For some reason I think its necessary to say this:

[chrismayla6@zirk.us]

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.

#Brexit #news #UK

[apologies, spotted this headline in the supermarket earlier & it pissed me right off!]

[terrybtwo@ohai.social]

@ChrisMayLA6 Ah yes. Don't blame our problems on shooting ourselves in the foot. Obviously it's the pavement.

[ishambard@cupoftea.social]

@ChrisMayLA6

The thing is, probably one of the best ways to fix the problem is not one they are going to like...

[glaswolf@mastodon.scot]

@ishambard @ChrisMayLA6 It doesn't say *not* to rejoin, so...

[interpipes@thx.gg]

@ChrisMayLA6 world class copium by people who want us all to stop talking about the consequences of their actions

[wanwizard@mastodon.scot]

@GlasWolf @ishambard @ChrisMayLA6 It is the quickest way to fix the economy.

[mvrenselaar@mastodon.nl]

@ChrisMayLA6 werent they the pro brexit paper backed by billionaire owners?

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@ChrisMayLA6 LOL. No one seems to want to take responsibility for that fiasco.

[eq@mas.to]

@mvrenselaar @ChrisMayLA6 I'm sure the billionaires are very unhappy that Brexit is splitting up the big EU into smaller pieces so they don't have to fight the behemoth straight on. Now they can just go pinching what they need when they need it.

[lubnadecordoba@mastodon.social]

@ChrisMayLA6 What do you think of the proposal by Josep Borrell, the former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, that the European Union needs to be reformed with fewer but more integrated countries? Do you think the UK would reconsider something like that?

[johnrohde@helvede.net]

@Lubnadecordoba @ChrisMayLA6 The UK have always been a reluctant partner in the EU. It used to champion a trade zone around the North Sea. Fundamentaly, the UK is not a european power, it is its own thing.

[lubnadecordoba@mastodon.social]

@johnrohde @ChrisMayLA6 It's a shame they see it that way, given the current international situation.

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@ChrisMayLA6 stop pointing the finger at the hole in the bucket and the people who advocated for and made that hole and just pour in some more water will you?!?

[samueljohnson@mstdn.social]

@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.

[prefec2@norden.social]

@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)

[prefec2@norden.social]

@ChrisMayLA6
(b) This newspaper is an organ of depravity. It is wrong to read it. Anyone who contributes to this newspaper is utterly unacceptable in society. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to any of its editors. One must be as unfriendly to them as the law just barely allows. They are bad people so big bad things. (Max Goldt, Weiter and Columnist)

[chrismayla6@zirk.us]

@Lubnadecordoba

In a word, no.... the UK's political class has always favoured a wider shallower EU, not a more focussed, deeper one

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@ChrisMayLA6 you would expect a crusader (logo) to be limited in understanding of macro economics and trade

[chrismayla6@zirk.us]

@prefec2

and we're so glad they've now bought the Telegraph, which will give them another outlet for all that.... /s

[utopiarte@tupambae.org]

@CStamp
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.

@ChrisMayLA6