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It's going to be a great deal. The best deal ever. Negotiated by a strong and stable genius. Oh wait that's Trump not Johnson. I get their desperate flogging of turkeys mixed up.

That. Or it was the story they all agreed to tell you 😄

Yep. A glimpse of what can happen if you jerk your neighbours chain instead of playing nice.

Principleless cretins. The decision isnt based on stats or evidence. Swayne the Tory MP for New Forest has been highly critical of the Gov on what he sees as an over reaction.

It's very nice of them - but I'm not sure they eat fruit and vegetables in Doncaster.

Sky reporting a deal is done (with a details on batteries and Erasmus to be tidied up). Sir Boris the Brave to announce how he saved Christmas and the world at 7pm. Edit. Supposedly it's 2,000 pages. Absolutely no way this should be rushed through Parliament in one sitting.

No that was a different post. You seem a little tetchy. Two weeks without the Ale House getting you down already?

It was a joke sweety.

I thought we’d drifted off to mid Atlantic no? It certainly takes a lot longer to get to France than it used to 😂

Did anyone hear Blair suggest earlier today that people should be given only one dose of the Pfizer vaccine on the basis that you could treat twice as many people for almost the same levels of protection - 91% for one shot, 95% for two. Makes a lot of sense imo - the kind of common sense and lateral thinking that seems to be wholly lacking in this Government. I know there are some regulatory approval hiccups to do that but should be easy to overcome.

Certainly the ratio of hospitalisations to confirmed infections has declined dramatically. The question is is that due to less virulence or more testing.

The number of new infections is going through the roof but the number of hospitalisations and deaths are nowhere near at rates commensurate with the Spring episode. It could be its more infectious but less deadly.

I'd rather David Mliliband had won. Ed didn't provide credible opposition and enabled the whole shambles to unfold. It's no exaggeration to say thsat if he hadnt stood against his brother recent British history would be different.

And whole of Hampshire. Cant even nip over to Romsey for a pint.

Alistair Campbell isnt happy lol "It is not a good sign, waking before 4am, thinking of lorry drivers, then muttering the C-word to myself as the thought of that blonde-haired, grinning, smirking, clueless clown comes into mind. I was even dreaming of the chaos the blonde-haired, grinning, smirking, clueless clown had created. That is not a good sign either. I was on the other side of the Channel – chance would be a fine thing – and we were driving towards the Eurotunnel. The dog was in the back of the car and as we turned off to the Pet Passport centre, we couldn’t get through because of a chaotic mix of out of control police wielding batons, refugees in rags trying to board lorries, all around them piles and piles of rotting fruit and vegetables, children crying, dogs barking. Words alone fail to convey the dystopian hell of it all, but at least I knew why I woke up with the clock at 3.54am, and uttered my first expletive of the day by 3.55am. It’s not just the blonde-haired, grinning, smirking, clueless clown. What about the bullying one in charge of policing who yesterday took to the airwaves to deliver the blinding insight that ‘police are very important to policing’, that ‘lorries aren’t static’ when they are delivering goods, and maintained the government had always been ‘ahead of the curve’ in its handling of Covid? What about the Frank Spencer one we are meant to take seriously as Education Secretary? Or the one who when Brexit Secretary spoke of discovering the importance of the Calais-Dover route as though he had just seen an apple fall from a tree and muttered ‘Eureka … gravity?’ And now he is Foreign Secretary, or ‘whatsisname,’ as his counterparts call him. Kent, the garden of England, where you’re less likely to see an apple falling than another lorry pulling into a disused airfield. An airfield that the Kent-residing nicotine-stained man-frog who played a big role in the campaign to get us out of Europe fought to be re-opened. Kent, on whose coast and in whose hotels the nicotine-stained man-frog has spent much of the year filming tiny numbers of refugees and asylum seekers, but who is yet to take his home-movie equipment to Manston, to film the thousands – or 170 as the blonde-haired, grinning, smirking, clueless clown put it – of foreigners desperately trying to go in the opposite direction to the nicotine-stained man-frog’s ‘Armada’." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/alastair-campbell-boris-johnson-c-23211126

51% to 40% at the most recent poll but ever since July 2017 there has been a slow increase in Brexit regret. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/12/22/transition-period-almost-over-51-40-britons-think-

10 days before everything changes, what replaces the current system hasnt been decided. Forgetting all the arguments about Brexit itself, most people would agree the process of leaving has been a shambles. The hold up is fisheries EU boats catch c£500m worth of fish in UK waters a year. British boats catch c£750m. The EU have offered a 25% reduction to £375m, Johnson wants 60% to £200m. A deal on £675bn worth of trade is being held up by differences on £175m worth of fish - which is bizarre in itself. The real irony though is that if EU catches were cut by 60% the English fleet wouldnt have the capacity or equipment to take advantage because the large majority of that catch is caught by purse seiners in the channel, western approaches and southern North sea whereas the vast majority of English fishing boats are small day vessels of under 12m. Totally different boats, size and gear. Different capacity to remain at sea and to keep fish fresh. It would take five years to organise a government policy, develop a grant scheme, train fishermen and build boats. So the trade deal is being held up by a semantic argument about something tiny with no real world impact for at least five years. Good to know.

I heard it was made in a pesticide lab in Hampshire

I'm flattered you think my 15 year old Honda CRV isnt shit

No that from outside the EU. Apparently its going to be 12p a pallet after Brexit with a free mango.

I always roll my eyes when the guru bangs on about recruitment and economics as if he were a master of balancing the books and employing the right staff...

Written by anonymous under a pen name. Compelling stuff

Was tier 2, still tier 2. We're living it large with American Romana in Pizza Express.