Politics

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 hour ago, Jol_BWFC said:

Sod the fish. Let them argue over it, then sell it to them in exchange for something that actually matters.

 

[victor meldrew]

2 hours ago, Casino said:

Its a shambles

thinking of calling it a day, cashing in all our chips and fucking off

very selfish, who's booking our train and match tickets?

not joining embankments mob.

[Farrelli]

2 hours ago, Casino said:

Surely the dicks in London and Brussels are going to put the brakes on this

We've all got bigger issues than proving a fucking point

Do you have any confidence in Gove/Bozo/Cummings doing the right thing? 

[Ani]

On 12/10/2020 at 21:26, Farrelli said:

Do you have any confidence in Gove/Bozo/Cummings doing the right thing? 

Why not ? What is happening at the moment that makes you think they will not put self interest ahead of the needs of ‘normal’ people in the North ?? 

[Mounts Kipper]

Both sides saying fishing is the big issue, don’t believe that at all, level playing field is surely the only real big issue to overcome. I think deals basically done and only issue is how both parties spin it to the people. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

14 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Both sides saying fishing is the big issue, don’t believe that at all, level playing field is surely the only real big issue to overcome. I think deals basically done and only issue is how both parties spin it to the people. 

Its big over in Europe as plenty of them eat more fish than us. Its therefore important to us as a negotiating tool.

[Sweep]

12 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Both sides saying fishing is the big issue, don’t believe that at all, level playing field is surely the only real big issue to overcome. I think deals basically done and only issue is how both parties spin it to the people. 

I'm with you on that, I really don't see either side really giving even the slightest fuck about fishing, it's virtually worthless in the grand scheme of things.

Regarding how each side spins it, you're right, both sides have to spin it to their people so that it looks like they've got a better deal than is currently in place. The EU need to persuade their members that the UK hasn't got a deal as good as member states....and the UK has to persuade us that we've got a deal that is better than we had before (or at worst case, the same)

I'm looking forward to see how that all pans out - to be honest, I'd have thought the sensible thing to do might be push it back 12 months, due to the current issues, but it looks like we possibly don't need to

[Mounts Kipper]

2 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I'm with you on that, I really don't see either side really giving even the slightest fuck about fishing, it's virtually worthless in the grand scheme of things.

Regarding how each side spins it, you're right, both sides have to spin it to their people so that it looks like they've got a better deal than is currently in place. The EU need to persuade their members that the UK hasn't got a deal as good as member states....and the UK has to persuade us that we've got a deal that is better than we had before (or at worst case, the same)

I'm looking forward to see how that all pans out - to be honest, I'd have thought the sensible thing to do might be push it back 12 months, due to the current issues, but it looks like we possibly don't need to

Pushing it back creates more uncertainty, markets hate that, cut the deal and give the markets certainty and we can all move on. 

[Spider]

I guess you'd need to ask a fisherman

My hunch is that Boris and co. will fuck them over simply to get any kind of deal over the line.

A deal is one thing, a good deal is entirely another.

"Yes, we agreed a deal to sell all these ten pound notes for a fiver each". 

[Farrelli]

6 hours ago, Ani said:

Why not ? What is happening at the moment that makes you think they will not put self interest ahead of the needs of ‘normal’ people in the North ?? 

I hope you are right, I’ve just not seen any evidence before. Always a first time though so fingers crossed. 

[frank_spencer]

4 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

I hope you are right, I’ve just not seen any evidence before. Always a first time though so fingers crossed. 

I think you may have missed the sarcasm in Ani's post there

[Escobarp]

Whhhhhoooooooossssssshhhhhh

[Farrelli]

1 hour ago, frank_spencer said:

I think you may have missed the sarcasm in Ani's post there

😀👍

[Spider]

Oven Ready

 

[Spider]

For balance, we are racing through these deals with other world trading heavyweights 

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

For balance, we are racing through these deals with other world trading heavyweights 

 

I like my bananas. They don't grow much in the eu neither.

[Sweep]

5 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I like my bananas. They don't grow much in the eu neither.

I didn't know we got bananas from the Ivory Coast, I thought we got them all from South America....not that I know much about it. I'd have thought/guessed this deal would be pretty much made up of Cocoa imports, as I think that's pretty much all they do over there

Either way, even though it's not worth anything, at least it's another one ticked off the list, I'll grasp on to any piece of good news at the minute 🙂

 

Unrelated, but I'm sure I once read that average life expectancy in Ivory Coast is only about 50 years old, which is really shit, it must be a proper grim place

[Spider]

6 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I didn't know we got bananas from the Ivory Coast, I thought we got them all from South America....not that I know much about it. I'd have thought/guessed this deal would be pretty much made up of Cocoa imports, as I think that's pretty much all they do over there

Either way, even though it's not worth anything, at least it's another one ticked off the list, I'll grasp on to any piece of good news at the minute 🙂

 

Unrelated, but I'm sure I once read that average life expectancy in Ivory Coast is only about 50 years old, which is really shit, it must be a proper grim place

Average wage is £30 a month

We’ll dealing with big players

[mickbrown]

22 minutes ago, Spider said:

For balance, we are racing through these deals with other world trading heavyweights 

 

Phew. Thank fuck for that. I was beginning to worry where I would get my Ivory.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

7 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I didn't know we got bananas from the Ivory Coast, I thought we got them all from South America....not that I know much about it. I'd have thought/guessed this deal would be pretty much made up of Cocoa imports, as I think that's pretty much all they do over there

Either way, even though it's not worth anything, at least it's another one ticked off the list, I'll grasp on to any piece of good news at the minute 🙂

 

Unrelated, but I'm sure I once read that average life expectancy in Ivory Coast is only about 50 years old, which is really shit, it must be a proper grim place

Not in the top 10 producers, but export a fair bit to Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_production_in_Ivory_Coast

Didn't realise that India dwarfs all the others in production weights.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

Average wage is £30 a month

We’ll dealing with big players

what's the cost of living?

[mickbrown]

2 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

what's the cost of living?

Think the point is they'll be buying fuck all of any value from us.

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Just now, mickbrown said:

Think the point is they'll be buying fuck all of any value from us.

 

Do they now?

 

[mickbrown]

1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Do they now?

 

Wouldn't have thought so which makes the Government taking to twitter to wank each other off even funnier.

[Sweep]

1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Do they now?

 

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