Merry Christmas: rising Covid cases, No Deal Brexit, recession and maybe lockdown – politicalbetting
Merry Christmas: rising Covid cases, No Deal Brexit, recession and maybe lockdown – politicalbetting.com
This is the end. Not the real end, of course. There is no real end; just the start of another chapter. But as far as Brexit goes, that’s it: no more can-kicking, no more transition periods, no more rule-taking. Out.
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I wonder if this one will be any more sane?
But elections have consequences. America voted for Biden - Britain voted to take back control.
Don't be a Trumpist: Respect democracy.
GIven most of us can see that a shitstorm is coming, why can't the government?
Here’s some good news to make the gloomy and doomy more cheerful. Much ado about nothing really.
“Brexit has failed to deliver a big hit to financial services employment in London, Financial Times research has shown, with international banks maintaining most of their staff since the vote to leave the EU and big asset managers hiring in the UK capital.
Initial warnings that tens of thousands of jobs would leave the City as a result of the 2016 Brexit vote have been drastically scaled back. An FT survey of 24 large international banks and asset managers found that the majority had increased their London headcount over the past five years.”
(I just say that to get he xenophobia quotient of the thread out of the way early, so we can get back to serious matters.)
Of course people will die if Trump is allowed to remain President.
I hereby appoint you "Captain Shit Analogies'.
Now I'm working this weekend because of Brexit, so if anyone outdoes you, you'll have to let me know so I can award your crown to someone else.
Very efficient operation.
I was in and out with the nurse in under two minutes.
Then I had my vaccination. Boom, boom.
In the meantime over £1.8 trillion pounds worth of assets have been moved from the UK to the EU by the financial services sector down to Brexit.
And all the children are insane.
All the children are insane.
Waiting for the Summer rain.
I hope that makes up for repeated waves of Covid, No Deal Brexits and more lockdowns.
The last outbreak of bonkersness like this was TMay's Brexit Deal.
Four years on and "nothing has changed".
*prior history of severe allergy excluded subjects from the trials. There is always a difference between trial and general public populations.
She fell into a massive trap yesterday spouting off against the Empire, Falklands War and demanding the curriculum be "decolonised".
This will have been heard loud and clear in the Red Wall and will have set Starmer even further back.
I must admit I wasn't just referring to the Govt but also the press, which of course the Govt doesn't have control over, so we may not be discussing quite the same thing, but:
a) We don't have to announce we are going to enforce rules. That is taken as read. That is the point of a rule. It might be we don't enforce a rule, but that shouldn't be assumed unless announced, which I can recall on a couple of occasions eg French requirement to carry a breathalyzer.
b) Threatening to send gun boats isn't just announcing a rule.
Hope all is well
Trump and the MAGAs are going to lose their shit.
Pleased to see my 80 year old mum is having hers today (in Herts). She only turned 80 last week and I thought she might end up being put in Priority 3 due to old data, so they are on the ball there.
It takes some talent to lose both the Red and the Blue Wall at the same time.
Shit already lost and sprayed all over the room.
They're not proposing to fire on anyone. At worse they'd pull up against a boat, impound it and take it back to Harwich.
Play nicely everyone.
But we should eat more herring, just about the best dietary source of vitamin D. We're about the only Northern European nation to have lost it from our diet.
Please don't go on Parler ever again, that place will rot your brain.
It's like Twitter for incel virgins and Trumpers but without the decorum of Twitter.
As you say, they might still go, but, equally, the City of London under its own UK regulations might actually grow, finding new markets - as it has done over the centuries. We don't know, but the second option is historically the likelier.
The problem for Europe is that there is not one obvious alternative. Those that have left the City have all gone off in different directions, to cities which all have their own issues
Paris: great city but French speaking, quite hostile, schools an issue, riots
Amsterdam: bit small, bit dull
Dublin: very small, rain
Frankfurt: boring as fuck, German
Luxembourg: small, boring as fuck, where even is it?
Because of this splintering none of them will ever have the critical mass of lawyers, bankers, regulators, financiers, managers, that you get in English-speaking London, making it a world leading finance centre.
Two years ago I was truly fearful for the City. Now I think, Deal or No Deal, it will endure and eventually thrive. That's what it does.
https://twitter.com/BeffernieBlack/status/1337719891323969536
People watch the LOTR films in order, and every time somebody on screen eats something, they eat along. Dozens of courses, all of them themed to the movies.
It's remarkable
Prof Bauld told BBC Breakfast that "from a public health perspective, I have to be perfectly honest, I think this is a mistake and I think people, even though we're permitted to do this, I think people have to think very carefully whether they can see loved ones outside or do it in a very, very modest way".
She added there was "nothing to stop" governments reversing the rules, "but the problem is they've made that commitment to people across the UK, and that may affect trust in government if they roll back on that".
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-55279371
If so, lung and bowel cancer INCOMING...
I expect Brexit will significantly worsen the cultural gap between Remania and Leaverstan. Not least because Remania will care even less for Leaverstan.
Those issues are addressed in phase IV post release surveillance.
Nor is citing historical precedent when our imminent departure from a free trade confederation directly to a position with no trade agreements at all with any of our principal neighbours is without historical precedent.
All governments can do is 'flatten the curve'.
Good for Lando as well in 4th.
Seven miles.
F1: didn't offer a qualifying tip but the result does mean the pre-season bet on Norris betting Sainz (only evens, so not actually very good value) came off.
A large 7,000-strong poll, designed to examine the political changes that have taken place since Labour’s disastrous result, found that the party was showing signs of winning over some of those who backed the Tories last year.
It's quite impressive
It was the orcs which had captured Merry and Pippin.
some strangers hand
In a desperate land...
So limitless and free.
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand.
In a desperate land....
It hurts to set you free.
But you'll never follow me.
Frankenpizza
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIK0poUskMG/
Leavers never look at things from the other point of view . Why antagonize matters when there’s still a chance of a deal unless that is the plan all along was no deal .
The EU have shown huge restraint in not reacting to the constant barrage of idiocy and showboating from this pathetic government .
The UK is now a global laughing stock thanks to Bozo and his lapdog cabinet .
http://orkneyfoodcompany.co.uk/
Plus the young now know they are not at risk.