Post by mrsukyankee on Sept 24, 2021 3:44:44 GMT -5
Hi. Just my lovely update on what's happening in England due to Brexit (and some of it is happening in other parts of the UK, but I know more about England).
1. Fuel shortages - yes, we don't have enough drivers to bring petrol to service stations, so a few have closed; our gov't closed down our largest storage unit for natural gas AND due to Brexit, we are no longer part of an EU plan, and so there will be shortages and MASSIVE price increases.
2. Gov't is taking away help to poorest (at a time when food and heating prices are soaring)
3. Male life expectancy has lowered for the first time in 40 years
4. The Tories are increasing taxes most on those who are at the lower spectrum of pay.
This winter is going to have a lot of deaths and not just due to Covid.
A few links to some of these stories if interested:
Mr. P and I were talking about NG prices the other day. Forecasted harsh winter and constraints on the market. Of course, the most vulnerable will suffer the most.
Are the pro-brexit voters having doubts (finally)?!?
Some but most, like Trump voters, are not willing to accept the realities of this. They are blaming Covid, the EU and Remainers for all the problems. It's insane.
All of this is so terrible. I am sad that I am leaving (wasn't able to find a job here), but I am also not sad for some of these reasons...but then I am going back to the US, which has a whole set of its own issues, so, that is also a bummer. Everything is a bummer. lol
jigsy , sorry to hear you weren't able to find a job here. Hope you can make it back again one day!
Me too. I am in final rounds of interviews with a US company that has a pretty large Euro presence, I wouldn't mind coming back over with them should that work out.
My note: the overseas workers will not come (why would they come).
And in something that warms my heart because the owner is the biggest Brexity asswipe ever (he also fired all his staff immediately at lockdown instead of funding them until they got some money through the gov't):
LOL - a month ago they also ran low on beer because we don't have enough lorry drivers coming from the EU where (guess what) they get most of their cheap beer.
Post by basilosaurus on Oct 3, 2021 3:12:39 GMT -5
No gas and no cheap beer? My American friends stationed there are going to be in high demand. I'm sure the US military won't let their people run dry. I know I'm making light of a (Boris) human created dire situation. What the hell else can I do?
No gas and no cheap beer? My American friends stationed there are going to be in high demand. I'm sure the US military won't let their people run dry. I know I'm making light of a (Boris) human created dire situation. What the hell else can I do?
Sadly the US Military there also relies on trucking to get a lot of supplies in, so I assume they will also be affected by some shortages.
From the Atlantic comparing Johnson to Trump and the reasons why their supporters accept their lies: Is Boris Johnson a Liar?
Johnson himself also seems to believe that there is a distinction between deep truths and shallow facts. In his view, each story or historic event contains a fundamental truth—that Churchill saved freedom, say; or that British democracy is not compatible with the EU. Facts are tools used to tell this wider story, yet they are not as important as what Johnson holds to be the central truth.
The “lie” that Britain could save £350 million a week by leaving the EU enrages those who opposed Brexit—and who never believed the assertion in the first place. Yet this claim, which has become burned into the national consciousness, does not appear to stir the emotions of those who were apparently duped. Why?
If the Krastev-Holmes theory holds, it is because the fact never mattered much to the people who supported Brexit. What mattered was the principle: that the British government should spend less on the EU and more on Britain’s public services. Those who are outraged by Johnson and his £350 million statement are, perhaps, less angry about the claim than about its insincerity. They are angry because they believe it was used knowingly in pursuit of a deeper falsehood—that Britain would be better off outside the EU—or because of their sense that Brexit was about not money or democracy, but border control and immigration. Indeed, Anand Menon, a professor of European politics at King’s College London, told me that polling trends clearly show that hardly any voters changed their minds during the referendum campaign. The reason the Brexit campaign won is that it was better at getting its vote out than the campaign to stay in the EU was.