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Brexit finally got done at 23:00 GMT on 31st December 2020 when the UK's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU finally expired. A "trade deal" between the UK and EU was agreed on 24th December. The Alt-Wrong finally got their prize of freedom, democracy and British sovereignty.
What did they actually win? Chaos at the ports, thousands of tonnes of fish that can't be sold, tariffs, duties, and all sorts of things which were once Project Fear and the undemocratic, treasonous lies of the Liberal Metropolitan Elite, Socialists, Marxists, quislings, traitors, lefties and people who hate their country. Socialism, Marxism, EUSSR, Venezuela, toilet paper!
We are on the third week of this glorious new future of sunlit uplands with no downsides, only upsides with much more to look forward to. And Donald Trump is going to give us a fantastic trade deal with the USA straight away.
Over at the Guardian, Polly Toynbee has an excellent summary entitled Brexiters are waking up to the damage they've done.
As Brexiters turn on each other, Brexit politics move fast. Until now the Tories planned to move on, only reviving “Brexit done” triumphalism to re-arouse the captured red wall at the election: Labour just wanted to bury the whole issue.
The Westminster system has failed us (the UK). We are now looking at Irish Reunification and Scottish Independence. Gibraltar has already got its own deal where it gets to join Schengen.
We have Taken Back Control(TM).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday January 19 2021, @09:48AM
Oh, so Molly Malone's ghost no longer pushes her wheelbarrow, eh? She gave place to greedy corporations, sucking the life out of the poor poor lower British class, who probably voted Brexit for cheaper seafood.
Except... there's some dissonance in this narrative. You see, the Shellfish Association of Great Britain [shellfish.org.uk] is made of
Doesn't seem that the production side members of SAGB made it in the "moneyed corporate class". In 2012, there were exactly 248 shellfish enterprises employing 705 staff across the UK [service.gov.uk] (see page 17/20) - I'd call it a cottage industry by the number of employees.
But what do I know, maybe they managed to take over the London forex and, in 2020, are pissing from the balcony on the poor class in the stalls.
Heck, no! In 2019, When focusing on the challenges facing the UK oyster industry today, he conceded that, “the size of the industry is small, and out of balance with the regulatory burdens”. [thefishsite.com]
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GTFO, mate, you help nobody spinning your hot air! Especially when your narrative seems always in the search for some scape goat to blame:
1. the "mah politics" of a guy posting on S/N from Melbourne - yeah, surely I'm the UK equivalent of deep-state or some francmason or some other kettle of fi... conspirator
2. if it's not c0lo, it's the "moneyed corporate class" of oppressors.
At the end of the day, the reality is that the Brits will get to live with the consequences of their choice; maybe they'll be better of, maybe not.
Mark my words, with the political class and bureaucracy in UK today, it will be a long time for them to get better and then there's no warranty they will.