Should the UK remain a member of the EU

[Gnasher]

1 minute ago, Rushies tash said:

Can we have some kind of amnesty on this thread? Play a game in no man's land and fuck the whole thing off until the new year?

Yeah, OK.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 24/12/2021 at 19:10, Rushies tash said:

Can we have some kind of amnesty on this thread? Play a game in no man's land and fuck the whole thing off until the new year?

I'll drink to that with a pint of Champagne.

 

 

[Pidge]

Ridiculous, you'd need at least three for a decent work meeting.

[Pidge]

We had a pack of orange and lemon slices, usually come in a circle pack, but there was about 20% cut out this year. I asked where they were from, Ireland.

 

Brexit ruined Christmas.

[Rushies tash]

Stop breaking the amnesty you fuckers. Play the pipes of peace etc.

[Captain Willard]

2 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

Stop breaking the amnesty you fuckers. Play the pipes of peace etc.

The pipes of peace is shit. I preferred it when we were calling each other cunts because we disagreed over the merits of trade deals. 

[Rushies tash]

5 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

The pipes of peace is shit. I preferred it when we were calling each other cunts because we disagreed over the merits of trade deals. 

Watch this and (ignoring the commercial aspect) not be moved:

 

 

and stop arguing over the EU for fucks sake. Its Christmas day.

[Vincent Vega]

This is a big problem for the Tories. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Another in the 'it must be going swimmingly' column...

 

B-WORD BANNED: The Telegraph reckons civil servants have been told to avoid using the word “Brexit” and instead refer to “31 December 2020” in a Whitehall style guide. Officials should only use the word when “providing historical context,” the document suggests.

[Pete]

On 25/12/2021 at 23:04, Vincent Vega said:

This is a big problem for the Tories. 

Well colour me surprised. Who didn't see that coming?  

[Rico1304]

 

[Arniepie]

16 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

 

Liz doing another bang up job

[AngryOfTuebrook]

42 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

 

I remember those innocent, long-lost days when David Cameron refused to do anything to help Port Talbot and pretended it was the EU preventing him from protecting jobs.

 

Cunt.

[skend04]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/01/uk-ministers-eager-to-ease-immigration-rules-for-indian-citizens

 

Average wage in India is £300/month. Farm workers even less. I can see why the Tories are desperate to have more of us over here. Don't know what leave voters will think mind as it's the opposite of what they were sold.

[Captain Willard]

44 minutes ago, skend04 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/01/uk-ministers-eager-to-ease-immigration-rules-for-indian-citizens

 

Average wage in India is £300/month. Farm workers even less. I can see why the Tories are desperate to have more of us over here. Don't know what leave voters will think mind as it's the opposite of what they were sold.

It was always going to be the consequence of a points based system that was blind to race and country of origin. Non European immigration will increase but it will be higher skilled applicants from Asia instead of unemployed unskilled white Eastern Europeans. Fundamentally it’s a less racist system. 

[Rico1304]

anyone paid any roaming charges yet? Can’t wait. 

[Bruce Spanner]

3 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

anyone paid any roaming charges yet? Can’t wait. 

Loads.

 

The wife especially is taking to the new charges with the typical aplomb with which she encounters most financial considerations and just completely ignoring them.

 

’Oh, I didn’t realise it’d happen again. I thought after the first time they would have sorted it’

 

Madness, we’ve had two £300 plus bills as she just ignores the polite text telling you you can pay by the day for a fixed amount.

 

I’ve effectively bricked her phone when she isn’t in the UK now.

 

She was transiting through Qatar a few years back and thought this would be the opportune moment to download all her favourite podcasts for the next leg of the flight, £400.

 

 

[Rico1304]

7 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Loads.

 

The wife especially is taking to the new charges with the typical aplomb with which she encounters most financial considerations and just completely ignoring them.

 

’Oh, I didn’t realise it’d happen again. I thought after the first time they would have sorted it’

 

Madness, we’ve had two £300 plus bills as she just ignores the polite text telling you you can pay by the day for a fixed amount.

 

I’ve effectively bricked her phone when she isn’t in the UK now.

 

She was transiting through Qatar a few years back and thought this would be the opportune moment to download all her favourite podcasts for the next leg of the flight, £400.

 

 

I meant in the EU. They started yesterday didn’t they?  

[Bruce Spanner]

2 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

I meant in the EU. They started yesterday didn’t they?  

You’re right, but wasn’t there something about individual deals internationally, sure there was.

 

Anyhows, yeah, bunch of cunts.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

12 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

It was always going to be the consequence of a points based system that was blind to race and country of origin. Non European immigration will increase but it will be higher skilled applicants from Asia instead of unemployed unskilled white Eastern Europeans. Fundamentally it’s a less racist system. 

Free movement within the EU is "blind to race". The UK experience of large-scale immigration from the EU wasn't one of "unemployed unskilled white Eastern Europeans" at all. The opposite was true: the "benefits tourists" were always a fiction created to distract and enrage readers of shitrags like the Daily Heil; many East European workers in the UK were hugely overqualified for the jobs they took.

 

But, apart from that, great post!

[chrisbonnie]

On 25/12/2021 at 21:14, Pidge said:

We had a pack of orange and lemon slices, usually come in a circle pack, but there was about 20% cut out this year. I asked where they were from, Ireland.

 

Brexit ruined Christmas.

Pre cut lemons and oranges, that's actually a thing? 

[Pidge]

25 minutes ago, chrisbonnie said:

Pre cut lemons and oranges, that's actually a thing? 

The old school sweets

 

[Mudface]

12 minutes ago, Pidge said:

The old school sweets

 

God, haven't seen those in years. My Nan always used to have them around, especially at Christmas.

[chrisbonnie]

41 minutes ago, Mudface said:

God, haven't seen those in years. My Nan always used to have them around, especially at Christmas.

I'm the same, I honestly haven't seen them in at least 30 years. 

 

I wasn't being a smart arse either with my original post, these sweets never even entered my mind. 

[Captain Willard]

13 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Free movement within the EU is "blind to race". The UK experience of large-scale immigration from the EU wasn't one of "unemployed unskilled white Eastern Europeans" at all. The opposite was true: the "benefits tourists" were always a fiction created to distract and enrage readers of shitrags like the Daily Heil; many East European workers in the UK were hugely overqualified for the jobs they took.

 

But, apart from that, great post!

I didn’t use the phrase “benefits tourists” or say anything about welfare. 

 

I said the EU concept of free movement within the continent means free movement of mainly white people whilst restricting the entry to the continent of non white groups irrespective of their relative skills. This is undeniable. Points based immigration controls are not racist, country membership based controls are.
 

The EU is at its very core a collective endeavour to protect the interest of mainly white Europeans and their capital from foreign competition either in labour markets (free movement with country specific immigration controls on non European nationals) or imports (tariffs). You may think this a good or bad thing but that’s what it has always been, a big protectionist collective which has led to relatively higher food prices for decades, a huge transfer of wealth from tax paying workers to land owners and more recently high youth unemployment in member states. I really struggle to see why anybody on the left defends it.