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Cont: Brexit: Now What? Turning it up to 11

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By now it feels like kicking the dog you've just ran over in your range rover.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...atch-eu-spending-after-brexit-hows-that-going

UK ministers pledged to match EU funds after Brexit. How’s that going?

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Hundreds of voluntary organisations have had to shut up shop or end support programmes for the most vulnerable in society because of government delays in replacing EU funding, it has emerged.

“The baby has been completely thrown out with the bathwater and it is just having a big impact,” said Matthew Brown, the director of operations at the Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA), which ran the £44m active inclusion fund providing grants to support disadvantaged people into employment.

“Our final projects are coming to an end at the end of December and we’re having to lay off staff because the SPF has not come in time,” he said.

“We are dismantling and moving staff, and closing down stuff that the UK government and local authorities and Wales are going to have to look at rebuilding in the next couple of years.”....snip...
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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that mistakes were made on both sides in the Brexit negotiations:

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said mistakes were made on all sides in the way Brexit was negotiated.

Mr Varadkar said he would be "flexible and reasonable" when attempting to solve issues with the Northern Ireland protocol.

He admitted that "perhaps" the treaty was a "little bit too strict" and that the European Union was willing to make compromises.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64149139

I think this is a gross and terrible misjudgement. It will merely embolden the UK's Brexiteers who insist that the EU will fold soon and they'll get their unicorns and rainbows Brexit.
 
The Don said:
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that mistakes were made on both sides in the Brexit negotiations:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64149139

I think this is a gross and terrible misjudgement. It will merely embolden the UK's Brexiteers who insist that the EU will fold soon and they'll get their unicorns and rainbows Brexit.
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We know that he can't change anything since it would require the entire EU to agree so I'm assuming it is for domestic consumption as much as anything.

I agree it will read as the EU "giving in" by a certain segment of the Tory party, which is strange given we were told Brexit was done..... ;)
 
Darat said:
We know that he can't change anything since it would require the entire EU to agree so I'm assuming it is for domestic consumption as much as anything.

I agree it will read as the EU "giving in" by a certain segment of the Tory party, which is strange given we were told Brexit was done..... ;)
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It was done, but the EU did the dirty on us by insisting that the terms of the signed deal were implemented rather than just allowing the UK to do what we wanted. :mad:
 
The Don said:
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that mistakes were made on both sides in the Brexit negotiations:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64149139

I think this is a gross and terrible misjudgement. It will merely embolden the UK's Brexiteers who insist that the EU will fold soon and they'll get their unicorns and rainbows Brexit.
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Leo said that for one reason and one reason only, sucking up to unionists. The current FFG/I can't beleive we're not a Green party coalition have one strategy and one strategy only to contest the next election and that is to tar SF by any means fair or foul.

They believe that if the Good Friday Agreement fails they'll be able to cast aspersions of blame on SF and hurt the latter electorally down here. If that is done by making brexiteers and other loons bold, then so be it.
 
The Don said:
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that mistakes were made on both sides in the Brexit negotiations:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64149139

I think this is a gross and terrible misjudgement. It will merely embolden the UK's Brexiteers who insist that the EU will fold soon and they'll get their unicorns and rainbows Brexit.
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Agreed, but it is Varadkar so that's not a surprise.
 
When Rees-Mogg and Brexit Bulldog Davis are reduced to arguing over what Brexit means in terms of removing EU-derived legislation (per yesterday's "debate" in the Commons), what chance is there of anyone else knowing what Brexit was actually supposed to mean and what folk thought they were voting for?
 
The bonfire of legislation later this year is going to be a complete ****-storm because the government have absolutely no idea how pervasive that legislation is and how much will be needed to replace it.

It'll be a complete shambles - which is what the vulture capitalist architects of Brexit want. :mad:
 
The Don said:
The bonfire of legislation later this year is going to be a complete ****-storm because the government have absolutely no idea how pervasive that legislation is and how much will be needed to replace it.

It'll be a complete shambles - which is what the vulture capitalist architects of Brexit want. :mad:
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Plus they i.e. ministers are going to be able to replace it with anything they want. 48 hour working week directive scrapped, replaced by sackable offence if you don't do a minimum of 48 hours!

ETA: Oh of course that won't happen they've told us that worker's rights will be a top priority.... https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/will-the-48-hour-working-week-be-scrapped/
 
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The Don said:
The bonfire of legislation later this year is going to be a complete ****-storm because the government have absolutely no idea how pervasive that legislation is and how much will be needed to replace it.
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I think it was on twitter I read someone explaining Brexit to their kid. "Imagine you and your pals have been sharing your lego sets and building together for years. Now someone wants to leave and take all their Lego bits with them. All the blue ones."
 
Wudang said:
I think it was on twitter I read someone explaining Brexit to their kid. "Imagine you and your pals have been sharing your lego sets and building together for years. Now someone wants to leave and take all their Lego bits with them. All the blue ones."
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And all of yours. And then smashes them up so they are useless to everyone.

Psst: it's LEGO
 
Wudang said:
I think it was on twitter I read someone explaining Brexit to their kid. "Imagine you and your pals have been sharing your lego sets and building together for years. Now someone wants to leave and take all their Lego bits with them. All the blue ones."
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No we didn't take anything back. Our mates kept all our Lego pieces and everything we built together.

Sadly we have now run out of bricks.
 
catsmate said:
In another Brexit "success" story a small business is being driven to the wall by UKGov stupidity and intransigence.
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...tish-bike-storage-firm-buckles-under-red-tape
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No, you've got it all wrong. Brexit itself is brilliant, it's just been bungled. Nigel Farage was recently complaining about the brain drain of talent from The City to Milan. Apparently it wasn't down to the stupidity of Brexit but because the Tories didn't deliver the unicorns an moonbeams Brexit of his dreams.

For goodness sakes we held all the cards, how did we manage to play them so badly. :rolleyes:
 
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