For some reason I think its necessary to say this:
Anyone who's saying that we should stop blaming Brexit for the UK's economic travails knows little about economics.
Certainly, the UK's economic problems pre-date Brexit, but the departure from the European Union has compounded & worsened pretty much every negative trend that the UK suffers from....
To deny this is world-class bulls*t.
[apologies, spotted this headline in the supermarket earlier & it pissed me right off!]
The thing is, probably one of the best ways to fix the problem is not one they are going to like...
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Looks like in general terms nobody, and in particular "the west" is willing to look without filters into the mirror and describe, realize and admit what they see, what we see.
That's why it was a big hear!, hear! when Canada's Carney went out the other day in Davos, speaking out loud common truth's most of us were banned and belittled for just days ago.
Brexit, the refusal to use the metric system, driving on the right side of the street, that's the left lane of course, are just still the remains of the old empire feeling of being special and being right, forwarded from generation to generation.
And that's not a particular quality of the brits, but by all grown up human beings by default.
We call it conservatism, not willing to understand that it's about a maadatory underlying genetic law of nature. Not human nature but mammal nature itself.
For the same reasons, road side hawks fall dead from trees alongside roads that we're cut of from traffic, humans are not allowed to change habits and believes once they are grown up.
Beaten by customs into ancestral behavior and believes because that's what got us here.
Right now it's people like Finland's prime minister (chancellor?) Stubb or the already mentioned Carney that are leading the only way out without mayor conflicts and war for European countries and the west as a whole, and dinosaurs like Germany's chancellor Merz that are the doom for generations to come. Generations of human kind on a global scale.
Or we do manage to decapitate the actual violent system of imposition by the strongest, forwarded since WWII, quite often under a restraining layer of so called western values that couldn't be breached to obviously, or we will burn our ecological niche in no time.
With or without the Uk, with or without the EU.
It's as simple as that.
In a word, no.... the UK's political class has always favoured a wider shallower EU, not a more focussed, deeper one
I've not changed my view, I was always a Remainer, but our political class has a view of the UK's 'specialness' that makes the acquiescence to perfectly reasonable conditions set by the EU as unacceptable, meaning without a major shift in political culture there is unlikely to be any successful move to rejoin, in the next decade (in my assessment)
Do not believe ANYTHING that Joseph Borrell says. He is a liar, an asshole, and a disgusting human beign. A traitor to the human race.
The little slave he was of Ursula Von Der "Liar", the Margaret Thatcher wanna be of the EU.
We had that MF as a minister in the transition from Franco dictatorship. He is well known in Spain for beign a weasel. As a politician is one of the worst we had.
Si. No he dicho que sea franquista, pero vamos, intimo de Isidoro, empezo en los 70 como él, así que como si lo fuera.
Fue ministro después del 78. Y ahora recuerdo que ha soltado auténticas barrabasadas cuando empezo la guerra de ucrania y el genocidio palestino por israel.
@ChrisMayLA6 Sometimes I think a visit to Ireland might be curative for, not so much diehard Brexiters, but their credulous supporters.
Being laughed at or pitied might sow a few doubts.
They have NO IDEA how much business they sent packing to neighbouring countries. Seeing frictionless trade from the vantage of one of many new ferry services at Rosslare say.
The Irish live longer, earn more, have lower taxes, are better educated etc and export half as much as the UK w 7% of the population.
@ChrisMayLA6 this reminds me of two sayings about Springer media in Germany (Bild, Welt) which perfectly fits such tabloids.
(a) The "Bild" which is so disgusting that one would insult dead fish when wrapping in it. (shortened from V. Pispers)
and we're so glad they've now bought the Telegraph, which will give them another outlet for all that.... /s
@ChrisMayLA6 @mike STOP “POINTING THE FINGER AT ASTEROID” AND BRING BACK DINOSAURS
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Is the Daily Express the equivalent of the New York Post?
I think so, but cannot be sure as I don't really know the NYP
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