The Conservative and Unionist party imposed trade restrictions between two parts of their own country and this is apparently a minor detail.
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Do we need an EU referendum thread? (Brexit thread)
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How EU migrant exodus is reshaping communities across the UK
Many have already left Lancashire city of Preston as Covid and Brexit hits employment
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How drunk do you have to be to write this stuff?
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Another question might be ‘how drunk do you have to be to read Julie Burchill?’
There was a time when she was witty/caustic/entertaining.
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I coined the phrase “The Big Sulk” to describe those who refused to accept the result of the 2016 UK Brexit referendum
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Did she?
(Didn’t read past that.)
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I am thinking about cracking a beer. Got a phone call to make.
I do of course accept the vote. 63% Remain.
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You should as you appear to have been reading too much Torygraph.?
I FaceTimed my mother to get update on sea bass (mark and Spencer selling them in packs of two so has been a story with updates, caramelised onions also but world wide leek shortage).
She was too busy doing Zoom yoga.
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Drank the beer. Aged relative had Zoom at 17h00 we start again at 19h00 I will need more beer. I am not as compassionate sober as I am after beer.
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Leek shortage? Possibly caused by the leeks we have bought at farmers market each week fir the past three weeks... they were quite happy until the cold weather ended. Must cook soon.
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sadly, i cannot get a witness
luckily, i am an echo chamber
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Cairnryan border control post preparations made
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-56183239
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Boris Johnson is “an unrepentant and inveterate liar” who feels he is not subject to the same rules as others, Sylvie Bermann, the former French ambassador to the UK during the Brexit vote, says in a new book.
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She predicts: “Boris Johnson’s temptation will be to hide the bill for Brexit under the Covid carpet, valued at more than £200bn for 2020, almost as much as the United Kingdom’s total contribution to the European Union since its accession in 1973, which was £215bn.”
She says it is inevitable that the UK will struggle now to find influence outside the EU, and has a Scottish independence referendum hanging over its head.
She says she believes the EU would feel obliged to open talks with Scotland in the event of a referendum vote to leave the UK, but that is not the official EU position, partly due to pressure from Spain. Madrid fears the knock-on impact among Catalan separatists if an independent Scotland was allowed to join the EU.
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The Isle of Man has moved to jettison itself from the UK’s disastrous fisheries deal by striking new terms with the EU as a British Crown Dependency.
Individual discussions with Brussels has opened up avenues to allow EU vessels to fish in their waters as well as exempt exports of shellfish from the current ban on so-called bivalve molluscs which has left the Cornish fishing industry in tatters.
The industry is worth £20 million to the island annually.
Environment, food and agriculture minister Geoffrey Boot said maintaining access to EU markets for those products was a “key factor” for the island as it is “where 80 per cent of our catch goes” before the transition ended last year.
“If we’d lost that market overnight that would have been catastrophic for the fishing industry,” he added.
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EU and UK leaders have failed to break the impasse over the controversial Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland after more than two hours of talks.
However, the two sides have pledged to reach a “pragmatic solution”, with the UK agreeing to develop new plans to respond to problems with supermarket supplies.
The Democratic Unionist party leader and first minister, Arlene Foster, accused Brussels of being “stubborn and inflexible” and said it had “closed its eyes to the serious crisis within our supply chain”.
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@bax - We should all be able to agree on that analogy. Surely? Worth a watch!
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That's hilarious.
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Like the intervention of Donald Trump in US politics, the Brexit debate has left the UK profoundly and bitterly divided; and probably more vulnerable than at any time in its history to actual disintegration along national lines.
So it’s perhaps not surprising – in this post-Brexit world, with the maintenance of the UK’s remaining territorial reach and assets suddenly at the top of the Johnson government’s agenda – that Scotland has become the latest site of struggle for this new kind of politics.
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That's hilarious too. Unintentionally so.
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The revelation will be highly embarrassing at a time when UK police forces are often relying on goodwill for continued cooperation on the sharing of information after the loss of access to EU databases due to Brexit.
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The European parliament has postponed setting a date for ratifying the trade and security deal with Britain after Boris Johnson was accused of breaking international law for a second time over Northern Ireland.
The chamber’s political groups agreed on Thursday to wait in light of the latest row with Downing Street, with some senior MEPs warning that the Christmas Eve deal will not be passed at all if the UK goes ahead with its plans.
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Catherine Bedford, founder of Dashel, which makes carbon fibre and recycled cycle helmets, said the disruption was killing her business. “Thanks to Brexit, we’ve gone from profitable to barely scraping by,” she said. “We can’t predict delivery times as items are being held up at French customs, our entry point into Europe. There is a massive backlog and items are being turned back despite up-to-date paperwork.”
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