The latest knife attack on the British cultural way of life is that anonymous EU politicians have decided to limit the European content of British TV and film productions shown over there to a maximum of 30% overall. Never mind Covid, this will see the funding cut for the whole industry by a colossal amount. There will be a drain of talent overseas in more areas than just the Arts.
Even Waitrose shelves have notices pinned on them now saying, 'Sorry for the shortages, we are trying our best to remedy the supply'. This is not just Brexit, but it is to do with furloughed lorry drivers who do not want to go back having realised they are working 14 hour shifts for peanuts, and do not want to be held personally responsible for a few tons of fresh food held up at the borders because of paper work which takes too long to complete. Britain is short of 50,000 lorry drivers who will not be replaced with European nationals.
The worst thing about it is that Boris Johnson simply does not care. He wants to sell-off Channel 4 and they want to sell off the BBC to the highest bidder as well.
Britain is, quite literally, going down the toilet. This is just the beginning.
Hope you feel better for that moan Tom. (I voted Remain so you can't blame me)
ReplyDeleteI wish I did feel better Weave, but I can't say that I do. Oh well, I can't see how I could blame you for anything either. You, to me, seem blameless.
DeleteI’m a remainder too
DeleteEither you meant to say 'remainer', not 'remainder', or you really do feel as though you are on the shelf. To quote a 1960s American hippy, 'Love is as perennial as the grass...'
DeleteDo you think this can be sorted over time?
ReplyDeleteIt will change, but things cannot be undone.
DeleteI am so sorry. It's like I felt back when Nixon was strangling us the first time with trickle down. It never trickled down then or any time thereafter, but at least we ditched him and have had a few goes at a better country.
ReplyDeleteThere - hopefully - be a few goes at a better country here too, but none of them will be successful in my lifetime.
DeleteThe question is how do we address it? Brexit is going to unfold in the next few years. Fishing has already gone down the pan, the farmers next. We need a rising in the North as Brexit doesn't pan out with the words as spoken by BJ.
ReplyDeleteI believe that it is all about break-up and dissolution. The EU will break up. The UK will break up - North from South. Economic warlords will carve up a new Dark Age. Them and us. Them and us.
DeleteAnd yet Boris remains immensely popular with many of those who will be worse off because of Brexit. It's baffling, or is it?
ReplyDeleteHe is a popularist. That's how they get to power. Think 1930s Germany and all the deals struck between wealthy industrialists and the National Socialists. People don't seem to learn and it is just as easy to hoodwink an entire nation now as it was then. The biggest lies are the most easily believed.
Delete"Them and us". That is what is going on over here too!
ReplyDeleteIt's worldwide.
DeleteIt may sound lame but it is exactly why I voted OUT. The EU is not an organisation of which the UK needs or wants to be part. It may be tough at the start but I am convinced still that it will be the remaking of the UK.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that it will be the remaking of the UK. It will need remaking but who knows how long it is going to take to get out of the shit storm on the horizon.
DeleteVery few of those who voted to leave will live to see any benefit whatsoever, unless they are very rich.
DeleteJust the reverse. The poor get poorer and ... you know the rest.
DeleteThe EU are behaving abominably because we have. They are miffed and why shouldn't they be? With a pillock like Johnson making promises and breaking them left right and centre they are entitled to be obstreperous. Brexit is not over, it's not in the past, it affects us daily how can that be over?
DeleteYes. I will carry on talking about it for as long as I want to, even if it upsets anyone's sense of guilt and embarrassment. It will outlive me.
DeleteIt is the EU who have made a decision not to show so much British tv, not us stopping them. As far as the BBC goes, it has dug its own grave. All views should be aired and not just what the BBC want to be aired and want us to hear to suit their agenda. You may not wish to agree with centre right but in freedom of speech they have as much right to be heard as centre left and the BBC should not seek to bury them, and ban them. Declaring a never ending war on Tory voters is not the answer to a recovering economy, a united people and a healthy opposition. The use of the word Brexiteer leaves me cold, it is outdated now, we have left the EU and we are all in it together, Brexit no longer exists, it is history. I do not want to stay in a place just because they will not let me go and will not knuckle down because they have trapped me, we are out, and like many people I know who voted Remain, I would vote leave again and for them the first time, they would vote Leave after seeing the way the EU has behaved. British products have not changed since we left the EU, the EU is playing awkward and making rules to hinder our exports. It is nothing to cow tow to.
ReplyDeleteNothing you say here is any different to what I have already said. Of course products have not changed, we just cannot sell them to Europe without punishment for trying. What are you trying to say? Everything is going just fine now we have left? Are you being deliberately obtuse to save face? You were told over and over again that Europe would find every excuse they could to punish us for flouncing out, now you are accusing them of being unfair in the negotiations. And what's this obsession you right wingers have with the BBC? You are just falling into the hands of this latest bunch of bastards who want to run it down to sell it off. It's about time you grew up.
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DeleteI do not allow personal attacks against anyone other than myself here, so I have deleted your comment/s Riu.
DeleteApologies Tom, Brexit dogmatism brings on the red mist.
DeleteEE are to reintroduce roaming charges for mobile phones abroad, because they are now out of the control from EU regulations. The rest will follow suit shortly, despite 'having no plans' to do so in the 'immediate future'. Every day there will be some other expense.
ReplyDeleteI have read my comment through and whilst you may not like it I do not see that it in any way merits your passing shot of "it's about time you grew up". Is this what you say to everybody who disagrees with you or votes for a different party to you? If your attention was to insult me and hurt me as I suspect it was then you succeeded.
ReplyDeleteI had no intention of hurting anyone, and if I hurt you then I am sorry, but I would have thought that someone who is as keen as you are to voice their opinions on such highly contentious issues would have a thicker skin than you appear to.
DeleteThis post was all to do with how the 50 odd percent of normally pragmatic people who voted on ideological grounds to leave the EU, refuse to accept that things are going very bad for the country and that they have been duped by organisations who care little - if at all - for the wellbeing of ordinary people. You still seem to believe the lie that the rapid deterioration of national assets is just part of the bumpy journey down the road which will lead to better things. Tell me, what better things? I really would like to know how the future is going to pan out for the better for people who can only just afford to buy food and pay the rent or mortgage as it is.
We are entering a period of untrammelled asset-stripping and out of control exploitation of national resources by global corporations who have been assisted in their greed by a desperately incompetent and sleazy government's attempts at making trade deals anywhere other than the European Union. Ideology never came into it as far as they were concerned, but they sold the notion to people who believed the lies painted on the side of a bus, and now all the predictions are coming true. I would just like everyone to stop making excuses for this government (they can do that perfectly well for themselves) and deny them any further opportunity to blame anyone other than themselves for this shocking mess so that they can get on with the job of clearing it up.
And this has nothing to do with anyone voting for a different party to me.
DeleteI told you what hurt me. I made it clear. I am not bothered by disagreements but to plunge in "time you grew up" was mean and unkind.
DeleteSay no more about it.
DeleteI will say whatever I like about it, whenever I like.
DeleteI was referring to what I said about being hurt. I said say no more about it, as in concern yourself no more.
DeleteAnd I say I will say whatever I like about it. You don't make the rules here.
Delete*Loud applause*
ReplyDeleteYes we knew this would happen. Dangerous fools.
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