#1868

It’s gonna be great!

#1869

Am I going to have to stand in the non EU passport queue when I go on my holidays? Because I know there’s a lot to this whole thing but honestly that inconvenience to me is bang out if order and I’d have definitely joined in with those smug yuppy marches if I’d known.

#1870

4-odd years of intense build up and now that it’s finally happening - it’s with a whimper.

Don’t know if that’s more or less annoying than if people were having celebrations and street parties to commemorate our “independence day” or whatever we’ll refer to it as.

#1871

I was wondering this, all that money that was spunked on “Get ready for Brexit” in October when it didn’t happen and now its actually happening there’s…nothing? Is it because it was so in the balance in October that the Tories just wanted to wave it about a bit?

#1872

Probably because

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#1873

It’s dead weird. Maybe even the leavers are sick of it all now, and the government don’t want to make a big deal out of it because in the next few months nothing will actually get better for people??

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#1874
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#1875

The government was still pretending a No Deal exit was a thing that could happen.

#1876

It still might. They’ve just kicked the can to the end of the year.

#1877

The transition period is going to let the government pretend that it was all Project Fear all along - look, it’s February 1st, we’ve legally left the EU, and there’s no medicine shortages or anything!

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Free from the eu Friday thread
#1878

TBH I have no idea what’s happening now. I assumed no deal hit bang on 31st Jan.

#1879

No, we’ve agreed the transition deal that shafts Northern Ireland.

#1880

We leave the EU at 11 pm on Friday. Big Ben will likely not, as far as I understand, be bonging.

We then enter the transition period, under which everything continues as usual until the end of 2020 (except for NI?), at which point we will either i) have a full FTA agreed and signed and we’re on our way to the sunlit uplands; ii) we request an extension to the transition period, which Boris has said will absolutely 100% not be happening, and he seems like a trustworthy fellow to me; or iii) no deal/goo spoons

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#1881

Sure, but the potential for that was a large part of why the public campaign was happening. That’s what I was answering.

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#1882

Be irritating for them though if the hospitals are overflowing with people dying of coronavirus.

#1883

Oh you mean that thing brought over to Blighty by ruddy bloody immigrants? Who are taking up the hospital beds in our NHS in the first place and not paying a penny towards it?!

I think they’ll be just fine.

(being a right wing journalist must be so, so easy)

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#1884

Yeah but the hospitals would still be full of dead people, which would rather contradict the whole “everything’s fine” vibe.

#1885

Blitz spirit etc

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#1886

Don’t you know they don’t mind if the weak die? I bet you won’t see any such pictures from inside private hospitals.

#1887

Politics professors deciding Labour are just very bad at choosing leaders over the last 40 years huh (and that all these Labour leaders who weren’t Blair were identical politically)

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