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If you want to look for cuts in Government start here, by not wasting time and money on stuff like this.

2.1 The UK’s exit from the EU has created an opportunity to review the law on units of measurement for consumer transactions and to take back control of our measurement system so that it better reflects the needs of British businesses and consumers.

2.2 The Government announced its intention to review the ban on the use of imperial units for sales and marking on 16 September 2021, as part of a wider announcement of a range of regulatory reforms taking advantage of Brexit. It also follows on from a recommendation made by the independent Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform. The Taskforce’s Report to Government published on 16 June 2021, recommended that the Government should amend the Weights and Measures Act 1985 to allow traders to use imperial measures without metric equivalents.

2.3 The purpose of the review is to identify how we can give more choice to businesses and consumers over the units of measurement they use for trade, while ensuring that measurement information remains accurate.

2.4 The review will take into consideration all consumer transactions made on the basis of measurement, with the aim of providing greater freedom for businesses and consumers.

2.5 We recognise that metric units remain essential for both science and international trade and the review will be focussed on the use of units of measurement in domestic trade.

It is impressive that official government documents are using the Mail definition of "ban"

Take back controwl of are boarders, they said. Vote Leave to keep the forrins out, they told us. The gammons lapped it up.

A Brexiteer Tory MP on Monday admitted immigration has increased since Britain voted to leave the EU.

Despite the Leave campaign proclaiming that Brexit would mean “taking back control” on immigration and asylum, and cutting migration to the tens of thousands, the UK is seeing a rise of people coming from abroad.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 8.html?amp

Oh deary deary me.

Yug wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:17 pm Take back controwl of are boarders, they said. Vote Leave to keep the forrins out, they told us. The gammons lapped it up.

A Brexiteer Tory MP on Monday admitted immigration has increased since Britain voted to leave the EU.

Despite the Leave campaign proclaiming that Brexit would mean “taking back control” on immigration and asylum, and cutting migration to the tens of thousands, the UK is seeing a rise of people coming from abroad.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 8.html?amp

Oh deary deary me.

Its a relief a Tory has bought this one up as Dacre and Murdoch certainly will once a Labour government inherits the figures.

Is the Big Issue editor the best they can find for a Brexit pundit?

Liz Truss has reportedly sparked concern within EU circles over the prospect of the UK's former Brexit negotiation being promoted to a senior position in a future Downing Street administration. The Big Issue's editor Paul McNamee has suggested that France and Emmanuel Macron, in particular, have been left feeling a "little anxious". https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics ... -latest-vn

I wouldn’t have thought that The Big Issue would be a source of propaganda for the Tories

I assume that’s “worried”, not as in frightened, but as in “Christ, not that fucking idiot again”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ris-brexit

I can't take much more winning

How many Brexidiots will be shocked, surprised, and angered by this news?

There shouldn't be any. After all, they knew what they were voting for.

Watchman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:50 am I wouldn’t have thought that The Big Issue would be a source of propaganda for the Tories

I assume that’s “worried”, not as in frightened, but as in “Christ, not that fucking idiot again”

The Big Issue is very much "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" style cheridee.

Watchman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 1:18 pm https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ris-brexit

I can't take much more winning

Who needs Disneyland when you can visit Brexitland.

Not the first time I've compared with Pyrrhus of Epiros.

A Mickey Mouse project cancels Mickey Mouse.

"Daddee, why can't we go to Disneyland?"

Ask yer granny...

SevuntiNe an arf MilLiUn! WiL ov ther PEepUl!

The head of the £120m Unboxed, an ongoing project aimed at celebrating UK creativity, has said the scheme has been dogged by being nicknamed the “Festival of Brexit” after it attracted a fraction of the target visitor numbers.

Ministers had hoped that the festival would attract 66 million people, but with just over two more months to go, four of the events have so far only drawn 238,000 visitors, according to official figures...

https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... ors-target

This Brexit malarkey isn't *quite* as popular as they thought, is it.

I like the way they say calling it the Festival of Brexit has tainted it.

Well, you see, only arty farty clever dick liberals like these events and they won't do their duty and go.

Seriously, to appeal to and reach the 17.4 million (or however many are left), all they needed to do was rebrand BGT as Brexit's got Talent.

Yug wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:06 am SevuntiNe an arf MilLiUn! WiL ov ther PEepUl!

The head of the £120m Unboxed, an ongoing project aimed at celebrating UK creativity, has said the scheme has been dogged by being nicknamed the “Festival of Brexit” after it attracted a fraction of the target visitor numbers.

Ministers had hoped that the festival would attract 66 million people, but with just over two more months to go, four of the events have so far only drawn 238,000 visitors, according to official figures...

https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... ors-target

This Brexit malarkey isn't *quite* as popular as they thought, is it.

I like the way they say calling it the Festival of Brexit has tainted it.

Only two months to go? The See Monster (that's a derelict oil rig to you and me) which was planned to be open by "early summer" finally arrived here in July and will not be ready to open until the end of September. If it's closing in October I can't see it having many visitors. Moreover, the See Monster is occupying the space used for the popular annual ice rink and there are now concerns locally whether the oil rig can be removed in time for the ice rink to happen this year (it was cancelled the last two years due to COVID). https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news ... me-9230590

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:14 am Well, you see, only arty farty clever dick liberals like these events and they won't do their duty and go.

Seriously, to appeal to and reach the 17.4 million (or however many are left), all they needed to do was rebrand BGT as Brexit's got Talent.

Unfortunately, Brexit hasn't.

Ministers had hoped that the festival would attract 66 million people, but with just over two more months to go, four of the events have so far only drawn 238,000 visitors, according to official figures

Even that figure sounds high, is it based on ticket sales or footfall passing a giant animatronic dragon or some such?

It's almost as if culture works best as a grassroots thing married, where needed and where effective, to elite funding and soft power.

Brexit is a confected zombie of a grassroots shrug of the shoulders married to an elite project for blithering morons.

Besides, this had a distinct whiff of "bung some cash to our middle child who did art and drama" about it.

How's the breakaway from EU regulations going?

The government is to scrap the “Brexit bonus” which would have paid farmers and landowners to enhance nature, in what wildlife groups are calling an “all-out attack” on the environment, the Observer can reveal.

Instead, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) sources disclosed, they are considering paying landowners a yearly set sum for each acre of land they own, which would be similar to the much-maligned EU basic payments scheme of the common agricultural policy.

The Environment Land Management Scheme (Elms), devised by the former environment secretary Michael Gove, was constructed to encourage farmers to create space for rare species including wading birds and dormice, as well as absorbing carbon to help England reach its net zero target. Pilot schemes have created rare habitats and brought back species including nightingales, beavers and white stork.

Now, landowners and land managers who have been part of Elms have told the Observer that meetings with the government about their land have been removed from the diary as the scheme goes on pause.

Daniel Zeichner, the Labour MP for Cambridge and shadow farming minister, said this was a “complete betrayal of something that they said would be one of the key benefits of Brexit”. Many farmers had changed how they use their land because of the forthcoming Elms requirements...

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment ... d-to-scrap