Britain outside the EU

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Happy Brexit day

And here’s where Dan Hannon forecast we’d be by this time.

https://www.reaction.life/p/britain-looks-like-brexit

A few selections…

The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country. Older industries, too, have revived as energy prices have fallen back to global levels: steel, cement, paper, plastics and ceramics producers have become competitive again.

Opting out of the EU’s data protection rules has turned Hoxton into the software capital of the world. Britain is no longer hampered by Brussels restrictions on sales, promotions and e-commerce.

Our universities are flourishing, taking the world’s brightest students and, where appropriate, charging accordingly. Their revenues, in consequence, are rising, while they continue to collaborate with research centres in Europe and around the world.

The United Kingdom now leads a 22-state bloc that forms a free trade area with the EU, but remains outside its political structures.

[Russ]

I love my local 3D printing factory.

[Pierre]

I do find it strangely amusing, and worrying, of those that seem to genuinely get off when the country isn’t doing so well and then they try to tie it into Brexit.

I mean, I would say try porn, but if you can get off on Dan Hannon’s failed Brexit predictions then you have a more fertile imagination Han me. Just remember to delete your browsing history.

Originally Posted by Hugh

Oh, the irony…

None exists & never will for the leavers.

[1andrew1]

BoJo's deal as we know was more half-baked than oven-ready. Good to see it being improved. Hope the pro-Brexit doom-mongers are happy but suspect that's an impossible ask.

Deal with EU done, Sky News understands

A landmark reset deal with the European Union has now been finalised, Sky News understands.

Talks are understood to have continued into the early hours of the morning, with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds telling Sky News an hour ago it wasn't yet complete.

But we now understand that the deal has now been approved by the EU ambassadors' committee.

The finer details of the agreement will come later, but we are hearing that the UK has made some moves on fishing in order to secure a deal to ease checks on veterinary goods.

We understand that the government has allowed EU access to UK fish for 12 years.

This comes with no reduction in the British fishing quota, or increase in the quota the EU is allowed to catch, Sky News understands.

The European Union wanted permanent access to fishing in British waters, a source has said, and the UK was unwilling to accept this.

And in a potential win for the UK, the EU has agreed to delay a final plan on youth mobility and keep talking on a possible youth mobility scheme, rather than make concrete agreements.

One source told our political editor Beth Rigby: "All in all, it's a good deal for all".

https://news.sky.com/story/politics-...isons-12593360

And good news for NI

A deal on food and agriculture will have the most consequence in Northern Ireland, with the potential to substantially dismantle the "Irish Sea border" between the region and the rest of the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2jkz3d0drt

[Sephiroth]

So far - so good. I still hope that the EU implodes!

If they've eased the checks on our goods going into the EU that would be a pretty big boost. Not sure if that's part of the agreement yet

[Sephiroth]

Btw, if you were listing to R4 Today, you’d have heard Nick Robinson put the Business Secretary onto the rack and pretty much skewered him. Not bad for a BBC journo who is usually associated with lefty side of the BBC.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Brw, if you were listing to R4 Today, you’d have heard Nick Robinson put the Business Secretary onto the rack and pretty much skewered him. Not bad for a BBC journo who is usually associated with lefty side of the BBC.

Lefty! He makes Laura K look like Corbyn.

Full details of the deal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdy3r6q9mgo

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Damien

Full details of the deal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdy3r6q9mgo

Typical of the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation to choose a fishing boat and not a plate of sausages. This would have illustrated the far bigger benefits of enabling the UK to resume EU sales of raw burgers and sausages, but I guess it does not tick the Corporation's Farage-fawning tendencies.

Still, a good deal is a good deal whatever picture the BBC chooses to use.

[peanut]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Typical of the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation to choose a fishing boat and not a plate of sausages. This would have illustrated the far bigger benefits of enabling the UK to resume EU sales of raw burgers and sausages, but I guess it does not tick the Corporation's Farage-fawning tendencies.

Still, a good deal is a good deal whatever picture the BBC chooses to use.

Well I suppose it'll now be sausage and chips instead of fish and chips from now on.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Typical of the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation to choose a fishing boat and not a plate of sausages. This would have illustrated the far bigger benefits of enabling the UK to resume EU sales of raw burgers and sausages, but I guess it does not tick the Corporation's Farage-fawning tendencies.

Still, a good deal is a good deal whatever picture the BBC chooses to use.

That's a new one.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

That's a new one.

From the bottom of the barrel

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

That's a new one.

If only! Goes back to when Farage was on Question Time more than Dimbleby!