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But is the fruit cheaper than it was before we left the EU? That's all that matters, apparently. Y'know, for hard-working families.

Morocco is the new German car industry which will ride to Brexit’s rescue. Ask the ‘we’re now allowed trade with the RotW’ brigade whether they’ve been to a grocers or supermarket in the past 35 years.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 7:28 am Morocco is the new German car industry which will ride to Brexit’s rescue. Ask the ‘we’re now allowed trade with the RotW’ brigade whether they’ve been to a grocers or supermarket in the past 35 years.

You can't move for all the straight bananas!

Brexit: Government to launch study on economic benefits of reintroducing imperial units

Paul Scully, a Tory business minister, said reintroducing imperial labelling would be “an important step in taking back control” and that a planned “assessment of the economic impact on business will be carried out in due course”.

Riiight...

Scully, proprietor of a failed travel agency...

Samanfur wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:46 pm

Brexit: Government to launch study on economic benefits of reintroducing imperial units

Paul Scully, a Tory business minister, said reintroducing imperial labelling would be “an important step in taking back control” and that a planned “assessment of the economic impact on business will be carried out in due course”.

Just when I was starting to get used to 5mm as opposed to No. 10 woodscrews. At this rate we'll be reintroducing BA and Whitworth screws/bolts...

Those of the tories' base, who survived their murderously negligent Covid policy, will be (unusually) priapic at the thought of a return to imperial measures.

These are not the actions of a nationof adults.

Just one example - every piece of cut and planed timber in this country is measured metric. As are all the machines for the above...

The main measurement unit in Sri Lanka is an Imperial perch.

1 Perch = 25.29 Sqm = 272.21 Sq Ft

1 Acre = 160 Perches = 4 Roods = 4,000 Sqm

I have no concept of the above but I am sure that there is an army of maths teachers on stand by. The kids will be fine.

I have just spoken with a sergeant in said army.

She said "Get to fuck out of my sight with that shite"

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:21 pm Just one example - every piece of cut and planed timber in this country is measured metric. As are all the machines for the above...

Not to mention all construction plans and drawings will be in Metric, and all builders of commercial projects operate in metric (in a second language). Good luck getting those that remain to adopt a more confusing system and shelling out for all new measuring equipment.

Or we could just buy American...

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 9:10 am Or we could just buy American...

Probably the plan.

Bollocks to UNC and UNF screws though.

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:28 pm

The main measurement unit in Sri Lanka is an Imperial perch.

1 Perch = 25.29 Sqm = 272.21 Sq Ft

1 Acre = 160 Perches = 4 Roods = 4,000 Sqm

I have no concept of the above but I am sure that there is an army of maths teachers on stand by. The kids will be fine.

A mate of mine wrote a macro for Excel that allowed you to work in LSD...

The gift that keeps on giving

British science is facing the threat of a highly damaging brain drain that could see scores of top young researchers leaving the UK. In addition, the futures of several major British-led international projects are also now in jeopardy following a delay in funding by the European Union.

Senior scientists say the UK’s scientific standing is at serious risk while others have warned that major programmes – including medical projects aimed at tackling global scourges such as malaria – face cancellation...

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/202 ... ch-at-risk

British science is threatened because of the government’s ongoing rows with the EU. After Brexit, ministers had agreed a deal that would allow Britain to continue to play a major role in Europe’s vast research programme. But the subsequent failure of talks over Northern Ireland has led to a major delay with this arrangement. As a result, dozens of scientists given grants earlier this month as part of this year’s round of EU funding awards had these offers revoked only a few days later.

This is what happens when a bunch of arrogant, ignorant, over-privileged intellectual lightweights treat something of national importance as though it were an internal party-political game.

Want to do your little bit for the Ukrainian people?

Tough titty.

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Brexit red tape is preventing small charities and members of the public from bringing supplies to the Ukrainian border to help ease the deepening humanitarian crisis, it has emerged.

A Polish charity in Lewisham, south London, said three of its vans were blocked from getting on a ferry because they didn’t have the paperwork needed for their cargo.

Since Brexit anyone taking commercial quantities of goods to the EU must document all items on their trucks along with other export certification.


The process is complicated and extensive, requiring exporters to know the individual commodity code for each of their products, as well as the origin and destination of their goods, something that individuals acting spontaneously in response to the refugee crisis are unlikely to know...

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... to-ukraine

Just another of the many ways Brexit is making life better.

Oddly enough, at the hobbyist's meeting I was at last week one of the organisers was absent as he was involved in sorting out the MASSIVE amount of paperwork required to get charitable donations for Ukraine into the EU.

Welcome to the world of the carnet.

We wouldn't have had this without Brexit.

Like the disaster of Brexit itself, an arts festival set up to celebrate the UK’s full departure from the EU is turning out to be a massive waste of public money.

Announced originally in 2018 as the Festival of Brexit, it finally opened this month with the new and meaningless name of Unboxed. Stubbornly, however, Jacob Rees-Mogg, minister for Brexit opportunities (if there are any), still calls it the Brexit festival.

Unboxed began on March 1 with coloured lights, showing the universe, reflected onto Paisley Cathedral in Scotland. Locals said they would have preferred the yellow and blue-coloured flags of Ukraine beamed on to some of Renfrewshire’s other public buildings.

With 10 events across the UK from March to October, Unboxed is costing a scandalous £120m of public money. The Arts Council, having lost hundreds of millions of pounds of funding under the Tories, is fuming. They would much prefer the £120m to be used instead to bolster underfunded non-West End theatres, other performing arts, and galleries.

The other so-called delights of the Unboxed festival include a decommissioned North Sea oil platform that has been repurposed as “a work of art”, and Tour De Moon, a festival of nightlife in clubs.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-fe ... lic-money/

I got carried away copying the highlights and ended up copying the whole article. Link provided in case you want to see the spectacle of Paisley cathedral lit up with a discordant mish-mash of colours. Isn't that an insult, kicking it all off in a country that overwhelmingly voted Remain?

It’s Paisley Abbey, not “Paisley Cathedral”. (Paisley is my home town). I wasn’t at all aware that that event had anything to do with Brexit. I’d guess that most Paisley folk weren’t either, and would have been thoroughly pissed off if they were.

Libraries receive an events calendar. Unboxed was revealed to us at the start of this month. No time to apply for funding. This is kicking taxpayers money to the art school kids of the usual suspects.