[Oldmanmatt]

So, IOD monthly newsletter popped up in my inbox this morning (well, yesterday really, but I didn’t read it until today).

https://www.iod.com/news/navigating-brexit-for-business/articles/nearly-a-third-of-firms-looking-overseas-due-to-brexit

Please tell me how this is a good thing?

I just do not get how, so many continue to assert that this is all “just project fear” and not realise that we are just telegraphing our distaste for the rest of the world, to the rest of the world and to half of us born here.

Oh, and frankly, I’m with these guys:

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/news-opinion/snow-brexit-big-fake-news-2486161

[tc]

Guy Verhofstadt nails it:

https://www.facebook.com/GuyVerhofstadt/videos/386412598827338/

[mrjonathanr]

A masterclass in clarity. Appropriately enough.

Thanks for posting.

[Oldmanmatt]

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-nissan/nissan-to-cancel-uk-x-trail-manufacture-plans-sky-news-idUKKCN1PR0HS

[largeruk]

“Britain is one of the richest and most advanced democracies in the world. It is currently locked in a room, babbling away to itself hysterically while threatening to blow its own kneecaps off. This is what nationalist populism does to a country.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-collective-madness-behind-britains-latest-brexit-plan/2019/01/31/48d4d67e-2578-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html

[Oldmanmatt]

“Britain is one of the richest and most advanced democracies in the world. It is currently locked in a room, babbling away to itself hysterically while threatening to blow its own kneecaps off. This is what nationalist populism does to a country.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-collective-madness-behind-britains-latest-brexit-plan/2019/01/31/48d4d67e-2578-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html

“Trying to unlock  a door with a slice of bread”.

[tc]

Polly Toynbee in the Guardian today:

"Just to reprise the government’s own warnings: putrid rubbish will fester in the streets, and slurry will stink out the countryside, risking a plague of rats. Sheep will be slaughtered, unexportable with a 60% tariff. Supermarket shelves will empty – it only takes a rumour to set off panic-buying. The NHS may lack medicines. The army and police stand ready for riots, all this costing £4.2bn. You may shrug off Project Fear forecasts – but the pound has already fallen 15%, carmaking has lost 50% investment in a year, and finance is in flight with 2% less growth. The business minister warns that Brexit is a crisis but no deal “will be a catastrophe”. Good grief, even the Queen may flee for fear of us storming her palace."

We're all doomed.

[Offwidth]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/05/civil-servant-no-deal-brexit-operation-yellowhammer

[monkoffunk]

Who else is stockpiling some essential supplies and what are you buying?

[SA Chris]

Whisky and arrows for the crossbow.

[tomtom]

Petrol for the generator.

[Will Hunt]

Petrol for the generator.

A generator's a mug's game. When the maruading hordes see the lights on in your house or hear the genny rumbling, yours will be the first house to be raided. I'd invest in some black-out blinds and good solar panels and batteries.

[SA Chris]

Sentient protection drones patrolling my property.

[tomtom]

Petrol for the generator.

A generator's a mug's game. When the maruading hordes see the lights on in your house or hear the genny rumbling, yours will be the first house to be raided. I'd invest in some black-out blinds and good solar panels and batteries.

I think a genny in the cellar will be easier to hide than the black out blinds and the solar panels :D

[slab_happy]

Who else is stockpiling some essential supplies and what are you buying?

Prescription meds. If those run out, I only have rather limited time, so after that I'll be compiling a list of people to try to take down with me.

[monkoffunk]

Sentient protection drones patrolling my property.

Are they made by the same people who make the new border drones that eliminate the need for physical checks?

[GraemeA]

Who else is stockpiling some essential supplies and what are you buying?

Prescription meds. If those run out, I only have rather limited time, so after that I'll be compiling a list of people to try to take down with me.

That's pretty shit :-(

(But can we make nominations?)

[slab_happy]

Who else is stockpiling some essential supplies and what are you buying?

Prescription meds. If those run out, I only have rather limited time, so after that I'll be compiling a list of people to try to take down with me.

That's pretty shit :-(

Fortunately I'm not on anything that's controlled or has a short shelf-life, and I have a friendly psychiatrist, so I can stockpile several months's worth and be reasonably sure I can weather likely disruptions to the supply chain (unless we hit full-on zombie apocalypse dystopia).

I'm just aware from past experience of just how fast I can tank if stuff's tapered, and having a sense of "roughly how many weeks until I would need to be hospitalized" is ... less than fun.

But it's people who are on controlled meds or anything with a short shelf-life (like insulin) who are in really serious danger. I'm comparatively lucky.

[Oldmanmatt]

Hmmm...

The life threatening, prescription med thing is awful.

But, you know there are a few million women on various birth control regimes, that can’t just be stopped (there are reasons other than birth control, for being on them).

Brexit Baby Boom?

It’s just stupid.

If it’s only a 1/4 as bad as the median prediction, it’s chaos and hugely damaging.

[largeruk]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/30/no-deal-brexit-poses-a-potentially-fatal-risk-to-those-with-epilepsy

[monkoffunk]

Friend of mine is stockpiling salbutamol.

Drug supply chains are quite fragile as it is. We often have minor shortages at work that tend to have relatively easy work arounds. It becomes clear though that every manufacturer of certain drugs rely on very few or a single manufacturer of certain necessary components. I can only assume the trusts are planning to cancel elective surgery in the event of no deal to preserve stocks. Not so easy for chronic conditions.

[Oldmanmatt]

https://www.indy100.com/article/brexit-supporter-max-gammon-bruges-group-speech-westminster-priti-patel-8762171?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1549384205

We are reaching peak absurdity.

[mrjonathanr]

I am afraid we may not get there for a while..

We are incapable of bringing ourselves to understand a deadly threat to our freedom, indeed a threat to our very existence as a nation.

I rather think Dr Gammon has a point, though maybe not the one he intended.

[monkoffunk]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47143135

It’s hard to disagree.

[TobyD]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47143135
It’s hard to disagree.

Indeed. I highly recommend reading John Craces political sketch in the guardian on this comment.

The absolute bone-headed intransigent idiocy of some of the hard-line Brexit believers is just depressing. They witter about border control technology that doesn't exist, insisting if does. They appear to think that the EU will give them the moon on a stick if they whinge on for long enough about the second world war and pride in British industry. There appears to be an intellectual vacuum at the heart of British politics at the moment. Leadsom, Johnson, Corbyn, Abbott...