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kwasi on telly today complains about eu punishing brits and that maybe the uk should do the same to them 

 

ignoring not only 

a) uk govt pre Brexit approved this olan

b) his government set exactly same requirements to enter U.K.   

the people who pushed for and enacted Brexit are the very people who still don’t have a clue 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta


aye Mal - but you would think the people who pushed for this wouldn’t have the gall to simultaneously complain about it

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13760813/amp/holidaymakers-Brussels-Brits-need-visa-waiver-travelling.html

 

 

Don’t forget to fill out your forms next year either 

 

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/transport/article/britons-travelling-europe-visa-summer-2025-lr8xjm6m5

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Simon Calder in yesterday's Independent seeks to clarify the forthcoming rules for third country nationals travelling to Europe:

'Slaying the myths about tougher post-Brexit red tape for UK travellers to Europe

The Man Who Pays His Way: Can we all start singing from the same post-Brexit hymn sheet, please?'

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eu-brexit-red-tape-travel-entry-exit-system-etias-b2601368.html

Those are not the reasons Brexit has failed so badly, and if anything we would have been in a better position in the EU rather than out for the above.  Instability in the middle East, the craziness of Putin and potential for a SARs type pandemic were all known before we  voted.  Let's face it he is a small islander harking back to the days of Empire and gunboat diplomacy, who exploited many people's xenophobia to deliver a massive home goal for the UK. 

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Did I say anything about brexit  ? 

I was simply pointing out that it was predictions and based on his available information at the time.

Predictions are never realistic or normally accurate I mean who could have predicted we wouldn't win the euros (again) or that Trump would run for president (again) or that Oasis would get together (again) 😉 

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coming onto a Brexit thread where people are currently pointing  out just how wildly wrong Brexit in chief Dan Hannan continues to be, only to go “did I mention Brexit?” Is disingenuous at best 

 

none of his predictions in 2016 were ever going to come true   But people believed him and he continues to get paid for his garbage about “we hold the upper hand”

 

 

As he is making a tit of himself yet again this weekend, always funny to revisit Dan hannan’s pre referendum Brexit predictions for 2025

Is it possible to read and not cringe?

 

https://reaction.life/britain-looks-like-brexit/

His forecast was wildly optimistic/idealist and had gone through no stress testing ie what ifs; at the time there was considerable global insecurity which he ignored, similarly climate change.  He wanted Brexit and had to backfit an outcome suitable to justify it to others.  That is not how analysis and projections work.

Big corporations look ahead ten, twenty and more years ahead and come up with a variety of scenarios what the world could look like, not necessarily what it will.  

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God bless the UK and it's delusions that they need to deliberate over this or that their decision will have any consequence whatsoever

(as with everything Brexit related, some performative nonsense, followed by them just falling in line )

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lj58jql8o

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Sovereignty? Monarchy? The British pound? 
 

fark all that shite 

(turns out being a rule taker and adopting a single currency isn’t the barrier some brexiteers feared after all)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/26/51st-state-usa-trump-starmer-eu-special-relationship/

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