Posts by John Smith 19

"We export bugger all into Europe."

Here, here.

Spoken like a true Brexiteer.

You must be terribly excited at the prospect of "taking back control" as you and your cultist breathern kept chanting.

"For a minute I thought the professionals were involved, "

Don't worry.

In time people will be scratching heads thinking "C19, what was that?"

Compared to Ebola (77-93% mortality) 1% is frankly not that serious.

Until you consider it's more than doubling the UK annual death rate.

The problem is there is no test to find out which 1% it would kill outright.

Now if only such a test existed......

"It can only get better because we will have removed the old, retired (ie deadweight)

racist Brexiters."

Actually a fair number of them have died over the last 4 years.

In fact it's estimated the majority that gave this farce legs died by early 2018.

I imagine C19 has picked off quite a few more.

So Farage Garage will open on time.

Excellent.

"Everything mainframe is new again!"

So true.

Except, perhaps the reliability.

"Oh no I didn't."

Well no.

But "you" as in the collective members of the UK population.

Y'know, "The will of the people" as BB like to put it (carefully massaged by Cambridge Analytica's lies and without any help from Russian troll farms. No siree. No evidence of s**t stirring by Russia.

Just the 30 odd years of Boris's "work" starting at the Telegraph.

"It might have escaped your notice but your favourite hate figure is the only UK

prime minister we've ever had (one one of only a few ministers overall) with a STEM background."

It hasn't.

And I credit that with her ability to tell the difference between all the BS projected about the EEC and later EU with the reality of power. I doubt she'd ever have let some back bencher have a referendum bill like the stupid and weak Cameron did.

Although it's interesting to note she seemed to get involved in politics after she trained as a barrister, which has much less to do with facts and much more with convincing people of your PoV (IE the defendant is innocent) regardless of such details as the actual facts.

"Afterwards we whine because Europe has no tech industry "

Should read

Afterwards we whine because Europe Britain has no tech industry

You voted to leave "Europe" in 2016.

Remember?

"So, road/sea based trade is basically fucked come 1st Jan?"

Not at all according to the head of Dover port.

Because it's a public holiday.

Road/sea trade on January 2nd OTOH........

"something to take one step, they have taken 5. You are not catching up, ever."

The argument of why every dictatorship in history cannot fail.

Except that they mostly have.

"Dyson then. My cousin was one of the under-appreciated engineers."

Oh yes. A big supporter of Brexit.

Still is AFAIK, although he and the firm have f**ked off to Singapore in the meantime.

I love "patriots" who love the UK so much they just don't actually want to be taxed there, or in fact live there either.

@EvilDrSmith

Let's look at those numbers.

Land. The UK is between Guinea and Uganda on the list of countries with less than 1.5million Km^2 of area. That's 1.47% of the full range

Population it's 4.7% of the biggest.

In GDP terms the UK is indeed 5th or 6th depending on World Bank, IMF or UN figures, for now.

So yes, it is a little country which used to have a large empire but doesn't anymore. As per your name, "Never fear, Smith is here."

"It'll never come to fruition."

Wrong tense.

It already has.

Will it be anything other than a massive cluster f**k?

Probably not.

But it is happening right now so all those leavers can start cracking open the shampers and toasting what you voted for. Because this is exactly what they voted for.

"once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,

must be the truth."*

Well, I had to let the Gammons down gently otherwise I'd be responsible for dozens of strokes across the Home Counties.

*And in this case obvious to anyone with their eyes actually open and their brain in working order.

"And we have not even completely left yet - Still in transition."

Indeed.

Brexiteers love WWII so this is 1939 or the "Phony" Brexit..

No doubt they look forward to Jan 1st 2021 for the return of the Blitz spirit*

*That is a thriving black market for luxuries, an increase in rape and desperate sex to blot out the horror and the demolition of more of the largest housing stock built before 1919 in Europe.

Only joking.

The housing stock will remain the worst insulated, built and old in Europe.

"nobody told us that"..."hand the country on a silver platter to the Tory brexiteers"

WTF did you think those very rich people where bankrolling something that every economist agreed (with exactly 1 exception) would leave the UK worse off X years down the line than it would be inside the EU. Yes you'd be poorer, but they wouldn't. .

BTW Economists are notorious for not agreeing about anything.

Banjos are for playing.

That's what makes them banjos. Time for the conductor to play them once again.

"EU will want to protect it's..members from shoddy products produced in sweat-shops"

Funny how that works is it not?

Whoever could have predicted such a stance?

"Anything good the UK invents we sell off, before it can make a profit."

The UK has a very strange financial sector that is basically not geared to talking to British industry.

Fund a bridge over the Bospherous. No problem. Fund a new large press with a solid 2 year order book once construction was under way? F**k right off you pleb. Part of the reason REL has struggled to raise funds throughout its history. In contrast SCramjets have had North of $10Bn pumped into them over 7 decades (REL's last investment round was about £100m, what Musk spent on setting up SpaceX) by the US military and failed to deliver a single working missile/drone/aircraft.

Actually the UK has quite a good track record of setting up niche technology (especially pharmaceutical) companies.

The problem is the complete failure of nerve as the investors can't wait to sell out to the nearest (American/Japanese/Chinese/Albanian/Whatever) corp that rocks up.

It looks like a massive failure of vision (or nerve) across British industry. Why should they sell up when they could lead? Because it's the saaaaaafe option. Like f**k.

"Little countries tend to get bossed around by superpowers "

But, but, but your suggesting that Britain is a little country.

Surely that cannot be true.

Many peoples belief systems would simply crumble if that were correct.