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Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2022 4:44 pm
by savvypaul
“Not everyone that voted to leave Europe wanted to see Britain immediately descend into an unaccountable single-party state... I only wanted bendy bananas & now there's this chaotic inferno of hate!"

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 4:50 pm
by CN211276

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:07 pm
by Idlewild
Sir, you evidently have no interest in restoring this country to greatness. Why should a once proud nation take orders from European nations whom we either defeated or liberated in the war? Since Brexit we have concluded several trade deals with far flung nations, including cheap mutton from Australia, which should keep our farmers on their toes. In the excellent book Brittania Unchained by Liz Truss, Dominic Raab and Kwasi Kwarteng, they explain that British workers are lazy, and we will never compete with the far east till something is done about that. The coming cost of living crisis will focus a few minds. We need something bracing to wake us out of our complacent welfare state slumbers. Perhaps even a war, to teach the young a lesson.

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:37 pm
by savvypaul
Idlewild wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:07 pm Sir, you evidently have no interest in restoring this country to greatness. Why should a once proud nation take orders from European nations whom we either defeated or liberated in the war? Since Brexit we have concluded several trade deals with far flung nations, including cheap mutton from Australia, which should keep our farmers on their toes. In the excellent book Brittania Unchained by Liz Truss, Dominic Raab and Kwasi Kwarteng, they explain that British workers are lazy, and we will never compete with the far east till something is done about that. The coming cost of living crisis will focus a few minds. We need something bracing to wake us out of our complacent welfare state slumbers. Perhaps even a war, to teach the young a lesson.
Did you mean to send this to the Daily Telegraph? Reminds me of the comic genius Chris Morris.

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:40 pm
by Fretless
Don't forget that Margaret Thatcher was one of the architects of the EU and Britain joined to avert an economic catastrophe, which might now happen.

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:39 pm
by slinger
Idlewild wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:07 pm Sir, you evidently have no interest in restoring this country to greatness. Why should a once proud nation take orders from European nations whom we either defeated or liberated in the war? Since Brexit we have concluded several trade deals with far flung nations, including cheap mutton from Australia, which should keep our farmers on their toes. In the excellent book Brittania Unchained by Liz Truss, Dominic Raab and Kwasi Kwarteng, they explain that British workers are lazy, and we will never compete with the far east till something is done about that. The coming cost of living crisis will focus a few minds. We need something bracing to wake us out of our complacent welfare state slumbers. Perhaps even a war, to teach the young a lesson.
Can we assume that the Netherlands flag you're flying in your sig is ironic when you repeatedly reference "we," and "our," when referring to the UK then? :lol:

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:11 pm
by Fretless
Nuthin' to do with me guv - I just live 'ere.

When it's Spring again I'll bring again
Tulips from Amsterdam
With a heart thats true I'll give to you
Tulips from Amsterdam


:dance:

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:17 pm
by Fretless
... and on that note - I have been waiting for a package from the UK (a single NVA A40 monoblock that a friend has kindly donated to me) for MORE THAN A MONTH.

It has sat in a warehouse at Heathrow, got mislaid in Belgium and is now residing in a Customs depot in The Netherlands.

When will the stupid HM Gov. come to its senses and at least rejoin the European Customs Union?

:angry-screaming:

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:20 pm
by Fretless
Just to remove any possible historical misinformation:

The Netherlands was liberated by mainly American, Canadian and Polish forces at the end of WWII.

Re: Brexit Benefits -the sunny uplands

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:30 pm
by Idlewild
Next you'll be saying it wasn't really the UK and the US who defeated the Third Reich but the Red Army.