Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,173
31 January 2020 is our latest date for leaving the EU. If it happens, with which historic events will Brexit share its anniversary?
1606 Execution of Guy Fawkes
1747 First venereal disease clinic opened in London
1910 Dr Crippen poisons his wife
1943 German 6th army surrenders at Stalingrad
1953 North Sea tidal surge drowns 307 people in eastern England
2000 Harold Shipman jailed for life
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,087
It's probably more relevant that today's the anniversary of the death of Houdini.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,087
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
Bit of a breeze today - I can't hear the church bells.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
i cant hear any hovercraft either, are they still running.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
Brian Dixon wrote:happy 3rd non Brexit birthday.
Lighten up Brian!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
"The [Conservatives'] plans also include more checks on goods entering the UK from the EU using "pre-arrival data", which the Tories say would cut revenue "leakage" caused by smuggling by £5bn. Well, apart from extra checks being inevitable anyway, I suspect they mean 'GB' rather than 'UK' - Irish Land Boundary and all that.
Also in the same article,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50625129, "If the party wins the general election, it says it will introduce automated exit and entrance checks." Really? Perhaps it will automatically scan my car and tell me what that annoying squeak is.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
And following on from that article, today we have
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50704786 on the topic of 'checks on trade routed between NI and GB - yes or no?' Mr Johnson says "no". Incredible Hulk or what?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
incredible sulk more like.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
Here’s one for the remoaners to enjoy:
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
We can only see how Bungling Boris does but he's not got off to a good start on his promises to protect workers taken out of the queen's speech
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,087
I think it's called 'taking back control' (you know, in the same way that 'wicked' means 'good', not 'evil'):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50874181'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
This is my hope, that Boris gets carried away with his new majority and presses the self destruct button.
From a Labour perspective, the answer now is to sit back, let him own if from top to bottom, vote against everything and hope that it crashes big time. In the meantime, find somebody that is electable and be ready and waiting for if/when that time comes.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Personally I want what's best for the country, rather than hope it crashes big time, but I'm selfish like that!
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Arte et Marte
Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
- Posts: 145
at last brexit is being done Boris has turned out to be a good prime minister
Guest 3065- Registered: 10 Jan 2019
- Posts: 145
Neil moors it won't happen
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,087
kimmie wrote:Neil moors it won't happen
Whoops!
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Finally, we'll get to see if Brexit is good, or bad for the UK. Well, form the end of next year at least. We need to get it out of the system now - if it is good, great - if it is bad, well at least there is evidence of that.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,897
The thing that always amuses me is the simple fact that should we find anything that is done better in the EU
we can simply do the same whatever it is.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I might just might be living very near a lorry park.