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[Haydn]

Another Brexit bonus, this time for the bees...There will be no lowering of standards, something, something.

'Banned' bee-harming pesticide approved for use, despite expert advice

Some environmental charities have criticised the decision by the government for damaging wildlife.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[orchard]

Another Brexit bonus, this time for the bees...There will be no lowering of standards, something, something.

'Banned' bee-harming pesticide approved for use, despite expert advice

Some environmental charities have criticised the decision by the government for damaging wildlife.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not just bees mate, it apparently does its stuff on us too. That's cool though, we need companies to be able to plant the same crops again and again in the same place and not have to endure a 5pc reduction in yield because they've created an ideal place for pests.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Another Brexit bonus soon deflated and widely predicted, increases in haulage wages and others would soon disappear in black hole of cost of living crisis and inflation.

Cost of living: Pay rises wiped out by surging inflation, official figures show

Wage growth slowed just as inflation climbed to a ten-year high leaving any increase in workers' pay packets barely covering the rise in the cost of living - and families facing a further squeeze as price increases accelerate over coming months.

news.sky.com

 

[orchard]

Another Brexit bonus soon deflated and widely predicted, increases in haulage wages would soon disappear in black hole of cost of living crisis and inflation.

Cost of living: Pay rises wiped out by surging inflation, official figures show

Wage growth slowed just as inflation climbed to a ten-year high leaving any increase in workers' pay packets barely covering the rise in the cost of living - and families facing a further squeeze as price increases accelerate over coming months.

news.sky.com

Hahaha, pay rises...

I do wonder how this, when the main way to get a rise is move to another job, is going to affect the (st)ability of companies going forward.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Hahaha, pay rises...

I do wonder how this, when the main way to get a rise is move to another job, is going to affect the (st)ability of companies going forward.

Not too good apparently...

Brexit onslaught: A third of all British business owners is not sure their company will still exist in a year's time

Nearly one in three fear their company will close before the end of this year, according to alarming data shared with City A.M. this morning.

www.cityam.com

 

[Bluerover]

Not too good apparently...

Brexit onslaught: A third of all British business owners is not sure their company will still exist in a year's time

Nearly one in three fear their company will close before the end of this year, according to alarming data shared with City A.M. this morning.

www.cityam.com

No schadenfreude intended but I could see this coming..

As a retired Irish Civil Servant, I had lots of dealings with the EU and regular meetings in Brussels. They could really wear one's patience, but we hang in there because the benefits of an open market of 500 million people far outweighs going off in a huff and voting to leave

I am really sorry for UK employees who will find their jobs gone. Then again some crazy voting by constituencies that were so reliant on EU access.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Not just bees mate, it apparently does its stuff on us too. That's cool though, we need companies to be able to plant the same crops again and again in the same place and not have to endure a 5pc reduction in yield because they've created an ideal place for pests.

Pumping raw crap into the rivers and now Bee genocide... England is at last free, just glad such matters are devolved and again protected from libertarian weirdos.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

No schadenfreude intended but I could see this coming..

As a retired Irish Civil Servant, I had lots of dealings with the EU and regular meetings in Brussels. They could really wear one's patience, but we hang in there because the benefits of an open market of 500 million people far outweighs going off in a huff and voting to leave

I am really sorry for UK employees who will find their jobs gone. Then again some crazy voting by constituencies that were so reliant on EU access.

You what, red tape... If Brexit has been anything like success that Christmas eve 2020 address to the nation that Boris promised, partying at in lockdown would been water off a ducks back. He would have most likely gotten away with the poor pandemic handling despite bigger deaths and harder lockdown than many similar countries. Boris and his incompetent government have literally car crashed the British economy.

In London Shops, Greek Cheese, Sicilian Citrus and British Headaches

For companies depending on fast, small deliveries, the costs of new Brexit trade rules are mounting.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I despair.

We'll have to put up with a deteriorating standard of living before we beg re-entry with multiple caveats in a generation's time.

Covid has hidden what a disaster this is, as always the rich get richer and the poor suffer. No different than profiteering during a war.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

No queuing alright, no queues, OK.

Brexit: Port of Dover boss calls for urgent talks over new EU checks

Doug Bannister, CEO of the port, said biometric checks would be "unsafe" and a solution was needed.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[summerisle]

Seamless.

Brexit leaves furious British citizens stranded in EU countries

Thousands of people say their rights have been compromised despite government promises

www.theguardian.com

 

[peteblue]

So, where is the marvellous EU in all of this. We have Germany refusing U.K. flights to bring in defensive arms from the U.K. to Ukraine and Germany refusing to give export licenses to Lithuania to do similar. So once again, we have just the USA and U.K. looking out for Europe while the rest of the EU worries about its gas supplies or argues with itself to determine a common approach. Absolutely disgraceful. The EU is a wonderful bully, until it is faced with actual force…..

Remember all that crap about the EU keeping peace in Europe. They didn’t. It was the USA and U.K. no one else did. Now we have a real event and Germany immediately looked after itself, France has done nothing as usual, the rest of Europe would no doubt want to do something but somehow the EU has gone into self isolation… personally I’d leave them to it……

 

[peteblue]

Come on @Bruce Wayne , defend your EU now it’s faced with another bully……

 

[peteblue]

I read that Russia is now undertaking naval military exercises off the coast of western Ireland. Obviously in international waters. So I assume that the EU is sending a suitable force to shadow this, or is it being left to the few boats that Ireland has……,

 

[sbbefc]

This thread has taken a bizarre turn.