BREXIT

Kier Starmer has upset scousers for writing in the Sun...
Sure you mickeys will be back to blue

Lol, quoting posts from years ago.

For the record, I am of the opinion that Starmer, his supporters in the Party hierarchy and much of his immediate shadow cabinet are fully in the pockets of the same people the Tories are, as well as being fully paid-up shills to the Israel lobby.

The new Labour leadership have their wish. Labour is dead.

This country is just one massive “how it started, how it’s going” meme at this point. Laughing stock of the world.

Meanwhile I see Lord Frost is having a pop at the Brexit deal negotiated by Lord Frost again.

If Starmer had any balls, he would be attacking Brexit 24/7. Instead its the 'elephant in the room', that the Labour Party is too scared to mention.

Those in charge are finding it incredibly difficult to pin the shortages blame on Brexit, they’re absolutely adamant it’s nothing to do with Brexit, yet to alleviate the shortages they are proposing opening our borders to EU workers.

Just lol.

Frankly, I would pin my colours to the mast and support entry in the EEA, single market and customs union and stuff the Red Wall They can support a progressive agenda or suffer a 20% cut in universal credit, inflation, increses in council tax etc . The choice is theres.

David Evans and Kier Starmer are doing a fine job in collapsing the Labour Party, I must say.

Embarrassing polling results, members and their money leaving in their hundreds of thousands… but hey, if it keeps the power centred in the hands of the 1% it’s all worth it.

Genuine question for anyone on here that voted for Brexit.
Can you name one thing where leaving has since simplified/enriched or benefitted yourself?

Is the Tories voting to allow raw sewage to be dumped in our rivers a Brexit dividend? I expect cholera epidemics in the future as the posh boys drive us inexorably towards third world status.

UNITED Utilities has been named and shamed as the country's worst serial water polluter.



The region's water company was fined £327,500 for 29 pollution offences last year - more than any other company in the UK, according to a report released yesterday by the Environment Agency.



Offences included polluting a brook which flows through Knowsley Safari Park and allowing tens of thousands of litres of raw sewage to spill into a Merseyside stream.



The Warrington-based company has also been fined £57,000 for "persistently polluting" the River Mersey and £7,500 for "serious odour" problems at its Halewood site.



The company was prosecuted 17 more times and fined £42,500 more than the second highest polluter, Anglia Water Services.



A total of 12 of UU's prosecutions were because management failed to capture and report environmental data - it was fined £45,000 because 1,400 hours of data was missing from its Southport wastewater treatment plant.

Environmental groups and MPs have said the fines are not a big enough deterrent against polluting and have called for harsher penalties. Liverpool Riverside MP Louise Ellman said: "It's totally unacceptable. Great efforts have gone into cleaning up the Mersey by the Mersey Basin Campaign. It is entirely wrong that this fine effort should be ruined by United Utilities.



"It is clear that fines of the order of £300,000 do not deter major companies like United Utilities."

Link: www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/the-serial-polluter-2941500

As raw sewage is pumped into the nations rivers and seas, the PM hosted a special press conference about climate issues this morning where he said:

“Cows burp a great deal and we need to encourage them to stop burping, we are looking into breeding cows that burp less.”

Thank Christ we didn’t elect the guy who wanted to feed hungry kids, give working people a wage they can live on, make billionaires pay their fare share and to keep our NHS out of the hands of American health insurance companies. Dodged a bullet there.

What I don’t get is all the right wing rags referring to this country not being allowed the benefits of EU membership anymore as somehow a “punishment” by the “spiteful EU” for choosing to leave said membership.

The latest in a long line of examples from right-wing Brexit cheerleader the Daily Express online today: -

“ANGER AS U.K. FROZEN OUT OF £80bn EU PROJECT IN BREXIT PUNISHMENT CRACKDOWN”

😂😂😂😂 they literally treat their readers like the utter morons they are.

The bloody idiot can't even get the right end of the cow to seal up!!

While you're right that the problem is not confined to the UK, these figures don't say much without context. The UK has unique logistical challenges - some geographical, some self-created. And while Brexit isn't the only or perhaps even the main reason for it, it certainly hasn't helped. 

The head of research at Transport Intelligence says the issue is "not as acute" in Europe despite similar figures. We import a lot more from Europe than we export, and road haulage is massive to us. A quick look around the internet shows that we transport almost as much goods by road as France, even though they have well over twice as much road as us. 

data.oecd.org/transport/freight-transport.htm
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_network_size

A shortage of drivers in France or Germany isn't as big a deal when they share a border with several other major nations. We have the barrier of being an island, but have compounded the situation by cutting ourselves of from the EU trading block and thus creating more trade and employment barriers. Quite apart from creating a hostile, smelly, xenophobic environment where people don't want to live or work, which I've always thought is a worse consequence of Brexit than any ecomonic detriment. 

Besides, who cares what the EU is doing? Wasn't the whole point of Brexit that the EU is useless and full of "unelected bureaucrats" and we can do better without them? So why are we facing the same problems as them, if not worse? God knows Brexit cost us enough to execute, and enough was neglected and disbanded to get it over the line (including a pandemic response team, great foresight there). The British public - especially those who voted to Brexit - should be demanding that things are not just on par with the EU but considerably better.

Seems like most Brexit voters, including yourself, aren't that bothered though and are happy to just gloat that you "won". Makes me wonder why they bother stopping children from voting.