Cont: Brexit: Now What? Part 5

[Andy_Ross]

British GPS:

Far better than whatever will emerge from the current debacle.

 

[TheSupermeerkat]

Far better than whatever will emerge from the current debacle.

I look forwards to the BritNav(tm) - I expect some gormless Tory sitting down to negotiate for a Russian, European or US launch system will be hilarious.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Britain obtained a European Arrest Warrant to nab the Russian Novichok suspects.
A EUROPEAN Arrest Warrant. You know, the ones issued by the EU that we're about to leave.

 

[Belz...]

The £92 million is just for an eighteen month feasibility study.

 

[ceptimus]

Britain obtained a European Arrest Warrant to nab the Russian Novichok suspects.
A EUROPEAN Arrest Warrant. You know, the ones issued by the EU that we're about to leave.

Yes, and it will be completely useless for getting Russia to release the suspects - just as useless as a British arrest warrant.

 

[TheSupermeerkat]

Yes, and it will be completely useless for getting Russia to release the suspects - just as useless as a British arrest warrant.

But one does carry the weight and influence of a rather large influential trading block.

 

[Klimax]

But one does carry the weight and influence of a rather large influential trading block.

And it limits severely their travel options...

 

[Andy_Ross]

Yes, and it will be completely useless for getting Russia to release the suspects - just as useless as a British arrest warrant.

But it means if the suspects step in to any country that is part of the EAW they will be arrested and extradited to Britain.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Don't you and Darat know anything about Tomorrow's World. It's not actually using a time machine, but just an extrapolation - and I have always thought it rather optimistic.

I was both extrapolating and being optimistic.

Otherwise I'd have said 'spikes on their donkeys' and 'fighting for potable water'

 

[Information Analyst]

Unhelpful answer: to the people and institutions who usually get said pork, in ridings currently held by Conservative MPs.

So all to Yorkshire and possible Lincolnshire, then?

More probable answer: a bunch of companies that have some sort of tie to the current government. It sounds like some people are going to get a lot of money for something that should cost an order of magnitude less. Which, admittedly, is £9.2 million, not the £1 million I had originally mentioned.

I'm still uncertain as to why a feasibility study should cost just south of a hundred million pounds. Or is their idea of a "study" to actually build and launch a satellite?

Yes, I'm sure the Public Acconts Committee will be totally looking the other way, just for this one project.

 

[Information Analyst]

I was both extrapolating and being optimistic.

Otherwise I'd have said 'spikes on their donkeys' and 'fighting for potable water'

I prefer a more genteel societal regression.

 

[Degeneve]

Is my understanding right that the UK Government has just provided everyone with user guides for life jackets that are not available or do not even exist?

 

[Lothian]

Is my understanding right that the UK Government has just provided everyone with user guides for life jackets that are not available or do not even exist?

We don't want to hit any icebergs, the icebergs will be damaged if we hit them, they don't want that. We have produced some life jackets that will not help in keeping you afloat but it does't matter because neither us or the icebergs want a collision so an actual collision and the need for life jackets is highly unlikely.

P.S we seem to have been sailing for a number of months without realizing the compass is not working and we don't know what direction we are sailing in. Don't worry we will get to the sun but this icy gale is blowing in an making things difficult.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

I look forwards to the BritNav(tm) - I expect some gormless Tory sitting down to negotiate for a Russian, European or US launch system will be hilarious.

Just needs the right trade deal with Amazon.

You enter the required journey into your BritNav(tm), it emails an order to Amazon in, oh, I dunno, Lichtenstein or wherever they're not paying tax this month, and wait. Within a day or two a drone will deliver your guidance cassette and off you go.

 

[Wudang]

Just needs the right trade deal with Amazon.

You enter the required journey into your BritNav(tm), it emails an order to Amazon in, oh, I dunno, Lichtenstein or wherever they're not paying tax this month, and wait. Within a day or two a drone will deliver your guidance cassette and off you go.

Excellent and the 2 day delay gives you a chance to trap rats to barter for fuel.

 

[Andy_Ross]

JACOB REES-MOGG claims European Union citizens living in Britain will have no more rights after Brexit than those from other countries.

I do not believe there should be any special terms for EU migrants,’ he wrote to Labour peer Lord Adonis. ‘Once we have left the EU there will be no legal basis to treat them differently from migrants from non-EU countries.’

https://www.metro.news/rees-mogg-eu-nationals-will-have-no-right-to-stay/1215909/

 

[GlennB]

JACOB REES-MOGG claims European Union citizens living in Britain will have no more rights after Brexit than those from other countries.

https://www.metro.news/rees-mogg-eu-nationals-will-have-no-right-to-stay/1215909/

Rees-Fogg comes across, more and more, as just plain nuts.

There has to be an agenda here ... maximum Brexit damage=maximum eventual corporate profit? Privatisation left right and centre?

 

[abaddon]

Rees-Fogg comes across, more and more, as just plain nuts.

There has to be an agenda here ... maximum Brexit damage=maximum eventual corporate profit? Privatisation left right and centre?

Don't forget that the Mogg has made sure his money is outside the UK and firmly in the EU.

What a cockwomble.

 

[Wudang]

The government leaps into action over the lack of agricultural workers
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45429397

From Leave Watch:

99% of seasonal farm workers are from Eastern Europe.

The government has announced a pilot of 2,500 6-month visas for non-EU migrant farm workers to help cover labour shortages after Brexit...

...amounting to 1 additional worker for every 85 UK farms.

Phew. That should sort it.

 

[Lukraak_Sisser]

The government leaps into action over the lack of agricultural workers
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45429397

From Leave Watch:


Phew. That should sort it.

Yes, because once that shortage hits, the British youth is going to leap into action and take those jobs, now unrightfully taken from them by them foreigners.