In response to the news that many Cornish daffodils are likely to rot in the fields – and speaking to some Cornish friends, some of whom, I’m afraid to say, voted for Brexit – now, too late (often thanks to many of them inexplicably voting Tory too) and much to their general regret, there are… Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
How it’s going in Kent, and elsewhere
In an indication of the burden of dealing with the consequences of managing Operation Brock, the Kent Resilience Forum said some 6,000 traffic cones, 600 traffic management signs and more than 120 other items of road furniture including CCTV cameras and lights had been installed by Highways England. Meanwhile a mere 33 Police Forces are… Read more
The effects of Brexit can only get worse…
I see the Independent has reported a UCL study suggesting that 18 to 29-year-olds are more stressed about Brexit than Covid-19. I’m not at all surprised. Brexit has deprived them of their European citizenship, Erasmus and being a proper part of Europe – as well as their future job prospects. If they are say, aged 26… Read more
Power trip
A good article in the Byline Times contains this quote from Gove: “You should be able to buy a bulb in Bedford and plant it in a garden in Ballymena without destroying the single market” he told peers. They comment: Perhaps he should have considered that back in 2016. Perhaps, actually, he should have taken… Read more
Brexit seems to mean Brexit
A quick alert to a lovely, recent David Allen Green post on the stupidity – he wouldn’t say that of course, he’d say misunderstandings – of ministers: Gove wrote to the EU: ‘We were not consulted on this Regulation either.’ Yet in fact: There was no formal need for the European Union to have consulted… Read more
Looking forward to the referendum on TPP…
It appears to me that once again Yorkshire Bylines seems to have hit the nail on the head. Britain seems to be repeating its past mistakes, joining the TPP, just as it did the EEC, when the early members had already enjoyed a period of rapid growth as recovering or developing economies. Large, mature economies… Read more
Brexit dividends seem to be drowning in their own ‘sea of opportunity’…
We are beginning to get lots of industries coming out of the woodwork now – and not just fishing, disastrous though Brexit is for them. We have already had the entertainment business and we have now the fashion industry , where more than 400 leading figures have sent a letter to the Prime Minister demanding… Read more
What is democratic government for?
I liked this from Cold War Steve: But I was less keen on this: Certainly I sort of appreciate Eustice’s direct response – and I also know that fishermen generally and especially in the north east of Scotland were in favour of Brexit – but what he ought to ask himself, Cornish farmer that he… Read more
Bananas from the sunlit uplands…
I enjoyed this on Twitter from Pete Clark: If you’re not doing so already…Please buy British bananas Grown in abundance in the sunlit uplands, under the rainbow of mis-truths. Go on. Spoil yourself. As an incidental footnote almost all bananas we eat today are actually ‘British’ in that the variety is generally thought to have… Read more
Brexit keeps on giving
According to the Times The EU is prepared to ease post-Brexit border friction if Britain drops its plan to create a “Singapore on the Thames”, according to senior diplomatic sources. So the predictions that Brexit discussions would be continuous seem, just 21 days in, already to be correct. Brexit will never be ‘done’ although in… Read more