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That was some paid work. What was it? Nipped next door to bring the washing in?
Or did your imagination run a bit too wild this time, and you imagined it all?
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Or did your imagination run a bit too wild this time, and you imagined it all?
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Nice ideas, but the UK government is hell bent on reducing the use of land for intensive farming, and allowing it to revert back to nature.
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How long have we known there is potentially going to be disruption to supplies? How many years?
Retail Analysts could have been employed to make predictions as to what we may be short of and, in the time we have had, started to make arrangements to employ people to grow, manufacture or produce those goods.
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but we were told that there will be a deal and food imports won't stop. Maybe that is why they didn't bother.
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Instead, the country has been forced to wait for zero hour before realising Oh carp, our supplies are going to suffer.....
Not a sensible approach is it?
Not a sensible approach is it?
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Surely if you are a Government, you have to "What if?"
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there probably is a what if, but until there is an actual problem, rather than what currently looks like a short-term pause in imports, they won't tell us.
We'll probably just ship more food in from Africa, India and other far away places. We'll eat, but food prices, restaurant prices, etc. will all go up.
I wonder how Lidl and Aldi will fare - I assume most of the food sold in those stores comes from Germany? Although could be direct from suppliers.
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Remember those "78 million Turks" heading our way?
Turkey has just banned UK visitors/trucks/flights.
All of the "taking back control of our borders" ?
Individual EU countries closed their borders to the UK with a stroke of a pen.
Turkey has just banned UK visitors/trucks/flights.
All of the "taking back control of our borders" ?
Individual EU countries closed their borders to the UK with a stroke of a pen.
I would have thought that the majority of those travelling from the U.K. to Turkey right now are Turks returning home for the new year celebrations.
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People like you also existed during WW2
We will remind you of all this scare mongering in a couple of weeks.
We will remind you of all this scare mongering in a couple of weeks.
I can't seem to find a "We will take the UK out of the EU with a No Deal Brexit" on the Tory's manifesto. Nor was it on the side of a bus in 2016. So assuming it actually happens (not guaranteed of course), Boris will be wrecking the UK without a mandate to do so.
I had no idea those sunlit uplands would literally smell of urine.
I had no idea those sunlit uplands would literally smell of urine.
We can remind you of untrustworthy politicians now.
"There is no plan for no-deal because we are going to get a great deal"
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=3368336779908548&_rdr
"I have in my hand a piece of paper"
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No, but they said it many times. Plenty of examples here, May, Rees-Mogg, have clearly said it more than once, and Bojo recently said that no deal will happen if a deal can't be made
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="no+deal+is+better+than+a+bad+deal"
"the deal on the table is not right for the UK"
They'll take us out without a deal and blame coronavirus on all the problems.
11 March 2016
In one of his first interventions in the 2016 EU referendum, Johnson appeared at a Vote Leave event to insist that Brexit would be a “win-win for all” and suggested that the UK could simply copy Canada’s trade arrangement with the EU.
He told a crowd: “I put it to you, all those who say that there would be barriers to trade with Europe if we were to do a Brexit, do you seriously believe that they would put up tariffs against UK produce of any kind, when they know how much they want to sell us their cake, their champagne, their cheese from France? It is totally and utterly absurd.”
23 March 2016
At a Treasury select committee meeting on the economic costs and benefits of EU membership, Johnson was questioned on how long it would take for the UK to agree a deal for leaving the bloc and a future trade agreement post-Brexit.
He replied: “Bear in mind we already have extensive trading relationships, we’ve been in the thing for 44 years. Our relationship with the EU is already very well-developed. It doesn’t seem to me to be very hard to do a free trade deal very rapidly indeed.”
11 July 2017
As Foreign Secretary, Johnson told MPs that the chances of the UK failing to reach a deal with the EU were “vanishingly unlikely” and said there was “no plan” for no deal because the government would simply get a deal.
Responding to Emily Thornberry, he said: “There is no plan for no deal, because we’re going to get a great deal and I would, just for the sake of example and illustration, I would remind the honourable lady that there was a time when Britain was not in what we then called the common market.
“It is manifestly in the interests of both sides of the Channel to get a great free trade deal and a new deep and special partnership between us and the European Union, and that is what we are going to achieve.”
5 December 2019
During the 2019 general election campaign, Johnson was asked by Sky News’ Beth Rigby if he could “absolutely promise” that he would be able to get a trade deal with the EU by the end of December 2020.
He replied: “Well, Beth, we already have a deal and we can come out on January 31st in a state of perfect equilibrium and grace with the rest of the EU because we have a zero tariff, zero quota position now.
“And I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will be able to make sure that the EU protects its own interests and has a deal with us that ensures that that continues for the future…
“It’s very much in [the EU’s] interest to do a trade deal with us and I have no doubt that they will. And if you say ‘can I absolutely guarantee that we will get a deal?’ I think I can.”
10 December 2019
Days later, Johnson was questioned again by ITV’s Gareth Owen about how easy it would be for the UK to secure a trade deal with the EU before the end of the Brexit transition period, in place until December 31st.
The Prime Minister said: “What I think you’re forgetting is that the EU has never done a deal with an existing member as it were… 100% of the issues that you need to address in a trade negotiation are already addressed.”
22 January 2020
As the withdrawal agreement was approved by parliament, Johnson promised an “all-singing, all-dancing” post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by December 31st.
On his ‘People’s PMQs’ online Q&A, the PM said: “Parliament has passed the withdrawal agreement bill, meaning we will leave the EU on 31 January and move forwards as one United Kingdom. At times it felt like we would never cross the Brexit finish line, but we’ve done it.
“It’s massively in our interests – in the interests for both sides of the Channel – to have a wonderful, zero-tariff, zero-quota, all-singing, all-dancing FTA. I’m absolutely confident that we can do that.”
In one of his first interventions in the 2016 EU referendum, Johnson appeared at a Vote Leave event to insist that Brexit would be a “win-win for all” and suggested that the UK could simply copy Canada’s trade arrangement with the EU.
He told a crowd: “I put it to you, all those who say that there would be barriers to trade with Europe if we were to do a Brexit, do you seriously believe that they would put up tariffs against UK produce of any kind, when they know how much they want to sell us their cake, their champagne, their cheese from France? It is totally and utterly absurd.”
23 March 2016
At a Treasury select committee meeting on the economic costs and benefits of EU membership, Johnson was questioned on how long it would take for the UK to agree a deal for leaving the bloc and a future trade agreement post-Brexit.
He replied: “Bear in mind we already have extensive trading relationships, we’ve been in the thing for 44 years. Our relationship with the EU is already very well-developed. It doesn’t seem to me to be very hard to do a free trade deal very rapidly indeed.”
11 July 2017
As Foreign Secretary, Johnson told MPs that the chances of the UK failing to reach a deal with the EU were “vanishingly unlikely” and said there was “no plan” for no deal because the government would simply get a deal.
Responding to Emily Thornberry, he said: “There is no plan for no deal, because we’re going to get a great deal and I would, just for the sake of example and illustration, I would remind the honourable lady that there was a time when Britain was not in what we then called the common market.
“It is manifestly in the interests of both sides of the Channel to get a great free trade deal and a new deep and special partnership between us and the European Union, and that is what we are going to achieve.”
5 December 2019
During the 2019 general election campaign, Johnson was asked by Sky News’ Beth Rigby if he could “absolutely promise” that he would be able to get a trade deal with the EU by the end of December 2020.
He replied: “Well, Beth, we already have a deal and we can come out on January 31st in a state of perfect equilibrium and grace with the rest of the EU because we have a zero tariff, zero quota position now.
“And I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will be able to make sure that the EU protects its own interests and has a deal with us that ensures that that continues for the future…
“It’s very much in [the EU’s] interest to do a trade deal with us and I have no doubt that they will. And if you say ‘can I absolutely guarantee that we will get a deal?’ I think I can.”
10 December 2019
Days later, Johnson was questioned again by ITV’s Gareth Owen about how easy it would be for the UK to secure a trade deal with the EU before the end of the Brexit transition period, in place until December 31st.
The Prime Minister said: “What I think you’re forgetting is that the EU has never done a deal with an existing member as it were… 100% of the issues that you need to address in a trade negotiation are already addressed.”
22 January 2020
As the withdrawal agreement was approved by parliament, Johnson promised an “all-singing, all-dancing” post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by December 31st.
On his ‘People’s PMQs’ online Q&A, the PM said: “Parliament has passed the withdrawal agreement bill, meaning we will leave the EU on 31 January and move forwards as one United Kingdom. At times it felt like we would never cross the Brexit finish line, but we’ve done it.
“It’s massively in our interests – in the interests for both sides of the Channel – to have a wonderful, zero-tariff, zero-quota, all-singing, all-dancing FTA. I’m absolutely confident that we can do that.”
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