After All That

December 18, 2018 Longrider General News, misanthropy, Political 16

May is finally preparing for a no deal exit.

THERESA MAY will today order her Cabinet ministers to start spending the £1billion set aside in the case of a no-deal Brexit. It follows concerns that their departments have failed to spend huge sums to prepare for the scenario of Britain walking away from the EU without an agreement.

This should have been the default position. You don’t negotiate to leave an abusive relationship. You don’t pay a ransom. You walk away. We voted to leave, so leave is precisely what we should have done. No deals. The WTO arrangements would have been just dandy. The rest of the world manages just fine. Having a trade deficit with the EU gave us an advantage – if the EU wanted to punish us by increasing tariffs, they would be punishing their own businesses and citizens.

We, on the other hand, could have simply walked away and remained magnanimous – no tariffs, EU citizens here could remain, the Irish border would remain just as it is. If we want a hard border, then we could impose it at UK ports, leaving the one between NI and the republic working as it is now. None of this was difficult and none of it required the humiliating two years of so-called negotiations with a negotiating partner acting in bad faith.

Oh and while we were at it, we could have reduced corporation tax, thereby encouraging inward investment.

Yes, sure, things will be rocky for a while. No one expected otherwise, but in the long term, the world is our trading partner. We will no longer be locked into a protectionist market and our SMEs will no longer have to comply with Byzantium rules set by an unelected, unaccountable elite in Brussels.

Backbencher Philip Davies said: “We are not some kind of Third World backwater that is dependent on the benevolence of the EU.

“If she were to go along to the EU now and tell them in the face of their intransigence to get stuffed, a huge proportion of the British people would be absolutely right behind her.”

Indeed. David Cameron should have said that a long time ago.

16 Comments

  1. A hard border between NI and the rest of the UK is, quite rightly, unacceptable to the DUP. What we need to do is simply declare that there will be no tariffs on goods imported from the EU and that we accept imported goods conforming to EU standards. This puts the burden on the EU. If it wishes to impose tariffs on UK goods or inspect UK goods for conformity to EU standards, then it will have to erect a hard border on its side of the border, but there need not be one on our side.

    • Yup. Precisely. As far as the movement of people is concerned, non Irish and UK citizens go through passport control when arriving at English, Welsh and Scottish ports.

  2. Perhaps even a remainiac like Teresa May has her limits. Whatever her treatment at the hands of British opponents, what has she, or anybody British in any capacity who isn’t a soulless Euro whore, ever received other than utter and total contempt?

    When Mr potato head went for his “renegotiation” was it beyond them to offer even the appearance of some minor concession and to adopt a tone that had some small indication that they would at least listen? That might have given them the extra few percent they needed.

    I know a number of remain voters who are seriously angry now that they see the true nature of the Reich and the weasly non entities that “run” it. Is this sort of change of heart solely to be found among voters?

    We will leave, one way or the other. They can’t stop this now. What they can do is simply have a tantrum and do damage. There is nothing for them, no euro-teat to clamp onto any more. Clegg and Milliband fucked off to the states. Why not something in the EU they had prostitutes themselves to for so many years.

    There is nowhere for them but Blighty. They have failed. They are not going to deliver a rich province to their masters. There will be no reward (and these rewards would have been for a chosen few, not the common herd of rent a mouth drones). Perhaps they are beginning to realise this as well.

    I will welcome anybody who genuinely changes their mind. Indeed, I already have.

    But what of these increasingly desperate, hate filled degenerates. I would happily clamp them all in irons and have them breaking rocks for the rest of their days.

    But I suspect we will just have to console ourselved with the pleasure of seeing them shrivel and die. Oh how I wish that ultimate hate filled traitor Heath was still around to see this.

  3. Haahahahahahahahahahaha…sorry but sometimes there is some levity to be found in BrexSShite. I’m laughing because, believe it or not, I’m reading around the net comments from the more BrexSShitey who are creaming themselves because they imagine this makes a car crash brexit the more likely, or even more amusingly, that May is putting pressure on the EU! No one expects the British Comfy Cushion! (protip: always ignore what Verhofstadt says and assume the exact opposite of IDS’s mouthings).
    Can’t they see this is May ramping up the Project Fear and playing chicken with the DUP? Something like 50% of The House is agin a No Deal Brexit, May is counting on them chickening out at the last moment and backing her ‘deal’ rather than risk a No-deal by default.

      • Indeed, but who is bluffing who and does any of this matter in the real world? What crashes into, onto or out of what if there’s no “deal”.

        I’ m coming round to the belief that nobody actually want a “deal” and all they want to do is point fingers when there isn’t one

        Who’s going to end up with egg on their faces? Who cares?

    • Yes maybe 50% of the House are against the clean break from our collective mummy’s teat.

      But the Tories at least ain’t all as suicidal as they appear, if they fail to deliver Brexit, their party and their political careers are history, same i suspect for many remainer Labour MP’s in constituencies that voted to leave.

      There may well be only a handful of patriots in the house, but how many of the others are prepared for their political careers to vanish round the U bend.

  4. No Deal is by far the best solution.

    Just say ‘No’ and walk away!

    Let them try to come for us, there are far better business people in the UK than in that shit-hole in Brussels, and when we’ve left them to it, they can have Blair, Heseltine, Major, Clegg and the dribbling wreck Campbell and let them piddle about with their little fantasies like they always did.

    You never know, when the EU is eventually cast adrift without our money, there may well be just a little investigation into the crooks mentioned above, just to keep them on their toes like…

    Anyone for popcorn in – say – a couple of years?

  5. I think that if we had a competent and hard nosed negotiator on our side we could possibly have had a deal that was worth supporting. As it was, with a remainer supposedly fighting our corner, there was bad faith on both sides so how would it not be a disaster?

    Now I am slightly more hopeful that we won’t end up with a total sell out but I don’t trust the buggers at all.

  6. @LR

    Don’t be fooled, it’s part of her Project Fear II campaign to frighten MPs & Public into supporting EU’s Surrender Agreement

    Pre-planned and on her/No.10 daily plan as leaked by Guido.

    Ignore it and msm hyperbolic reaction.

    Don’t ignore how she’s wasting another ~2 Billion of taxpayers’ money to sell the surrender to EU and be slaves deal.

    .
    “There Will Be No Second Referendum!” – UK Prime Minister Cameron, Chatham House,10 Nov 2015

  7. On what are they going to spend the billions to prepare for WTO trade with the EU (15% of the global economy and stagnant) that they don’t need to spend on WTO with rest of the global economy (85% and growing)?

    Cannot they just expand current procedures to include EU Countries, given that those procedures are already in place because despite what is said there are Customs controls on incoming produce from the EU because of different currency, VAT, Excise Duty, labelling, veterinary practices, etc.

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