[Andy McDandy]

Brilliant. That's the "EU caves in, thanks Boris" headlines done.

[Youngian]

Is Frost going to reject this?

EU ready to scrap most post-Brexit checks on British goods entering NI
Offer to lift up to 50% of customs checks aims to turn page on troubled relationship with Boris Johnson

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ntering-ni

That’s easy to spin into a win even if it is technically reversing Brexit. But Frost has a fetish about ECJ jurisdiction and it doesn’t look like the government is playing to win. But driving over the cliff.

[kreuzberger]

The UK has painted itself in to a corner with - ho ho - the help of an unelected bureaucrat.

Rather than actually doing something profitable, I have been doom-scrolling on Twitter all day. This doesn't look like it will end well. Christmas turkeys number the least of the UK's challenges.

[Youngian]

I understand the problem is no storage capacity due to lack of HGV drivers moving it. I assume Rotterdam isn't going to hold this freight out of charity. How is it going to be moved back to the UK? Those 27 EU lorry driver applicants are going to be very busy.

What does the port's highly paid trouble shooter recommend; take responsibility or just blame Brexit?

Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.

The Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.

According to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54185180

[Bones McCoy]

I understand the problem is no storage capacity due to lack of HGV drivers moving it. I assume Rotterdam isn't going to hold this freight out of charity. How is it going to be moved back to the UK? Those 27 EU lorry driver applicants are going to be very busy.

What does the port's highly paid trouble shooter recommend; take responsibility or just blame Brexit?

Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.

The Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.

According to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54185180

Maybe he will drum up trade with some of his imaginary boats.

The reason ordinary folk face hardship in this country is this.
Incompetent, but connected fools like Grayling, Hancock, Harding, (I could go on, there are Thaasans of em).
They all get to wet their beak before anybody involved in the work gets to see the money.

Almost all our industries are carrying these fuckers, like some extremely generous welfare system for inbreds.

[Youngian]

Incompetent, but connected fools like Grayling, Hancock, Harding, (I could go on, there are Thaasans of em).
They all get to wet their beak before anybody involved in the work gets to see the money.

Almost all our industries are carrying these fuckers, like some extremely generous welfare system for inbreds.

Its possible to have a competent chumocracy but little evidence that dilmena will surface. Hancock's UN appointment just looks like more trolling the wokes. He appears lost in Haverhill let alone Africa.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

When Cummings speaks of the Deep State it is this stratum of society that he means, the Establishment, the Old Boy Network, the Connected. The rich and powerful, and usually very private. People like Handcock and Greyling operate on the edges, picking up crumbs.

[Bones McCoy]

When Cummings speaks of the Deep State it is this stratum of society that he means, the Establishment, the Old Boy Network, the Connected. The rich and powerful, and usually very private. People like Handcock and Greyling operate on the edges, picking up crumbs.

Let's not forget that Cummings (and his little coven of IT consultants) are just as balls-deep in the gravy-boat as the Ministers.

[Oboogie]

Let's not forget that Cummings (and his little coven of IT consultants) are just as balls-deep in the gravy-boat as the Ministers.

Of course they are. That's how Cummings is able to give us the inside story.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Brilliant. That's the "EU caves in, thanks Boris" headlines done.

The Express was ahead of you there.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics ... -uk-latest

Brexit surrender BEGINS as Sefcovic tears up deal with Britain– EU makes 4 huge sacrifices

BRUSSELS has finally caved in on four major areas of the Brexit Northern Ireland protocol, as announced by EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

When Cummings speaks of the Deep State it is this stratum of society that he means, the Establishment, the Old Boy Network, the Connected. The rich and powerful, and usually very private. People like Handcock and Greyling operate on the edges, picking up crumbs.

Let's not forget that Cummings (and his little coven of IT consultants) are just as balls-deep in the gravy-boat as the Ministers.

I'm not talking about the grifters on the periphery. The real Establishment deals in power over generations, not just money. The Royal Family, the Duke of Westminster, Rupert Murdoch and other press barons, the Church of England, senior political grandees, the Chiefs of the armed forces, anonymous members of The Garrick and the Athaenaum, Russian multi-billionaires. Those are the people who have real clout. Cummings and his ilk are as much their hired hands as their butlers - and yes, some members of the establishment still have butlers...

[Rosvanian]

Balls deep in the gravy boat

I need to work, er, hard , on incorporating that fine expression into my conversations.

[Cyclist]

This is going well:

Just 20 UK visas have been issued to HGV drivers from abroad who took up the emergency offer of employment to avoid empty shelves in the run-up to Christmas, a senior minister has admitted.

Oliver Dowden, the Conservative party chair, said there were a “relatively limited” number of people applying for the jobs, with about 300 applications received and “just over 20” fully processed.

It came as the Home Office disclosed it would take three weeks to process the documents, in accordance with “the public service standard” turnaround time of 15 working days. The admission, from Kevin Foster, future borders and immigration minister, was contained in a letter to MPs, seen by the Guardian, and prompted accusations that the government was not moving fast enough to avert a national crisis.

In the face of mounting fuel, food and goods shortages last month, it was announced that 5,000 visas would be granted to lorry drivers until the end of next February, and a further 5,500 could be applied for by poultry workers that would last until 31 December 2021...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ent-admits

I'm going shopping this weekend, primarily for food. Food in packets and tins. With a long shelf-life.

[Boiler]

Most of my tins are about Spring 2023. I think a little re-stocking is needed.

[Nigredo]

Needed a black suit for an ashes burial service tomorrow, medium-end options were incredibly sparse on stock that would accommodate my lockdown lard. Asked an M&S shop floor bod that hated question ("are you sure there aren't any in the back?") and they informed me the number of deliveries they've received recently has dropped off a cliff and it's a bit of a lottery what they actually receive in now. Presumably most of what I was after is sitting in a shipping container in Felixstowe, if it's even made it off the boat.

Also observed were a couple of gammons tutting at the sustainably sourced cotton clothing display, wondering where the "woke agenda" would end and rebranding M&S to Marxist Spencer

[Boiler]

Needed a black suit for an ashes burial service tomorrow, medium-end options were incredibly sparse on stock that would accommodate my lockdown lard.

Moss Bros?

[Nigredo]

Primark came to my rescue, oddly in full acknowledgement that they are a funeral suit rental service at this moment in time (cashier noticed my purchase and explained at greater-than-expected length the finer points of the refund policy).

Rather harrowing to think about actually.

[kreuzberger]

Rather harrowing to think about actually.

Hugs, mate. You really don't need all this shit on top of everything else.

[Nigredo]

Thanks Kreuzy, I am full of hard times lately.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

We're here for you. Fizz sends huggz.