Countdown to Brexit

[Mi-Amigo]

The UK leaves the EU at 23.00hrs [11pm] tonight.

According to BBC News online see here 

The British flag has been removed from its pole outside the European Parliament in Brussels and replaced with the flag of the European Union.

A clock counting down to the moment the UK leaves the EU will be projected on to Downing Street.

At 22.00 [10pm]: Boris Johnson will address the nation in a video message.

At 23.00 [11pm], Big Ben will not chime due to ongoing renovation works.

[pgn]

And now the cracks are beginning to show up around these parts... 

20-odd years of tolerance for each other, after a fashion, is beginning to crumble.  Not that I would point the finger of blame at the way various parts of the country are being treated, lied-to and generally wound up to have a go at each other...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-53693360

This is what is happening, after a fashion:

[pgn]

And so the madness, the uncertainty, the impact continues... What will it be like, really? 

From this side of the Irish Sea, it's all over the place... (pdf from my GDrive, as paywalls suck!) 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VWkN3QOOtvxtuddEQ5YzSPJM24lVZ3pQ/view?usp=drivesdk

[jonsie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54654814

....all sorted

[pgn]

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@jonsie wrote:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54654814

....all sorted

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So long as no more than 45% (or less) of the components in your Toyota are manufactured outside the EU... 😬

[pgn]

Just leaving this here, now another month has effectively been chopped off any possible Transition prep-work (training, computer systems, processes, permitting,...) by Lockdown2 in England 

[pgn]

I watched the debate in the House of Lords recently, where the Internal Market Bill was being scrutinised in intricate detail. Hard as it was to follow the flim-flam of "my Right Honourable Lord Prelate" so-and-so, summarised nicely in a post on Twitter thusly: "My most honourable lord of stuck up an anusshire made a great interaction that echoed her ladyship of deserted vaginashire when they pointed out the incongruity of amendment 17, part 23.", I persisted - and began to pick up on the general ebb and flow of the proceedings.

I then read on Sky News where"the other place", the House of Commons, will be whipped to squarely reject the decisions of the Lords, flim-flammery notwithstanding, and proceed with their Internal Market Bill plans (?) regardless. 

Meanwhile, back in the real world, where those who have been associated with the ill-gotten gains of the whole Brexit shenanigans, from their lofty eyries in Belize or Grand Cayman, I read (shortened as the date in the url makes the Forum filter throw a wobbler!): https://rb.gy/miorkq

So how, exactly, do this purveyor of syrups, sugars, and all things sticky, keep lobbying the Government to press on with their half-baked scheme to remove the UK from the EU? 

"Brexit: Major food suppliers warn customers in Northern Ireland they can't guarantee deliveries after transition period" 

I despair, really, I do. 

[Cleoriff]

@pgn  Such a pity you mentioned the lord and lady of....etc etc...I started laughing after reading that and find myself unable to read your link. I shall return to it

[pgn]

Laughter is the best medicine, @Cleoriff.

Alas, it, too, will be in short supply soon, I fear, along with the rest of the medicines we're in need of... I hear radioisotopes, used in cancer care, among others, will dwindle to zero after 01-Jan-2021, unless explicitly called out in whatever oven-ready deal gets accepted.

I know exactly where someone should light a fire... 

[Cleoriff]

Also Boris should be shivering in his boots during his 20 minute congratulatory phone call to President Elect Joe Biden.

Apparently Mr Biden expressed 'great concern' at the Brexit no deal. In fact he doesn't appear to be at all keen on us leaving the EU at all.

My greatest concern when I voted to remain, was the highly probable loss of all our medical research links with other EU countries.

[TallTrees]

Mr. Biden will not be "batting" for Britain. USA doesn't need us and there's never been a special relationship. There's a lot of history though, mostly not good.
Boris seems to have forgotten we are not an Empire now..and..if we were Boris ..y o u ..would not be at the helm boy. ..you are not a Statesman just a weedy little brat let loose because we've lost our way. OMG here I go again 🤪