Genie Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Taking back control is going well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enda Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 3 hours ago, ml1dch said: Whoopsie. What Britain needs is No Deal. That’ll teach the EU to not make its own energy policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_ian_taylor Posted January 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 24, 2023 On 31/12/2022 at 08:59, ml1dch said: Thanks for that, properly creased up on the train this morning 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 (edited) 10 hours ago, Enda said: What Britain needs is No Deal. That’ll teach the EU to not make its own energy policy. Who cares if we end being fed through a straw for life, just as long as we land 1 punch on the EU Edited January 24, 2023 by Genie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted January 26, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26, 2023 Car production in the UK down to it's lowest level since 1956. Going well, isn't it. And absolutely no one, ever, at all totally didn't see this coming. Americans about to massively subsidise electric vehicle manufacture, undermining our position in the green tech sector. Man this country is f***ed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 26, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 26, 2023 5 hours ago, HKP90 said: Car production in the UK down to it's lowest level since 1956 How much of that is still down to the chip shortage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 26, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26, 2023 3 minutes ago, bickster said: How much of that is still down to the chip shortage? Factories have closed and moved elsewhere and The Astra has ceased UK Production. Who knows if they'll come back or switch to The EU. BBC reporting that because of the US Inflation Reduction Act, The EU might react by allowing more domestic Government intervention meaning The UK could end up offering less support to industry than we did before we left the EU. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 58 minutes ago, bickster said: How much of that is still down to the chip shortage? It’s certainly a factor, along with Brexit. JLR are building a huge battery plant… in Europe. You’d have to be mad to invest in car production in the UK. There’s the obvious admin, red tape and cost of getting parts on and out from Europe but to offset it there’s nothing. The government that gave us Brexit has lost the upsides and replaced it with nothing. The Brexit opportunities office has literally come up with nothing. UK Car production will certainly rise from its current record low (which I’m sure the Tories will try and announce as a positive created by them) as supply issues are sorted, but long term it’ll forever be a shadow of what it was. A free trade arrangement with the EU is not desirable, it’s absolutely essential for the survival of the country. Any thick **** that opposes it on the grounds of sovrintea needs to be immediately booked in for a brain scan to see if they are missing theirs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Only tangentially linked, but... Impressive that the lesson learned from Windrush was "what if we could do that with more people?" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted January 26, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26, 2023 If there was ever a song written for this mess then surely this is the one...... The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum Fun Boy Three Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Seat68 Posted January 26, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2023 44% could not respond due to their bloodied mouth being hit repeatedly by their own fist. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Follyfoot Posted January 26, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2023 18 hours ago, HKP90 said: Car production in the UK down to it's lowest level since 1956. Going well, isn't it. And absolutely no one, ever, at all totally didn't see this coming. Americans about to massively subsidise electric vehicle manufacture, undermining our position in the green tech sector. Man this country is f***ed. Blues at Wembley again ? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 30, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 30, 2023 Poll Question: Britain was wrong to leave the EU, agree or disagree? You can read all about it at Unherd But this bit of the article is particularly interesting Quote [...]The results also reveal a second finding, which is more subtle but the implications of which are profound for how we understand the country. When you compare the UnHerd Britain 2023 results to the 2016 results, it is clear that enthusiasm for Brexit has faded far more dramatically among Left-leaning areas and areas with higher Labour support than in the Tory heartlands. After six years of political argument and Conservative government, the Brexit question no longer cuts across party lines to the same degree: voting for a pro-Brexit party in 2019 is now a better predictor of whether you support Brexit today than whether you supported Brexit in 2016. James Kanagasooriam, Chief Research Officer at Focaldata, commented: “The dovetailing of the Brexit divide and the country’s left-right axis has been ongoing for some time, but only with the receding waters of a depressed conservative vote has this pattern become so visible. The leave vote is fading and becoming less distinct from the conservative vote.” [...] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 30, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2023 16 minutes ago, bickster said: Poll Question: Britain was wrong to leave the EU, agree or disagree? You can read all about it at Unherd But this bit of the article is particularly interesting Is the graphic confusing ro am I being dumb? Is this saying everywhere in the country except those 3 small areas now think Brexit was a mistake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted January 30, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2023 20 minutes ago, bickster said: Poll Question: Britain was wrong to leave the EU, agree or disagree? You can read all about it at Unherd But this bit of the article is particularly interesting So, basically this is a map showing concentration of to**ers by population. Incidentally, Lincolnshire is my least favourite part of the country by far. I travel all over for work, and every time I go there I'm surprised by how horrible people are to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 30, 2023 Author Moderator Share Posted January 30, 2023 What the poll isn't asking, and something which would get a very different result IMO, is "should we apply to rejoin the EU?" It's one thing to notice the unavoidable evidence that the Tory Brexit has been a fustercluck, but another thing to think that today we should apply to/rejoin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 30, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 30, 2023 42 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Is the graphic confusing ro am I being dumb? Is this saying everywhere in the country except those 3 small areas now think Brexit was a mistake? Yes, there is a majority of people in all but those three constituencies that think Brexit was a mistake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted January 30, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2023 I wouldn’t have minded a colour key for that map. It looks like those by me are faintly regretful (maybe the second least green colour), but not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 30, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 30, 2023 These are the constituencies that have changed their mind the most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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