Post-Brexit fallout - we can't have our cake or eat it

[Paul Calf]

Brexiters have so many walls of defence protecting their core view that unfortunately anything short of large chunks of England falling into the sea won't be enough, and even then that will be the EU's fault.

It's clear that quietly some of them have realised it's going badly and hasn't been the thrill rush of sticking it to Johnny Foreigner and bloody well making our own way unfettered on the high seas that they hoped, but there's nothing like the British for stewing in our own piss rather than admitting there's a problem and changing the plans.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

[frajer]

Even in my industry which relies heavily on import/export with EU, some people still won't admit to just how much the Brexit they wanted has utterly shafted everything, causing scarcity of parts and components (leading to massive price increase) and transit delays. It's always someone else's fault.

Those same people are also the ones who aren't even bothering to pretend Brexit is a supposedly beneficial thing they voted for anymore, it's just something shit "that happened" and we all have to deal with now. Thoroughly fucking depressing.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Never heard of them before, but looking at their website some of their food suppliers are holding banners with text on them, seems ideal for some gentle photoshopping:

https://www.jacks-uk.com/producers

Joe Button looks like he could crush a horse skull with one hand

[Fambo Number Mive]

'Red Wall' and other poorer areas of England will lose up to £1bn of development cash this year because of Brexit, despite Boris Johnson's vow to "level up" the country.

The government promised to match the grants – to build local economies by attracting businesses and jobs – when the UK left the EU, but has yet to set up a promised replacement fund.

Instead, just £220m is being made available across the whole of the UK for 2021-22, and no money has yet been handed out at all – even though the financial year is nearly halfway over...

Areas of the North and Midlands, many of which switched to the Tories at the 2019 election after the prime minister's "levelling up" pledge, received £500m a year from EU Structural Funds, new analysis shows.

Now they will receive only a slice of the stopgap £220m Community Renewal Fund – amid further anger that councils had to put in bids, rather than be allocated cash according to need...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-red-wall-levelling-up-b1901999.html

[Buelligan]

*larry david fainting gif*

[Sebastian Cobb]

Joe Button looks like he could crush a horse skull with one hand

These are the 'big boys on farms' Partridge warned us about.

[Wonderful Butternut]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-red-wall-levelling-up-b1901999.html

I assume we've all had heart attacks and died from being not surprised.

[Paul Calf]

Bit low-effort, but...

[Paul Calf]

[mothman]

If I didn't know he was dead, I'd be asking if Keith Flint had retired to the Shires to live on his millions.

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

It sounds more and more like what the Tories should've done was just tell everyone that they were leaving the EU and then not left. Just stick a wipe-clean picture of a big Union Jack on the passports or something. "oh yeah see this means we Brexited but everything's the same".

[Dex Sawash]

Joe Button looks like he could crush a horse skull with one hand

Turning into a potato from bottom up

[jamiefairlie]

Turning into a potato from bottom up

[katzenjammer]

Not enough turkeys for Christmas due to Brexit

They didn't vote for this!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/19/chicken-producers-brexit-staff-supply-shortages-uk-immigration-jobs-eu

[Fambo Number Mive]

Maybe they could unite in some form of union.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Also: List of Tory MP's who have been funding the ERG using public money:

Analysis of expenses data which I undertook for Byline Times reveals which Tory MPs have, in effect, used taxpayer cash to fund their membership fees to this controversial body.

MPs pay into their parties' research units using funds from their office budgets. What is unique about the ERG is that it has been described as a 'party within a party', with many Tory MPs funding the Conservative research service and the ERG's at the same time.

https://leftfootforward.org/2021/08/here-are-the-tory-mps-who-are-paying-tax-payer-cash-to-the-european-research-group/

[Wet Blanket]

Maybe they could unite in some form of union.

That's from the Mail on Sunday which backed remain even before the referendum. When it was under Geordie Grieg or whatever his name is he always took the opposite party line of the daily paper due to a personal beef with Paul Dacre.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Exports of food and drink to the EU have suffered a "disastrous" decline in the first half of the year because of Brexit trade barriers, with sales of beef and cheese hit hardest.

Food and Drink Federation (FDF) producers lost £2bn in sales, a dent in revenue that could not be compensated for by the increased sales in the same period to non-EU countries including China and Australia.

Dominic Goudie, head of international trade at the FDF, said: "The return to growth in exports to non-EU markets is welcome news, but it doesn't make up for the disastrous loss of £2bn in sales to the EU. It clearly demonstrates the serious difficulties manufacturers in our industry continue to face and the urgent need for additional specialist support."...

John Whitehead, director of the Food and Drink Exporters Association, said: "There is growing evidence that the complexity of trading with the EU has led to businesses moving operations into Europe and of importers looking for alternative suppliers, contributing to the ongoing decline in both UK exports and UK jobs."...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/02/brexit-uk-food-drink-exports-eu-disastrous-decline

[Hundhoon]

It's been half a decade yet I still see the editors at Twitter (site I rarely go on anymore)  promoting FBPE# Brexit algorithms. Most have not much real engagement. When do you reckon it will stop being a thing for these people..been quite a long time, 2023 maybe? Will they accept we will never rejoin the EU I mean

[Buelligan]

At this rate, you'll all looking at your twitter on tin cans with lengths of string between, good luck to you, you proud island race!

[katzenjammer]

When do you reckon it will stop being a thing for these people..been quite a long time, 2023 maybe? Will they accept we will never rejoin the EU I mean

Oh I expect they will when all those Brexit benefits appear, any day now

[Paul Calf]

Just wait until that Brexit dividend is paid into their bank accounts. It'll go a small distance to making up for the food price inflation and increased medical care costs.

[jobotic]

Yeah but FPBE isn't about being a remainer is it? I'm a remainer and I'm definitely not one of them.

It's a badge to say rich centrist grown up, isn't it?

[Huxleys Babkins]

Brexit was the right wing idea that if we left the EU, everything would go back to how it was in the good old days circa 1945 - 1973.

FBPE is the liberal left idea that if we rejoin the EU, everything will go back to how it was in the good old days circa 1992 - 2012.

Both ideas were and are very, very wrong.

[Kankurette]

Yeah but FPBE isn't about being a remainer is it? I'm a remainer and I'm definitely not one of them.

It's a badge to say rich centrist grown up, isn't it?

Also a Remainer, also can't stand FBPE. They make me cringe. Never mind food shortages or job losses, MUH DOGGY PASSPORT!

[Buelligan]

Yeah but FPBE isn't about being a remainer is it? I'm a remainer and I'm definitely not one of them.

It's a badge to say rich centrist grown up, isn't it?

Yes, never seen an FBPE who didn't immediately reveal their utter cuntitude.  Fuck me, those fucks are fucks.

[jobotic]

They're the Remainers who really were worried about dinner party supplies, the second home in the Dordogne and having to find Ollie and Olivia's shoes in the morning because Kasia's gone back to Poland. The people that the Biggys pretended all remainers were.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Also the type of Remainers who said next to nothing about Cameron's austerity because it didn't affect them, if he hadn't called the Brexit referendum they'd still love him.
Mind you, if he hadn't called the Brexi t referendum he might still be Prime Minister.They'd still be talking about "SamCam", remember when the media were obsessed with her? FBPE types loved her as well.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I didn't see "more untreated sewage being dumped near you" on the side of the Leave campaign bus



Via https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1435195547816759296

[steveh]

Three are the latest mobile company to bring back roaming charges. For new or upgrading customers after 1 October no more Go Roam from 23 May 2022, instead £2 / day max in the EU or £5 / day max elsewhere.

https://www.threemediacentre.co.uk/content/three-uk-statement-on-roaming/