[Cyclist]

Another one who should have her own padded ce... er thread.



Official: UK farmers are screwed

A new trade deal between the UK and Australia will not harm British farmers' livelihoods, the trade secretary has told the BBC.

Liz Truss denied that imports of Australian beef would flood the UK and said British export markets would grow...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57478412

Jimmy Hill might have something to say about that.

[Youngian]

She said by 2030, 66% of the world's middle classes will be in Asia and they want to buy products such as whisky, cars, beef, and lamb from the UK.

Non-agricultural tariffs with the EU and Australia are almost negligible which is why the government’s own forecasts haven’t predicted much growth arising from this deal. Why they’d want to import more Japanese cars from the UK to Australia isn’t explained. Its questionable if most whisky production will be British products by 2030 and as for beef and lamb exports growing, do leave off.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Morgan car makers are down the road from me. They're to say the least not big on volume. They were one of the few companies to ignore John Harvey Jones when he did a Troubleshooter there and suggested changing their methods to increase production and profits. That was 30 years ago. Seeing they're still there, I think they got that call right.

I suppose it's good for them if they've got potential buyers in more countries bidding up the price. But I don't think they're going to save our economy.

[zuriblue]

[Killer Whale]

The new Secretary of State for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs.

Let that sink in for a bit...

[Samanfur]

We're screwed, aren't we?

[Boiler]

There's baiting the Libz, and then...

[Malcolm Armsteen]

We're screwed, aren't we?

Worse. We're an international laughing-stock.

[Oboogie]

For a nano-second I felt sorry for Gavin Williamson when I heard this. Being sacked for your own gross incompetence is bad enough without watching Liz Truss get promoted for hers.

[Bones McCoy]

There'll be Pork Markets all over the Commonwealth.

[Oboogie]

There'll be Pork Markets all over the Commonwealth.

First stop Pakistan - Liz has heard they hardly buy any British pork...what an untapped opportunity!!

[Cyclist]

Ah! So *that's* what Priti Vacant was discussing when she was "on holiday" in Israel. Don't suppose she had much luck in persuading the Israelis to uy British pork. Can't think why.

Now it's Truss' turn to have a go.

[Youngian]

Replacing Truss amid food shortages is someone called Trevelyan. Dublin and Washington will be intrigued Anne-Marie kept her ex-husband’s infamous surname by choice.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Eh?

[satnav]

I heard one commentator on the news claim that Johnson had appointed Truss as Foreign Secretary so that she could be seen as prime minister in waiting to give Rishi Sunak a bit of competition! If Truss really is regarded as a potential prime minister we really are screwed.

[Oboogie]

Eh?

Charles Trevelyan is notorious in Ireland (and to people of Irish heritage, such as Biden) for his role during the potato famine. Less of a hate figure than Cromwell perhaps, but not much.

https://www.rte.ie/history/the-great-ir ... trevelyan/

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I know. Is she a relation?

[Youngian]

Anne-Marie kept her ex-husband’s infamous surname by choice. The ex husband is Charles’s descendent and he and the ex wife own the family castle. Not much thought or contrition about family legacy

With 100 Days Until Brexit, We Must Remember The Opportunities Leaving The EU Will Bring Us.

The prime minister’s present treaty proposal asks us to fire a backstop-sized arrow deep into the beating heart of the United Kingdom. It would imperil our Union by treating Northern Ireland differently to the rest of the UK and forces us to obey EU rules without having a say, unless the EU and its members give permission. That’s not Brexit. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 5184b97bc3

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Unto the seventh generation?

With that mindset how do we ever make progress?

[Oboogie]

Unto the seventh generation?

With that mindset how do we ever make progress?

People remember their history. If you fancy telling the Irish that the potato famine was a very long time ago and they should jolly well get over it, you're a braver man than me.