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See also here. Brexit's both done and been frustrated.

Not sure that's a particularly impressive role of benefits delivered in 5 years.

I see Ben Houchen was very disappointed with the rail plans announced last year. I don't know if they've been improved.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 7:48 pm Is ‘Remainers’ Brexit’ going to be a thing?

A "Remainers' Brexit" would have at the very fucking least seen the UK mostly mimic its relations with the EU along the lines of the bilateral treaties between the EU & Switzerland, if not retain EEA membership which technically would have been a "Brexit" in the form of the UK leaving the European Union.

Anyone trying to suggest otherwise needs to be shot repeatedly with balls of their own shite.

What a tit

But we can sign them with a fl oz of ink.

A remainers Brexit would have been to have a second vote and cancel the whole silly idea.

One of the Express deputies was having a two and fro between some random on twitter, asked several times about the benefits all he did would offer was to blame the pandemic.

Not an evidence based post of a Brexit fuckwit but sometimes you just know

The Congress System promoted sovereignty and freedom. I’m sure Hannan is become more stupid with age.

And the soldier's bodies were ground up for fertiliser.

An economic benefit that I'm sure Hannan can get behind.

We have so few Remoaners on here and this is more politically tin eared wonkery from the FT than populist fuckwittery.

Is that a piss take or not?

Though I’m sure I saw someone from the government say the same.

I wonder what David's favourite brand of glue is? Whatever it is, it must be pretty potent stuff.

Brexit is working and anyone who says it has hit the economy and trade has an axe to grind, the former Brexit negotiator David Frost has said on the sixth anniversary of the UK voting to leave the EU.

Lord Frost stopped short of painting a picture of “sunny uplands” but said official figures used to predict a 4% decline in output caused by Brexit were “zombie” numbers, based on academic studies of former communist countries, and not fact.

“Those studies primarily looked at the effect of opening up badly run ex-communist and ex-authoritarian autarchic economies in which opening up was producing huge improvements to the policy regime more generally, and in which the gains came from these broader improvements not just from trade,” he said...


...Frost said on Thursday: “The view that Brexit is hitting us from an economic and trade perspective is generated by those with an axe to grind and cannot be supported by any objective analysis of the figures. The UK has grown at much the same pace as other G7 countries since the referendum and, as the ONS points out, our goods exports to the EU are at the highest level ever.”

He said the picture since 2020 was clouded by trade disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the supply chain crisis. It might never be possible to determine the impact of Brexit alone, he told the annual conference of the UK in a Changing Europe organisation...


...He said: “Brexit is working. We have no cause for regrets about the decision the country has taken. The solutions to the remaining problems are not to be found in going backwards, but in completing the process and following through on its logic.”..


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... avid-frost

What a lightweight. It would take more than that for Bill Cash to fold

Bill Cash wouldn't fold if he were confined to Rockall with only a Union Jack for company.

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:49 pm What a lightweight. It would take more than that for Bill Cash to fold

Suck it up fatty,

Apparently he's enjoying the replies.

I forgot: it's six years since The Great Mistake today, isn't it?

Boiler wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:41 pm I forgot: it's six years since The Great Mistake today, isn't it?

Not a mistake. A very deliberately executed con trick.

I vividly remember waking up in the middle of the night in a Parisian hotel room, switching on the telly and staring silently at it in total disbelief.

I struggled to get back to sleep.