Must be those amazing brexit benefits that the tories have been promoting for years! Too bad that 100% of the brexit benefits happen outside the UK. Oh well.
> Lambert, 81, a retired Irish customs officer, may draw the line at erecting a statue to Britain’s former prime minister, but he appreciates Brexit’s transformative impact on the once-stagnant port where he used to work. “It’s created jobs.”
I am a bit sorry that the relations between Ireland and France were not more developped *before* Brexit. It shouldn’t have taken Brexit for ferry routes, undesea cables, etc. to happen.
Thank you, UK.
British news orgs seem to have a very defined audience.
The english have been scammed so hard with brexit, it’s crazy.
“Brits are suffering”? Why? They got Brexit. Finally liberated from that nasty, nasty EU. How can they suffer from that?
/s
The news is excellent. Now, it would be fantastic if we gave up the official cultural obsession with the UK and looked to Europe.
Getting all those lorries off of congested roads? That sounds like a win.
But what about those 450M£ to the NHS?
Is there anyone in the UK who still thinks brexit was a good idea?
The most recent YouGov poll has Rejoin leading Stay out by 15%, 48% to 33%. The reality of Brexit has hit hard. A polarising and fairly aggressive political issue, which is normally the type where movement in polling is most difficult, has shifted to an unequivocally massive lead for rejoin. That should tell outsiders all they need to know.
**Edit:** I really didn’t think the obvious needed to be stated, but public opinion ≠ rejoining, the government wants nothing to do with it and the EU wants nothing to do with it. My entire point was, most Brits understand the scale of the fuck up they’ve made.
For anyone wondering why this sub is becoming an echo chamber, people reading an objective fact, the outcome of a poll, assuming things nobody said, and then dogpiling because “UK bad”, is a good example.
Nobody thinks the government will push to rejoin, nobody is saying the EU wants the UK, who cause them constant headaches, to rejoin. The dislike of the UK is warranted, but chill the generalised hate boner.
I really like the UK but it’s sad that they took the Brexit road.
Looks like the UK is taking one for the team. Rather ironic, with them not being part of the team anymore.
I don’t think the Irish should be saying “it’s boom time”… ^(/s)
Brexit should be a cautionary tale about the importance of less biased/divisive journalism.
So Brexit had diverted 50,000 HGV movement per year away from using UK as a land bridge and encouraged them to go straight to their planned destination (Ireland) via sea.
In the process it has created a few jobs at French and Irish ports and removed unnecessary road traffic and carbon emissions from busy British roads whilst boosting capacity at one of Europe’s busiest ports by diverting “through traffic” to its final destination.
Sounds to me like good business all round for all concerned and beneficial for the environment. Classic misleading and sensationalist journalist from the left leaning anti-Brexit mob with absolute no substance. That is the real scam.
boom time? I didn’t know the French and Irish economies were that well off why virtually everyone else everywhere fucking suffers.
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That looks like a brexit benefit!
Must be those amazing brexit benefits that the tories have been promoting for years! Too bad that 100% of the brexit benefits happen outside the UK. Oh well.
> Lambert, 81, a retired Irish customs officer, may draw the line at erecting a statue to Britain’s former prime minister, but he appreciates Brexit’s transformative impact on the once-stagnant port where he used to work. “It’s created jobs.”
I am a bit sorry that the relations between Ireland and France were not more developped *before* Brexit. It shouldn’t have taken Brexit for ferry routes, undesea cables, etc. to happen.
Thank you, UK.
British news orgs seem to have a very defined audience.
The english have been scammed so hard with brexit, it’s crazy.
“Brits are suffering”? Why? They got Brexit. Finally liberated from that nasty, nasty EU. How can they suffer from that?
/s
The news is excellent. Now, it would be fantastic if we gave up the official cultural obsession with the UK and looked to Europe.
Getting all those lorries off of congested roads? That sounds like a win.
But what about those 450M£ to the NHS?
Is there anyone in the UK who still thinks brexit was a good idea?
The most recent YouGov poll has Rejoin leading Stay out by 15%, 48% to 33%. The reality of Brexit has hit hard. A polarising and fairly aggressive political issue, which is normally the type where movement in polling is most difficult, has shifted to an unequivocally massive lead for rejoin. That should tell outsiders all they need to know.
**Edit:** I really didn’t think the obvious needed to be stated, but public opinion ≠ rejoining, the government wants nothing to do with it and the EU wants nothing to do with it. My entire point was, most Brits understand the scale of the fuck up they’ve made.
For anyone wondering why this sub is becoming an echo chamber, people reading an objective fact, the outcome of a poll, assuming things nobody said, and then dogpiling because “UK bad”, is a good example.
Nobody thinks the government will push to rejoin, nobody is saying the EU wants the UK, who cause them constant headaches, to rejoin. The dislike of the UK is warranted, but chill the generalised hate boner.
I really like the UK but it’s sad that they took the Brexit road.
Looks like the UK is taking one for the team. Rather ironic, with them not being part of the team anymore.
I don’t think the Irish should be saying “it’s boom time”… ^(/s)
Brexit should be a cautionary tale about the importance of less biased/divisive journalism.
So Brexit had diverted 50,000 HGV movement per year away from using UK as a land bridge and encouraged them to go straight to their planned destination (Ireland) via sea.
In the process it has created a few jobs at French and Irish ports and removed unnecessary road traffic and carbon emissions from busy British roads whilst boosting capacity at one of Europe’s busiest ports by diverting “through traffic” to its final destination.
Sounds to me like good business all round for all concerned and beneficial for the environment. Classic misleading and sensationalist journalist from the left leaning anti-Brexit mob with absolute no substance. That is the real scam.
boom time? I didn’t know the French and Irish economies were that well off why virtually everyone else everywhere fucking suffers.