The grifting of the UK authorities is really stunning. First they expect the exporter from outside the UK to pay the VAT. It would be normal to have this done by the importer within the UK. E.g. as a German I am busy enough to cope with the German burocracy and I should not bother about the problems my UK customer is having with his authorities. When it comes to imports German authorities do only ask for refunds of actual expenses and work done by the cusoms authorities. Just checking paperwork at an official site is free of charge. Moreover checks need not be done at the border itself but may be done at the customs office of the receiver of the goods. What the heck has the UK government been doing since 2016? They are basically blaming the EU for their own lazyness and inventing taxes for doing nothing.

@francodenobili7654

Ай бұрын

What is one to EXPECT from CRIMINAL RACIST INCOMPETENT UNQUALIFIED DIMWITTED POLITICIANS On the LITTLE BRITAIN SIDE 🤮🤮🤮 THERE ARE IDIOTS IN OFFICE EVERYWHERE - BUT THE LITTLE BRIT FOOLS DRESSED AS LORDS 😂😂😂 LIKE 269 YEARS AGO, AND THE THIEFS IN #10, ARE BEATING ANY FOOL - PLANETWIDE WITH BOTH HANDS TIED BEHIND THEIR BACK. THEY HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT LAWS, TRADE RULES , WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A THIRD COUNTRY - NOTHING - Z E R O THOSE NEARLY 4 YEARS OF BREXIT EXIT NEGOTIATIONS SHOWED THE ENTIRE WORLD THAT LITTLE BRITAIN IS LEAD BY INCOMPETENT UNQUALIFIED LYING DIMWITTED RACIST FOOLS - VOTED INTO OFFICE BY INCOMPETENT UNQUALIFIED LYING RACIST DIMWITTED VOTERS - THAT'S HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES GOOD RIDDENS AND THE LITTLE BRIT FOOLS ARE VERY VERY LUCKY THAT I DON'T MAKE THE RULES - NOT A SINGLE PRODUCT WOULD BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE EU IN DIRECTION OF THOSE LIARS - NOT A SINGLE VISA GIVEN - INTO ANY EU COUNTRY TO LYING RACIST BRITS. YOU DESPISE EUROPE , WHICH YOU MADE VERY CLEAR WITH YEARS OF INSULTING AND LYING ABOUT THE EU - THEN YOU WILL NOT COME TRAVEL FOR YOUR VACATION INTO AN EU COUNTRY - STAY ON YOUR PILE OF ROCKS AND STAY AWAY. FOREVER 🤮

@appstratum9747

Ай бұрын

They are a shambles. The shambles is entirely political in reality. It isn't the fault of the civil service itself. I say this as a Brit who until Brexit used to work in the private sector implementing IT systems for the British tax authority and customs service (HMRC). "I should not bother about the problems my UK customer is having with his authorities" To put this into context, British businesses would say that they shouldn't have to bother about the problems that their European customers are having with their authorities in 27 countries of the EU (plus those outside of the EU but part of the single market). But of course, since Brexit they do have bother about such things. As do you if you want to sell into the UK. Which may very well be the reason that you stop selling into the UK! 🙂 And who could blame you? Or your British counterparts selling the other way. As somebody who is also based in the EU and who used to import goods from British suppliers (because they were very good and cost competitive) I'm afraid to say that we can no longer be bothered with the hassle of importing from the UK and many of our British suppliers have simply given up exporting to the EU (because it's a world of hurt for them and us). The whole thing is a disaster. And in the UK that's compounded by political incompetence, political wishful thinking, almost completely ignoring the business sector (and not engaging constructively with the people who actually know what they're doing) and discovering that all the extra bureaucracy that is now required (having left the EU) comes at a price that the government hasn't budgeted for. And to answer your question about what the UK government has been doing since 2016, for a large chunk of that time it has been doing precisely nothing to prepare for what was coming and when it started preparing for this it was simply far too late. But even then, infrastructure that was built specifically to accommodate many of the import-related inspection services (such as at the UK's second busiest channel port at Portsmouth) was wasted and may indeed be demolished. The local government in Portsmouth is now heavily out of pocket due to this mess and wants compensation from the British government as a result. The whole thing is idiotic from beginning to end. But you're right, the British government is lazy (as well as incompetent) and indeed they do, more often than not, point fingers at the EU for things that are entirely their fault.

@ronaldl9085

Ай бұрын

It's simply a matter of corruption and incompetence, but then at staggering costs for the British taxpayers. The uber-wealthy Tories only got more wealthy.

@annerigby4400

Ай бұрын

I get the impression that the UK is still in shock that Brexit actually happened. The Brexiteers did so much disinformation and so many people believed it that the gov't hasn't really needed to do anything about anything. So many Brits don't understand the ramifications of Brexit. It doesn't make any difference to those in the current gov't. Next elections perhaps Labour will win and the Conservatives will blame all the consequences of Brexit (they'll really be hitting the fan by then) on Labour. Why should the current gov't do anything about Brexit? do they care about the country losing millions in customs revenues or the fact that so many goods imported, unchecked have been contaminated and unfit for human consumption? They don't eat that stuff so it isn't their problem. The Conservatives seem to live in their little world of 'governing' where they say what they think will make them look good, look like they're busy, efficient while all they actually do is find ways to increase their bank accounts while they still can. They're still going on about illegal immigrants and people crossing the Channel illegally and all that garbage that gets the racist, xenophobic minority all excited. Did anyone really expect the Conservatives to actually do anything about Brexit? I mean, really?

@johnchristmas7522

Ай бұрын

travellingonline479 You are correct.The problem for the UK has ALWAYS been its inept government. Could not stand anyone else showing them just how stupid they all are. Unfortunately, its the British public that have to pick up the chaos and cost. The next government wont be any better, they all come from the same mould. The UK is undemocratic, in that its parliament is rigged via a voting system, called first past the post. To allow just two parties to run for election. So we always end with Tweedledum or Tweedledee. Freedom whats that?

Nigel Farage should be held accountable for this mess

@st939

Ай бұрын

Who put whitey in the white house? You did baby you did....

@davidwedlock2622

Ай бұрын

What mess? Check out unemployment in many EU countries versus UK.

@joeandersen9038

Ай бұрын

@@davidwedlock2622 Stop sucking Tory dick.

@sarahbarton2089

Ай бұрын

And the fault of Jolly Japes Johnson, that great Truth Teller!

@dm9078

Ай бұрын

For what 52% of the British electorate being xenophobic shitasses!

Why wouldn't they be laughing? Brexit was a ridiculous thing to vote for and then impose upon ourselves. If it were another EU country that had decided to leave in the way we did instead, no doubt we'd be looking at them, shaking our heads and laughing at THEIR idiocy.

@friedrichjunzt

Ай бұрын

Indeed😂

@norwegianzound

Ай бұрын

Collect your free self flagellation whips at your local council office.

@Arltratlo

Ай бұрын

Brexshit, a British joke even Germans laughing about!

@pedroloco9327

Ай бұрын

Funny that because a number of countries are now questioning their own membership in the union.

@dirkdupont5004

Ай бұрын

@@pedroloco9327 Name them.

I wonder if that flower shop lady who was happy that the UK left the EU (BBC 2016) is still in business. 🤔

@charlesvanderhoog7056

Ай бұрын

Nothing can beat the arrogance of English feelings of racial superiority. Anyone not born on English soil from 5 generations of English is a "foreigner who does not understand".

@ralphmacchiato3761

Ай бұрын

She was last seen eating tulip bulbs.

@janb.6194

Ай бұрын

@@ralphmacchiato3761 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@irminschembri8263

Ай бұрын

@@ralphmacchiato3761 Oh Ralph !! :)

@ManuelRomeroArcos-vx4qh

Ай бұрын

​Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂😂

An actual Brexit benefit - you've given France and the rest of the world a good laugh 🎉

@s.m.2523

Ай бұрын

On a slightly less smug and self satisified note, it also kinda killed any talk of a "Frexit" that was gaining quite a bit of traction. (It'll come back sooner or later but at least it's seriously delayed).

@berkeleyfuller-lewis3442

Ай бұрын

@@s.m.2523 NO, it won't. You're in anti France mental fantasy land. You -- along with Nazi-collaborator descendant Marie LePen -- and France's few remaining wanna-be fascists.

@charly7133

Ай бұрын

I'm quiet fond of british humor, but this time they really pushed it too far...

@hughmiller9737

Ай бұрын

Macron consistently gives the rest of the world a good laugh!

@s.m.2523

Ай бұрын

@@hughmiller9737 Really ? Because being french, his two presidencies feels more like a car accident in slow motion. Viscerally fascinating in a gruesome sort of way but not exactly funny or enjoyable.... (.. although I guess that's because I'm in the car, maybe some people outside may feel some serious shadenfreude)

Even Jacob Reed Mogg thinks this is an act of self harm. That's all you need to know.

@merkvandermeulen3978

Ай бұрын

He admitted to that, on camera, while lorries with every kind of contraband you can imagine roared past him left and right, in an embarrassing attempt to avoid empty shelves, delays and food shortages on plague island.

@HoveMania

Ай бұрын

Imagine believing anything that cos-playing clown says.. What you see is what you get.

@johnmorrison9424

Ай бұрын

Yes however he moved his business to Dublin straight away , he was not going to suffer like the rest of us

@gloin10

Ай бұрын

Jacob Rich-Smug’s Dublin-based business was wound up last year.

@rbaxter286

Ай бұрын

"This" isn't the self-harm, his initial LSOS Brexit was the ultimate suicide, but he doesn't care cuz never affects the Vulture Capitalists and Neo-Liberal Crooks who have written the rules and used their money to avoid what The Proles can't. And, soon he'll have a lot of even poorer, hungrier Proles to chose his expanded house staff from.

For anyone that says “this wasn’t the Brexit I voted for”, remind them that this was exactly what they voted for. They voted to leave the EU, and the only legal way to leave the EU was to trigger article 50, and then enter into negotiations with the EU to determine the details of the leave agreement - which is exactly what May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak have done. E.g. - Let’s go on holiday, you can choose where. - All sorted. I have bought the tickets, and we are going to Mongolia. - But I don’t want to go to Mongolia. - Well, you should have said that I should suggest a destination, rather than I can choose a destination.

I truly despise the Brexitards.

@Lucretia9000

Ай бұрын

So, what are you going to do about it? Going to join the push to get these traitors prosecuted for treason or just whine about it? What they've done is thousands of times worse than what Guy Fawkes was hanged for.

@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn

Ай бұрын

They are more to be pitied than despised, it must be hard being that thick.

@lordsummerisle852

Ай бұрын

You are projecting Your hatred is a reflection of your own self pity and self loathing

@junglie

Ай бұрын

@@lordsummerisle852 naa that's you that is.......lol.

@markmoran916

Ай бұрын

@@lordsummerisle852protecting? What? Your weak ego? 😂😂😂😂

Napoleon rose from the grave to award the Tories collectively the Legion d'Honneur for making his continental system work.

@prisoneroffortune

Ай бұрын

The E.U. in no way whatsoever resembles Bonaparte's Continental System. If you choose to post nonsense be prepared to be mocked.

@stewie7338

Ай бұрын

Ah so you are seeing Napoleon? Yes many Remainers seem to believe themselves to currently be Napoleon or in a past life. Is Napoleon in the room with you now and can anyone else see him?

@AlexGys9

Ай бұрын

Nah, I happened to run into Napoleon last week and his only comment was "très amusantes"

@prisoneroffortune

Ай бұрын

@@stewie7338 "Remainer" is no longer valid. Use "Rejoiner" and be up to date.

@kevinwilde

Ай бұрын

reincarnate thatcher.

As a French my question is : is your NHS really better ? Because it should be ! So much money you « got back » !

@appstratum9747

Ай бұрын

No. The NHS isn't better (and certainly not compared with the French healthcare system!) although it used to be better value for money at one time. And as you well know, the £350 million a week for the NHS as a result of Brexit was always a blatant lie. What isn't a lie is that many EU citizens who would've worked in the NHS until Brexit now no longer choose to do so. Which means the NHS is even more understaffed as a result. And as in some parts of France (though for very different reasons), it can be difficult to get an appointment with a doctor. And, mon amis français, from the perspective of those of us who never agreed with Brexit, all of this was entirely predictable. 😀 So your joke was and still is very depressing.... 😂

@icitlalistardust9060

Ай бұрын

@@appstratum9747 - I know…. and honestly, I could not believe the result of the vote when it came out in 2016. What I predicted at the time and became reality, is that GB will have to endure so many hardships as the result of this choice, that no one (reasonable) will ever question the opportunity of living the EU for the next few decades. Until then, the favorite exercise of our politicians was to make unreasonable promesses when running…. To justify their failures saying « the EU didn’t allow us to do so… » once elected ! Now even the far right as given up talking about a Frexit ! And as a result…. I sleep much better ! Small mercies, right !

@appstratum9747

Ай бұрын

@@icitlalistardust9060 Indeed. Exactly right.

@danallen3947

Ай бұрын

good point we were lied to they should face prison

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

The NHS got more money, but it has inherent problems that limit the money being well spent.

It's not just the extra tax, it's also the cost of the extra petrol trucks need to burn to keep their cargo refrigerated while they wait a whole day or more on the Dover parking lot.

@junglie

Ай бұрын

+ all the extra local pollution .

@mururoa7024

Ай бұрын

@@jonsimmons4150 On a boat the refrigeration unit of reefer containers are connected to the boat's power. On a truck they're connected on the truck's generator. Where did you think the power comes from? Fairy dust? Clown. 🤣👍

@BrianV-ie4mw

Ай бұрын

@@mururoa7024 On the ferry they are connected to the ship's onboard AC elec supply, powered by heavyoil, diesel, or gas. On the road or parked the trailers have normally a diesel powered reefer unit.

@mururoa7024

Ай бұрын

@@BrianV-ie4mw Thanks for reiterating what I said.

@berkeleyfuller-lewis3442

Ай бұрын

@@mururoa7024 You are confusing being snarky . . . with being smart.

France started preparing their border control checks on the day after the referendum in 2016…

@yas92

Ай бұрын

Absolument !

@williampatrickfagan7590

Ай бұрын

Ireland set up a Brexit committee the day the referendum was called. When the result was announced, Ireland had a team in Brussels the next day briefing the European Union commission on Ireland position explaining the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement and the border situation. Not alone that, every member of the European Union were fully briefed, as well as being kept up to date as the talks proceeded.

@trident6547

Ай бұрын

The border checks in EU were always there in any EU country with ports or landborders to third countries. The only thing needed was to start implementing the third country customs rules and checks for goods from UK.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

@@williampatrickfagan7590 😠 Indeed. I remember that photograph of the European Union delegates and the British team around a table. The EU delegates had files on the table. The British delegates, led by David Davies, had . . . NOTHING 🥴!

@gloin10

Ай бұрын

Actually, Ireland started its Brixit contingency planning about FOUR YEARS BEFORE David Cameron announced the date of that self-harming referendum. THREE YEARS before the referendum, and the Irish Civil Service, along with all the economic stakeholders, was working from an 85 page document which every possible version of Brixit and the appropriate Irish response. By the time the UK finally committed its idiotic Brixit, all the required facilities for border checks were in place, as were the required, properly trained, people. Full dress rehearsals were held at least twice before Brixit Day.

French here. If you ever think people are happy you are in trouble : it isn't. Most are glad you have "tested" it and shown it's a mess. Marine Le Pen used to say Frexit was her main goal, now she just asks for a referendum :"People should decide if they want". You ve been fooled, every trouble was because of Europe they said (even now, Brexit is difficult because of Europe you know...). Really sad for british workers who have confidently voted : it s gonna be more difficult for them because of this mess :/

@watchlover7750

Ай бұрын

Brexit was Europe's vaccine, we tasted a bit of the disease to become immune

@padriandusk7107

Ай бұрын

French here. Given how much you guys used to belittle us since a couple of decades, adding to what was said during the Brexit campaign, i can say i'm amongst those happy you are in trouble. Hate and despise me all you want: you already did plenty enough to justify the fair return. Thanks for that full circle: it's gonna roll for long!

@highspirit7590

Ай бұрын

@@padriandusk7107t’es un petit frustré, content de voir des gens se tromper

@padriandusk7107

Ай бұрын

@@highspirit7590 Ouais, un peu. Quand t'as même pas commencé à montrer ta tronche ou à dire quoi que ce soit qu'en tant que Francais, les British te foutent déjà dans la sauce gratos, tu piges vite qu'il n'y a plus rien à faire ni à sauver dans cette relation merdique qui a apparemment déjà été décidée avant même ton existence. Le secret pour pas s'en faire? En profiter et en jouer, comme eux. Ce serait con de s'exclure du jeu de la haine gratuite après tout, non? Et tous en choeur: ♫God saaaaaves the queeeeen sometiiiiiimes ♪~~

WHO IS THE BIGGER FOOL; THE FOOL, OR THE FOOL THAT FOLLOWS HIM !?

@yvesgomez

Ай бұрын

The fool speaks, the devil believes

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

When looking for fools, consider this - Every parliamentary political party, including the Conservatives, was pro-Remain in 2016. Only 140 Conservative MPs were Brexiteers, 187 were Remainers and 3 undeclared. All the other Parties were even more overwhelmingly pro-Remain. The whole political class was overwhelmingly pro-Remain. UKIP never had an MP elected to Parliament and so wasn't part of the political class at Westminster. The only representation UKIP ever got was in Brussels, where the list system allowed them to get a foothold they were able to expand. The constitutionally unnecessary Brexit referendum was called at a time of his own choosing by a Remain Prime Minister, leading a largely Remain parliamentary political party in a parliament overwhelmingly pro-Remain, at a time when the polls indicated that EU membership was not the electorate's leading electoral issue. Remain outspent Leave 3:2. Every major national institution was in favour of Remain and the Remain government chose the wording of the referendum question and advocated people vote No to Brexit. The poll of polls also indicated a small pro-Remain popular majority in the year up to the referendum. Remainers therefore hold a heavy share of responsibility for Brexit.

@aquelpibe

Ай бұрын

The top people who pushed this wreck are no fools, they knew they were selling a disastrous deal One has to wonder why they did it

@markaxworthy2508

29 күн бұрын

@@aquelpibe Well, it clearly hasn't been "disastrous". We may not have reached any "sunlit uplands" but neither have we "fallen off a cliff". Both sides look ridiculous by massively overstating their cases.

@aquelpibe

29 күн бұрын

@@markaxworthy2508You may be right, I am an outside observer so you know your reality better What does seem to me pretty clear is that there was a concerted effort to weaken the EU - divide and conquer - and we are seeing why

I was thinking of setting up a Brexit museum to record all the things we lost. A nostalgic reminder of a time before Brexit, the freedoms and choice we had. A contrast to our dystopian, claustrophobic, corrupt, extreme far right, xenophobic, racist, and bigoted present.

@damianrjames

Ай бұрын

in a nutshel, well said!

@maryx8434

Ай бұрын

Great idea. It might attract a lot of amused visitors from the EU.

@DelphineCingal

Ай бұрын

And now Sunak wants to leave the ECtHR based on the ECHR that the best UK post war legal minds drafted…

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Frankly, I can barely tell the difference between before and after, beyond the disappearance of thick cut orange marmalade from all four local supermarkets.

@danganbeg7225

Ай бұрын

​@@maryx8434I don't go to britain, I couldn't be bothered with a foreign currency.

You don't hear much of that in the BBC or other mainstream media channels, hm?

@dondoodat

Ай бұрын

They are mostly run by Tories and those sympathetic to Tories, so no real surprise. Including the BBC, many of whom in it will have gone to the same schools as government ministers.

@snowiecat456

Ай бұрын

Laura K in and Fiona Bruce in particular. They are a disgrace to women everywhere .

@Ystadcop

Ай бұрын

No, they're all frit for their jobs.

@dondoodat

Ай бұрын

@@Ystadcop That too, but I think with most of them they truly have no idea about the normal lives of others.

@willsmith3062

Ай бұрын

Smothered by the local elections. Typical Tories: release bad news when there’s something else that takes priority in the news

Brexit is brexit. It’s exactly what they voted for.

Neither wonder other countries are laughing at us, well said sir, I dread to think what is going to happen to the people,I live in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and we want independence and back into the EU, who can blame us, this country is finished,and it’s all thanks to the Torys,and all to keep their offshore accounts secret,thank you again for your analogy brilliant as usual

@anbabylone9541

Ай бұрын

I’d like Scotland and northern Ireland come back with us too …

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

😧 Do not dismiss the many English supporters of the European Union 🇪🇺. I am one such person. I have no chance of seeing England returning to civilisation as displayed through the EU. In passing, did you hear that the Blond Buffoon brought the WRONG photo id when attempting to vote in the Mayoral and London Assembly elections? Sent away, like a silly boy, with egg on his face 🥴!

@archstanton5973

Ай бұрын

Say hello to the *Republic of Scotland* and *Union of Ireland*

@bonbahoue

Ай бұрын

When the voting results came in, I was really gutted for Scotland. For weeks I have been hoping for a Scottish independence referendum. What a pity ! Today you live in a new country, the disUnited-Kingdom.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Errrr.... NO, the Scottish people have not indicated that they want independence, even if they have indicated they wanted to stay in the EU.

Uk food crises will get worse

@gloin10

Ай бұрын

They will, that is guaranteed. Britain is now, as far as EU/EEA producers, suppliers, and truck drivers are concerned, the LAST market they will supply. Too much hassle, too many delays, and far too expensive. Truckers routinely refuse to transport stuff to Britain because they almost always have to make their return journey empty. Again, it’s just far too expensive to be worth the hassle.

@snowiecat456

Ай бұрын

​@@gloin10 And the poorest will suffer the most. But hey the good news is we will get more foodbanks. 😡🤬

@daydays12

Ай бұрын

@@snowiecat456 Of course . The UK government doesn't give a *********

@hunkyel

Ай бұрын

Uk food get worse

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

What "food crisis"?

The voters have punished the Tories in the local elections and the by-election. Time now for the general election and a new PM! Thanks for the timely update from France 24. I lived for a time in France and watch France 24 in French to keep up with the French perspective. Mille mercis, monsieur! 🎉😊

@grahamlees4394

Ай бұрын

I live in France and get good untainted views of UK politics from France 24. The UK press perspective is so heavily biased and not worth considering. I've stopped watching or relying on UK TV content since at least 5 years now. My homeland is an international embarrassment 🙄

@user-hx2wx7mk8n

Ай бұрын

The BBC is Globalist propaganda.@@grahamlees4394

@appstratum9747

Ай бұрын

@@grahamlees4394 The UK press & media largely don't really want to remind voters of the absurdity of Brexit or present critical and factual analysis of it. They skirt around it for the most part. The BBC falls over itself to avoid the B word, lest the government accuse it of "left wing bias". France 24 (English and French services) are pretty straight about Brexit as is CNN international and DW of Germany. CNN Portugal (in Portuguese) is first rate, by the way. I briefly worked for CNN International in CNN Center (Atlanta) where CNN is based, but for me the best news channel they have (that I've seen) is their Portuguese subsidiary channel. By some margin it trounces all of the others for depth and breadth of international news content. Which is great if you speak Portuguese. But not so useful if you don't. The satellite and cable/fibre operators here in Portugal stopped carrying the BBC World news channel a couple of years ago. And to be honest it was pretty poor so no great loss.

I have just shared this video with my brother who voted for Brexit and still thinks it was the right thing to do🤣🤣. He is intelligent, runs his own business and is widely travelled. I do not understand him.

@Mozart69938

Ай бұрын

His passport is blue now !

@snowiecat456

Ай бұрын

@@Mozart69938 That makes all the difference...not😂😂

@childoftheuniverse2644

Ай бұрын

I don't think that voting for brexshit is a sign of intelligence.

@beachcomber1able

Ай бұрын

Lots of intelligent people believe in supernatural deities. 😏

@user-hx2wx7mk8n

Ай бұрын

He doesn't want his country run by unelected EU bureaucrats, or overrun by third world hordes.

It isn't just checks on EU made food products, it means also checks on goods which have gone through EUrope via the international Carnet system...

During the Covid 19 Pandemic. Boris Johnson refused the French request to test HGV drivers for the virus. As a result the French closed access to its ports this impass lasted 4 days. Nothing moved across the Channel. Who blinked FIRST. The only Fresh Food entering Britain was from the whole of Ireland. When Britain ignores the TCA all ports will be closed to Britain. The last year that Britain fed itself was 1832 population 35 million. 2024 Population 68+ Million. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

@StCreed

Ай бұрын

And if you understand that society is just 3 meals removed from total anarchy and civil war, you might understandably get a bit worried.

Britain providing comedic relief to the French in this stressful pre-Olympic time is the neighborly thing to do. Like a good jester the UK is always there to bring a chuckle to its continental neighbors. Thank God for British humor!

@johnm2714

Ай бұрын

Yes it's a typically embarrassing Tory cock up. I'm laughing too, rather bleakly. But the France 24 discussion doesn't seem to have considered the impact on the EU side: if the cost of importing goes up, the amount imported will go down. That's not so funny for the EU producers. How many French producers will have to scale back or shut down their businesses?

@blub5117

Ай бұрын

​@@johnm2714they have a market of 450million to sell to. Sure it's a problem but that's a huge safety net.

@francinesicard464

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@appstratum9747

Ай бұрын

@@johnm2714 'Tis true that Brexit isn't good for anybody. But other EU countries, France included, are far less exposed to the downsides, since the UK accounts for a much smaller percentage of their trade than the EU trade represents to the UK. France can for the most part divert food production to other markets. And that's particularly true where food production in other parts of the world is affected by the war in Ukraine (either by lower Russian/Ukrainian food exports or fertiliser from Russia that would otherwise be used in other countries for their own agriculture) or climate change. Many of these countries (e.g. Egypt) are relatively close to France. So even outside of the European Single Market, the French have plenty of options for their produce. Countries like Portugal (where I live) may buy in French produce since, like the UK, the Portuguese import a lot of certain types of food that can't be grown here all year round but that are much more available in France. Plus, in the case of France, they're largely self-sufficient in food. Whereas the UK isn't. So businesses aside, French people don't feel quite as "hit" by Brexit as the British do. For French consumers, the one benefit of Brexit may be slightly lower food price inflation as some supply of some French national produce finds its way onto the domestic French market.

@danganbeg7225

Ай бұрын

Not just continental neighbours. Even closer neighbours

Full marks to Rob for actually tracking down any Brexit content on French television. Here in Belgium I can get the French news channel LCI and I also occasionally watch France24. You can go weeks without even a reference to the UK on LCI and that despite two regular guests being French-speaking Brits! The one exception is the Royal family for which the French have a continuing fascination.

@ArthurPopeye

Ай бұрын

Correct and being French living in UK I never understood why British are so angry about the French thinking that we always want to throw a spanner in their works when in fact we mostly don't care about what they decide and are just slightly amused by their displayed differences. This is unfair and due to the bad UK media.

The big paradox is that in order to become a wealthy country after Brexit, the UK must embrace thousands of migrant workers to achieve it.

I've not heard a single person support Brexit that have called in to radio chat shows. There are, however, many that call in that have deep regrets now.

british exceptionalism knows no bounds???????

@uweinhamburg

Ай бұрын

At least the inspectors are allowed to use French made Opinel knifes 🤣🤣😉

@californiadreamin8423

Ай бұрын

What’s the weather like in St Petersburg, or is it the gulag ?

@markmoran916

Ай бұрын

It’s more English exceptionalism and English ignorance

@trident6547

Ай бұрын

@@californiadreamin8423 Open the window and have a look.

@Dreyno

Ай бұрын

@@uweinhamburgSomeone else had to inspect the Opinels but they opened the box with a Victorinox that had to be inspected by someone else but they used a Fiskars scissors to open the Victorinox box and those scissors had to be inspected by someone else.

Hell is now at Sevington Inland Border Facility. It's unreal..😡😡😡

We know where ALL our money is going....Tory mates and donors

@daydays12

Ай бұрын

HUGE amounts...billions of £

Rıdıculous, stupid Tory incompetence.

@davidwedlock2622

Ай бұрын

Not Tory incompetence. They only allowed a vote on what they promised. It was the UK population...

@scottybeck100

Ай бұрын

mixed with Kremlin kompetence;)

@Queerz4Palestein

Ай бұрын

Jeremy Corbyn was against the EU

@Gonefishin27

Ай бұрын

But wasn’t it the UK public that voted for Brexit? And then repeatedly re-elected the Tories to ‘get the job done’?

@kattydover6356

Ай бұрын

Yes, miisled by lies, but did not re-elect not given the right to do so.@@Gonefishin27

With the state of the country. Sheeple are still voting tory. Ooft!

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

😠 And they will do so at the next general election, when the choice will be between the Old Nasty 💩 or the New Nasty 💩!

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

My reply in support of yours is missing . . . 😲!

@capt.bart.roberts4975

Ай бұрын

They didn't this week.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

@@capt.bart.roberts4975 🤔 What was the turnout at these elections? In the low 30% ? Or even lower? On such figures it is no time to crow, as we are told by our Westminster governers. Only a general election counts . . . !

@MrGrantSloan

Ай бұрын

@@capt.bart.roberts4975 I'm taking about those who did in the elections. Even winning a mayorship race in I think Tine Tees?

Here is how it will go: There will e fees for the import checks, but they won't be carried out.

@flitsertheo

Ай бұрын

Depriving the British government from millions of revenue, which they will have to collect elsewhere.

I think a lot of us are past just "get them out," we want judicial inquiries and people held accountable for their actions. Starting with the "Blustering Buffoon" followed by all the other protagonists who bear responsibility......enough is enough!!

@Para2normal

Ай бұрын

Sadly that's almost impossible in England, at least, a country built so rigidly along class lines that we still have ridiculous ceremonial nonsense on the BBC, yet they won't show some of the things that do make this country great.

@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643

Ай бұрын

Why? The majority of the voters voted to leave. Why blaming the government for the voters’ choice?

@appstratum9747

Ай бұрын

@@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643 I doubt many of those that voted Leave voted for this mess. And it's a rock solid fact that those in charge of the leave campaigns were very clear that nothing like this would ever happen. But it has happened. And it only gets worse from here on in. Because of what those same people did AFTER the result of the Brexit referendum that had nothing WHATSOEVER to do with what they told the electorate beforehand. In other words, they had an (advisory, non-binding) mandate to leave the European Union. They didn't have a mandate to wreck to British economy, push up inflation, introduce new de facto taxes nor trigger a mushroom cloud of new bureaucracy. Nor trigger a threefold increase in non-European immigration. *HOW* the UK left the European Union was very much the government's choice. Not the people's choice at all. Because the people were never specifically asked about that. And what government ended up doing directly contradicted the assurances that were given during the Leave campaigns. In other words, they lied. Serious lies with huge consequences for ordinary people. People who are now paying the price of that. Phytosanitary restrictions between the EU and UK don't need to be applied at all, incidentally, provided the UK adheres to the European rules and regulations and doesn't invent its own. Indeed it doesn't even have a good reason to diverge from the EU in this area, whether it's part of the EU single market or not. So this has nothing, really, to do with the voter's decision to leave the EU. This is simply British government incompetence and bloody-mindedness at the expense of British consumers and businesses. It is unjust that such abuse of power and trust is possible (along with the costs for ordinary British people) without the people responsible for this mess being held accountable. Now that the brown stuff is hitting the fan and hitting them and their families in the pocket, more people are quickly coming around to that idea.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Also the Remainers need investigating. Consider this - Every parliamentary political party, including the Conservatives, was pro-Remain in 2016. Only 140 Conservative MPs were Brexiteers, 187 were Remainers and 3 undeclared. All the other Parties were even more overwhelmingly pro-Remain. The whole political class was overwhelmingly pro-Remain. UKIP never had an MP elected to Parliament and so wasn't part of the political class at Westminster. The only representation UKIP ever got was in Brussels, where the list system allowed them to get a foothold they were able to expand. The constitutionally unnecessary Brexit referendum was called at a time of his own choosing by a Remain Prime Minister, leading a largely Remain parliamentary political party in a parliament overwhelmingly pro-Remain, at a time when the polls indicated that EU membership was not the electorate's leading electoral issue. Remain outspent Leave 3:2. Every major national institution was in favour of Remain and the Remain government chose the wording of the referendum question and advocated people vote No to Brexit. The poll of polls also indicated a small pro-Remain popular majority in the year up to the referendum. Remainers therefore hold a heavy share of responsibility for Brexit.

@appstratum9747

Ай бұрын

@@markaxworthy2508 From "Also the Remainers need investigating" though to "Remainers therefore hold a heavy share of responsibility for Brexit", yours is perhaps the most bizarre and idiotic post I've seen this year. And I didn't vote remain. Grow up.

Phil Pluck from the Cold Chain Fed points out that the new system needs 24hr notice of loads arriving in the UK. Some fresh loads used to be delivered inside of a few hrs, but now trucks with "fresh" food need to sit and wait for no good reason. Crazy to waste shelf-life because of a stupid system.

@billsmith-hl8rk

Ай бұрын

I was wondering how you would give 24hrs notice for a fish that has yet to be caught.

Nice to see British inspector using a French knife to check the potatoes

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

The new British passports are made by a French company. And they accuse US of bigotry?

@gmaildinozz

Ай бұрын

Oh boi you're right , it's an opinel knife 😆

Well at least there's no longer a cap on bankers bonuses. That must make it all worthwhile

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Was that an EU cap then? I never knew that!

What I also find fantastic is that many Poles went home during COVID and did not come back. Poland's economy is flourishing like never before.

Time to rejoin the EU.

@Bran9

Ай бұрын

Good luck with that 😂

@fitzstv8506

Ай бұрын

@@Bran9 Luck is not required just time!.

@user-hx2wx7mk8n

Ай бұрын

That's exactly what the British ruling class, and their Tory and Labor stooges, have wanted all along.

@archstanton5973

Ай бұрын

Sorry: *OUT IS OUT!*

@ralphmacchiato3761

Ай бұрын

Can be done. Comply with the Copenhagen criteria, get proportional representation and a real constitution, drive on the RIGHT side of the road, switch to metrics and formally ask to join. Then maybe none of the other member states will veto your entry. Good luck!

😧 Rob, as the cost of living crisis continues to worsen even food banks will struggle to support those in great need. Why? Because donations will drop as the price of basic foodstuffs becomes too expensive. How long will it take before starvation occurs and people die? That is a future I do not want to experience, so death is preferable than existing as famine breaks out 😢!

@kyorin6526

Ай бұрын

The Tories don't care about the deaths of the plebs. Austerity alone caused over 300,000 AVOIDABLE DEATHS! So long as there is enough of us left to pay enough tax and enrich their mates/donors, that's all they're bothered about.

@oneoldgit

Ай бұрын

Amazing in a so called 'rich country' that we even have food banks. If people were paid a living wage then they could afford to buy food. The companies pay low wages and their workers have to get support from the government.

@jak6326

Ай бұрын

Children born into poor families are already up to 7cms smaller than European children. Starvation starts in the womb and, after 14 years of the tories pernicious policies and targeted attacks against those with the least, the thought of it getting worse for them is beyond heartbreaking.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

@@oneoldgit 😢 I agree with you, but please do not refer to much deserved benefits as ‘handouts’. Benefits are entitlements in law, not ‘freebies’.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

@@jak6326 😢 Indeed so, but there are so many hateful people who believe what they are told about the ‘undeserving’ and ‘feckless’ benefits claimants. Sadly I cannot see any hope of change for the better from the next government 😡!

The French got to laugh at the Brits for their folly, just like a Monte Python sketch

2:30 French Opinel knives to check fruit quality haha

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

It shows how unbigoted the British are. The new British passport is also made by a French company. If only France was as open!

Apparently we have to tolerate this for the next twenty years.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Seems fair. After all, the Brexiters had to tolerate EU membership for 40 years between referenda.

'Did you get the eggs I needed?' 'Even better than that! I got a Victorian toilet roll holder, some brass bicycle clips and a small bottle of squid ink!' 🤭 When you said: "Where is the 300 million?" I thought: "Well, there is your Brexit win. No more accounting for/by the EU and *poof* gone is the money.... There is your Brexit profit. Not border sovereignty, not migration or any of all that. Lower taxes for the rich and no EU telling the U.K. government they can't do that. It's all about making money disappear...".

Send them all the out-of-date food as they are not checked

I try to fight any sense of schadenfreude!

Vous l’avez voulus, vous l’avez eu.

All journalist should force MP's who said, no checks, cheaper food and shoes, to admit that they were wrong before ever letting them speak about anything else.

We are a laughing stock.

Thanks Rob a great talk.

From the EU perspective: It's like watching my uncle's crashed car after warning him not to drive after six beers. ;)

"Honni soit qui mal y pense"... pretty accurate prediction of the fiasco that is Brexit. Too bad our brit neighbors don't speak the language!

"You made your bed now lay in it".

Well said

Is the economic impact for the worldwide Russian boycotts the same for Russia as the self-inflicted Brexit measures for the UK itself relatively speaking?

@barrieroberts75

Ай бұрын

"World wide sanctions??" I presume you are reading the British MSM, only 40+ countries are actually sanctioning Russia, and by the way many EU countries are also having to trade with Russia out of necessary reasons, by the way the WTO announced that Russian GDP is approximately 5.6% look up the UK and the EU,s rate😮😮😮

@pmoohkt

Ай бұрын

Unlike Russia, UK depends on outside world for it's food and raw materials... and don't have a "friendly" neighbour like China for it's tech imports.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Nope. Next?

Open borders. Not sort out people on boats (by way of working with France), but block food coming into the UK.....right..

@prisoneroffortune

Ай бұрын

Must be a typo, you meant to write "borders" didn't you?

@koolerking440

Ай бұрын

@@prisoneroffortune fixed

@user-hx2wx7mk8n

Ай бұрын

Kind of like in Biden's America....he lets in millions and millions of illegal foreigners, but us native-born citizens are supposed to obey thousands and thousands of B/S tax laws, gun laws, vehicle inspection laws, zoning laws, etc., etc., etc...

I’m still shocked that the English voted for Brexit. At this point, here in a successful EU member country, the only thing that I can do now is laugh. I’m sorry guys…..😂

If you listen to Boris again he said There will be NO NON tariff barriers as a result of Brexit. The double negitive coming into play here.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Are you accusing Boris of telling the truth?

@williampatrickfagan7590

Ай бұрын

@@markaxworthy2508 Witty retort.

The French must be laughing all the way to the Bank. Cheers again Brexiteers.

@icitlalistardust9060

Ай бұрын

As a French, I have been laughing since 2016 ! What a mess you have been putting yourselves ! As if life wasn’t complicated enough !

@Alex-mp1zb

Ай бұрын

Replying to @alantaylor1201 No, we're not, at least, those who are smart enough not to be misled by EU propaganda and are aware of what Brussels and Germany are preparing! He who laughs last laughs best.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Consider this - Every parliamentary political party, including the Conservatives, was pro-Remain in 2016. Only 140 Conservative MPs were Brexiteers, 187 were Remainers and 3 undeclared. All the other Parties were even more overwhelmingly pro-Remain. The whole political class was overwhelmingly pro-Remain. UKIP never had an MP elected to Parliament and so wasn't part of the political class at Westminster. The only representation UKIP ever got was in Brussels, where the list system allowed them to get a foothold they were able to expand. The constitutionally unnecessary Brexit referendum was called at a time of his own choosing by a Remain Prime Minister, leading a largely Remain parliamentary political party in a parliament overwhelmingly pro-Remain, at a time when the polls indicated that EU membership was not the electorate's leading electoral issue. Remain outspent Leave 3:2. Every major national institution was in favour of Remain and the Remain government chose the wording of the referendum question and advocated people vote No to Brexit. The poll of polls also indicated a small pro-Remain popular majority in the year up to the referendum. Remainers therefore hold a heavy share of responsibility for Brexit.

Maybe bad now but just wait when truck drivers decline to go to Brexit Britain because of delay because of checks, Europe is also having problems recruiting drivers and as I saw on a back of a truck in Germany under a recruiting poster No UK

@kippanb-lund3880

Ай бұрын

😂

@saba1030

Ай бұрын

That's correct = more and more EU transport companies are advertising with slogans like "we don't do UK tours"...

Brexiteers remind me of my Ex. She instigated the divorce because, as far as i can gather, she thought her life was going to be so much better. But now she constantly complains about the consequences and still doesn't get it that as we are no longer pooling our resources, we now for example have to pay 2 of every utility bill, 2 homes etc. etc.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Errrr..... NO. Brexiteers only advocated for divorce. It was Remainers who instigated the divorce. Consider this - Every parliamentary political party, including the Conservatives, was pro-Remain in 2016. Only 140 Conservative MPs were Brexiteers, 187 were Remainers and 3 undeclared. All the other Parties were even more overwhelmingly pro-Remain. The whole political class was overwhelmingly pro-Remain. UKIP never had an MP elected to Parliament and so wasn't part of the political class at Westminster. The only representation UKIP ever got was in Brussels, where the list system allowed them to get a foothold they were able to expand. The constitutionally unnecessary Brexit referendum was called at a time of his own choosing by a Remain Prime Minister, leading a largely Remain parliamentary political party in a parliament overwhelmingly pro-Remain, at a time when the polls indicated that EU membership was not the electorate's leading electoral issue. Remain outspent Leave 3:2. Every major national institution was in favour of Remain and the Remain government chose the wording of the referendum question and advocated people vote No to Brexit. The poll of polls also indicated a small pro-Remain popular majority in the year up to the referendum. Remainers therefore hold a heavy share of responsibility for Brexit.

@danganbeg7225

Ай бұрын

​@@markaxworthy2508An exercise in how to change the facts to suit your own reality

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

@@danganbeg7225 Interestingly, you did not dispute a single point I made. Which of the points I made was not a fact? Over to you. Well? I do not expect a reply to my question, because everything I posted was true. Surprise me.

@brixtonianme9717

Ай бұрын

@@markaxworthy2508 did you vote to Remain of for Brexit ? did you call for no deal brexit ? T. May had a deal where brexit was just in the namei, it was voted down 3 times by westminster, we've had Boris promising to take the UK out, he got a oven ready deal... only problem I find with your dissection is that all political parties were for remain, yet i remember the leader of the opposition as a leaver.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

@@brixtonianme9717 I see you are not disagreeing with a single point I made about the Remainer share of responsibility for Brexit. To give you another chance, here it is again: "Brexiteers only advocated for divorce. It was Remainers who instigated the divorce. Consider this - Every parliamentary political party, including the Conservatives, was pro-Remain in 2016. Only 140 Conservative MPs were Brexiteers, 187 were Remainers and 3 undeclared. All the other Parties were even more overwhelmingly pro-Remain. The whole political class was overwhelmingly pro-Remain. UKIP never had an MP elected to Parliament and so wasn't part of the political class at Westminster. The only representation UKIP ever got was in Brussels, where the list system allowed them to get a foothold they were able to expand. The constitutionally unnecessary Brexit referendum was called at a time of his own choosing by a Remain Prime Minister, leading a largely Remain parliamentary political party in a parliament overwhelmingly pro-Remain, at a time when the polls indicated that EU membership was not the electorate's leading electoral issue. Remain outspent Leave 3:2. Every major national institution was in favour of Remain and the Remain government chose the wording of the referendum question and advocated people vote No to Brexit. The poll of polls also indicated a small pro-Remain popular majority in the year up to the referendum. Remainers therefore hold a heavy share of responsibility for Brexit." Well? Which one is wrong? Over to you. Well? Oh, one more thing, You say, "i remember the leader of the opposition as a leaver." Historically, he was, but according to Wikipedia, "Although critical of the European Union, he supported continued membership in the 2016 referendum."

The denial of the harm that is being done to the citizens of the UK by Brexit amongst Tories and Labour is gobsmacking. The majority of the UK now recognises Brexit was a mistake. I hope that we will rejoin the EU in less than a decade.

Rickets and scurvy are back.

@ilsekuper3045

Ай бұрын

In Germany we call rickets " the English desease ". Tells it all. We have a rhyme to maybe overcome scurvy: Wer im Sommer Kappes klaut, hat im Winter Sauerkraut. If you nick cabbage in Summer, you will have Sauerkraut in winter. 😜

@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn

Ай бұрын

Rees Mogg approves.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

😢 As a small boy I saw children suffering from rickets. I never thought to see such again in my lifetime, some seventy years later 😢!

Is the French reaction: 'You won, get over it'?

Depressing! Detailed and informative as usual, thanks Rob.

Just in time for the city Traders to loose their caps on trading deals. What a very Tory thing to do

Thanks Rob, coming back to England next week for 2 weeks, suppose I'll have to make sure I've got enough money to cover the food and restaurant bill. I've already packed a 3litre box of good wine (legally within customs limits) English equivalent cost of one litre of basic plonk 😅

@stewie7338

Ай бұрын

Hi Andrew - No need to save. Try Wetherspoons my friend. They do inflation busting meals, lower costing beer/ales and you'll feel at home with your box of wine.

@andrewgreenland1422

Ай бұрын

@@stewie7338 apart from the fact fact I would never enter a Tim Martin property, I prefer to eat decent food, no the crap they produce. I have eaten there in the distant past and if anywhere is going to buy the unsafe food entering the UK it will be them. Hence the low price

@stewie7338

Ай бұрын

@@andrewgreenland1422 Hi Andrew - I think he prefers Sir Tim.

@TruthToPower

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Andrew. Try to enjoy your stay on Brexit Island!!

@fitzstv8506

Ай бұрын

@@stewie7338 Weatherspoons are to food and drink what the Daily Express are to media! if you "feel at home" in Weatherspoons you are already beyond redemption.

We will be inhaling bowls of flavoured steam for lunch at this rate…

This is more like farcical Monty Python skit. Remember the French castle in The Holy Grail? Think that way.

@AM-fs1je

25 күн бұрын

I fart in your general direction 😅

Thank you for updating. Grim as it is and worse than expected by us remainrs. They still can not except what they have done to this country.

@SuperMadman41

20 күн бұрын

"accept"🙂

Great reporting Rob. It's strange, I don't remember seeing any of this on the side of that bus! 🤔

@Alfadrottning86

Ай бұрын

You do not have needed to .. because Tory MPs will insist that this it the Brexit YOU wanted .. so in the words of your wise and venerable PM .. they delivered, delivered, delivered! .. praise them!

C est vrai a 100%.....

A satellite cannot withstand gravity! 😂😂😂

don't hear much of other countries jumping on the leave the EU bandwagon

@anbabylone9541

Ай бұрын

We saw a really good example of what could happen if we leave 🤷‍♀️

This should be shown on all TV/radio channels...Jo public has no idea what this means

Rob, as always you've hit the nail on the head

A Czech here. So do you want us or not? Make up your mind already! And, BTW, we’re not time-consuming. We’re beer-consuming.

Hubris before nemesis springs to mind. Oh well.

At least there is one huge Brexit benefit ... the EU was strengthened a lot, just by watching the UKs struggles

It was a french knive "Opinel" used for the controls ? Excellent choice. 🤭

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

The new British passports are made by a French company. And they accuse US of bigotry?

PLEASE Scotland go out of UK and into EU for the Whisky

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Ireland has whiskey.

@ax.f-1256

Ай бұрын

You know...Northern Ireland, Ireland and Scotland can always form a Celtic Nation if they want to. So you would have Scottish Celts, Ulster scots, Northern Irish Celts and Irish celts together. Sounds like a perfect plan. 😂 And they could always name that new country United Celts or short UC. 😏😁

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

@@ax.f-1256 That is about as likely as the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand forming a country. The Irish and Scots are hardly likely to gain independence and then subsume themselves in a new state with a new hegemon.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

@@ax.f-1256 It is also extremely unlikely.

Reading the comments here one would think that nobody voted for Brexit in the UK. Amazing.

Ha ha ha ha, Brexit - the best comedy show.

Guy Fawkes got hanged for some misplaced powder kegs. Nigel Farage gets a smiley frontpage in the Express. Who did most harm to Britain?

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Remainers. Consider this - Every parliamentary political party, including the Conservatives, was pro-Remain in 2016. Only 140 Conservative MPs were Brexiteers, 187 were Remainers and 3 undeclared. All the other Parties were even more overwhelmingly pro-Remain. The whole political class was overwhelmingly pro-Remain. UKIP never had an MP elected to Parliament and so wasn't part of the political class at Westminster. The only representation UKIP ever got was in Brussels, where the list system allowed them to get a foothold they were able to expand. The constitutionally unnecessary Brexit referendum was called at a time of his own choosing by a Remain Prime Minister, leading a largely Remain parliamentary political party in a parliament overwhelmingly pro-Remain, at a time when the polls indicated that EU membership was not the electorate's leading electoral issue. Remain outspent Leave 3:2. Every major national institution was in favour of Remain and the Remain government chose the wording of the referendum question and advocated people vote No to Brexit. The poll of polls also indicated a small pro-Remain popular majority in the year up to the referendum. Remainers therefore hold a heavy share of responsibility for Brexit.

Mine's a pint of IPA (integrity, professionalism, accountability) in a pint glass stout yeoman

I am old enough to remember an ITV program called "The Comedians". Old school comics such as Bernard Manning, Frank Carson, Jim Bowen, etc would often make the old "There was an Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman..." jokes. The Scotsman was tight fisted and the Irishman was slow and rather thick. The Englishman of course was the rational, normal one. Sometimes others such as the French, Germans and Italians were also the butt of the joke. Not any more! The British and esp the English are in the unusual position of not only being laughed at by other nations, but crucially knowing they're being laughed at.

@dondoodat

Ай бұрын

It was only when I was older that I realised that mocking Irish people for not being very bright was happening at the same time as 'the troubles'. So really it was an English way of undermining and mocking those who wanted independence for their country. Which makes it feel quite sinister in hindsight.

@Bran9

Ай бұрын

They still think we are all thick 😭

@fitzstv8506

Ай бұрын

The irony in these jokes is that the Irish are among the best educated people in the world and always were and furthermore they are among the hardest working which is proven by their productivity level which is more than twice that of their English piers.

@thefrecklepuny

Ай бұрын

@@fitzstv8506 Indeed. Think of the number of authors, poets and playwrights coming from the Emerald Isle.

@fitzstv8506

Ай бұрын

@@thefrecklepuny Artists and playwrights aside Ireland produces some of the best Engineers, Doctors and Scientists in the world as well. In all aspects of industry and business worldwide there will almost always be an Irish person either at the helm or pulling the strings somewhere.

Yes we have been well and truly shafted.😂

@omonkkonen6676

Ай бұрын

Well UK voted for this. Just by looking countries not in EU but neighbors and looking how material flows and what papers are needed would have opened eyes, but it were shouting game

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

@@omonkkonen6676 😠 NO! A MINORITY of the whole electorate voted to leave the European Union 🇪🇺 on what was an ADVISORY referendum that suddenly morphed into one that was COMPULSORY 😡!

@omonkkonen6676

Ай бұрын

@@sirmeowthelibrarycat Those who could vote but does not use that right agrees with majority’s decision. That is democracy like it or not.

@sirmeowthelibrarycat

Ай бұрын

@@omonkkonen6676 😡 Wrong! Neither you nor I can know with certainty how those who do not vote think, unless they reveal their thoughts to us. Voting is not compulsory in Britain, thus your opinion is invalid.

@omonkkonen6676

Ай бұрын

@@sirmeowthelibrarycat Those who did not vote didn’t care who win and what happens. If they would have they would have voted in elections. Brexit present has been best gift to EU countries as we learned a lot what EU actually is

N. Farage, The promoter of Brexit disaster, said: "there will be no longuer EU after Brexit !! ".... I think there will be no longuer UK after Brexit, I'm quite sure the Scotts will take their independence if they're allowed to vote.

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Errrr....the Scots WERE allowed to vote, unlike Catalonia, or Corsica, or numerous other culturally distinct regions in the EU.

@danganbeg7225

Ай бұрын

​@@markaxworthy2508Firstly, the EU had no input into any regional leave campaign. The EU allowed britain to decide its own fate, unlike the so-called united kingdom, which does not allow any region to leave. Ireland had to go to war to gain independence. Secondly, the Scottish people were told leaving the english Union would mean leaving the EU. This they did not want.

So we've established the cost of living has and will continue to rise.. So where is the argument to raise minimum wage, pensions and unemployment benefits? They are all based on the cost of living. 🤷‍♂

I genuinely can't decide which has been worse, the corruption or the sheer ineptitude.

With Brexit UK got total FREEDOM to trade and set its own rules, without all the crazy regulations from EU. This is the huge benefit from Brexit, that UK now is FREE to set its own rules.

😂😂😂 désolé les amis... 😂😂😂 take it on blojo ! He is having a ball with his ruSS FRIENDS 😮

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

Errrr....it was Macron who went off to meet Putin when Johnson was sending 2,000 anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. Heck, Johnson even thinks it a good idea for Ukraine to join the EU.

@Hepad_

Ай бұрын

@@markaxworthy2508 that's called diplomacy though

@markaxworthy2508

Ай бұрын

@@Hepad_ Went well, didn't it?

@Hepad_

Ай бұрын

@@markaxworthy2508 It failed, which is to be expected with Macron

We in the Netherlands are the second largest exporter of fresh foods and many of our producers have already skipped their export to the UK because of extra export costs and transport delays because of all the checks. They found new markets and leave your shelfs empty.

"Smugglers drink of the Frenchman's wine, and the Dover docks suit the smugglers fine, who gives a damn for the excise man, it's the smuggler life for me, it's the smuggler's life for me."

In France the feeling is mixed about Brexit. We felt the move was not justified, as the UK benefitted from a hugely profitable situation before, we also do witness London’s struggles, be them political, economical or even societal. YET We are also aware that a number of things need be changed in Brussels, and have become wary of the personel working there. Many will mistake said persons for the whole principle of the EU, but at the end of the line: it is people that need to be changed, alongside a number of rights and freedoms destroying laws that they have passed over the last 25 years, starting with the likes of Duisenberg and Barroso.

@lucatampellini9734

Ай бұрын

We share a similar view in Italy They need to remove the veto right, bring forward direct elections of the members of the commission and remove the Bolkenstein directive

I really thought it would be exhausting to keep on laughing about the British comedy show "We Shoot Ourselves in the Knee," but I have to admit that the showrunners are able to add new and continuously more ridiculous twists with every program. Well done.

Make Britain great again.......yeah right.

@Dan-pv7mh

Ай бұрын

What shit do you smoke dude

@rexbarron4873

Ай бұрын

@@Dan-pv7mh I expect that is supposed to be amusing, probably is if I knew what a dude is. Are you mailing from Paris Tx.

Thank you.

I believe they've still put some things off. They 'temporarily'' moved fresh fruit and veg to 'low risk' plant imports, instead of medium which they should be classed as. That means for now you won't need plant health certificates for them. They are needed on export to the EU.

Once again, Rob, thank you for the upload, translation and giving us an alternative perspective on the insanity/self harm that is Brexit from our European partners. We can only hope that in our lifetimes(I'm 57),this will be reversed and we can be an active part of the Union and gain the mutual benefits/cooperation that civilised societies should aspire to.

@trident6547

Ай бұрын

In that case you could expect to be in your late seventies for that to happen if everything that needs to be changed in UK, before an application is sent away to EU, is done. Every year, the Commission provides an Enlargement Communication, which outlines its recommendations regarding the Enlargement process, and dedicated reports, which provide a detailed assessment of the state of play and the progress made by the candidates and potential candidates on their respective paths towards the European Union. This assessment focuses on the implementation of fundamental reforms, and also contains clear guidance on the reform priorities ahead. The Communication and the reports together constitute the “Enlargement Package”. 1 Country submits an application to the Council (EU Member States) 2 The Commission submits an Opinion on the application. 3 EU Member States decide unanimously to grant the country candidate status. 4 After conditions are met, Member States (unanimously) agree to open the accession negotiations. 5 The Commission proposes a draft negotiating framework as a basis for the talks at the request from Member States. Accession negotiations formally start once Member States agree on the negotiating framework. 6 During negotiations, which are structured according to clusters and chapters, the country prepares to implement EU laws and standards. 7 Once negotiations on all areas are finalised, the Commission gives its Opinion on the readiness of the country to become a Member State. 8 Based on this Opinion, EU Member States decide unanimously to close the accession negotiations. The European Parliament must also give its consent. 9 All EU Member States and the candidate country sign and ratify an Accession Treaty which enables the country to become an EU Member State. What point 6 means is: It includes the founding treaties of the EU, those that amend them, secondary legislation (directives, regulations, decisions), treaties signed with the third countries, the decisions of the European Court of Justice etc. In addition, legally-binding or non-binding acts/proceedings that were adopted within the EU framework, i.e. inter-institutional agreements, resolutions, notifications, recommendations, guiding principles, joint actions, common attitudes, declarations, conclusion proclamations and other acts that were adopted within the framework of foreign security and defence policy, common attitudes, signed contracts, resolutions, proclamations and other acts that were adopted within the framework of justice and home affairs are also part of the acquis. Furthermore, international treaties that were concluded between the European Communities/the EU or European Communities/the EU and member states and international treaties that were concluded by member states regarding the Union's activities/operations are included in the acquis.