Starker on 10/12/2020 at 01:29
Less than a month remaining until Brexit and the no deal scenario looks more and more likely. On the bright side, though, a deal has been reached regarding the Northern Ireland border:
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55229681)
Pyrian on 10/12/2020 at 02:15
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Details of the agreement have not been published...
Hmm. Glad they've worked something out. I hope it's acceptable to the locals.
Nameless Voice on 10/12/2020 at 02:43
I just got an email from Amazon yesterday, telling me that anything I order from them will now have customs duties applies from next year. (Ireland does not currently have its own Amazon site.)
I still can't see them actually achieving a deal, with all the UK red flags that rule out any meaningful deal, and which the UK have completely refused to budge on.
We'll find out soon how badly this all turns out for them.
Gray on 10/12/2020 at 03:23
I am pissed off beyond words. I know, my side lost. We for some reason got the clueless blustering buffoon mophead. This, inevitably, means that in these the very last days of negotiations will mean we lose. But it will be painted as a Great Victory, for the rich posh twats of England with delusions of grandeur, and nobody else. The rest of us, we all lose. Boris is the figurehead of Brexit, and, by his incompetence, will also be the poster boy for Scottish Independence. We're so fucking sick of Westminster now, and the last five years have made it grow exponentially, much like the virus curve.
Boo! Hiss!
If I knew any more offensive words than "Boris, go fuck yourself", I'd use them. But I don't. He certainly fucked all of us.
I'll never understand why poor people vote conservative, exactly directly against their own interest. People are just morons. Or gullible. If people, for once, voted for what was actually GOOD for them, the world would be a much better place, but unfortunately we have propaganda and spin.
:ahem:
Then again, I'm one of those annoying environmentalist Greenpeace members who's been whining for the last 35 years. I don't want to win the argument by the destruction of the planet. In fact, I'd happily lose, if we live.
Starker on 10/12/2020 at 03:35
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I just got an email from Amazon yesterday, telling me that anything I order from them will now have customs duties applies from next year. (Ireland does not currently have its own Amazon site.)
Amazon.de + Google Translate?
demagogue on 10/12/2020 at 08:49
Hmm, yes, the "enlightened self interest" of liberal capitalism would work a lot better if people actually acted in their own self-interest. What are you supposed to do when people can't even be properly selfish but actually relish the chance to screw themselves along with everybody else?
The most maddening thing to cap 2020 is how many people online you still see thinking "No Deal Brexit will be the best thing to happen to the UK" (along with "Trump should have won & the election was stolen from him"). It's one thing for people to make stupid decisions, but it's a whole other bag of marmots when they don't even see things for what they are and made decisions that don't even match reality!
And now we have this whole mass of people that are stuck in some fantasy world for who knows how long that you can expect will be hell bent on obstructing any attempt to stop the bleeding when it inevitably comes to that part.
SubJeff on 10/12/2020 at 09:56
What you're saying is - we're doomed.
I agree. Unless that Israeli Prof is right and alien contact has been made.
Nameless Voice on 10/12/2020 at 13:18
Quote Posted by Starker
Amazon.de + Google Translate?
You can access amazon.de in English - the main issue is that it doesn't offer free shipping, unlike the UK one.
Anyway, all the recent talk of Brexit reminded me of this song written by an Irish comedy trio back in February, and since this thread had been idle during that time, it looks like no one has posted it yet:
[video=youtube;4h0J6VrHuQE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0J6VrHuQE[/video]