Brexit Watch

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Brexit was sold on a series of half-truths, outright lies and delusional fantasies about how we'd be much better off outside the EU. Unfortunately the majority of the public swallowed it all and even now as the reality begins to bite some don't want to let go of their belief that we've somehow regained our 'sovereignty' as if we'd ever lost it in the first place.

We are the first country in history to deliberately make it harder for ourselves to trade with foreign countries and to deliberately throw away access to all sorts of information we need to ensure our own national security. We've thrown away our position as a 'bridge' between the EU and US and we've also tossed away a huge chunk of our businesses particularly in the financial markets.

What I personally fear is that once the co-vid pandemic is over we'll see the true consequences of Brexit in all their ugly glory. While I respect the result of the referendum I am absolutely certain that five years from now those who voted for it will realise they have deep cause to regret that. Personally I am afraid that our children and grandchildren will pay for our short sightedness.

gloswhite wrote:I see that you are again calling brexiteers idiots XM.

wanderlust wrote:
It was me but you are extrapolating. What I said was the lie was told to get idiots to vote for Brexit which many did. That doesn’t mean that everyone who voted to leave did so for this particular reason - in reality people voted for loads of different reasons - ergo I’m not suggesting all Brexiteers are idiots.

xmiles wrote:

Reminds of that time Will Self said "all racists voted for leave" and that idiot brexiteer Mark Francois was stupid enough to think that meant Self was saying every leave voter was racist.

gloswhite wrote:And we Brexiteers are not all as green as we are cabbage looking. 

xmiles wrote:Probably exactly the same.

xmiles wrote:Other EU countries are behind us but that has nothing to do with brexit. Even if we had remained in the EU under the rules of the the European Medicines Agency we would still have been able to take decisions around vaccines exactly as we have done.

Those brexiteers just can't stop lying can they.

gloswhite wrote:Because the wankers are weeks behind us, and Macron is saying its because they are doing it as one, as Europeans. (Germany is considering buying Russian vaccines). The French people want  a vaccine of their own, but their research and distribution hasn't worked out, partly because because of bad administration as much as anything.
My wife and I both had ours today 

Cajunboy wrote:
It's down to EU inefficiency that they are so far behind.

wanderlust wrote:I think it’s a good strategy if the vaccine actually works but with the assorted ongoing mutations there is still the possibility that the current vaccines - which were ushered through the approval process by our government for political reasons - may not be sufficient in the long run and the next generation of vaccines or the stem cell/genome research outcomes may provide a better option.

Obviously we’ll know in the fullness of time, but if it does turn out to be the case, the government will have blown all our resources on a white elephant.

Like the folk who piled their money into the canal system just before trains came along.