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Watchman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:19 pm Yes but in Brexiteers eyes, “voluntary organisations” means woke do-gooders, so no problem

I’m old enough to remember when voluntary organisations were the great rightwing election idea.

Didn't they used to refer to it as 'The third way'. The voluntary sector providing services that the private sector were not prepared to take on because there was no scope for profit.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:15 pm

Watchman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:19 pm Yes but in Brexiteers eyes, “voluntary organisations” means woke do-gooders, so no problem

I’m old enough to remember when voluntary organisations were the great rightwing election idea.

They're only great when they're the imaginary substitute for the welfare state.
Once they exist and start that do-gooding it's a different story.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:46 pm
They're only great when they're the imaginary for the welfare state.
Once they exist and start that do-gooding it's a different story.

They're also great when there's a Labour government, when they're imagined as an easy way to tax cuts when the Tories get in.

Volunteers running services is great on a sunny day, with tables laden with cupcakes, the local news team present, and that fucking jazz band (you know, the one with the straw boaters) playing. It's not so appealing on a wet Tuesday in February.

You want a service that runs all year round in all weathers? Pay some professionals.

It's just as well we have all those wonderful opportunities granted us by the magic of Brexit

The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies as the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

The IMF said the economy will contract by 0.6% in 2023, rather than grow slightly as previously predicted...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64452995

Oh


Brexit might not be the main cause of the current economic woes, but it is a large fallen tree across the road to recovery.

The UK economy will shrink

That’s should help with Jeremy Hunt’s inflation reduction targets. A government deemed to be a rational actor would be able to cut interest rates in this situation. We’d be back to Kwasi crisis if Hunt did that.

Instead of making a twat of yourself inventing fairy tales, be honest and just say ‘get the immigrants out.’

Rats squabbling in their own sack of shit

Hope his fears aren’t realised but drivers do what they can to secure their lorries and inform authorities if they spot a stowaway on the crossing. And they know some still slip through so yes why risk it?

That’ll show ‘‘em who’s boss. Is Tony Hancock heading up space exploration? “It’s not right having these foreigners hurtling around up there, you mark my words!”

Who needs the EU?

satnav wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:32 pm Who needs the EU?

Is this to do with the story I read a few days ago about Aardman Animation considering moving abroad? I can't remember the details, but it was something to do with Brexit fucking things up and making things difficult for them.

This is what the British space project would look like if we go it alone.

How's the economic powerhouse Global Britain doing at grabbing those opportunities?

The UK has suffered a loss of business investment since the 2016 Brexit referendum worth £29bn, or £1,000 a household, according to a study by a senior Bank of England official.

Jonathan Haskel, an external member of the Bank’s nine-strong monetary policy committee that sets UK interest rates, said private sector investment “stopped in its tracks” in the years following the decision to quit the EU.

He said that in the aftermath of the vote the UK immediately began to fall behind the trend of the previous six years and “suffered much more” when compared with other major industrialised economies, opening up a productivity gap that has left permanent scars.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ate-setter

Oh.

This is serious

Britain is in danger of a “disastrous” food scandal, owing to lax post-Brexit border controls on agricultural imports, the leader of the UK’s biggest farming organisation has warned.

Minette Batters, the president of the National Farmers’ Union, accused ministers of a “dereliction of duty” in failing to ensure food and other agricultural imports were safe. She said the government had failed to learn the lessons of the horsemeat scandal of 2013.

“We are seeing little to no checks on imports that are coming in from the EU,” she said. “We have the massive risk of African swine fever in Europe, and to not be investing in our defences for keeping our biosecurity and animal and plant health safe, I think is just a dereliction of duty.”

After the horsemeat scandal, in which products such as burgers and lasagne purporting to contain 100% beef were found to show traces of horsemeat, stricter controls were put in place on many food systems.

But Batters said those controls were being eroded, with “so little checks” on imports, and pointed to recent findings that many lorries entering the UK contained fraudulent meat. “If there was a food scare from Europe, it would be very difficult to trace it right now,” she said...

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment ... te-batters

Not only have none of the Brexit promises been delivered, Tories have trashed the economy, trashed public services, eroded trust in politicians of all persuasions, and now it emerges that food imports aren't being inspected and any old shite might be making its way to our kitchens. With the added excitement of exotic animal diseases coming in and wiping out not only our farmed animals, but our native wildlife too.

And the fuckers who are enabling all this, when voted out of power, will go off to lucrative non-jobs through contacts made while in power, retire to spend more time with their untaxed fortunes, or sit on the Opposition benches biding their time til they can get back into power and do it all again.

Not one of these disgusting examples of humanity will ever have to face justice for what they've done to this country.

And they have the gall to refer to Remainers as traitors.

Granted, the years don't make much chronological sense any longer, but it must be three whole ones since Mogg was warned about this when HMG ceded just about all control over goods at the borders.

Poshly, he dismissed any such qualms. The UK is where it is, and a tenner says that that wasn't chicken.

Minette Batters isn’t short of trade PR hyperbole but if she’s right it won’t be long before something very nasty slips into the supply chain to keep prices keen. And if fatalities result from supermarket meat instead of a low rent butcher, trust between the citizen and government collapses.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:35 am Minette Batters isn’t short of trade PR hyperbole but if she’s right it won’t be long before something very nasty slips into the supply chain to keep prices keen. And if fatalities result from supermarket meat instead of a low rent butcher, trust between the citizen and government collapses.

Knowing Labour's luck, it'll happen within the first twelve months of them finally returning to power. And the Tory press will be overflowing with "LABOUR'S FOOD HYGIENE DISGRACE"-style headlines. It's easy to predict the blame for all sorts of Tory-era policy disasters immediately being pinned on a new Labour government.