[kreuzberger]

It's as if that "continent cut off by fog" headline was never the butt of much mirth. The Express-mentality, in its myriad guises, still thinks that it is the centre of the known universe.

[Youngian]

Ever thought about just being an estate agent?

[davidjay]

The whole of Europe owes us eternal gratitude for either liberating them or beating their bad guys.

[kreuzberger]

What an absolute tosser this estate agent is. It was him who, I believe, as producers don't look too far, graced the World Service this afternoon.

Apparently, Spain is "shooting itself in the foot" by potentially housing these greasy dagoes.

Berlin needs this too, even if that is a pipe-dream while the CDU is running the city and hell-bent on eradicating bike lanes in favour of SUVs from the vacuum-suburbs outside the S-Bahn ring.

[Bones McCoy]

What an absolute tosser this estate agent is. It was him who, I believe, as producers don't look too far, graced the World Service this afternoon.

Apparently, Spain is "shooting itself in the foot" by potentially housing these greasy dagoes.

Berlin needs this too, even if that is a pipe-dream while the CDU is running the city and hell-bent on eradicating bike lanes in favour of SUVs from the vacuum-suburbs outside the S-Bahn ring.

Looks like somebody needs to broaden his customer base.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

What is a '100%' tax? Is that full payment of local taxes? (Often reduced for parttime occupants) Is it based on some notional rental value? Or is it 100% of the purchase price?
I doubt it will be 100% of the retail value as being hinted here.

[Yug]

If that estate agent goes bust over this I will be writing a serious letter to the Spanish government.





Asking if they have any ideas on how to put a few more of those parasitic cunts out of business.

[Youngian]

Doug Carswell still daft as a brush explains how the Brexit revolution was betrayed but Comrade Trump can save us with real communism.
His main problem is marrying Trumpian nationalism with his belief in nations subsuming their petty red tape (common international sovereignty in workers, consumer and environmental standards) to a global free trading architecture.

Trump can save Brexit – if we let him
In the almost-decade since Britain voted to leave the European Union, look at the mess we’ve made of it.
Handed the largest mandate in British history by the electorate in 2016, we have seen a succession of missteps and missed opportunities.
Ever since we left the EU, British officials in charge of negotiating trade agreements have made things unnecessarily complicated. When negotiating with India, for instance, British officials insisted on including provisions for environmental sustainability and gender equality.
The simplest way to eliminate regulatory friction in trade deals is to push for the reciprocal recognition of regulatory standards (if your regulator has approved it, we’ve approved it). What has instead happened is that the UK officials have advocated for joint regulatory compliance (both sets of national regulators adhering to a common standard). https://archive.ph/2025.01.27-063438/ht ... rade-deal/

[Killer Whale]

Carswell still wants a race to the bottom?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Carswill - God made him ugly and then hit him in the face with a shovel...

[Youngian]

Telegraph commemorative Brexit fifth anniversary edition.
Nigel Trotsky: 'Revolution betrayed' Vs Lord David Stalinist: 'Onwards and upwards to the next successful five year plan.'

[Bones McCoy]

Nobody puts the dead blonde in the corner...

(Apologies to Patrick Swayze)

[Abernathy]

On the fifth anniversary of actual Brexit, I can’t help but look back - in anger, mostly, at what I still regard as the biggest and most outrageous political confidence trick ever inflicted on the people of the UK.

I still remember how I felt on the morning of 24 June 2016. Appalled. Aghast. Shocked. Hurt. Angry. Grief-stricken. Powerless.

Yes, I felt angry. Somehow, I felt the referendum result as a personal wound. A painful one at that. I had actually been proud, very proud and grateful, that my country was part of a trans-national alliance of neighbouring nation-states, working co-operatively for the mutual benefit of all 400 million of its citizens. That I had a passport that enabled me to travel freely, live and work in any of 27 other EU member states. That people from all over Europe could come to the UK and work in important sectors of the economy, like agriculture, construction, and hospitality. That British politicians were elected to a European parliament and helped to shape the EU as the British people’s voices. Of superficially trivial things, like the little EU flag encircling the letters “GB” on my car’s number plates.

But above all, that the decision to throw all of that away against my will and the will of many thousands of others was predicated entirely on a series of lies, on a deliberately gerrymandered referendum franchise set up as non-binding and advisory only, yet treated, mendaciously, as the immutable “will of the people”, and which delivered a clear but unsustainably close victory to the “Leave” campaign.

I am still angry. Possibly not quite as angry as when I watched that utter cunt Farage on TV on the morning of the 24th June 2016 proclaim, brazenly, that the referendum decision to trash the UK’s EU membership was “achieved without a shot being fired”, when in fact their “victory” had been achieved at the terrible cost of the murder of a British MP into whom shots had been fired, as well as knife blades having been brutally thrust.

And yes, that a ludicrous exit “deal” was then foisted on the British people by a Tory leader occupying 10 Downing Street whose focus was only ever on what would benefit himself, and that the UK has been suffering from ever since.

Still angry ? You fucking bet I am.

[Tubby Isaacs]

One man did it. Without Bozo, you've got Michael Gove leading the campaign and setting people's teeth on edge, and being edited down on the news because he's too boring.

[Youngian]

Everything we warned about in 2016 has come to pass but may as well have been talking Moon man language bsck then. Even tried a bit of Project Fear by warning about Trump despite not believing this dangerous idiot wouldn’t be elected. The Brexiters haven't even been lucky since the EURef and that cheers me up.
What does quell the anger is now it's only the most bone headed thickos who don't get it.
The Vote Leave politicians are at least discredited yesterday's news but why hasn't that cunt Farage been held to account?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

You may be an obstreperous old Jock, Abers, but I think I love you.

[Abernathy]

I loves ya too, you cranky old cunt.

[satnav]

Somebody was asking on social media about whatever happened to Lord Digby Jones the former CBI boss who was a cheerleader for Brexit. Well it looks like he buggered off to live in Guernsey in 2020 so he could enjoy all the benefits of the customs union.

[Abernathy]

One man did it. Without Bozo, you've got Michael Gove leading the campaign and setting people's teeth on edge, and being edited down on the news because he's too boring.

Though Johnson bears a massive responsibility, you can’t say it was all down to him. Gove, Stuart, Leadsome, Banks, Farage, Widdecombe, Cummings, Corbyn. The roll-call is long.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

One man did it. Without Bozo, you've got Michael Gove leading the campaign and setting people's teeth on edge, and being edited down on the news because he's too boring.

Though Johnson bears a massive responsibility, you can’t say it was all down to him. Gove, Stuart, Leadsome, Banks, Farage, Widdecombe, Cummings, Corbyn. The roll-call is long.

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