#brexshit

[lost-carcosa]

[mazziedaperson]

The most dangerous threat to humanity is stupidity. Unfortunately, it takes a certain amount of intellectual ability to recognise that you’re not good at something or that you’re not a genius.

So we’re now in a world where there’s an abundance of stupid people who think they’re smart. These people are the easiest to manipulate. These people are the people who vote for stupid shit.

[ladymazzy]

Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole - DER SPIEGEL

Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole

Food shortages, moldy apartments, a lack of medical workers: The United Kingdom is facing a perfect storm of struggle, and millions are slid

[kikisqueaks]

[burnitalldownism]

Northern Ireland minister of state apologises for past ‘ferocious’ Brexit stance

Steve Baker MP told the Conservative Party conference that ministers needed to act with ‘humility’ to restore relationships with Ireland and

Six years too late shit for brains. Thought you were the empire you used to be & got your ass handed to ye.

No one in Dublin or Brussels cares about your feelings anymore coz you were wankers. Now you wanna play nice?

Bend over buddy, you’re about to get shafted.

[praetorianxxiv]

Totally agree with this Lady, makes total sense. We should never have left 😥

[theotherjourney7]

“UK energy prices increased by around 50% yesterday (3 February 2022) but the cost of producing most energy has not increased. Nuclear and renewables cost the same to produce, for example. So, the price increases deliver very large profits to some energy companies. Why is Sunak happy about that?

The problem is energy is priced at the cost of the most expensive unit sold. As a result, Russia can push up gas prices and create an economic crisis in the UK. If we had a nationalised energy system that supplied our energy at the average price we could avoid this.

Instead of our energy being priced at the cost of the most expensive source available we’d instead pay the price set by a basket of energy sources. We’d see nothing like the proposed cost increase as a result, and the crisis for families across the UK could have been avoided.

This, though, would require the government to admit three things. First, the energy market does not work so, second, energy privatisation was a mistake and, third, the state could and should do this job because it can do so better than any market system.

Our government is not going to admit that. So, instead energy companies are going to be allowed to profit, 5 million households are going to be in fuel poverty and a wholly inappropriate and unfocused support system is going to deliver a bizarre package of support.

In that case there is one conclusion to reach. Because the government prefers its pro-market dogma to helping deliver what’s best for the people of the UK we’re going to have a massive cost of living crisis from which profits will flow to a few, inevitably.

I believe in markets when they're the right mechanism to use. When they are they can work to benefit us all. But artificial markets for energy that deliver worst possible outcomes for people and best possible outcomes for companies are just wrong, and that is what we have.

The right response to our energy crisis is not to keep existing structures going. It is to accept that the energy market is failing and to bring the state licenced profiteering to an end and rebuild an energy system run in the interests of people and not profits.

The political party that says so is onto a winner. They should be taking note. The energy system we have cannot continue. Who will have the courage to say so?“-Richard Murphy

[brasskingfisher]

Brexshit, 6 years of shit.

So, just for the ameboa on Saturn who are still unaware, 6 years ago the results were announced of a non legally binding advisory referendum over the UK's membership of the EU.

This result showed a remarkably small majority in favour of the UK leaving the EU (a 52/48% split between leave and remain of the votes cast).

Unfortunately, this was held up by various flagshaggers, gammons and other assorted fuckwits as an undeniable and clear sign the UK population were opposed to continuing EU membership and a process was eventually begun to leave the EU which was finally completed in January 2021 after negotiations had been extended 3 times).

Now since then we have seen food shortages, a rising cost of living, economic recession, increased barriers to international trade, an increasing likelihood of political violence in Ireland, the possible breakup of the UK as a political entity and attempts to undermine human rights and political freedoms, all of which were predicted and warned about before the referendum happened but were dismissed as 'baseless scaremongering by people who weren't patriotic enough'.

On the other hand, none of hundreds of (ready to go) trade deals that were promised have yet to come into existence and the whole process has cost a huge amount of money for no discernable benefit to anyone other than the super rich who use the UK as a base for their Quasi legal financial shenanigans.