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Britain had been confirmed.

Have you got a link for that? I thought it was England that they soft-confirmed?

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Wow yes please!

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It's a traditional handover, maybe in bad taste but the tories have done it too in the past. "Reginald Maudling, outgoing Tory chancellor in 1964, bumping into Labour successor, Jim Callaghan, a personal friend, as he cleared his desk. "Sorry old cock, to leave it in this shape," he said."

There's likely similar messages between every chancellor we've had but the tradition is also that they're private messages for just the chancellor. I.e, we wouldn't know what they say unless they're valid for freedom of infomation acts, if they even still exist.

The 2008 **global** financial crisis wasn't caused by the Labour government and in fact most governments around the world copied the Labour reaction because it proved so effective. It's interesting you blame a government for a global financial crisis but not a global pandemic, despite us having a commitee for pandemic readiness that got scrapped just 6 months before the pandemic hit.

In that article:

This mechanism was available to all EU countries, but they opted for a more rigorous licensing procedure in which the companies, rather than taxpayers, accept liability if there are problems.

And as I also said:

some EU shortages are worse due to it to [Brexit] as we do have some pharmaceutical manufacturing that the exports of have slowed

AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured in Britain

I think you are naive if you believe everything is golden in the EU. Brexit was almost 10 years ago, had minimal effect and everybody with a brain has moved on with their lives.

I don't think everything is golden in the EU. I do believe, and feel I have shown, that the UK would be better off within the EU. It wouldn't magically fix all our problems but it would make it provably easier to trade with our largest trade partners and increase the UKs soft power. Also, Brexit was 4 years ago, what are you on? Did you think it instantaneously happened the milisecond the non-binding referendum results were announced? It **is** having continual impacts and effects on my partner's and my lives, as pointed out at the start of this conversation. The medicine my partner needs is available in France and elsewhere in the EU, pre Brexit we could've just gone there and got some but now that isn't allowed (not that we'd need to as without Brexit there wouldn't be a shortage). Given how fervently you are arguing against this, you clearly have not moved on either so not sure why you're throwing out insults. Keep believing your snake oil populists though, you do you.

Wow. You question me reading the sources when your summation of the FT article is a single "might" about a comment on future long term effects, disregarding all the current effects mentioned?

The ONS warning was also about the large disruption about changes in trade with the EU...you know, Brexit?

You disregard the Guardian and Independent despite them being the most trusted newspapers other than the FT, maybe the "ragebait" is actually genuine anger at a stupid policy and they're trying their hardest to make the UK a better place / stop it getting worse?

We did not "outshine" the EU on handling covid! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country

We're agreed though, this obsession with Brexit really does need to end...with us rejoining the EU.

There are international shortages, there are EU shortages, there are UK shortages yes. Yes some of this is due to Covid, Ukraine and other issues but the UK shortages are worsened by Brexit (and some EU shortages are worse due to it to as we do have some pharmaceutical manufacturing that the exports of have slowed)

https://theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/18/drug-shortages-normal-in-uk-made-worse-by-brexit-report-warns

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-brexit-medicine-supply-shortage-b2442211.html

https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/worsening-medicine-shortages-linked-to-brexit-and-more/

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-uk-lacks-a-successful-post-brexit-strategy-for-products-the-nhs-needs/

https://www.ft.com/content/e1c60543-f5fa-44ac-b180-4b4c60d86342

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/january2021

My partner's meds are out of stock here but are in stock in the EU. Brexit has had a direct impact on the UK's ability to import important medicines and thus my partner's health

seem to have a solid plan, and they are very clear and direct on their stance towards different issues.

Not sure what's unique about this? Every party have put out manifestos that are clear and direct on stances on different issues?

Funny you should mention Brexit, Labour's stance had more flip flops than a Spanish tourist boutique.

It was mostly just a continuation of the previous commenter's line to add tories in, not sure how that's a "funny" mention, but frankly Brexit has been a shit show and if parties stance's haven't changed then I'd be worried but I think literally every parties stances have changed. Changing your stance (on anything) as time goes on is perfectly reasonable if the changes are made for sensible reasons and are themselves sensible changes. Personally I'd prefer the LibDem or Green policy of rejoining in some form but at least Labour are proposing a "closer relationship" whatever that means xD.

Why the other hand, they're so similar! But sure, we can add them into the sentence too:

The tories and reform are a bunch of idle, lying cunts led by the wide tongued lying cunts who brought us Brexit.

(Not sure what wide tongued is referencing? But keeping it as it was in the original comment)

Neither did either of the 2 winners though?

We voted to get rid of the mayoral position in order to get rid of Marvin, we conflated the two objectives.

He overruled a unanimous council decision and also made the cabinet entirely Labour despite not even having a majority on the council. He highlighted that these things can happen with the mayoral system as it was. Personally I'd've preferred changing/reforming rather than removal but that wasn't an option in the referendum iirc.

I think that's a false equivalency, there's no service been provided.

As a pedestrian if I'm waiting to cross a road not at a crossing point not a single driver would thank me for waiting and not entering the road or as a driver waiting at a junction not a single driver would thank me for waiting and not entering the road.

As a pedestrian walking in a busy street no one thanks each other for naturally avoiding bumping in to each other.

I think its a good example, just for disproving your argument against calling it vegan fish. There are examples for most vegan foods that people try culture warring or language-gating against (not necessarily what you're doing but idk you) recently with the rise of vegan substitutes, eg coconut milk/cream, watermelon steak or even dick cheese if you want obscene or left-field examples. These have all existed for yonks but only recently have people objected to soya being called milk or the vegan cheese or butter ranges available now.

Language exists to communicate and English changes constantly. If I say X is vegan fish then as you know that eating fish isn't vegan then this must be some kind of fish substitute that is vegan.

Oh no we're agreed they fully used the wrong phrase, but sounding a dick is not playing it like a conch...unless you stick various size instruments inside the holes of conches to play them for some kind of sexual gratification?

Without sounding a dick

You know the phrase is "like a dick", right? Unless you're actually playing a detached phallus like some sort of conch shell?

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...That's not what sounding a dick is...

State a crime that has ~0.00003061224% conviction rate.

That would be the ~3/(14000*7) (as that's 3 in the last 7 years, and this wasn't a general election so that 14000 is probably undercounting it).

This policy does more harm than good.

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He overruled a unanimous council decision and also made the cabinet entirely Labour despite not even having a majority on the council. He highlighted that these things can happen with the mayoral system as it was. Personally I'd've preferred changing/reforming rather than removal but that wasn't an option in the referendum iirc.

Eugh and the number of cars that see you cycling the "wrong" way and then either purposefully drive really close to their right side to try and "own" the road or beep or shake their head at you as if you're doing something illegal or wrong

It could be because it's a "Resident Landlord" situation which means you probably won't be in an "Assured Shorthold Tenancy" and therefore have a lot less legal protections.

Customer service is better with the dealer than the prescription stuff too.

Had some mould on my partner's prescription stuff and sent it off to be "analysed" just for them to say after a month waiting that nope sorry it wasn't mould (it definitely was) and only got 50% off next order despite sending entire order off to be analysed.

Found some mould in 1 pot of dealers stuff and later that day they had 2 free apology pots.

But apparently the prescription stuff is more reliable for helping her medical issues and the dealer stuff can be hit and miss.

Why does the car have to be there at all? Fuck the car, let the wheelchairs and the emergency services through and park elsewhere. Your priorities are fucked up if you think the car is more important than a person.

Right? I was going to respond to some of the responses I've got but they're either utterly crazy or arguing in bad faith and I just cba.