UK is Fucked
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- lowimpakt3
so the deal is
No free movement of people to work, live or study in Europe
No free movement of goods or services meaning lots of new paperwork but with zero tarrifs and quotas
UK to leave Erasmus programme and concede on fisheries
UK pets need passports as do the the UK financial services but fuck the financial services.
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- Blue Passports though and some shite about borders and fish.PhanLo
- all these to discourage others...grafician
- These are not things brought out to discourage anyone. They are a tiny amount of the basic realities of being in the EU (if I understand your point correctly)lowimpakt
- I wonder how fast the tories will get rid of workers rights? Then human rights?PhanLo
- It’s fucking shite. Idiots voted for it based on fake ass hype rich idiots told them.shapesalad
- It’s happened, get over it and get on with your life. Nothing anyone can say or do will change that.Morning_star
- Pandemic + Brexit = Y'all Fucked!utopian
- I don't see the £350 million a week NHS money on this list.jmckinno
- Nairn3
That's it. I officially hate my own country.
- aren't we all?Beeswax
- Nothing else for it, Nairn.
You'll have to marry your partner for that sweet, sweet Italian passport.Continuity
- PhanLo2
- https://youtu.be/SRv…Bluejam
- https://gfycat.com/s…fadein11
- Pew Pewjmckinno
- BallastMrT
- injecting the vaccine from the hellicopter ..brilliant.neverscared
- PhanLo1
It's quite mad, nearly 1000 people died yesterday from Covid in the UK, but mad fuckers like Corbyn's brother are out doing shit like this https://twitter.com/mbklee_/stat…
-- Watched a live feed last night showing these idiots in the streets.microkorg
- everything for attention they learned it from boris and co.neverscared
- Celebrating a covid hoax party right outside of a hospital where people are sick...stay classy UK.utopian
- he's a fucking loonfadein11
- I can't watch this type of thing anymore it's too depressing. My new year's resolution is to call out people who aren't actively trying to get rid of this virusBaskerviIle
- We really need ID cards, with CCTV AI face detection, so those idiots can be marked on the database as 'not treatable at any NHS hospital'.shapesalad
- shapesalad3
- Who makes this shit? Rather than complaining about the incompetence of the government, let's just get on with it and stop the spread by acting responsibly.BaskerviIle
- It puzzles me that we agree that Boris is an idiot, yet still wait for him to dictate new rules. We're free to act with an excess of caution without being toldBaskerviIle
- Exactly. The only other way is for the government to go full authoritarian and fuck everyone over, and then we'd have that full spectrum of complaint.Nairn
- Italy has curfew-level lockdown now, which is probably not a terrible idea, but people are going fucking spastic about it over there.Nairn
- Who makes this shit?! No idea, probably a spotty 15 year old lad in Cleethorpes named Darren who likes to wank off to Anal sex porn.shapesalad
- But my guess is as good as yours.shapesalad
- I agree Nairn, you're damned either way if you go full curfew. Cummings' airport psychology books and his 'nudge' theory did F-allBaskerviIle
- Watching the UK from NYC has been quite wild. All of my mates had kids back in school and were booking holidays when we were still in a lockdown here.DaveO
- They all had their summer in and out of pubs and restaurants, and masks in public aren't required as heavily as here.DaveO
- And then on NYE we face timed with our friends and they were all having various parties that broke all the rules!DaveO
- I hope everyone can clear it up – my brother has a wedding business so his livelihood depends on it!DaveO
- Boris will do it via Zoom at his dad's house in FrancePhanLo
- loldmilfhunter
- It's easy to say, blame the people, but look at the infrastructure in which certain societies exist in the UK. Boris has an impossible task for sure,Ianbolton
- but then surely as a government you should already have built the trust and compassion necessary for the people to follow your guidance - because it makes senseIanbolton
- I have friends who work within COVID wards and also with vulnerable people. One of those had to pay for their own test - his first since all this started.Ianbolton
- You can see why people refuse to follow rules, but our country is segregated enough by people thinking Brexit was a fucking good/bad idea. Good luck n stay safeIanbolton
- nb1
Wait.
Hold up.
Just a sec.
At the risk of being the ignorant American in the room...
What the fuck PETS need a passport?!? Like a passport for your dog?!?! Hahahawut
- think of it like a vaccination certificateNutter
- if anything in this world makes sense anymore it's legally required paperwork proving the animal you're flying with doesn't have a virusFax_Benson
- because this sceptred isle is rabies free, unlike the disgusting continent where it's rife. and we don't want that shit here.hans_glib
- yes, they have a cute little book with their photo in it and stamps of all the places they have been.
It's for disease control, you muppet.face_melter - If you have the right connections you can get a Diplomatic Pet Passport, my Gerbil 'Gertrude' used to have one, but due to some political infighting...shapesalad
- A passport is a funny term for it.nb
- Good. People should stop flying with pets as much as possible anyway.monospaced
- As an American, you are probably confused by the term passport. It's what we use to leave our own country and explore other nations.Hayzilla
- Bluejam1
- To this day, Neil still gets way angry if he's asked about the time he found out his girlfriend was a high-class hooker lolface_melter
- Neil looks like Gene Hackman crossed with a shredded wheat.babaganush
- renderedred0
if trumpy moves to scotland to rest after his glorious presidency, so he can be close to his friend in london ;) you fucked 100%!
- PhanLo1
Last 1938 Tube trains on the Isle of Wight.
It's cool to seeing a train that still has wooden parts in it.
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- uan0
https://theconversation.com/amp/…
uk got rid of coal during the 2010ths
- utopian2
This thread is gaining traction.
- PhanLo1
- watched this earlier. ugh.fadein11
- Owen Jones. Man is he annoying, however this video is good.shapesalad
- I wish Jone's had a sense of humour, but then we wouldn't get serious stuff like this. Very thorough stuff though. Grim watchingIanbolton
- grafician-3
"Patients have turned down the chance to have the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine because they want to "wait for the English one", a doctor says"
All these nationalists and their flegs...
- English one is based on a monkey virus... pretty sure if they heard that...shapesalad
- ^that!grafician
- Bluejam0
- :(fadein11
- fuck the bbc with their out of context scaremongeringhans_glib
- total deaths this year from all causes were 603,077 according to the ons.hans_glib
- fuuuck :/PonyBoy
- ie over 7.5x of those olympic stadiahans_glib
- https://www.ons.gov.…hans_glib
- Crazy that they were all at the event 8yrs ago but only died of covid this year. If only they'd known.Fax_Benson
- interested to know percent increase of deaths in 2020 compared to past 10 years. Is like a 100% increase, or 1%?shapesalad
- they could do the same report but on those killed in traffic accidents, or those who die due to obesity complications.shapesalad
- Yes the virus is bad, it's likely from a lab, but without modern medicine, these sorts of pandemics are natural, part of nature, needed for natural selection.shapesalad
- You could argue that without these sorts of 'culls' we as a species are diluting our 'genes' and making out species weaker and weaker, more reliant on medicine.shapesalad
- five year average, according to ons:
530573.8hans_glib - interesting that's come down a lot, it was 80,000+ towards end of last year (5 year average).fadein11
- from June, but it had gone up considerably later on:
https://www.ft.com/c…fadein11 - @shapesalad so dont' cure any disease and go back to a 35 year life expectancy?robotinc
- Bluejam2
- proper british gas fired heater there.shapesalad
- fucking brilliantfadein11
- Bungling Boris and Farage chasing a pig down a cobbled street, while Gove groans and holds his back, Priti in curlers and apron shaking her head.face_melter
- BaskerviIle2
For those above discussing the Newsnight olympic stadium video:
Yes you could do the same for any common cause of death (eg fatalities from car accidents, obesity etc). But the point is, Covid exists on top of those other events, not instead of. Covid is also not a side effect of any other behaviour...cars are a useful form of transport, eating is necessary for life etc.This video from a the Data is Beautiful subreddit plots the ICU admissions on typical flu seasons (2013-present) against those over the past season with Covid present. It's a marked increase.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisb…- yes, but if everyone died of covid then that would really bring all the other numbers down wouldn't it? #lifehacksscruffics
- sadly the numbers are suspect, as there have been several documented cases of covid being entered as cause of death when the true cause was something else...hans_glib
- not that i'm denying people are dying of covid, mindhans_glib
- I know this is just a random design forum, but hans_glib, please think before voicing your unfounded nonsense.BaskerviIle
- I don't care what you want to believe but if your words have even the slightest chance of causing more spread, illness and death then hold them back.BaskerviIle
- Now is not the time to doubt the scientists, doctors and nurses who have spent the past 10 months battling this and saving lives.BaskerviIle
- So save your doubt and ego and be part of the solution and help stop this thing.BaskerviIle
- There are no downsides to behaving responsibly and trusting experts far more qualified than you, but many downsides to seeding doubt and fearBaskerviIle
- @hansglib - 2 words, excess deaths.fadein11
- +1 baskervillefadein11
- seeding fear - never, the media do more than enough of that. seeding doubt, not trying to. but there's nothing wrong with trying to contextualise raw data imo.hans_glib
- and i expressly pointed out both that i know people are dying and that the deaths are on top of the norm.hans_glib
- so please read my comments properly before jumping down my throat.hans_glib
- @hans There's an MOE figured into these datasets to quantify uncertainty. Baskerville is right in calling you out because..garbage
- ..seeds of doubt bloom all these wonderful COVID deniers that have made things worse for those of us with brains.garbage
- PhanLo0
- Boris Johnson has "the leadership qualities of .. i dunno.. a dormouse on acid, or something"Nairn
- That was a class quote to be fair. I like this guy alreadyIanbolton
- Newham UK covid hotpsot. Newham liek 80% ethnic minorities. Perhaps brexiteers are getting what they really wanted when they voted leave....shapesalad
- But more seriously... ethnic = darker skin, in winter, lack of Vitamin D. Is that being educated to them?shapesalad
- Of course it isn’t Shapesalad. People are just told to stay inside. No real info at allPhanLo