Reply to post: Re: Still. The Farage Garage will be open for business on time.

It may date back to 1994 but there's no end in sight for the UK's Chief customs system as Brexit rules beckon

John Robson Silver badge

Re: Still. The Farage Garage will be open for business on time.

"You say that but how? The UK doesnt want to make a border

Yes we do...

In fact borders was one of the specific "benefits" you listed.

This border however is particularly problematic for various historical reasons, the other borders are fairly easy - being an island nation ourselves.

The issue with a trade deal isn't the EU not wanting to give us a competitive advantage (although why would they, we are a relatively small part of their international trade, they are a very large part of ours), and more to do with the UK government wanting to have free access to a market without following the rules of that market. The same thing they have always said they would stand firm on... the only people surprised by this are delusional tory brexiteers.

"Cummings doesnt work for the WHO. Look up lockdown fatigue.

Since you didn't bother to suggest that the experts were the WHO, who still recommend lockdown where needed, and it was needed, as presented by SAGE and ignored by the giovernment.

WHO:

WHO recognizes that at certain points, some countries have had no choice but to issue stay-at-home orders and other measures, to buy time.

Governments must make the most of the extra time granted by ‘lockdown’ measures by doing all they can to build their capacities to detect, isolate, test and care for all cases; trace and quarantine all contacts; engage, empower and enable populations to drive the societal response and more.

We have repeatedly failed to act until *far* too late, resulting in far longer lockdowns being required.

Noone has ever presented a plan for brexit - you certainly haven't, you've simply spouted some headlines you overheard somewhere assuming that unicorns would come galloping over the hills. Boris still has no plan, he has declared that we don't need a plan for an extreme tory brexit because it won't happen, and then driven us into it... He has less than two weeks to agree an extension to the transition period (because a deal simply cannot be ratified in the remaining time. We are heading for a disaster.

We're fucked, and it was easily preventable.

We've already dropped from the 5th largest world economy to the 6th, and we're going to be 7th soon... That's not a good trajectory - I might seriously consider emigrating to somewhere with a more honest government, PRC maybe.

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