Brexit?

[ynnafymmi]

Anyone know how this Brexit carry-on is doing.(Just asking for a friend).No empty shelves,no rationing of petrol,no asking back all these nasty Europeans we told to *** off back to their own countries or anything?As i said just asking for a friend.

[david small]

Sick of this topic. How about covid conversion?

[Togo]

In 1975(just before the hot and lovely summer) I was working in the electronics industry in a technical capacity. Most of the knowledgeable and qualified men in that place were ex WW2 survivors from all 3 forces. Good, quiet, stolid, men who were also bitingly witty and observant. The "common market" was the big thing for the smart arrised progressives. They hated the whole concept instinctively, I knew them believed and trusted them. They were once again right in their judgements of "continental" ambitions. I waited a whole lifetime to vote out, after being silenced on the matter for nearly 40 years, and would wait another 40 if needs be to vote the same way again. The wise and considerate men I trusted then have long passed, but their lead was worth following then and needs to be followed again.

[ynnafymmi]

There are other topics on AB available,david.

[THECORBYLOON]

"I waited a whole lifetime to vote out, after being silenced on the matter for nearly 40 years, and would wait another 40 if needs be to vote the same way again."

Did you not vote in the 1975 referendum?

[naomi24]

Just a thought. If this 'Brexit carry-on' as the OP would have it really has resulted in empty shelves (none of which I've seen) and problems with fuel deliveries, why have these issues only just manifested? We left the EU quite some time ago so surely if the departure of Europeans is responsible we'd have seen this happening far sooner. Not asking for a friend - asking for me.

[ToraToraTora]

Naomi, the remoaners will lay every problem at the door of brexit for time immemorial. Still they struggle to get the taste of sour grapes out of their mealy mouths, they pray for bad things for our country just so they can have their "told you so" moment.

[ToraToraTora]

PS for what it's worth I've not seen an empty shelf and the petrol queues were over pretty quickly round here.

[vulcan42]

If Brexit is the cause of petrol shortage then you would expect N Ireland to be badly affected, but it isn't. My friends living there tell me there is no queuing, no panicking and tankers are delivering as normal.

[Togo]

//Did you not vote in the 1975 referendum?//

What a strange question. －_－

Yes ... That was err let me see, nearly 40 years ago. The question asked was ""Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?""

Tip. When you have nothing to say ...it is OK to say nothing.

[maggiebee]

Wow, aren't you lucky in your wee corner of the universe TTT. No empty shelves and plenty of petrol - I'm all right Jack springs to mind. Not all of the UK is like your wee paradise.

[New Judge]

//That was err let me see, nearly 40 years ago.//

Forty-six years ago, Togo! And your point is important. The question asked then was different to the question asked in 2016.

[Ellipsis]

If the lorry driver shortage is nothing to do with Brexit, how is offering temporary visas to foreign lorry drivers going to fix anything?

[ToraToraTora]

maggie: "Wow, aren't you lucky in your wee corner of the universe TTT. No empty shelves and plenty of petrol - I'm all right Jack springs to mind. Not all of the UK is like your wee paradise." - just reporting my experience maggie, there's no, "I'm alright jack" about it.

[ToraToraTora]

judge: "The question asked then was different to the question asked in 2016. " - and so was the configuration of the bloc, in 1975 we were asked to vote for to remain in the EEC, a trading bloc, a sensible thing to join. Now fast forward to 2016 and the entity we were in had changed a wee bit into the EUSSR and undemocratic insidious creeping empire run by a few bureaucrats. A teenzy bit of a difference I think most would agree.

[THECORBYLOON]

TOGO, you mentioned 1975 and being silenced for forty year. At no point in that post did you even hint at the Referendum, let alone mention it.

[davebro]

//If the lorry driver shortage is nothing to do with Brexit, how is offering temporary visas to foreign lorry drivers going to fix anything?//

However the shortage was created there seems to be a desire to get more drivers wherever they come from. The fact that some may come from the EU doesn't mean Brexit (by itself) created the shortage.

[Togo]

Do you ever read a thread before putting you oar in? Let me refer you to what was said by someone, who does have something to say, just 19 minutes before my addition to it.

""if enough of us had been worldly wise in 1975, our membership may have ended there and then and we could all have been saved a lot of bother."" New Judge @ 20.04

[THECORBYLOON]

Did you make it clear you had voted in the '75 vote?

[Khandro]

Never one to mince his words, in Northern Ireland, the Rev. Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church warned in 1976 that, "a vote for the Common Market is a vote for ecumenism, Rome, dictatorship and anti-Christ, and it was all a Papist plot!" (and he wanted none of it)

:0)

[Ellipsis]

> //If the lorry driver shortage is nothing to do with Brexit, how is offering temporary visas to foreign lorry drivers going to fix anything?//
> However the shortage was created there seems to be a desire to get more drivers wherever they come from. The fact that some may come from the EU doesn't mean Brexit (by itself) created the shortage.

You should be a politician. That's not an answer to the question, just using the fact that a question was asked to say something you wanted to say.