OT. The futures Bright, the Futures Brexit!!!

[MadAmster]

Just to muddy the waters......... Over here, wecirrently have more job vacancies than we do unemployed people. Even if those currently unemployed were all retrainable, and most aren't, at least not to the standards the open jobs require, we'd still have loads of open vacancies.....

[Andy_Faber]

Just to muddy the waters......... Over here, wecirrently have more job vacancies than we do unemployed people. Even if those currently unemployed were all retrainable, and most aren't, at least not to the standards the open jobs require, we'd still have loads of open vacancies.....

Did you accidentally leave EU without anyone noticing?

[ramAnag]

Jesus wept, you body swerved that like John Barnes in flight
So I show you a clip of Barnier, using Ireland as a weapon to cause trouble and you ignore it? In fact your reply degenerated into an insult as a reply
ok YOU WIN. You don't want evidence when it involves an incovenient truth.

In fact you don't seem troubled at all, that we entered into this union, with a vote on economic alliance. Then it was morphed into a political take over, that grows by the day.
We was "inside" for over 40 years. Name me one, yes one proposal that was accepted. In fact, don't bother, I'll you. The answer is none.
Cameron came out with all this bollox as well and off he trotted.
He came back with an half eaten sandwich, that we had to give back after 3 years and a very sore backside.
NI, sunshine is British territory.
Either we cut it loose or we don't. If the NI want to stay then so be it.

aS FOR THE LAST LINE- NO!

You see you will quote the BBC/Guardian at will. They are pro EU.
I gave you a secret recording of Barnier and you dismiss it. That puts you on par with Chamberlain over the Sudetenland.

Tricky, I seldom bother to look at your add ons. If I wanted to watch your YouTube selections and GBNews or read your FoxHole, Mail, Express and Telegraph rubbish I’d sort it for myself. I haven’t even looked at your ‘secret recording of Barnier’ because I know exactly what the agenda is likely to be.
The last thing you posted that I looked at that wasn’t your own thoughts was the Farage-Biggins thing. You’re full of admiration for Biggins because he echoes your own view. To me he’s a complete prat. He came out as being gay some years ago but now seems to oppose gay marriage, he supports Brexit while acknowledging that some of his friends have had there businesses ruined...but then not quite trusting what they say...and he seems to think that Brexit will but the ‘great’ back in Great Britain without ever realising that it is a geographical term, not a term of respect or endearment. I mean, if you want an example of a confused minor celebrity talking absolute sh**e to a wannabe who’s made a very good living out of creating chaos and division then look no further.

‘On a par with Chanberlain over Sudetenland’? Jesus wept...thanks for the compliment but I’m a bloke on a football forum...nothing more, nothing less and when was the last time I ‘quoted’ from the Guardian? I don’t...that’s the point. The BBC, The i and the Guardian are my most trusted sources...that’s fair, but I seldom quote from anyone. I’m interested in people’s opinions, including yours, and sharing or sometimes trying to change views, but I have absolutely no interest in reading the views of the right/ultra right wing press that you repeatedly try to introduce on here.

[MadAmster]

...and he seems to think that Brexit will but the ‘great’ back in Great Britain without ever realising that it is a geographical term, not a term of respect or endearment.

A term, and how ironic is this, given to us by a bunch of French immigrants

[Geoff Parkstone]

and there was me thinking it was down to James VI / I referencing the (then) separate kingdoms of Scotland and England, both of which he reigned over after the union of the crowns in 1603?

[MadAmster]

For whatever reason the English word divided into ‘Britain’ and ‘Brittany’ in the late Middle Ages. Etymonline seems to think they are both from Old French:

Britain (n.) c. 1300, Breteyne, from Old French Bretaigne, from Latin Britannia

Brittany (n.) French Bretagne, named for 5c. Romano-Celtic refugees from the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain who crossed the channel and settled there

Whereas Wiktionary seems to think there was a preceding Anglo-Saxon word that later French forms merely influenced:

Britain Old English Breoton, Bryten etc., from Latin Britannia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman Britaine, Old French Bretaigne

Brittany From Latin Brittania, presumably from Celtic.

[Andy_Faber]

You weren’t one of the two ‘usual suspects’.

I’m puzzled by the fact that you don’t think I’m ‘impacted’ upon by the shortages presented by the lack of lorry drivers, fruit and veg pickers and hospitality workers.
I’m further puzzled by the fact that you don’t think I’ll be impacted upon by the likely rise in NI based terrorism. I know that, unlike the above, it hasn’t happened yet but it does seem more likely than it has done since the late ‘90’s...because of the Brexit deal...and I’m puzzled by the fact that you don’t think the deterioration in our relationship with our neighbours and the subsequent decline in protection against organised crime and terrorism is something to be ignored.

Still...I’ve done my best...the cricket is on and interesting so, have a safe flight and at least you’re coming back to a couple of days of good European weather.

Trying avoid the current rancour on here, but I STILL don’t see any ACTUAL impacts that you have experienced rather than heard about. I’m not going to scattergun anecdotes but in hospitality I’ve witnessed good and bad, and to be honest some of the ‘bad’ could be overcome by individuals pulling their fingers out

[Trickytreesreds]

Tricky, I seldom bother to look at your add ons. If I wanted to watch your YouTube selections and GBNews or read your FoxHole, Mail, Express and Telegraph rubbish I’d sort it for myself. I haven’t even looked at your ‘secret recording of Barnier’ because I know exactly what the agenda is likely to be.
The last thing you posted that I looked at that wasn’t your own thoughts was the Farage-Biggins thing. You’re full of admiration for Biggins because he echoes your own view. To me he’s a complete prat. He came out as being gay some years ago but now seems to oppose gay marriage, he supports Brexit while acknowledging that some of his friends have had there businesses ruined...but then not quite trusting what they say...and he seems to think that Brexit will but the ‘great’ back in Great Britain without ever realising that it is a geographical term, not a term of respect or endearment. I mean, if you want an example of a confused minor celebrity talking absolute sh**e to a wannabe who’s made a very good living out of creating chaos and division then look no further.

‘On a par with Chanberlain over Sudetenland’? Jesus wept...thanks for the compliment but I’m a bloke on a football forum...nothing more, nothing less and when was the last time I ‘quoted’ from the Guardian? I don’t...that’s the point. The BBC, The i and the Guardian are my most trusted sources...that’s fair, but I seldom quote from anyone. I’m interested in people’s opinions, including yours, and sharing or sometimes trying to change views, but I have absolutely no interest in reading the views of the right/ultra right wing press that you repeatedly try to introduce on here.

Absolute Tosh. There is no agenda, no right wing ultra.
It was a secret recording nailing Barniers arse to the wall. IT has no comments/ commentry/anything. Barniers words say it all. No bias no slant. CAUGHT RED HANDED.
Listen to it and tell me it doesn't concern you.

[ramAnag]

Absolute Tosh. There is no agenda, no right wing ultra.

Of course there’s an ‘agenda’. All your posts display a right wing agenda and all your sources have a right wing slant.
I didn’t mention ‘right wing ultra’, whatever that is. I was just pointing out that your sources range from the right of centre Mail and Telegraph to the more ultra right extremes of GBNews and FoxHole and that I try to avoid reading/watching such garbage.

[ramAnag]

Trying avoid the current rancour on here, but I STILL don’t see any ACTUAL impacts that you have experienced rather than heard about. I’m not going to scattergun anecdotes but in hospitality I’ve witnessed good and bad, and to be honest some of the ‘bad’ could be overcome by individuals pulling their fingers out

What can I say? I’ve referred to specific shortages which I’ve witnessed...from HGV drivers to soft fruit. None of them are life changing but they are all things that we can do without and wouldn’t have been so severe without Brexit. If you don’t acknowledge those points as impacting on me there’s really nothing I can do about it.
Covid has been a mixed blessing for the post Brexit government. It has obviously created some massive financial pressures but I suspect it has also concealed a great deal.
Let’s see what happens when (and if) travel and hospitality get fully up and running again and how our supplies of winter veg work out.
I genuinely hope there won’t be a problem, but I suspect that there will be.