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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @05:05AM
You don't actually need a citation. 330 million Americans, $1400 "stimulus". 1400 * 340 million = $460 billion. And I'm making two incorrect assumptions:
1) He's sending stimulus checks to everybody including illegal immigrants and 2 year olds.
2) 100% of people will cash those checks.
A fraction of the remaining ~80% will go to various social programs, and the remainder will go to corruption town. Biden has spent about 50 years in politics and only two things have remained true about him:
1) He's always on the wrong side of issues and only changes long after society has.
2) He's as corrupt as they come.
There will be plentiful "stimulus" throughout Biden's terms. Expect a recurring theme. A fraction of each stimulus will go to 99% of the population. The majority of the stimulus will go to the 1%. Then as the rich continue to get even filthier rich during this pandemic people will freak out and demand we vote for the DNC, because they're the party that claims to care about wealth inequality. Bahhaha. I suppose they do. Just not how you think.