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[QR]

Careful.

You’re dangerously close to blaming Brexit for a lack of wind in the U.K.

What do you know of the EU internal energy market of which we've just left? Can't have made matter better.

Brexit: What leaving the EU internal energy market would mean

As the UK sleepwalks to a Brexit of the EU's internal energy market, plans for energy interconnectors to the continent are under threat -- and that means more expensive electricity.

unearthed.greenpeace.org

 

[MC Yellow]

What do you know of the EU internal energy market of which we've just left? Can't have made matter better.

Brexit: What leaving the EU internal energy market would mean

As the UK sleepwalks to a Brexit of the EU's internal energy market, plans for energy interconnectors to the continent are under threat -- and that means more expensive electricity.

unearthed.greenpeace.org

You are aware that gas/elec prices have surged in Europe also?

 

[Sarge]

You are aware that gas/elec prices have surged in Europe also?

they have ... but uk prices are even higher ( 2 or 3 times more?) than in Europe

 

[QR]

You are aware that gas/elec prices have surged in Europe also?

Er yes, which is why i said 'Can't have made matters better'.

FACTBOX: UK electricity prices now most expensive in Europe

UK day ahead power prices tripled to record levels Sept. 13 as tight generation margins combined with soaring power import, natural gas and carbon prices. The UK s accelerated coal phase out along wit

www.spglobal.com

 

[RyanioBirdio]

It’s getting quite tiring listening to the “you know we aren’t the only ones, right?” routine.

Yes, there are driver shortages in places other than here, but ours are proportionately the worst. Yes, there are higher energy prices elsewhere, but ours are comparatively higher. Yes, there are supply chain issues outside of the UK, but ours are the most severe.

It’s like watching somebody trying to play down losing a leg because everybody else has broken theirs. “What’s your problem? Everybody is injured!”

Most people understand all of this regardless of their comments. It’s just easier to double down than admit it isn’t going well. Losing face is something Brits have never been willing to do, at virtually any cost.

Maybe I’ll have to give @SteMerritt a treat and get my £100 out again.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

It’s getting quite tiring listening to the “you know we aren’t the only ones, right?” routine.

Yes, there are driver shortages in places other than here, but ours are proportionately the worst. Yes, there are higher energy prices elsewhere, but ours are comparatively higher. Yes, there are supply chain issues outside of the UK, but ours are the most severe.

It’s like watching somebody trying to play down losing a leg because everybody else has broken theirs. “What’s your problem? Everybody is injured!”

Most people understand all of this regardless of their comments. It’s just easier to double down than admit it isn’t going well. Losing face is something Brits have never been willing to do, at virtually any cost.

Maybe I’ll have to give @SteMerritt a treat and get my £100 out again.

 

[Oslernorth]

It’s getting quite tiring listening to the “you know we aren’t the only ones, right?” routine.

Yes, there are driver shortages in places other than here, but ours are proportionately the worst. Yes, there are higher energy prices elsewhere, but ours are comparatively higher. Yes, there are supply chain issues outside of the UK, but ours are the most severe.

It’s like watching somebody trying to play down losing a leg because everybody else has broken theirs. “What’s your problem? Everybody is injured!”

Most people understand all of this regardless of their comments. It’s just easier to double down than admit it isn’t going well. Losing face is something Brits have never been willing to do, at virtually any cost.

Maybe I’ll have to give @SteMerritt a treat and get my £100 out again.

Yes, but our Driver Shortages, higher costs and Supply chain issues are “World Beating!!”

 

[MC Yellow]

It’s getting quite tiring listening to the “you know we aren’t the only ones, right?” routine.

I absolutely get all that.

But by the same token, equally tiresome is the constant, ”Look what Brexit has done” etc etc, link after link after link of the issues doesn’t change anything, we’re not going back.

Its not great, the whole world is in a mess after the Pandemic, Brexit hasn’t helped (short term, going into long term, who knows?)

But it’s like flogging a dead horse.

 

[QR]

I absolutely get all that.

But by the same token, equally tiresome is the constant, ”Look what Brexit has done” etc etc, link after link after link of the issues doesn’t change anything, we’re not going back.

Its not great, the whole world is in a mess after the Pandemic, Brexit hasn’t helped (short term, going into long term, who knows?)

But it’s like flogging a dead horse.

What you don't expect people to talk about the effects of Brexit on a thread call "Brexit 31/1/20 " Really?

 

[MC Yellow]

What you don't expect people to talk about the effects of Brexit on a thread call "Brexit 31/1/20 " Really?

Ah, you mean the thread where put anything and everything negative about the U.K and blame it on Brexit.

I get ya.

 

[Sarge]

about right ....

 

[QR]

Ah, you mean the thread where put anything and everything negative about the U.K and blame it on Brexit.

I get ya.

If we only posted for the positive it would be a dormant thread.

 

[MC Yellow]

If we only posted for the positive it would be a dormant thread.

Well, er yes, I’ll give you that one.

 

[QR]

I've found a good news story!

And it's a promise!

Boris promises cheaper household gas bills if Brits back Brexit

BORIS Johnson and Michael Gove today promise to scrap VAT on household energy bills if Britain backs a Brexit. In the first cash sweetener of the EU Referendum campaign, they argue that leaving the…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[MalaysiaYellow]

Well, er yes, I’ll give you that one.

Brits love to moan!

 

[Sheik djibouti]

I've found a good news story!

And it's a promise!

Boris promises cheaper household gas bills if Brits back Brexit

BORIS Johnson and Michael Gove today promise to scrap VAT on household energy bills if Britain backs a Brexit. In the first cash sweetener of the EU Referendum campaign, they argue that leaving the…

www.thesun.co.uk

Come on....you must try harder than to pass off 5 years old news as a good news story for today

 

[Foley]

* There is a skill In picking fruit/veg.

Having picked fruit as an 20 year old for around 8 weeks , I am really not sure how you can suggest that it is skilled work (in my understanding of the term)
Unless you are suggesting that all jobs have some skill (which you could argue)

 

[Sheik djibouti]

Brits love to moan!

Or not put up with the horseshit we've been fed by a bunch of self-interested shysters perhaps

But yeah...moaning is a national sport, secondly only to queuing

 

[SteMerritt]

Or not put up with the horseshit we've been fed by a bunch of self-interested shysters perhaps

But yeah...moaning is a national sport, secondly only to queuing

Ah, moaning about queuing, doesn't get any better than that. Heaven

 

[MalaysiaYellow]

Ah, moaning about queuing, doesn't get any better than that. Heaven

No, you forgot about............................................................................................................................................................the weather!!!