What we want only matters at election time. Aside from that, we can go whistle.
“Polling for the report found people were evenly split on who was most to blame for the current dire state of relations between the UK and EU, with 39% blaming Britain and 38% saying they considered the bloc responsible.
The divide was predictably partisan, with 70% of Conservative voters blamed the EU and 66% of Labour voters the UK”
That explains why the Tories still have 30 odd % support – 70% of Tory voters are either deluded or idiots.
What level of utter stupidity must one be operating on to conclude it’s the European Unions fault for Britains Exit from their single market and Customs Union? Are the British voting public that fucking stupid? Is there no education system over there? Thickos.
I’m going to the newspaper to complain about my local gym being so unreasonable…. I mean I managed to cancel my membership as I hated the changing rooms, I don’t want to change with other people…..but now they are not letting me use any of the gym equipment anymore saying it for members only…I’m getting my compo face ready
> Boris Johnson’s government “seems to need perennial fights with the EU to justify its political existence”.
That’s the essential bit, IMHO. What does the UK as a country gain from picking these fights with the EU? The only people who stand to gain from a breakdown of relations are the ones running the UK government itself, in that it can get a short term surge in domestic political support for sticking it up to the foreign EU. Chasing short term domestic political advantages can not be the basis of a coherent post-Brexit trade and diplomatic strategy. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be any inclination to create one. Why? Because maintaining the narrative, no matter how far from the truth it may stray, is more important to them than having realistic and workable foreign and domestic policies.
The UK has put itself into a position where the material interests of the general population are almost diametrically opposed to the political interests of its leadership. As long as the electorate does not force some form of alignment to reality, the chaos will continue.
Starmer has to go and say these fights need to stop and relations need to normalise. He also need to grow a pair and start talking about how well SM membership is working out for N. Ireland (e.g. they had no chicken shortages at Nandos) and suggesting that it might be a good idea for rUK as well.
Funny how there was a fishing crisis with France around the island of Jersey just around local election time.
Then they shouldn’t have voted for it, because it’s a prerequisite. The eu aren’t going to go away. France isn’t going to be 1000 miles away by magic. We’ve had to deal with Europe for 1000 years. Just when it was going well we wet the bed. None of those facts are changeable now.
Still, at least we can buy bendy bananas again now. I always hated those straight ones the EU made us eat, didn’t you?
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What we want only matters at election time. Aside from that, we can go whistle.
“Polling for the report found people were evenly split on who was most to blame for the current dire state of relations between the UK and EU, with 39% blaming Britain and 38% saying they considered the bloc responsible.
The divide was predictably partisan, with 70% of Conservative voters blamed the EU and 66% of Labour voters the UK”
That explains why the Tories still have 30 odd % support – 70% of Tory voters are either deluded or idiots.
What level of utter stupidity must one be operating on to conclude it’s the European Unions fault for Britains Exit from their single market and Customs Union? Are the British voting public that fucking stupid? Is there no education system over there? Thickos.
I’m going to the newspaper to complain about my local gym being so unreasonable…. I mean I managed to cancel my membership as I hated the changing rooms, I don’t want to change with other people…..but now they are not letting me use any of the gym equipment anymore saying it for members only…I’m getting my compo face ready
> Boris Johnson’s government “seems to need perennial fights with the EU to justify its political existence”.
That’s the essential bit, IMHO. What does the UK as a country gain from picking these fights with the EU? The only people who stand to gain from a breakdown of relations are the ones running the UK government itself, in that it can get a short term surge in domestic political support for sticking it up to the foreign EU. Chasing short term domestic political advantages can not be the basis of a coherent post-Brexit trade and diplomatic strategy. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be any inclination to create one. Why? Because maintaining the narrative, no matter how far from the truth it may stray, is more important to them than having realistic and workable foreign and domestic policies.
The UK has put itself into a position where the material interests of the general population are almost diametrically opposed to the political interests of its leadership. As long as the electorate does not force some form of alignment to reality, the chaos will continue.
Starmer has to go and say these fights need to stop and relations need to normalise. He also need to grow a pair and start talking about how well SM membership is working out for N. Ireland (e.g. they had no chicken shortages at Nandos) and suggesting that it might be a good idea for rUK as well.
Funny how there was a fishing crisis with France around the island of Jersey just around local election time.
Then they shouldn’t have voted for it, because it’s a prerequisite. The eu aren’t going to go away. France isn’t going to be 1000 miles away by magic. We’ve had to deal with Europe for 1000 years. Just when it was going well we wet the bed. None of those facts are changeable now.
Still, at least we can buy bendy bananas again now. I always hated those straight ones the EU made us eat, didn’t you?