France 'could have helped UK tackle new Covid strain if not for Brexit'
not sure if true but talk about unexpected consequences.
not sure if true but talk about unexpected consequences.
While I'm pro Europe and anti Brexit that is just the French bring French and sticking it to the British while they can.France 'could have helped UK tackle new Covid strain if not for Brexit'
not sure if true but talk about unexpected consequences.
A large proportion of trumpers will never recover, they're just too invested.
like trump, they will never admit they made a mistake.
It kinda is in this case.Yup, while it's a dick move, it's not an unprovoked dick move.
LOL - France! That's some pretty fine irony!It kinda is in this case.
The UK is one of the only countries that genetically sequences a significant proportion of its swab tests.
Plus if you look at where this variant cropped up in Britain it's pretty obvious that this came from Europe to Britain through France or Holland.
It kinda is in this case.
The UK is one of the only countries that genetically sequences a significant proportion of its swab tests.
Plus if you look at where this variant cropped up in Britain it's pretty obvious that this came from Europe to Britain through France or Holland.
An interesting thing happened when the US broke up its sugar cartel and ended price supports for sugar. Sugar became price competitive with HFCS again and many manufacturers are moving back to sugar. The biggest political block pushing to end Big Sugar wasn't the health nuts but the environmentalists who were working to restore the Everglades ecosystem.We are just natural innovators - Merseybeat, punk, chicken tikka pizza - even our viruses are original.
(Just wait till the US gets to work on it - they will doubtless find a way to combine it with either heavy-metal riffs or HFCS - that's what they do with everything else)
As they say over there, brilliant!A 56 second song called Boris Johnson is a Fucking C**t has a chance at being the Christmas #1 this year. If you ever watched Love Actually, the Christmas #1 song is kind of a big deal in jolly ole England
Boris Johnson protest song could bag the Number 1 slot in the Christmas chart
A rude song about Boris Johnson could bag the Number 1 slot in this year's Christmas music chart, taking on the likes of Lad Baby, Ed...www.theneweuropean.co.uk
Parliament will sit on 30 December to vote on the trade deal.
Dr Joelle Grogan, senior lecturer in law at Middlesex University London, told BBC News: "To put this in real context, if I spend the next five days before Parliament is recalled on Wednesday spending 10 hours a day just reading that document, I will have a maximum of two minutes and 30 seconds to fully understand, analyse and comment on it."
A brexit deal has been reached.
The BBC's summary of their understanding of it so far:
Brexit: What are the key points of the deal?
These are the most important aspects of the UK-EU deal, and what they mean for people's lives and businesses.www.bbc.co.uk
A choice quote though from this article:
Brexit: EU diplomats briefed on Brexit trade deal
The BBC has seen the 1,246-page document, which includes about 800 pages of annexes and footnotes.www.bbc.co.uk
Reading the BBC summary, I'm at a loss to find a single point in favour of Brexit. Brexiteers no doubt will cheer over this point:
"The UK will no longer be bound by judgements made by the European Court of Justice, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said"
Um unless I'm missing something all this seems to do is make life more complicated, inconvenient, and probably expensive for everyone in the UK who may travel, work, or do business in the EU.
Yes, the celebrations for this deal are utterly bizarre.
No-one outside of those directly involved will have read the 2000+ pages.
About the only real thing we know is that we're worse off than we were before.
The reality is the UK has been declining for a very long time, you folks used to pretty much run the world. Regardless of all that, at least the matter is for the most settled.Well, at least a free trade deal means that the UK won't fall to bits dramatically. The decline of the UK was inevitable as long as we continue to embrace conservatism.
The reality is the UK has been declining for a very long time, you folks used to pretty much run the world. Regardless of all that, at least the matter is for the most settled.
Like I said, it's for the most part settled.nope, they decided they want to be able to renegotiate parts of it whenever they feel like it. so it will be a constant drama.
The UK has been in a position of relative decline as larger and more powerful countries asserted themselves but now it looks like they may be in absolute decline. It’s hard to see Brexit as anything other than the UK shooting its own dick off. Not at all out of the question that Scotland secedes and ends the UK as we have known it. Probably see finance move onto the continent more as London becomes a less attractive place to do business, etc.The reality is the UK has been declining for a very long time, you folks used to pretty much run the world. Regardless of all that, at least the matter is for the most settled.
The UK has been in a position of relative decline as larger and more powerful countries asserted themselves but now it looks like they may be in absolute decline. It’s hard to see Brexit as anything other than the UK shooting its own dick off. Not at all out of the question that Scotland secedes and ends the UK as we have known it. Probably see finance move onto the continent more as London becomes a less attractive place to do business, etc.
This really was the UK’s Trump moment - a bunch of old people got mad that people weren’t respecting them enough and decided to fuck their country out of spite.
It does seem that it was largely the work of those Boomers again. Any UKIP demo you see a sea of grey.
Though even to the end the EU continues to be hard to love. E.g. their failure to do anything about Poland and Hungary gradually ceasing to be liberal democracies.
For Europe, losing Britain is bad. Keeping Hungary and Poland could be worse | Timothy Garton Ash
The populists of Budapest and Warsaw are blackmailing the EU over the rule of law. They cannot be allowed to succeed, says the historian Timothy Garton Ashwww.theguardian.com