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[sbbefc]

This anti-vaxer situation is difficult to understand tbh. For people of my age group, vaccines were given at school and there was no such thing as not wanting it. This needs to be played more as civic duty rather than a lifestyle choice. If people deliberately refuse a Covid vaccine and then actually catch the damn thing what then ? Are the rest of us supposed to just pick up a tab of tens of thousands of pounds because they couldn’t be bothered getting a £3 jab. I would make them pay for their own treatment and they should be informed of this when the jab is first offered. There is a time and a place for being ultra liberal, now is not that time...anyway this is really for the Covid thread......

It's the same now as it was 10 or 20 years ago.

 

[Yarrgh]

Why Brexit has left British pig-farmers mired

Britain and Europe are Jack Sprat and his wife

www.economist.com

Finally some good news. Cheaper fatty cuts of pork hopefully.

Mind you I only got turned onto pork fat by that lousy immigrant I married cooking that tasty foreign muck.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[peteblue]

Protectionist Bloc.......

 

[Cool_Blue]

Good to see the Greek tourism minister now promising to go it alone if necessary on welcoming British tourists back (if vaccinated or testing negative)

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Lance Forman, a former Brexit Party member of the European Parliament, said that the UK government should compensate the seafood industry for Brexit-related disruption. lol

Pro-Brexit salmon smoker Lance Forman wants industry compensated for Brexit-related costs

Lance Forman, a former Brexit Party member of the European Parliament, said that the UK government should compensate the seafood industry for Brexit-related disruption.

www.intrafish.com

 

[peteblue]

It’s getting a bit stupid with the EU now over NI and goods going to Europe. Better to just rip up the agreement and go to WTO, tell the EU to do one and throw all their boats out of U.K. waters.....

 

[nsno-chris]

3 weeks until stage 2 of SPS checks and the government still don’t know what to do. It’s getting to a point now where they are hoping it works whilst ignoring the concerns

 

[PaulPowersTash]

It’s getting a bit stupid with the EU now over NI and goods going to Europe. Better to just rip up the agreement and go to WTO, tell the EU to do one and throw all their boats out of U.K. waters.....

Should have done that immediately after the referendum Pete.

 

[edge]

It’s getting a bit stupid with the EU now over NI and goods going to Europe. Better to just rip up the agreement and go to WTO, tell the EU to do one and throw all their boats out of U.K. waters.....

To be honest Pete, unfortunately unless both sides get a new attitude to each other we are looking to heading that way anyway.
The UK will be months away from counter measures to the EU stance and it will get very tricky to carry on with this

 

[Jebus_lives]

To be honest Pete, unfortunately unless both sides get a new attitude to each other we are looking to heading that way anyway.
The UK will be months away from counter measures to the EU stance and it will get very tricky to carry on with this

We're getting a bit like the boy who cried wolf...

UK 'we'll break international law if you don't stop holding us to what we agreed to in our arrangements...we're not afraid to do it!'

EU 'no you won't'

UK 'not this time, but just you wait....'

 

[edge]

We're getting a bit like the boy who cried wolf...

UK 'we'll break international law if you don't stop holding us to what we agreed to in our arrangements...we're not afraid to do it!'

EU 'no you won't'

UK 'not this time, but just you wait....'

Both sides need to take a deep breath , step back and say right let's look at this again without the attitude.
It's still raw like any divorce at the beginning , but generally it dawns on both sides there is little to be gained by carrying on the sniping and it better to come to some sort of cordial understanding for both of you even if it's only for a bit of peace and quite and a return to stability going forwards. for both sides.
Not sure if we will get to that stage as things are playing out , sad to see .

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Both sides need to take a deep breath , step back and say right let's look at this again without the attitude.
It's still raw like any divorce at the beginning , but generally it dawns on both sides there is little to be gained by carrying on the sniping and it better to come to some sort of cordial understanding for both of you even if it's only for a bit of peace and quite and a return to stability going forwards. for both sides.
Not sure if we will get to that stage as things are playing out , sad to see .

UK: we want to leave the EU because we think you smell
EU: okay, but you will have to leave the SM and CU, which will make things worse for you
UK: no it won't because we'll have sovereignty
EU: as you wish, here is the deal
UK: look at this wonderful deal we've signed to take back control


....it turns out to have made thing much worse...

UK: I can't believe you've been so horrible and vindictive, look at how bad things are, you simply must let us renegotiate that deal we heralded as the greatest thing since sliced bread barely 3 months ago
EU: *sigh*

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

UK :" We demand the ECJ not meddle in our affairs."

EU: "Okay."

UK:" We demand a Joint Committee to settle disputes."

EU: "Okay."

UK:" To hell with the Joint Committee now. We demand we be allowed to do anything we want."

EU: "Nope."

UK: "Please?"

EU:" See you in court."


The European Court of Justice can get involved as well. I suspect that will indeed get Brexiters out of the ickle bunkers.

 

[Kurt.]

Can’t we just survive on Unicorn fish ?