Never happened before Brexit so thats a good call.
Absolutely. It’s always tough trying to get out of an abusive relationship.
Nope, can’t be. I distinctly remember warnings about this being dismissed as “project fear”. Didn’t one of the papers say that the plans to deal with queues had been specifically drawn up to scare voters?
Doesn’t matter now of course. Commitment bias has reframed it. People who previously claimed these things would never happen will say they expected them all along but knew it was a “price worth paying for (insert vague emotionally stirring but unmeasurable justification here)”
Wrong. It’s the inability of British institutions to adapt to prevailing conditions preferring to whine instead of getting on with it.
I mean, obviously
All these arguments back and forth from people saying “it’s Brexit” or “it isn’t Brexit” – has anyone thought to actually spend a few hours at the customs area with a stopwatch and a spreadsheet, actually working out whether the delays are Brexit related or not?
It’s the sort of thing the mainstream media love to do, and there’s surely plenty of YouTubers or political bloggers/podcasters/whatever who’d gladly do the same.
Then we’ll have evidence, and everyone can just shut up slinging the blame game around. I’d do it myself if I lived near Dover or one of the other ports with the same delays (but conveniently little media coverage).
OK but who actually is to blame? We all know brexit was a bad idea but it was a while ago, who failed to prepare?
In my job we have been dealing with brexit for 2 years, if I fuck up something that has been brought in due to brexit I cant blame brexit, because it happened a while ago now…
So? It’s your job to deal with it, why aren’t you fixing it?
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Never happened before Brexit so thats a good call.
Absolutely. It’s always tough trying to get out of an abusive relationship.
Nope, can’t be. I distinctly remember warnings about this being dismissed as “project fear”. Didn’t one of the papers say that the plans to deal with queues had been specifically drawn up to scare voters?
Doesn’t matter now of course. Commitment bias has reframed it. People who previously claimed these things would never happen will say they expected them all along but knew it was a “price worth paying for (insert vague emotionally stirring but unmeasurable justification here)”
Edit: 90 second video reminding us what was said here: https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1551138151934066688?t=cXxkZHrU9GMpKdBndsYZyw&s=19
Wrong. It’s the inability of British institutions to adapt to prevailing conditions preferring to whine instead of getting on with it.
I mean, obviously
All these arguments back and forth from people saying “it’s Brexit” or “it isn’t Brexit” – has anyone thought to actually spend a few hours at the customs area with a stopwatch and a spreadsheet, actually working out whether the delays are Brexit related or not?
It’s the sort of thing the mainstream media love to do, and there’s surely plenty of YouTubers or political bloggers/podcasters/whatever who’d gladly do the same.
Then we’ll have evidence, and everyone can just shut up slinging the blame game around. I’d do it myself if I lived near Dover or one of the other ports with the same delays (but conveniently little media coverage).
OK but who actually is to blame? We all know brexit was a bad idea but it was a while ago, who failed to prepare?
In my job we have been dealing with brexit for 2 years, if I fuck up something that has been brought in due to brexit I cant blame brexit, because it happened a while ago now…
So? It’s your job to deal with it, why aren’t you fixing it?