Brexit

[pete]

anyone watch this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kknff

[pete]

cancelled our september holiday to Spain,going to Portugal instead.

[Chillidoggy]

I'm not buying any more of their shitty tomatoes, either.

I wonder if there'll be a Brit backlash?

[pete]

Doubt it Ian the girl in the travel agents couldn't understand why we were doing it and was aghast that I suggested they stop selling Spanish holidays.

[Chillidoggy]

49 minutes ago, pete said:

Doubt it Ian the girl in the travel agents couldn't understand why we were doing it and was aghast that I suggested they stop selling Spanish holidays.

Probably a Remainer.

(Spits.)

 

As far as I can make out, if we stop buying fruit, vegetables, and holidays from Spain, that should do it.

[PaulCP]

54 minutes ago, ian29gte said:

As far as I can make out, if we stop buying fruit, vegetables, and holidays from Spain, that should do it.

Will have zero effect, the Spaish authorities will just sit back, shrug their shoulders and say the decline in the economy from such action will just mean a bigger hand out from the EU.

After all, in their eyes, that's what the EU is for isn't it. Grab as much as you can whilst ignoring every edict of EU legislation that doesn't suit them.

[DaveyT]

But once we're fully out, there won't be any money left to hand them anyway....

[Chillidoggy]

And any money will have to come from Germany, 'cos they're the only ones solvent enough.

[Barrykearley]

3 hours ago, PaulCP said:

Will have zero effect, the Spaish authorities will just sit back, shrug their shoulders and say the decline in the economy from such action will just mean a bigger hand out from the EU.

After all, in their eyes, that's what the EU is for isn't it. Grab as much as you can whilst ignoring every edict of EU legislation that doesn't suit them.

They will just chuck a few more donkeys off church roofs to try and solve the problem 

[pete]

Makes me feel better though

[Chillidoggy]

What really grinds my gears is that we have this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanet_Earth literally on the poxy doorstep, yet can I buy tomatoes or any other veg grown there? Can I bollocks, it's all Spanish, Dutch, Kenyan, Moroccan, and the like. I can usually be found having a good rant over the Tesco fruit and veg section any time I go in there.

[Barrykearley]

You tit - that's probably cos they got and eu payment to grow them and sell them only to Spain ?

[Chillidoggy]

Wouldn't be at all surprised, Barry.

Ironically, the bassist in my band says his mum can always buy Thanet Earth produce in her local supermarket, and she lives in poxy Glasgow!

[Chillidoggy]

[Kimbers]

Think this works for both leavers and remainers and says it all in terms of idiot Brexit refusers

 

[ChrisJ]

 

[Alfa2Evora]

On a brief visit to my local Morrison's supermarket (I know, I know..........but they're just down the road and Waitrose are miles away,  ), I was impressed to see that they were embracing the Brexit ethos and 'doing their bit' supporting home producers.

Beneath the sign there was a large display of boxes of fresh produce. So what delicacy of local fruit and veg were they promoting?

Why, these of course................. global warming must be worse than we thought!

Intrigued as to what part of the UK was now warm enough to support mass production of these citrus delights I inspected the label further to reveal, silly me, it was that well-known growing area just off the A703 south of Edinburgh............

[Barrykearley]

2 hours ago, ChrisJ said:

 

I implore everyone to watch this. What I see as a nice example of a simple working mans opinion

[Chillidoggy]

1 hour ago, Barrykearley said:

I implore everyone to watch this. What I see as a nice example of a simple working mans opinion

 

You definitely had more hair when I saw you last, Barry.

[Chillidoggy]

Check out Farage's latest rant in the EU parliament, it's classic stuff from him, and pulls no punches whatsoever!

[Kimbers]

in terms of SPain wanting Gibraltar to be taken into account in the EU negotiations. Anyone see this? Pot....Kettle.....
 

[ChrisJ]

@Kimbers - don't forget the other bits

[C8RKH]

From the BBC of all places:

More than half a million jobs in Scotland are supported by sales to the rest of the United Kingdom, according to analysis from economists.

The Fraser of Allander Institute study estimated that about 530,000 jobs were directly or indirectly related to sales from Scotland to the rest of the UK.

This was more than four times greater than the 125,000 jobs linked to the rest of the European Union.

The research was commissioned by the UK government.

The Scottish government said the findings ignored the fact that trade was a two-way process.

The UK government had asked the institute to estimate the number of jobs in Scotland linked to the demand for exports from the rest of the UK, the rest of the EU and other international exports.

Fraser of Allander said its economists used the most recent input-output datapublished by the Scottish government - for 2013 - alongside the Scottish government's export statistics to compile the report.

It concluded that in 2013:

• 528,707 jobs were supported by exports to the rest of the UK
• 125,206 to the rest of the EU
• 177,553 to the rest of the world.

It said this meant that 24% of Scotland's total employment was supported by trade with the rest of the UK. The equivalent figure for trade with the rest of the EU was 5.7%, and for the rest of the world was 8.1%.

[basalte]

Well this election is meant to be all about Brexit so I thought it would be appropriate to post here about that new book by Yanis Varoufakis ;  "Adults in the Room".

You probably know that Mr. Varoufakis  was the Greek finance Minister who went to the EU cap in hand to get a bailout for Greece and they told him to sod off. He was basically seen as a troublesome "rebel".   

He lost his rag with them and had to be replaced by his Government . Of all the people in the debate, he has cause to be angry with the EU having been in "hand - to - hand combat" at close quarters .

To sum up, he says that the UK will get the same cold-shoulder treatment and the resolution should be a transitional Norway-style agreement pending actual departure.

Anyway I have only read a little of his book but it does sound like an absolutely vital read for whoever gets to go and "negotiate". He is a very good accessible and humorous writer by the way.

[Chillidoggy]

They still got the bailout, though. And not just one, either.