Keir Starmers' United Kingdom

[Richard White]

Sounds like a lot of wishful thinking and serves you right attitude. The UK is nothing without the EU? Such zero sum absolutes are ridiculous. If Norway, Iceland, Turkey and the Swiss can survive by trading with, but not belonging to the EU, so can the UK. The EU and UK will still trade with one another, just like they did when Britain was part of EFTA - the Brits just don't want to be ruled from Brussels and have some foreign bureaucrats tell them how to live, do their business and whom they must allow to enter and live in the country. When the UK police begin rounding up Albanian criminals and Roma beggars and pushing them across the Channel we may see some wishful thinking from other EU members.

But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what some talking head on CNN thinks. The British people voted to leave the EU, and just reaffirmed that choice by giving the Brexit Conservatives the largest majority since Thatcher.

Actually the nordic countries are members of the EEA. They are quasi-EU members. When the UK leaves they will not be members of the European Economic Area like the nordic countries are.

 

[Admiral Beez]

In 2018 the UK government paid £13 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was forecast to be £4 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at nearly £9 billion. So, that's 9 billion pounds that can be kept at home. The EU may miss the British cow that kept on giving. Since the rest of the EU are net takers, it will be up to the French and Germans to pay Britain's former amount to the PIIGS and the like.

Can you imagine a political union under NAFTA, where some bureaucracy outside of Canada determined our policies for immigration, product, food, safety and labeling standards, units and measures, banking, finance, building standards, etc. whilst taking $15 billion of Canadian taxpayer dollars for foreign equalization and administration fees? Britons didn't sign up for that when they joined the common market, they wanted reduced barriers to trade, not foreign bureaucrats telling them what they're allowed to piss in.

Bog Standard

Flushing toilets should be the same across the continent, European Commission bosses have declared.In a move almost certain to feature in the next Ukip manifesto, thousands of pounds have been spent o...

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[Admiral Beez]

Bill has passed. Brexit now expedited.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill passes Commons vote

The legislation enables the UK’s exit from the EU on January 31.

www.politico.eu

 

[jje1000]

Can you imagine a political union under NAFTA, where some bureaucracy outside of Canada determined our policies for immigration, product, food, safety and labeling standards, units and measures, banking, finance, building standards, etc. whilst taking $15 billion of Canadian taxpayer dollars for foreign equalization and administration fees? Britons didn't sign up for that when they joined the common market, they wanted reduced barriers to trade, not foreign bureaucrats telling them what they're allowed to piss in.

Some things like the Common Agricultural Policy have been accused of being essentially EU subsidies for the French, while fishing rights (small family owned ships vs EU trawlers) have also been a sore point, it seems.

 

[SunriseChampion]

Please tell me I was having auditory hallucinations earlier today when I heard on the radio something about.....was Corbyn re-elected?!?!?! Actually?

As if Boris as PM wasn't bad enough....Corbyn's back as well. Corbyn! What the hell is in the water in Tottenham?

Well......best of luck, you crazy island bastards.

 

[SunriseChampion]

Can you imagine a political union under NAFTA, where some bureaucracy outside of Canada determined our policies for immigration, product, food, safety and labeling standards, units and measures, banking, finance, building standards, etc. whilst taking $15 billion of Canadian taxpayer dollars for foreign equalization and administration fees?

That's a poor comparison.

EU version of NAFTA would be like an EU with only Germany, Poland, and Slovakia as members.

The power imbalance would be extreme, which is not the case in the EU.

 

[TrickyRicky]

I enjoy visiting the UK. At least it will be cheaper and cheaper to do so with each passing year

 

[SunriseChampion]

I enjoy visiting the UK. At least it will be cheaper and cheaper to do so with each passing year

I was thinking of moving there in a decade when I semi-retire. That or Spain.
Now that they're out, my EU citizenship is useless there. Spain it is! Enough Brits there anyway.

 

[AlbertC]

Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed across London shopfronts and synagogue | CNN

Police in London are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti found scrawled across shop fronts, restaurants and a synagogue as a possible hate crime.

www.cnn.com

 

[AlbertC]

Thousands of independence supporters to join march in Glasgow

March is first of eight planned for 2020, which looks set to be crucial year for movement

Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
Sat 11 Jan 2020 07.00 GMT

Thousands of independence supporters march in Glasgow

March is first of eight planned for 2020, which looks set to be crucial year for movement

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlbertC]

Wartime bomb damage and asbestos inflates Big Ben repair bill to £80m

Conservation work on Elizabeth Tower is ‘more complex than anticipated’

Rajeev Syal
Thu 13 Feb 2020 02.19 GMT

The repair bill to fix parliament’s Elizabeth Tower that houses Big Ben has increased by £18.6m to nearly £80m following the discovery of asbestos, second world war bomb damage and pollution problems.

Conservation work on the 177-year-old structure, which is supposed to be completed at the end of next year, led to the discovery by the project team after intrusive surveys, parliamentary officials have disclosed.

Wartime bomb damage and asbestos inflates Big Ben repair bill to £80m

Conservation work on Elizabeth Tower is ‘more complex than anticipated’

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlbertC]

UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers

Government plans to take ‘full control’ of borders a disaster for economy and jobs, say industry leaders and Labour

Lisa O'Carroll, Peter Walker and Libby Brooks
Tue 18 Feb 2020 22.30 GMT

Britain is to close its borders to unskilled workers and those who can’t speak English as part of a fundamental overhaul of immigration laws that will end the era of cheap EU labour in factories, warehouses, hotels and restaurants.

Unveiling its Australian-style points system on Wednesday, the government will say it is grasping a unique opportunity to take “full control” of British borders “for the first time in decades” and eliminate the “distortion” caused by EU freedom of movement.

But industry leaders immediately accused the government of an assault on the economy warning of “disastrous” consequences with job losses and closures in factories and the high street.

UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers

Government plans to take ‘full control’ of borders a disaster for economy and jobs, say industry leaders and Labour

www.theguardian.com

 

[Richard White]

UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers

Government plans to take ‘full control’ of borders a disaster for economy and jobs, say industry leaders and Labour

Lisa O'Carroll, Peter Walker and Libby Brooks
Tue 18 Feb 2020 22.30 GMT

Britain is to close its borders to unskilled workers and those who can’t speak English as part of a fundamental overhaul of immigration laws that will end the era of cheap EU labour in factories, warehouses, hotels and restaurants.

Unveiling its Australian-style points system on Wednesday, the government will say it is grasping a unique opportunity to take “full control” of British borders “for the first time in decades” and eliminate the “distortion” caused by EU freedom of movement.

But industry leaders immediately accused the government of an assault on the economy warning of “disastrous” consequences with job losses and closures in factories and the high street.

UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers

Government plans to take ‘full control’ of borders a disaster for economy and jobs, say industry leaders and Labour

www.theguardian.com

They will learn eventually.

 

[Jasmine18]

UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers

Government plans to take ‘full control’ of borders a disaster for economy and jobs, say industry leaders and Labour

Lisa O'Carroll, Peter Walker and Libby Brooks
Tue 18 Feb 2020 22.30 GMT

Britain is to close its borders to unskilled workers and those who can’t speak English as part of a fundamental overhaul of immigration laws that will end the era of cheap EU labour in factories, warehouses, hotels and restaurants.

Unveiling its Australian-style points system on Wednesday, the government will say it is grasping a unique opportunity to take “full control” of British borders “for the first time in decades” and eliminate the “distortion” caused by EU freedom of movement.

But industry leaders immediately accused the government of an assault on the economy warning of “disastrous” consequences with job losses and closures in factories and the high street.

UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers

Government plans to take ‘full control’ of borders a disaster for economy and jobs, say industry leaders and Labour

www.theguardian.com

Looks like British people will earn a decent salary like Australia now

 

[tiffer24]

The UK's public health plan for COVID-19--"herd immunity"...

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...st-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19