Dominic Cummings says UK always intended to ditch NI protocol

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the true purpose of Brexit was deregulation, profiteering from chaos and privatisation of healthcare, pandering to fossil fuel interests.


Trade Bill: UK Government votes to allow food imports with lower environmental standards
20 January 2021, source edie newsroom

The UK Government is being accused of backtracking on non-regression pledges around post-Brexit food standards, after MPs voted against amendments to the trade bill this week



Exclusive: Ministers bowed to pressure to drop key climate commitments for UK trade deal with Australia


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In January, for instance, Greenpeace UK launched a petition containing this:

“Bee-killing neonicotinoids have been banned across Europe since 2013, but the UK government has just approved these deadly chemicals

Soon afterwards, Big Four accounting firms appeared to be delighted about plans to opt out of certain EU transparency rules about abusive tax arrangements. There has been talk of loosening stock market listing regulations. We hear that the UK is relaxing regulations on ‘dark pools’ – profitable trading platforms for investors, away from scrutiny, and potentially cutting back on various other finance-related rules and regulations. The government has announced plans for “freeports” (or “sleazeports,” hat tip) which have a record around the world for hothousing criminality and abuse and failing to boost even local economic growth. The UK is stepping outsidean EU ban on exports of potentially toxic plastic waste to lower-income countries. Fears are rising that the UK may position itself as a “data haven” of lax standards, to attract predatory data-hungry businesses. The Penrose Report, an official review of UK competition policy released in mid-February, looks like another deregulatory push in a “power to the people” packaging. Forces are now pushing hard for a new super-regulator to ensure that UK finance regulators are more “supportive” of the City of London

Really? This argument is done and dusted. Bexit's happened, we're now moving to a post EU world. Move on.

 

[AngleEyes]

Really? This argument is done and dusted. Bexit's happened, we're now moving to a post EU world. Move on.

Except Brexit is not done. The discussions go on and on, initiated by UK. It isn't the EU that keeps raising the issues over and over again.

 

[Lower]

Except Brexit is not done. The discussions go on and on, initiated by UK. It isn't the EU that keeps raising the issues over and over again.

Brexit is done. We have left the EU. That is Brexit done. The changes to the way our country operates and interacts with the rest of the world are going to rumble on for years, but it undeniable that Brexit, which means the UK leaving the EU, has happened.

 

[ellal]

"Foreign lorry drivers will be able to make an unlimited number of pick-ups and drop-offs in a fixed period in the UK under changes to rules proposed by the government to prevent shortages of products in the run-up to Christmas and into the new year."

Brexiteers will be foaming at the mouth!

 

[JohnD]

we're now moving to a post EU world.

The world is not post-EU

UK has to adjust to a world where it has given up its votes and its power in the EU, which remains its largest trading partner.

 

[ellal]

Brexit is done. We have left the EU. That is Brexit done. The changes to the way our country operates and interacts with the rest of the world are going to rumble on for years, but it undeniable that Brexit, which means the UK leaving the EU, has happened.

Indeed it has...

Slowly but surely the predictions of what brexiteers called 'project fear' are coming true...

And it's going to get far far worse!

 

[transam]

Indeed it has...

Slowly but surely the predictions of what brexiteers called 'project fear' are coming true...

And it's going to get far far worse!

to right



my out house roof is leaking

that’s down to brexit imo

and they are digging up the road just down the street where I live
Traffic chaos

another brexit repercussion

 

[noseall]

Really? This argument is done and dusted. Bexit's happened, we're now moving to a post EU world. Move on.

It's the post EU world folk are moaning about. It is ok to moan?
Meanwhile The Express, Torygraph and The Wail continue to moan about the EU daily.

 

[transam]

Bloke up the road had a flat tyre yesterday

I said to him brexit

he said wtf has that got to do with a puncture

Blokes none to bright imo so he cannot see the connection

The idiot

 

[transam]

Imo the way this brexit caper is panning out

we could all end up with food ration books / coupons by the new year
Due to this I
also heard that plod may well be forming a new task force

the alotmant task force

shortage of food plus ration books will mean that any one with an allotment will need to have increased security

Brexit

 

[AngleEyes]

Brexit is done. We have left the EU. That is Brexit done. The changes to the way our country operates and interacts with the rest of the world are going to rumble on for years, but it undeniable that Brexit, which means the UK leaving the EU, has happened.

UK has left the EU, you are correct, but Brexit as a concept is far more reaching than the simplicity (Ha, the irony) of UK leaving the EU.
There is much yet to be sorted within the over-arching concept of Brexit.
So, if you want, you can call Brexit done, in the simple case that UK has left the EU.
But I see Brexit as a far wider concept, and I consider there is still much to be sorted.

I do not see either of us being right nor wrong, we just have different ideas of what constitutes 'Brexit'.
The very fact that the discussions rumble on and on, suggests to me, that Brexit is not 'done'.

 

[motorbiking]

There isn’t any credible political party looking to rejoin the EU apart from the SNP if they get independence. So there doesn’t seem much point in going on about the stupidity of leaving the EU. The U.K. is in post EU period and the EU has lost some significant status having lost a major funder.

 

[AngleEyes]

There isn’t any credible political party looking to rejoin the EU apart from the SNP if they get independence. So there doesn’t seem much point in going on about the stupidity of leaving the EU. The U.K. is in post EU period and the EU has lost some significant status having lost a major funder.

Sinn Fein.
There is every point in going on about the stupidity of UK leaving the EU. To ignore the stupidity of government's decisions would be to ignore whole swathes of history.
EU has also lost a major thorn in its side. I would suggest the UK is by the bigger loser. Brexit always was a lose-lose situation.

 

[Notch7]

Really? This argument is done and dusted. Bexit's happened, we're now moving to a post EU world. Move on.

You claimed UK are not lowering standards.

when I present the evidence they are, suddenly you don’t want discuss it.


The argument will only be done and dusted when Brexit supporters start being honest.

 

[Notch7]

There isn’t any credible political party looking to rejoin the EU apart from the SNP if they get independence. So there doesn’t seem much point in going on about the stupidity of leaving the EU. The U.K. is in post EU period and the EU has lost some significant status having lost a major funder.

It is not about the stupidity of leaving the EU.

this is about the continuing gaslighting by this Brexit govt.


Your point about the EU losing a major founder is a blatant deflection and nothing to do with the UKs significant problems caused by Brexit.