Chomper Higgot

Don’t hold your breath.

The lettuce got the message, rest assured so has Sunak: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/northern-ireland-liz-truss-us-biden-b2162292.html

And yet here we are with an unfinished Brexit and public opinion moving inexorably against Brexit. https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-poll/

Yep, Bankrolled: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-leave-eu-campaign-arron-banks-jeremy-hosking-five-uk-richest-businessmen-peter-hargreaves-robert-edmiston-crispin-odey-a7699046.html

Your ageist fixation with Biden is not the topic of conversation. Brexit has put the UK in a very weak position, the US will dictate the limits of the UK’s negotiations wrt to Northern Ireland and will not permit the UK’s Brexit madness as to to put the Good Friday Agreement at risk. Oh, and that hoped for post Brexit UK/US Free Trade Agreement - it ain’t happening anytime soon, not even penciled in. Even the lettuce managed to grasp that reality.

Nobody is forcing you to read them.

But it’s not over. Sunak is meeting with Biden who will school Sunak on what is and is not acceptable wrt Brexit and Ireland (still not settled). The trade agreement the YK has with the EU is an interim agreement and must be renegotiated again in 2026. The UK still hasn’t put in place the necessary imported goods inspections at British ports, leaving the UK open to smuggling, excise evasion and dangerous goods. The UK Government has not yet figured out what to do with Rees-Mogg’s EU Law and Regulation reform act, which if implemented will further damage the UK economy and international standing. The impacts of Brexit are becoming increasingly apparent as the cover provided by COVID and Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine recede. And…… The UK is a democracy, the Brexit referendum did not suspend the right of people in the UK to discuss the damage Brexit has done and is doing, nor does it suspend the right of people in the UK to campaign for the reversal of Brexit. Brexit supporters can silence all such arguments by providing evidence of tangible benefits, refuting with evidence the damage Brexit is done and of course pointing at the vast open Sunlit Uplands, which surely ought to be visible by now. Brexit isn’t done, not by a long way.

The very people who planned and bankrolled Brexit which then handed them more power. I Avery English coup, executed by the elite, for the elite and voted for by their victims.

Green driven technology creates jobs. Again.

I see the tax free lump sum option in private and company pension schemes as a sitting duck. It’s removal has been raised as a possibility since the days of John Major. Removal of the tax free allowance for non residents is, as discussed, a possibility. However, I expect the biggest issue will be cuts to public spending and services, AKA Austerity #2. The economy is facing an 18 month recession, it’s too good an opportunity to dismantle public services, he’ll not be able to restrain himself.

You clearly don’t understand the graph. The graph relates growth of each nation against its own pre-COVID growth. Germany has recovered to pre-COVID levels and added .2% Growth. The UK is 0.4% below pre-COVID growth. The graph does not indicate a 0.6% difference between the growth of the UK and German economies.

The UK was already trading with the rest of the world before Brexit. Membership of the EU was never a barrier to the UK trading with the rest of the world. Brexit has inserted tariffs and quotas into the UK’s largest trading market, the EU. The Brexiteer cry goes up ‘Get on with it’, but there’s nothing new to ‘get on with’, the hoped for trade deal with the US is revealed as a thing of fantasy and the UK doesn’t have enough skilled workers to fill the jobs it’s receding economy needs.

So why this?

But you ignore Brexit. Which is completely irrational.

From your post; ”inflation, which is expected to spike to 8.5% this year” Remind me, what is the rate of inflation in the UK right now?

It’s not over. The consequences are only now becoming apparent. Brexit is failing to deliver on the promises made. Step 1. Media starts discussing the problems of Brexit (already underway). Step 2. Brexit leaders start complaining about Brexit (already underway) Step 3. Industry and business leaders start complaining about Brexit (Already underway). Step 4. Economy fails to recover (Already underway). Step 5. Promises made aren’t delivered (Already underway). And so the inexorable return to reality that the UK will rejoin the EU.

It is ridiculous to claim the vote for Brexit was on the basis of a single issue.

We all know Scotland is a country in which many people believe independence from the UK will put an end to them being subjected to decisions from Westminster tgat the majority of the Scottish population do not support.

The UK isn’t getting any kind of a deal out of the US anytime soon. Even the lettuce understood that.

And as the UK is a democracy, the UK can change its mind.

Who is this ‘non hostile’ POTUS? No US President is ever going to engage the UK in any negotiation or treaty that is not favorable to the US and you were warned, no US President is going to negotiate with the Uk until the UK ends it’s policies that threaten the Good Friday Agreement. There is no ‘special relationship’, tge UK is a very junior partner and since Brexit an extremely junior partner.

Yep, the Tories broke the unions and it’s been down hill for working people ever since.

It wasn’t a threat it was a promise. The UK is at the back of the queue for a trade deal with the US. Go ahead get mad at the people who warned you.

What progress? The UK is in recession, tge place is falling apart.

Nonsense, Sterling took a dive on the announcement of the Brexit result. The problem was the a sense of the ‘oven ready deal’. Even now the UK hasn’t taken control of such critical issues as post Brexit import controls. And there’s not a ‘sunlit upland’ in sight.