[mattomac]

Interesting as the government of the day mostly didn’t tell them that, the ones who they voted in now did mind.

[Samanfur]

[Bones McCoy]

Like a 3 year old drew a face on a rotting cabbage.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Tim Wetherspoon was interviewed a while ago, and came across as surprisingly pro-migration then. I think he's more one of those who saw some EU regulations he didn't like about 20 years ago. With a dash of "British businessman with a sense of destiny" chucked in.

[Tubby Isaacs]

https://www.ft.com/content/20a626ab-d22 ... d1e1ff132d

Brexit shrank UK services exports by more than £110bn over a four-year period, new research shows, highlighting the far-reaching trade implications of Britain’s decision to break away from the EU.

Experts at Aston University in Birmingham found that UK services exports from 2016 to 2019 were cumulatively £113bn lower than they would have been had the UK not voted to quit the EU in June 2016. 

Keep this up and London will need levelling up to the level of NE Lincolnshire.

[davidjay]

Like a 3 year old drew a face on a rotting cabbage.

x2.

[Cyclist]

Comment on Cap'n Wetherspoon's latest whinge nicked from another place:

I'm sure the honest burghers of the EU will be queuing round the block to work for minimum wage for an animated scarecrow made of gammon.

[Youngian]

Tim Wetherspoon was interviewed a while ago, and came across as surprisingly pro-migration then. I think he's more one of those who saw some EU regulations he didn't like about 20 years ago. With a dash of "British businessman with a sense of destiny" chucked in.

A freewheelin social and global economic liberal like Andrew Neil. Unlike Neil, he hasn't doubled down pretending to be a protectionist nativist. Martin sticks to areas he should know something about; the complexities of international trade but like Dyson he talks a load of twaddle. He also now knows a lot about the futility of creating labour shortages. Should have done his homework.

[kreuzberger]

Should have done his homework.

There really was no need, while everyone apart from the class dunces - take yer pick - was shouting out the right answers.

Loathesome, pan-faced cretin.

[Boiler]

Loathesome, pan-faced cretin.

Now you mention it... he really does look like he's had the full Tom & Jerry treatment, doesn't he?

[MisterMuncher]

A freewheelin social and global economic liberal like Andrew Neil. Unlike Neil, he hasn't doubled down pretending to be a protectionist nativist. Martin sticks to areas he should know something about; the complexities of international trade but like Dyson he talks a load of twaddle. He also now knows a lot about the futility of creating labour shortages. Should have done his homework.

The other similarity is that they somehow get hailed as business geniuses for a: selling cheap beer at the lowest possible operating costs or b: making a device more elaborate, and then charging the earth for it, knowing that the customer base would rather die than admit it's a bit shit and they got taken for fucking mugs. These were not new ideas, not particularly clever ones, and both dependent on a fair measure of deceit

[Tubby Isaacs]

Frosty is threatening to pull out of Horizon if we don't get our way.

[Andy McDandy]

Well, everyone who is anyone knows that the only real universities are Oxford and perhaps half of Cambridge. Sorbonne? Bologna? Rusticated jumped up polys!

[Spoonman]

Brexit minister accuses EU of 'legal purism' over NI Protocol

The UK's Brexit minister has accused the EU of "legal purism" ahead of a meeting to discuss the NI Protocol.

Lord Frost made the comment in an article for the Financial Times.

In response, Ireland's foreign minister said: "Lord Frost continues to lay blame for difficulty with Protocol at EU inflexibility. This is simply not the case."

Lord Frost is due to meet European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic in London on Wednesday.

The men are due to assess what progress has been made in technical talks aimed at simplifying the operation of the protocol.

Those talks are covering around 30 issues ranging from VAT on used cars, to pet travel and the movement of food products from GB to NI.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57378954

Jaysus titty-shagging Christ! How dare the EU stick to the law!

[Youngian]

Whatever numbskull negotiated this dumb arse treaty has a lot of explaining to do to Lord Frost

[Tubby Isaacs]

Johnson will drop Frost the minute he's fed up with the heat from the EU. Nobody cares about EU-style vet checks.

[Youngian]

Johnson will drop Frost the minute he's fed up with the heat from the EU. Nobody cares about EU-style vet checks.

That would mean no independent trade deals and agriculture is one of the few areas country’s want on the table in order to do a trade deal with the UK beyond cut and paste EU and WTO terms.

[Cyclist]

I think this belongs in here on the grounds of his former job.

On the subject of twats getting upset when people take the knee, Martin Daubney, ex Brexit Party MEP and editor of Loaded, apparently would like to shake the hand of the two England players who didn't take the knee before the match with Romania.

He must have missed the fact that there was a colour clash and England were the team in blue, the two players he was talking about were Romanians.

[Watchman]

and one of said players claims he was not kneeling as a gesture of support to a team mate who was accused of racially abusing a black Rangers player!

[Youngian]

Irish keep British supermarket open