Current Politics in the United Kingdom

[gordian_knot]

There will be plans already drawn up by the civil service to cover every possible scenario, including transition arrangements. But they can only be in outline because their final form depends also on what the EU will agree to, and the EU is refusing to talk about these aspects at this time.

Hammond and Fox can agree or disagree on what they want or think might be necessary, but it is all whistling in the dark until the EU is prepared to sit down and talk about it. Nothing can be done unilaterally and the timetable is being set by Brussels.

[Puhbear69]

Originally Posted by vinceprince

New Brexiteer = 3rd Reich?

Don't worry by the time any deal is sorted out most of the militant leave voters will be dead or incapacitated.

Yeah, the Remainers one couldn’t call small minority at least.

So my compare isn't -fully- correct.

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by vinceprince

Don't worry by the time any deal is sorted out most of the militant leave voters will be dead or incapacitated.

And by that time most of the Remoaners will be collecting unemployment benefits whilst looking for a highly paid job with their Sociology and Media Studies degrees

Who'd have funk it, over one year later and still it goes on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYS-V9zfKuY
No apologies for using a classic tune from a German rock legend, aided by Brit Gary Barden.

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by gordian_knot

There will be plans already drawn up by the civil service to cover every possible scenario, including transition arrangements.

I was a civil servant for 20 years...love your faith but...erm! Doubt it!

There will be an empty buff file somewhere marked "What the f...!?"

[vinceprince]

Originally Posted by bloke57

I was a civil servant for 20 years...love your faith but...erm! Doubt it!

There will be an empty buff file somewhere marked "What the f...!?"

I was one for just 3 years but had the same experience in the 90s.

I remember when a minister used to visit the management's usual tactic was to get everyone into one room to make it look 'busy'. It usually worked as the ministers usually had no fucking idea as to what we were really meant to be doing.

Generally the higher the grade the more fucking clueless they were.

[Wendigo]

Originally Posted by vinceprince

Generally the higher the grade the more fucking clueless they were.

What's with the past tense ???
Rest assured that time honoured tradition is still being maintained amongst senior management

[gordian_knot]

Originally Posted by bloke57

I was a civil servant for 20 years...love your faith but...erm! Doubt it!

There will be an empty buff file somewhere marked "What the f...!?"

I should hope it would be pink at the very least...

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by vinceprince

It usually worked as the ministers usually had no fucking idea as to what we were really meant to be doing.

I was once visited by a local MP who is now a prominent cabinet minister. He took us to task as to why we had restricted one of his constituent's housing benefit.

I explained it was because of the order that his government had just enacted restricting levels to the local average. He had voted for it in the house but clearly had no idea of the effect it would have.

To be fair to him he did apologise profusely and said he would explain the matter to the individual who had complained.

[Devius]

Older people who voted for Brexit have "comprehensively shafted the young", Sir Vince Cable has said.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the Lib Dem leader accused the over-65s of being "self-declared martyrs" who claim leaving the EU is worth the cost.

"The martyrdom of the old comes cheap," he said, as fewer have jobs to lose and living standards are protected by the triple lock on pensions.

"For the Brexit martyrs, paradise beckons," he added.

Quoting statistics that 64% of over-65s voted for Brexit - compared with 71% of under-25s who voted Remain - Sir Vince said he was "struck by the heavily Remain sentiment in colleges and schools, and the heavily Brexit mood of church-hall meetings packed with retired people" during the referendum campaign.

He claimed that austerity measures had largely affected the working population, with pensioners suffering "relatively little" after the financial crisis.

Young people, he said, have the added problems of "prohibitive housing costs, growing job insecurity and limited career progression".

"The old have comprehensively shafted the young," added Sir Vince. "And the old have had the last word about Brexit, imposing a world view coloured by nostalgia for an imperial past on a younger generation much more comfortable with modern Europe."

The newly-elected party leader warned that describing such "masochism" as martyrdom was "dangerous", adding: "We haven't yet heard about 'Brexit jihadis' but there is an undercurrent of violence in the language which is troubling."

Details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40842017

Dear Vince,

To quote from Ferris Bueller:

[palo5]

Originally Posted by gordian_knot

I should hope it would be pink at the very least...

Not dark red?