customs union to allow movement of goods in a trading bloc, the trade off being that the U.K. would remain subject to EU legal jurisdiction. But the hard-right faction backing Brexit applied pressure on the establishment to ditch everything so that the U.K. became an independent nation with its own trade deals and independence from any EU influence, and despite very vocal opposition from the public and a lot of MPs they essentially got their way. As to why it’s all happening now, the U.K. formally left the EU on Jan 31st (delayed from the original departure date of 29th March 2019). But the last eleven months up to today have kept the U.K. under EU rules as part of a transition period while a new trade and securities deal was struck. The deal is monumentally shit, and still requires businesses to make substantial changes to their trade with the EU, and will increase costs to small business as well as further tariffs on incoming goods and will damage the economy. However, it’s better than the alternative which was to trade with the EU on WTO terms (which would levy additional tariffs on export and import and absolutely decimate the U.K. economy as well as creating job losses in the EU side in areas like car manufacture which has strong ties to the U.K.). Amazingly, some of the far-right were actively lobbying for this outcome and the ‘no deal’ threat was used as a bargaining tool by Boris Johnson during negotiations. There’s also the issue of the border between Ireland (in the EU) and Northern Ireland (not in the EU now), which is a whole other headache that at it’s peak saw the potential return of checkpoints and stuff that had been removed once the peace process was completed in the 90s. Yeah, the government was more concerned about getting Brexit competed than keeping a fragile peace treaty. So, in a nutshell, the English government (dragging Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with them despite opposition) has given up its position of power in an organisation designed to peacefully unite countries, and deliberately made it difficult to trade or live or work with those countries all because some narrow-minded pricks thought there were too many foreigners not speaking English. It’s absolutely fucking shameful.
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