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Cat Malogen
Poots going is a good thing, it should hopefully draw younger people towards alliance-based political representation

Erasmus is fucked now? Man, I got a fun placement in Dublin through it in its early phases, whatever anyone’s thoughts are on the value of university education (my own are mixed). Conversely, it warped into a cash cow quota over time and larger volumes of students accessing it may have given the jump on justifying tuition fee hikes

We’ve got a superb new toxicology lass in from Spain who smashed her Erasmus based postgrad, but 5 years from now that level of talent will be drawn from a much smaller pool. Same for the whole NHS when we’ve never needed it more
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Brexit was powered from the start by the kind of people who'd happily see the NHS burn to the ground if it meant the end of Erasmus.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Poots going is a good thing, it should hopefully draw younger people towards alliance-based political representation

Erasmus is fucked now? Man, I got a fun placement in Dublin through it in its early phases, whatever anyone’s thoughts are on the value of university education (my own are mixed). Conversely, it warped into a cash cow quota over time and larger volumes of students accessing it may have given the jump on justifying tuition fee hikes

We’ve got a superb new toxicology lass in from Spain who smashed her Erasmus based postgrad, but 5 years from now that level of talent will be drawn from a much smaller pool. Same for the whole NHS when we’ve never needed it more
Yeah I think they chose to get rid of it even though that wasn't actually a direct consequence of Brexit, they were just like "fuck it let's fuck up that up too while we're at it, might as well".
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
London financial equivalence was denied too... I dunno quite what they means but apparently it's really bad, gonna destroy the city and cost 44tn apparently which seems an impossible large number.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Every day I read some more stuff about shortages in the supermarkets.... and more and inventive explanations from Brexiters


Environmental activists promote penalising shops for over stocking, keeping the shelves full, and then throwing away the unsold excess. The obvious alternative is to under stock. No waste, and no bad publicity. It’s tough on late shoppers. But environmentally aware. Our choice.

All that we are told today is not new. There have been problems with Euro transport for years -a lot of it on the Calais side.

Lots of stuff in my shops nothing is short . Must be just remoaners

That'll be it.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
That last one is such a classic. "I haven't personally witnessed this phenomenon in my own life, so it doesn't happen anywhere." Like saying China doesn't exist because you've never been there.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Shit just got real.....

“KFC has warned customers that it is facing a shortage of some items, as it becomes one of many businesses in the UK to be hit by supply issues.”

Apparently they are going to be taking certain items off the menu. Depending on what they remove, it could actually be one of the only things that could stir revolt in this country.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Shit just got real.....



Apparently they are going to be taking certain items off the menu. Depending on what they remove, it could actually be one of the only things that could stir revolt in this country.
Well some people called the police when a KFC ran out of chicken a few years ago, didn't they?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Well some people called the police when a KFC ran out of chicken a few years ago, didn't they?

Yes famously someone dialled 999 when they were faced with the terrible emergency of their local KFC having run out of chicken.

KFC without the C if pretty F'ed

Yeah, I would have thought so. I mean, I don't eat there so I don't know the menu but presumably there are some things that are really popular and some less so, maybe some of them even don't involve chicken, maybe some involve other ingredients to which they now fear they might lose access. I'm guessing, by the relatively level tone of their statement, that they can still lay their hands on chicken, I think if they were gonna have to remove every item which featured chicken from their menu, the statement would have been something more like

"Defcon 1, Defcon 1 - this is not a drill, Jesus fucking Christ, we are out of fucking chicken! Everybody panic now, women and children first, the end times are upon us... may God have mercy on our souls"
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
And another win.... these cunts have absolutely no shame.

Brexit-backing billionaire Jim Ratcliffe is moving his car production operation to the EU
  • Prominent Brexit supporter Sir Jim Ratcliffe has ditched plans to build Ineos' new range of 4x4 cars in the UK and will now build them in France.
  • Last September, the billionaire said developing the Grenadier in Britain was a "significant expression of confidence in British manufacturing."
  • Ratcliffe said that the French operation was an opportunity "that we simply could not ignore."
  • The news came as Honda announced it will pause production at its UK factory due to a shortage of parts, amid supply issued triggered by COVID restrictions and Brexit.

I wonder what was so great about the French opportunity? Possibly the fact that they were in the EU....
 

Leo

Well-known member
lots of trump voters refuse to admit they were conned. do you think lots of Leavers will do the same, or see the error of their ways?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
It's gonna take a very long time. At the moment it's a bit like with certain sections of the right in the US, people are totally in denial. I said this before in another context, but in the past, people would look at what is happening and then the Right and Left would argue with each other about what it meant, but now we have a new situation where you get the news and videos and so on, and the far right get stuck in to that and argue with reality about whether it's happening.
Just for one example, supermarkets are having issues with their supply chains, a particular issue (which fair enough I never saw mentioned before it arose) is that in the past, suppose a lorry makes a delivery from Poland to Birmingham and then goes to, I dunno, Manchester say and picks up another load there to take back to Poland, it would also find something that needed to go from Brum to Manchester and take that so it never travelled empty and I think that the nobody really calculated on the missing trip in the middle, they knew that the goods movement from Poland to UK and from UK to Poland might no longer happen, but now they are suddenly realising that there is no-one there to do that little run from Brum to Manc and this is a big disruption.
But the point is; supermarkets have said "our supply chain has been disrupted by Brexit and so sometimes many of our shelves are empty and some goods are not available", also you have the association of hauliers announcing that we are 100,000 lorry drivers short of what we need, you have the government saying that the army is on standby to help move food around (although it's not gonna help cos there aren't that many and they don't have the right kind of trucks or training or blah blah blah) and then finally you have loads of people taking pictures of empty shelves in their local supermarkets an being upset that they can't get what they want, and if they can it's often lower quality, and the prices are increasing.
So, how do Brextiers respond to that? Well, one of the standard responses is "My supermarket was fine this morning, there is no food shortage, it´s all a Remoaner lie" - hilariously there was one where they all went mental "That photo is obviously not in the UK, the writing on the shelves is in foreign" cos Brexiters don't know that there is a country in the UK called Wales where they speak Welsh.
And then you have a slightly (and I mean very slightly) more sophisticated response where they blame covid for the shortages. Obviously immediately exploded by the fact that it is happening in the UK, but not in the EU.
So at the moment you have food shortages being denied, companies closing or moving abroad is dismissed as "talking the UK down" and the one big factory which did open in the UK was celebrated like crazy even when it emerged that the government paid it a massive subsidy/bribe to do so and so it was no real gain for the UK.
So at the moment when people are literally denying the actual facts of the situation, it's difficult to see how people can start talking about why they are happening and whether they were wrong to vote for the thing that caused them.
 
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