Yes, it’s amusing that people who want to leave the (highly profitable) EU trade deals don’t realise that the UK will be bound by World Trading Organisation rules instead!
Well, you tried.
Plus one of our permanent underlying economic problems is a negative trade balance. Simply making imports cheaper by cutting tariffs will do nothing to increase exports: that requires agreements, country by country, to replace the ones we have as a member of the EU that we automatically lose when we cease to be a member. And what would those countries expect in return?
Boris even got fired from the Times for making up stories - and then moved to the Telegraph where they’re perfectly happy for their staff to make up stories. It’s what he does.
In addition he has a string of disasters in his wake. As Mayor he pushed through his “garden bridge” project against all opposition despite it being a vastly overpriced boondoggle nobody wanted, resulting in £50m of taxpayer money being spent on nothing. As Foreign Secretary his efforts to get Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed from prison in Iran ended up earning her another three years’ imprisonment for spectacularly stupid reasons. And of course his string of lies brought us Brexit. And yet his fans love him.
Come on, all Boris has to do to get a great trade balance is…
Recreate the old Sterling Zone
For that, he needs to
Restore the British Empire
Easy peasy.
Poor Elizabeth - she must be thinking “I started my reign working with PM Winston Churchill. Now I have to put up with *this *clown”.
Or more likely, great another dumbass racist, like Churchill.
Actually, the UK did very well when Churhcill stuck to speeches and let the professionals run the country. Attlee and Bevan for domestic matters, Attlee for colonial affairs and Alan Brooke and the rest ran the war.
Thats a way, tell Boris he can speak all he wwants, but the grown ups will be running things. Its actaully Churchillian.
Fine, but who are the grownups?
Good question.
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Dunno.
Maybe Ruth Davidson?
-I think the end result will be a non deal Brexit, with Boris either ignoring the utter chaos that follows by claiming that everything is peachy, or if that becomes untennable claiming that its just temporary growing pains and prosperity is just around the corner.
-I think the Irish border will just be sort of ignored. Officially there may be laws regarding tariffs being required, and the occasional shipment seized, but by and large anyone with the will to break an unenforced law will be able to pass goods/people back and forth across the border without any real hindrance. It might actually create a boom in the Irish economy as a transport hub.
-I think that Boris will do everything he can short of reenacting the battle of Pinkie to prevent another Scottish referendum.
She’s not an MP though. I think there was some hope that the slightly unexpected Scottish Tory MP cohort returned in 2017 would be a mini-bloc in Westminster - reflecting the wishes of their constituents a bit, maybe - but they turned out to be typical newbie lobby-fodder. That’s a pity imo, and Johnson being PM pretty much guarantees they’ll lose their seats if there’s a GE with him in charge, and when that happens then Ruth has no influence at all.
Other than the calling black children piccaninnies and talking about black people eating watermelon? Saying that Africa’s only problem is that white people aren’t in charge? Talking about Africans being AIDS-ridden? Saying “part Kenyan” Obama had an ancestral dislike of the UK?
Thank you British SDMBers for electing him. Now you Brits can’t complain about trump anymore.
See, loud mouthed racist bigots are everywhere.
I mean, technically speaking he hasn’t been elected by the Brits. He’s been elected by members of the Conservative party.
Who are…not British? :dubious: And who voted them in? The French? :dubious:
Technically then trump wasnt voted in by Americans, it was the Electoral College, those scalawags.
Well, no. “Some” Brits elected him. As in he wasn’t elected in a general election where all the electorate, the “Brits”, got to vote.
“Some” Americans elected trump, too.
The British voter voted for Brexit and voted in the CP, so yes, it’s their fault.
The didn’t vote in the CP; three in five voters rejected the CP at the last election.
You’re labouring under the misapprension that the UK is some kind of functioning democracy. The reality for the British is that a government they voted against led by a leader they didn’t elect is working to introduce a Brexit which is not the Brexit they voted for, and it’s seeking to do this without obtaining a mandate from either the people or the parliament for fear that, if allowed to vote on the matter, they would vote against it.
Correct.
This is a gross oversimplification, if not misreading, of history. Churchill was as hands-on a PM as he could possibly be. Attlee had no particular colonial affairs responsibilities during WWII, and [Aneurin] Bevan was not in the Cabinet then - did you mean [Ernest] Bevin?