Brexit, for once some facts.

oldgroaner

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I think it says all you need to know about Brexit that we can't even make the celebratory trash ourselves!

It would be hilarious if it wasn't tragic!:cool:
 
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Quote from UNN website:

"It seems that our range of badges, t-shirts, mugs and more is causing quite a stir on social media! We have been inundated with messages and the dreaded trolls slamming us for this ‘blatant display of triumphalism’.
We are witnessing levels of snowflake triggering not seen since the referendum and the election of President Trump! What is it about these people that they hate democracy, freedom and sovereignty so much?"
 

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At Davos, Trump said that he wanted to do a "tremendous" trade deal with UK, and talks would start in the next few weeks. That's a bit of a change from Obama's "back of the queue". It's just as well Trump got elected, otherwise it could have been bad for us. It's funny how things always work out well in the end.
 
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It seems that Joe Biden is after video games again, saying that they teach people to kill.
It's a shame that the same sort of thinking put an end to the "too violent for kids" Tom and Jerry, which is one of my favourite video experiences.

When we were kids, a significant part of TV was Cowboys shooting each other and war films, when murder rates were really low. Now that we have at least one death from stabbing in London nearly every day, is that because kids can't release their murdering aspirations through watching Tom and Jerry and war films, is it because computer games are training them to stab everyone, or what?

Who should we blame the most for it out of Boris Johnson, Theresa May, Cressida Dick and Sadiq Kahn?

Here's something to cheer you up from your Brexit woes:
 
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At Davos, Trump said that he wanted to do a "tremendous" trade deal with UK, and talks would start in the next few weeks. That's a bit of a change from Obama's "back of the queue". It's just as well Trump got elected, otherwise it could have been bad for us. It's funny how things always work out well in the end.
"tremendous" as defined by USA self-interest, of course.
 
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flecc

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Some nice things here to help you celebrate Brexit:
Fantastic!!
And one for the Looooosers on here, a snip at £6.99
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Sad you are all so mistaken, we aren't out on the 31st, we'll still be full members on 1st February. That's day one of the transition phase when we will be slowly, very gradually, bit by bit departing into so called independence.

I say "so called", because it will never happen. First there's the trade talks which are in seven parts during four phases, as we agreed in the first part of our negotiations over three years ago., i.e. the structure of the talks. We completed that and then went on to the departure terms phase which we're now completing by the end of the month. So two phases done, four still to go.

The deluded Boris Johnson and much of the public seem to think we'll have a trade deal by the end of this year. We won't, all we'll have if we are lucky will be an outline of what's yet to come as I detailed in the beginning of the preceding paragraph.

During the four phases of the trade talks lasting at least four years and probably years more, we will be reaching multiple trade deals. For success in those we will be repeatedly agreeing to accept EU conditions and standards on the items being traded in each agreement. And we will still be accepting the primacy of the European Court in those matters, as we've already agreed to in the Great Repeal Bill.

By the time all this is over, probably between 2024 and 20 27, it will probably have dawned on all the Leavers that there is no such thing as sovereignty or true independence in our modern global world. It's simply impossible, just as I pointed out before the referendum in this thread.

We'll still be rule takers, only then we won't helping to make the rules. It will be done to us, not by us. What an achievement.
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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Hermann Goering said that.

The country is under attack: The EU are controlling us, they are preventing us from making trade deals and from passing our own laws. Take back control. (Even the most dedicated Brexiter now knows this is BS)

Denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism: Remoaners. Defying the will of the people. 52%. Again, all BS

Exposing the country to greater danger: Danger from brown people entering g the country. Mass invasion when Turkey joins the EU..remember that one?

It definitely worked. Well done Hermann.
 

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When we were kids, a significant part of TV was Cowboys shooting each other and war films, when murder rates were really low. Now that we have at least one death from stabbing in London nearly every day, is that because kids can't release their murdering aspirations through watching Tom and Jerry and war films, is it because computer games are training them to stab everyone, or what?
You're missing one vital aspect. In those films we enjoyed long ago, we always identified with the good guys who always won against the baddies. This was made dead easy for us, the goodies wore white, e.g. Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger, the baddies wore black and despicably used knives which only dagos, wops and spics would do. None of our heros would stoop so low, only ever punching above the belt to Queensbury rules and drawing revolvers second but much quicker.

In stark contrast, in computer games such as Line of Duty and others of that ilk, it's the players who set out to do all the slaughtering from the outset. Killing regardless of means is the very purpose of the game, success being measured by killing the most with extreme violence.

You are right to draw a comparison, it's only since we've had the computer games and in line with their expansion that the new civil problem among the young has arisen.

It's called cause and effect.
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This is problem with the lecturing type these days.
Private jet to Davos 6 tonnes of CO2.
Commercial flight 0.19 per person.
He cant possibly take a commercial flight and mix with the plebs can he?
And, whilst I, m here.
Obesity is spreading. There should be a CO2 offset tax for those with over 30 bmi. (sliding scale starting at 30?)They eat like pigs, use more fuel going anywhere, have greater burden on NHS and break chairs. A couple this morning sat near us must have had a combined weight of 50 stone, at breakfast ate more than I, d eat in 2 days, wobbled off and got in disability scooters to move their fat asses 50 yards. French aswell.(I,m in Cape Verde this week, working)
Human race is flawed and heading for disaster. We, re fecked. All of us.
Accepted BMI isnt a very good guide, perhaps use subscapular subcutaneous fat measurement... Tax over 5 inches would be a start.
 
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You're missing one vital aspect. In those films we enjoyed long ago, we always identified with the good guys who always won against the baddies. This was made dead easy for us, the goodies wore white, e.g. Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger, the baddies wore black and despicably used knives which only dagos, wops and spics would do. None of our heros would stoop so low, only ever punching above the belt to Queensbury rules and drawing revolvers second but much quicker.

In stark contrast, in computer games such as Line of Duty amd other of that ilk, it's the players who set out to do all the slaughtering from the outset. Killing regardless of means is the very purpose of the game, success being measured by killing the most with extreme violence.

You are right to draw a comparison, it's only since we've had the computer games and in line with their expansion that the new civil problem among the young has arisen.

It's called cause and effect.
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What about Tom and Jerry. Everyone cheered for the cat, not the mouse!
 

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If someone is writing A History of the British Car Industry, they might be able to start the last chapter.

Jaguar Land Rover to cut up to 500 jobs at Halewood factory
JLR’s night shift cuts come amid £2.5bn cost saving drive to invest in electric vehicles

The latest job cuts come amid a £2.5bn cost savings drive by JLR, as it tries to free up resources to make major investments in electric vehicles. At the same time JLR and other British automotive factories are facing the prospect of a hard Brexit that could see the UK knocked out of alignment with EU regulations, and the continued decline of diesel cars across Europe following emissions cheating scandals. The US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, also indicated on Wednesday that tariffs could be imposed on UK car imports if the government pushes ahead with plans for a digital tax on American tech giants.

 
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At Davos, Trump said that he wanted to do a "tremendous" trade deal with UK, and talks would start in the next few weeks. That's a bit of a change from Obama's "back of the queue". It's just as well Trump got elected, otherwise it could have been bad for us. It's funny how things always work out well in the end.
anything to take his mind off his dirty linen being aired at the Capitol.
 

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The Labour party leadership comedy lingers on

The main thing they lack is a basic understanding of human nature. especially the modern mindset of the average voter that has a very superficial attitude when it comes to judging character
To get elected requires the individual to fit the stereotype

Personable confidence trickster

Their actual qualifications for the job, and personal integrity count for nothing
When the so called free press have finished with them they will struggle to get accepted into Hell for being over qualified.

Thus, how can one explain that the Labour Party Chairman say Keir Starmer should stand aside for Long Bailey?

I believe the sort of description the poor woman will be tagged with in the Telegraph ,Express and Mail
is likely to be something along the lines
"Annoying personality vacuum"

I'll qualify that: I rather like her and her principles, but what the hell does that count for in the world we now live in?

Press on rewardless indeed!
 

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What about Tom and Jerry. Everyone cheered for the cat, not the mouse!
But mice are the bad guys! They have no urinary sphincter so pee continuously while walking all over our foodstuff, how much badder could they get?

Cats are the good guys, they not only pee where they should and cover it over, they also kill those evil mice.
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At Davos, Trump said that he wanted to do a "tremendous" trade deal with UK, and talks would start in the next few weeks. That's a bit of a change from Obama's "back of the queue". It's just as well Trump got elected, otherwise it could have been bad for us. It's funny how things always work out well in the end.
A tremendous trade deal with the current USA is not necessarily good news for the UK.
 
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