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Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#16New Post! Jul 19, 2017 @ 13:53:39
More Brexit Numpty-ism from Liam Fox, the unquestioning Brexit fanatic who is criss-crossing the planet on trade missions in the frantic hope of finding somebody who will do business with Britain and thus ensure the land of milk and honey that the Brextremists have been promising.

USA and Australia are the ones he would love to be able to announce are falling over each other to give us the dream ticket. He's been on three dozen trips to woo them so far. Impressed..?

Nope, didn't think you would be. Neither is Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond who said deals touted as the answer to damage done by leaving the EU "Won't make any difference."

Ooops, Liam. Another one of your Cabinet mates has just done you a ricket.
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#17New Post! Jul 19, 2017 @ 14:11:00
And if the failure to come up with anything remotely resembling a trade deal is bad enough, it is transpiring that the Theresa May Government's hopes that it would still be possible for UK to host the EU agencies currently located here, after Brexit were as forlorn as the Remain campaign said they would be.

The European Medicines Agency and The European Banking Authority, both presently located in Canary Wharf and employing over 1600 people are seeking new homes after Brexit.

Hosting these agencies is not only prestigious but is also a reliable source of income for hotels and local businesses in the area. Every year, around 36'000 scientists and regulators have been visiting these agencies which were set up here in 1995.

Not any more they won't.

At least 21 countries are throwing their hat into the bid for the relocation of these agencies. A decision is expected in October.

This is another blow for the Brexit Department of David Davis who naively announced that the agencies would be "Subject to exit negotiations", the EU said differently. EU negotiators said "The EU is unanimous on this point." It has insisted that EU agencies will leave London.... and not only that, the UK will pick up the tab for relocation.

Nice one, Dave. That's another winner for UK, then. Not.
mrmhead On March 27, 2024




NE, Ohio
#18New Post! Jul 19, 2017 @ 14:12:43
@Jennifer1984 Said

More Brexit Numpty-ism from Liam Fox, the unquestioning Brexit fanatic who is criss-crossing the planet on trade missions in the frantic hope of finding somebody who will do business with Britain and thus ensure the land of milk and honey that the Brextremists have been promising.

USA and Australia are the ones he would love to be able to announce are falling over each other to give us the dream ticket. He's been on three dozen trips to woo them so far. Impressed..?

Nope, didn't think you would be. Neither is Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond who said deals touted as the answer to damage done by leaving the EU "Won't make any difference."

Ooops, Liam. Another one of your Cabinet mates has just done you a ricket.


Well, supposedly this is Trump's "Made in America" week, so unless Liam is buying, he should stay away from DC for a few.
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#19New Post! Jul 19, 2017 @ 14:23:06
Printed here a couple of days ago....





Sorry the image wouldn't come up on page, but the link is good.
mrmhead On March 27, 2024




NE, Ohio
#20New Post! Jul 19, 2017 @ 14:38:40
@Jennifer1984 Said

Printed here a couple of days ago....





Sorry the image wouldn't come up on page, but the link is good.




(get rid of the "s" )
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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Penzance, United Kingdom
#21New Post! Jul 19, 2017 @ 17:20:02
Ahhhhhhhhhh..... thank you. I didn't see that there.

I appreciate that.
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#22New Post! Aug 29, 2017 @ 14:17:59
As it now looks as if the politicos are starting to wake up after their summer torpor it's time to start looking at Brexit again. And there's plenty to be looking at ahead of the Party Conference Season.

Brexit Numpty No 1

The perennially debunked academic Patrick Minford claimed a Hard Brexit would boost the UK economy by £135 billion annually winning widespread derision from economists but plenty of coverage from the Right Wing press.

Once a favourite of Margaret Thatcher. Minford's greatest hits include a 1990 magazine article which claimed the Poll Tax would be a vote winner. He wrote: "The Community Charge has much to commend it....opponents underestimate the political maturity of the electorate". Last year he authored a happy-clappy article about Brexit for The Sun but conceded that leaving the EU might have one tiny little teensy-weensy side effect for the UK. "It seems likely that we will be mostly eliminated from manufacturing industry."

Brexit Numpty No 2

"There are people on the contenders list (for leadership of UKIP) who really worry me", said Jane Collins the MEP for Yorkshire and Humber.

Of course, Janes' own CV carries no worries at all. She's a stable, healing candidate (she used to be a horse physio) and she's intimately acquainted with the finer aspects of British law and economics since she's currently facing potential bankruptcy for failing to pay £350'000 in damages and costs after falsely claiming that three Rotherham MP's were aware about child grooming gangs in the town but ignored them because of political correctness.


Brexit Numpty No 3

Nigel Farage, the nicotine stained, beer bellied frog-man is reportedly miffed at being told he will only appear in the (allegedly) forthcoming Brexit movie in news footage while Leave.EU chums Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore will be played by actors. This omission sparked outrage and horror at the Daily Mail which wrote "It's ridiculous. Nigel is Hollywood. Banks and Wigmore are just spear carriers." Poor Nigel. Like Nora Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, he IS still big, it's just that the UKIP vote has become rather small.


I can't wait for the Party Conference season and what comes out of that. It's going to be a blast..!!!
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#23New Post! Aug 29, 2017 @ 14:54:25
Cartoon in response to Daily Express claims that the EU is in crisis.


Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#24New Post! Aug 31, 2017 @ 14:50:33
Japanese businesses expect "clarity" over Brexit, a top diplomat said as Theresa Mayhem jetted off to Japan .

Minister for Public Diplomacy Shinichi Lida said his Government would have preferred Britain to remain in the EU and will be paying "close attention" to negotiations. He added that Japan has a stake in the Brexit process with around 1000 Japanese business in UK employing around 140'000 people.

Mayhem might have been hoping for a bit of a break from Brexit while she's in Japan on a Trade and Investment mission but no such luck. It seems she is going to face more tricky Brexit questions when she meets Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, both of whom are also expecting "clarity".

Meanwhile back in Brussels......

"First of all we settle the past before we look forward to the future" said Euro Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker as he delivered yet another rapier thrust to British hearts.

The EU has made it clear that before trade talks can begin issues including the Irish border, the divorce bill and the rights of EU citizens in the UK must be settled. And yet, the British position papers just keep on coming.

Juncker said "I did read, with requisite attention, all the papers produced by Her Majesty's government and none of those is in any way satisfactory. So there are still an enormous amount of issues which remain to be settled."

Ouch. What does David Davis have to say about this? "We have published a number of papers on a few specific themes. There will be more papers to come in the coming weeks."


That should make things nice and clear for the Japanese.
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#25New Post! Sep 24, 2017 @ 14:49:57
With all the gung-ho of one of his punters with a couple of early morning Stellas inside him, Tim Martin, the owner of the Wetherspoons pub chain said he is ready to inflict "highly damaging" consequences on the European economy by refusing to serve European beers unless Michel Barnier agrees to tariff-free trade.

This is typical chest-beating bluster from the saloon bar scrapper who writes in the latest issue of Wetherspoons magazine that in the year "Since the Referendum the economy has created a stunning 300'000 more new jobs"

What he failed to mention is that in the previous year, BEFORE the Referendum the economy created an even more stunning 500'000 new jobs.
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#26New Post! Sep 24, 2017 @ 14:59:40
I loved the Beatles and listen to such classics as I'll Follow The Sun as part of their great pantheon and not a reflection of how their drummer chooses his politics based on the newspaper of his choice.

Ringo came out as a Brexiter in a Newsnight interview in which he called the decision to leave the EU as a "Patriotic move".

I wonder if he means "move" in the same sense as the one he made to Monaco in 1975 to avoid paying UK tax. Nowadays he splits his time between tax haven Switzerland and low tax Los Angeles with occasional trips to his Surrey estate, ownership of which was transferred to a Jersey based property company for tax avoidance purposes.

So patriotic, Ringo.
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#27New Post! Oct 06, 2017 @ 13:23:37
This needs to be magnified to make it legible, but it's worth it because it pretty neatly sums up what's been happening here.


Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#28New Post! Oct 06, 2017 @ 13:33:43
And just in case there was any doubt about what we stand to lose......


Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#29New Post! Oct 08, 2017 @ 15:20:38
And after the omnishambles of the Conservative Party Conference where Teresa May coughed and spluttered through her speech, a joker got past security to hand her a P45 and even the lettering of the Tory Party slogan started falling off the wall behind her, the infighting and b****ing over how to proceed with Brexit continues. In Cabinet, I imagine it could go something like this:

Prime Minister: "As a team we have to negotiate a Brexit Transition just like now but with limits on immigration."

David Davis: "No no, we have to negotiate a special bespoke transition."

Boris Johnson: "Oh no. It must be exactly as we demanded. Brexit is Brexit."

Random EU representative in the room: "Excuse moi....." (is completely ignored)

PM: "No, we have to go for transition and it has to last for as long as its needed. That's vital."

DD: No..!! "2 to 3 years tops. no more than that."

Boris: "Brexit means Brexit, or it would do if I was Prime Minister."

Random EU rep: "Er.. excuse moi.."

PM: And we'll look at this part of the EU and that part of the EU and keep all the bits we like, such as free trade and customs and just dismiss the bits we don't like such as human rights and universal free movement."

DD: And we have to make sure we don't pay them any of the money we signed agreements for or took services for, or otherwise legally owe."

Boris: "Brexit means Brexit. Make me Prime Minister and I'll tell them to go whistle for their money."

Random EU Rep: "Errrr, hello..? Excuse moi..?"

PM (turns to EU rep). "What..? What do you want..?"

Random EU Rep: "All I wanted to say was, don't you think you should ask us, the 27 remaining nations, what is actually on the table..?"

DD: "Oh, do be quiet."

PM: "I don't see how it's any of your business."

Boris: "Stop interfering in British politics. I'm trying to usurp power here."


Yes folks.... After the most disorganised party conference in the living memory of British politics, the rabble that is the Conservative government now have to return to the Brexit negotiation table.

Only the British could colonise half the world and then leave Europe because we don't like immigrants.

EU Negotiations clustershambles
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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#30New Post! Oct 21, 2017 @ 18:15:09
The latest in an increasingly frequent series of free lunches in Brussels for the Prime Minister has brought us no closer to a resolution to the Brexit conundrum.

I suspect Mrs May isn't really trying to negotiate a deal any more, she's actually trying to convince the Brexit negotiators just how utterly stupid her electorate is, and could they please give her something.... anything.... to take back home which might keep the Little Englanders happy by making them think she's got one over on Johnny Foreigner, which basically, is what Brexiteers really want out of all this.

She tried to make them see what sort of conditions she's having to deal with at home.

She told them: “What other nation has newspapers that deliberately mis-spell headlines? Where else would Boris Johnson ever rise to anything more than a football club mascot dressed as a six foot tall banana?"

She tried to convince EU negotiators that it's in everybody's interest to come up with something - no matter how ludicrous - that will enable our brain dead, isolationist bigots to feel triumphantly smug, yet might also allow their wives to still be able to afford to shop for food by 2020.

Mr Juncker however, said that it's not the EU's responsibilty to save the British from themselves.

“Mrs May was more than happy to rely on monumentally stupid voters when she called a General Election that she thought she'd win at a canter."

“Why not just pretend the UK has left, carry on as normal and rename the contributions to the EU as a general overhead? It’s not like The Sun or the Daily Mail will bother to investigate the figures once they've got their excuse to crow about winning the war again."

He also stated that he believes the cultural gap between the EU and British politicians has grown too big for them to sympathise with Theresa May.

“How do you expect a statesman from Denmark, where the average voter speaks four languages, to understand the political inanity of a country where the average citizen is intellectually challenged by Game of Thrones?”
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