Has anyone in history been less gracious in victory than the Brexiters?
They got what they wanted.
But that hasn't been enough. It's never enough. Many continue to behave as if their fondest dream is to bathe in Remainer tears.
If someone's not hurting, they're not winning!
This intellectual sadism has become a substitute for Brexit wins as we would normally understand the concept, i.e. the things to be gained from Brexit.
That's because there aren't any. Or none that outweigh what we've lost.
So making a bad situation intolerable will have to do.
At the end of the day, Brexit is nothing more than the licence a group of bullies - a sadly large group, at that - need to beat up everyone else.
Only, they're not doing it stealthily behind the bike sheds, but heads held high in broad daylight in the middle of the street.
What makes bullies powerful?
Apathy, and an unwillingness to get involved.
Bullies are always outnumbered by everyone else.
If we band together, we will always be stronger than them.
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One of the most damaging impacts of Brexit is likely to come on 1 January 2022.
That's when the CE mark will no longer be valid for goods on sale in Great Britain (NI is an even more awkward case).
Instead, a new UKCA mark will be needed. This has a number of consequences...
1. GB manufacturers will incur the expense of separate UKCA and CE certification if they want to sell their products in the EU or to NI.
2. EU manufacturers will have to register UKCA marks just for 1 market out of 28. How many will have sales volumes that warrant that hassle?
3. Goods sold in NI will continue to need the CE mark.
4. Non-EU non-UK manufacturers will also need UKCA marks. Again, how many will bother with that extra bureaucracy, rather than just give up on the UK market?
There's a tonne of additional Brexit-related changes coming down the pipe. We're not done with the upheaval yet!
I've laid out the timeline for these changes below.
30 June 2021: Deadline to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme in the UK.
1 July 2021: New EU VAT regime, affecting sales into the EU market by non-EU firms. Elimination of VAT exemption on low value consignments (previously up to EUR 22) so all goods imported into the EU will be liable to VAT. ec.europa.eu/taxation_custo…
1 July 2021: HTA licences required to import or export human tissue and cells between GB and the EEA. hta.gov.uk/importing-and-…
Let's keep track of which Tory MPs use the insult "remoaner", shall we? For posterity, and all that... Plus it gives an idea of the inclusive tolerance of those elected to represent ALL their constituents.
We have:
- Julian Knight
- Tim Loughton
- Andrew Bridgen
- Tom Hunt
Could there be more? Let's see...
- Nigel Adams
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Robert Halfon
- Bernard Jenkin
Surely that must be the end of the divisive unprofessionalism? You'd think so, and yet...
- Tom Hunt
- Richard Graham
- David TC Davies MP
- Owen Paterson
"‘Only Remainers complaining!’ Britons back new patriotic song for school children – poll"
That's in the EXPRESS.
Even they could only muster 49.6% support (vs. 48.3% "no") for the hyper-creepy song One Britain One Nation are pushing for schools to sing. express.co.uk/news/uk/145382…
If you don't know the song, it begins...
"We are Britain
And we have one dream
To unite all people
In one great team"
and ends...
"Strong Britain, Great Nation
Strong Britain, Great Nation
Strong Britain, Great Nation
Strong Britain, Great Na-a-tion."
Not a joke. It's real!
One Britain One Nation claims this on its homepage: " Today’s Britain boasts a wonderful array of cultures. It is our multicultural identity that makes Britain so unique.
Our diverse cultures are inextricably linked by the sole fact that we are British." onebritainonenation.com
Many Brexiters are deflecting from the news O2 is reintroducing roaming fees for EU travel by saying "only above a huge 25GB of data so it's a non-story".
Not the point. O2 is doing something that was supposedly not going to happen. Others can follow. Or O2 can lower its limits.
There is literally nothing stopping them now that we're no longer in the EU, and therefore no longer subject to the directive on roaming.
Our right to roam at home rates used to be protected under EU law. Now we're entirely reliant on the kindness of huge multinational firms.
It's like looking at a dam, and seeing a trickle of water seep through a crack.
The big story isn't that it's only a trickle. It's that the dam isn't watertight any more.
Where O2 has shown the way, others can now follow.