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Well, where are a bunch of defrocked vicars and alcoholic PE teachers going to find work, except as DUP MPs?

Yup!

Post-Brexit food labelling rules to appease DUP will lead to higher prices, says industry

Draft legislation is intended to ensure full array of products are sold in Northern Ireland

Forcing all UK supermarkets to put “not for EU” labels on meat, dairy and plant products in a move to assuage the concerns of unionists in Northern Ireland will force up prices and undermine the war against inflation, ministers have been told.

After months of uncertainty about the post-Brexit regulations, the government has said it will legislate so that the labelling requirement is universal from October as part of a “safeguarding the union” deal with the Democratic Unionist party (DUP).

The government is trying to convince the DUP, Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party, to return to the Stormont power-sharing executive after a bitter two-year standoff over the trade border in the Irish Sea created by Brexit.

As part of the new deal, ministers have said they will go further than is required under the so-called Windsor framework agreement with the EU that is designed to ensure meat, diary and plant products do not enter the single market via Northern Ireland.

Rather than just products coming into Northern Ireland from Britain requiring “not for EU” labels, all agri-foods sold in the UK will need to be labelled “to ensure no incentive arises for businesses to avoid placing goods on the Northern Ireland market”.

Unionists have raised concerns that restricting the labelling requirements to goods transported into Northern Ireland from Great Britain would lead to a dwindling in the range of products going across the Irish Sea.

Waitrose is among the supermarket brands that do not have stores in Northern Ireland but which will be affected by the draft legislation. It has claimed that redesigning the packaging will “add unnecessary costs when we are doing everything we can to keep costs down”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... s-industry

...and all because Sammy Wilson couldn't bring some English sausages over the North Channel. That and the fact that a bunch of narco-terrorists were finding their drug shipments were getting stopped.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:45 pm Well, where are a bunch of defrocked vicars and alcoholic PE teachers going to find work, except as DUP MPs?

Don't give Calvin Robinson any ideas!

Not sure how much sticking labels on is going to add to inflation. Sounds like a relatively cheap solution to the impasse.

But it's incredibly stupid and funny.

Rees Mogg patronises an oik farmer with his vastly superior knowledge of agricultural trade.

Brexit's actually not that unpopular actually, honest.

All of this is academic- the EU's moved on. Remember how you felt on referendum night. You didn't think "Oh well, we'll be back soon! Shucks!" You were right.

39% are relaxed about adopting the Euro is surprisingly high. Maybe they associate the currency with Sun, sea and sangria.

Interesting study from Brunel U.

https://neurosciencenews.com/cognitive- ... 0decisions

Summary: A new study suggests a correlation between higher cognitive abilities and voting “Remain” in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Analyzing data from 3,183 UK couples, the study found that individuals with higher cognitive skills, as well as those with spouses possessing higher cognitive abilities, were more likely to vote “Remain.”

The research, which controlled for various socioeconomic and personality traits, adds to the evidence that higher cognitive abilities may help in recognizing and resisting misinformation.

This study highlights the potential impact of cognitive skills on political decisions and susceptibility to misinformation.

Key Facts:

The study shows a strong statistical link between higher cognitive ability and voting “Remain” in the Brexit referendum.
Spouses with higher cognitive abilities also influenced the likelihood of voting “Remain.”
The research suggests that higher cognitive ability may provide resilience against misinformation and disinformation.

Well I am shocked!

The research suggests that higher cognitive ability may provide resilience against misinformation and disinformation.

No shit Sherlock!

Back in 1969 my Sociology lecturer warned us against this, he called it a 'researchers find strippers have nice tits' report.

Dyson to cut nearly one third of UK workforce


Got the Brexit he wanted, pissed off to Singapore, still moaned, now making a thousand people redundant. It was Covid, and the way people changed buying stuff, and the Government making firms pay pesky taxes and stunting growth, apparently. Always someone else's fault anyhow. Could've tried lowering his prices, money obsessed cunt. £400 for a hairdryer?? I can get the same end result with a towel for under a fiver.

Dyson did something right to be worth £20.8bn but outside his wheelhouse he’s away with the fairies. Plenty to slag off Sunak about without saying something as asinine as this. Of course Brexit’s nothing to do with sluggish growth rates.

He said growth had "become a dirty word" during Rishi Sunak's premiership.
Sir James was a firm supporter of Brexit saying it had given the UK its "freedom of spirit" back.

Being the Express this claim is probably wrong but even if not, how is higher demand for woke EVs in Brexit UK an humiliation for the EU?

EU humiliated as UK claims major victory over Germany's car industry
The UK has left the EU red faced as it becomes Europe's largest market for electric vehicles, selling more models than France and Germany. https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/ca ... se-mandate

I read the story and it goes like this:

EV sales in 2024:

UK = 381,609

France = 291,609
Germany = 380,609

France + Germany = 672,218

Figures in the rest of the EU are not shown.

Conclusion: the Express thinks its readers are idiots

Back before Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky dominated professional cycling, the Express ran a sports headline - "Brit wins Tour de France!".

Closer reading revealed that Mark Cavendish had won the final sprint on the last day of the tour. So yes, first over the line. But typically for a sprinter (who tend to measure their gains in seconds, as opposed to climbers and time triallers who make gains in minutes) very far down the overall tables.

Also bear in mind that for the average pigshit thick Express reader, the EU is France (ungrateful wimps we bailed out), Germany (demons), Italy (cowards) and Spain (lazy). Oh yes, there are some other countries but they all shit in the street and come over here to work as prostitutes. Except Loathsome Johnny Mick, treacherous bastard and best mate, wants to be us really.

Those lazy Spanish donkey beaters were given a piece of Nick Ferrari's mind this morning. Their economy is flat on its back and will regret turning away the great British Pound. A caller pointed out Spain was projected to grow by two percent this year which is nearly two percent more than the UK will manage.
Maybe Nick was one of many gammons planning to buy a retirement place in Marbella for the winter and make a few quid renting it out as well. Boo hoo.

Spain is planning to impose a tax of up to 100% on the value of properties bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK.

Announcing the move, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the "unprecedented" measure was necessary to meet the country's housing emergency.

"The West faces a decisive challenge: To not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants," he said.

Non-EU residents bought 27,000 properties in Spain in 2023, he told an economic forum in Madrid, "not to live in" but "to make money from them". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7enzjrymxo

It's no different from North Yorkshire Council charging the full whack of council tax on second homes.

Just tell the owners to suck it up or sell the property.

"It's not fair! It's forcing us out!"

Yes. Yes it is.