Brexit: the UK goes full retard

Sekee · Oct 13, 2016

Brexit Britain awoke this morning to some truly earth-shattering news. Well, for some. It’s all about Marmite.
Despite Marmite being produced in the UK, with UK ingredients, supplier Unilever sought to up prices on its products in the UK due to the falling pound hitting profits on non-UK produced goods. It’s not just Marmite either. Tesco responded to failed negotiations by immediately removing all Unilever products from its online store, refusing to sell them unless Unilever takes the hit rather than passing it on to Tesco or customers.

While the post-Brexit period has seen hate crimes against ethnic minorities increase by 41%, the value of the pound has dropped to record lows, and the government has absolutely no clue what our exit from the European Union looks like – it is the loss of Marmite which has sent Britons into a flat panic. There has been a run on Marmite and other Unilever staples as consumers stockpiled goods in fear of being without during a protracted dispute.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/13/...-shit-marmite-best-thing-youll-see-day-video/

Sekee · Oct 13, 2016

OMG Marmitegate!

http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/13/there...0-because-2016-is-the-absolute-worst-6189952/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/cheapest-places-still-buy-marmite-9036876
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent..._57ff4379e4b0ee3352117dca?ir=UK&utm_hp_ref=uk
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...ge-brexit_n_12466642.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&ir=UK
http://news.sky.com/story/unilever-rues-brexit-currency-hit-amid-its-supply-row-with-tesco-10615193

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 13, 2016

Pound falls to $1.22 as Brexit sparks Marmite price row – business live

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...sterling-brexit-price-row-tesco-unilever-live

1 British pound =
1.10569758 Euros

With the great Marmite war, the reality of Brexit has started to bite

Polly Toynbee

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/13/great-marmite-war-reality-brexit-bite

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hen Marmite and PG Tips enter the Brexit wars, reality starts to bite – and sooner than expected. As David Davis was on his feet in the Commons ion Wednesday refusing to defend staying in the single market, the pound plunged again. Anyone changing their money at the airport today will find everything in Europe costing them 23% more than it did on 22 June.
Unilever says all its prices must rise by 10% – which is still less than the 15% fall in the pound, so expect worse to come. The Unilever spat with Tesco over who pays is just a sideshow, as other retailers warn of steep price rises, as we import so many essentials. BT’s chairman says imported phones and broadband hubs are already up 10%. Each day the Financial Times reports more banks declaring they are moving significant functions abroad, while car manufacturers look to invest elsewhere in the EU for their new models. As prices rise, the great majority of the population, whose incomes have been stagnant for nearly a decade, will see their living standards fall.

In June, Unilever chief executive Paul Polman warned that a vote to leave the EU's single market would increase prices for consumers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...ing-pound-supermarkets-products-a7358676.html

Voices

Brexit means expensive Marmite, lost jobs and a housing crash – but I voted for it and it’s worth the pain

That wasn’t the message that Leave campaign gave to the voters, but it is the harsh truth – Brexit is for pessimists

Sean O'Grady

@_seanogrady

4 hours ago

25 comments

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...t-housing-crash-voted-out-worth-a7358896.html

Brexit, then, has hardly made its presence felt yet – but when it does it will be unpredictable in its reach and probably chaotic in its effect on society and politics. The positive effects of Brexit will arrive, but they will take far longer to deliver – decades, rather than months or years.
That, I freely agree, was hardly a message the Leave campaign gave to the voters, but it is the harsh truth. Brexit is for pessimists.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 13, 2016

Marmite Brexit price war 'has been resolved'

Announcing the news in a statement, product supplier Unilever thanked customers for "all the love"
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http://news.sky.com/story/marmite-brexit-price-war-has-been-resolved-10615920

Unilever has announced that its dispute with UK supermarkets over the price of brands including Marmite has been resolved.
The company, which supplies much-loved brands including Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Dove soap, Hellmann's mayonnaise, Flora and PG Tips, had attempted to raise its wholesale prices by 10% in response to the volatility in the currency markets.
Tesco resisted the change and responded by refusing to sell dozens of the products on its website, listing them as 'unavailable'.
Several other supermarkets told Sky News that they were in the process of conducting similar talks with the company.
The pound has fallen 17% since June's vote for Britain to leave the European Union and although many Unilever products are made in the UK they may include ingredients which have to be imported from abroad.
Announcing the resolution, Unilever said in a statement: "Unilever is pleased to confirm that the supply situation with Tesco in the UK and Ireland has now been successfully resolved.
"We have been working together closely to reach this resolution and ensure our much-loved brands are once again fully available.
"For all those that missed us, thanks for all the love."
Unilever is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of consumer products and generated profits of about £2bn in the first half of this year.

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Tesco-Unilever row: Cabinet minister suggests Marmite disappearance has nothing to do with Brexit

David Lidington, the Commons Leader, appeared to reject claims that the pricing row was caused by the plunging pound

Rob Merrick Deputy Political Editor

@Rob_Merrick

14 minutes ago

9 comments

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ister-nothing-to-do-with-brexit-a7360016.html

A Cabinet minister has stepped into the row over the shock removal of Marmite from Tesco’s shelves, suggesting it is nothing to do with Brexit.
David Lidington, the Commons Leader, was quizzed by opposition MPs who seized on the row over the Marmite shortage as fresh evidence of chaos over EU withdrawal.
But Mr Lidington appeared to rubbish claims that the pricing row had been triggered by the plunging pound – pointing out its ingredients were “manufactured and supplied” in Britain.
Meanwhile, one Leave-supporting Tory backbencher alleged an attempt by manufacturer Unilever to “punish us for Brexit”, announcing he would be boycotting Marmite.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 13, 2016

Court battle looms over Brexit legality
Senior judges will hear claims that the government cannot trigger article 50 without parliamentary approval

Gina Miller, an investment manager and anti-Brexit campaigner, is leading a legal challenge over Theresa May’s right to trigger article 50. Photograph: Getty

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-battle-looms-over-brexit-legality-article-50

Leave voter admits he was wrong and then chokes Up. Brexit. "I'll Say Sorry To My Son."

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 16, 2016

Boris Johnson's secret pro-EU article revealed, expressing doubts over Brexit

The Foreign Secretary was a leading figure in the campaign to leave the European Union

ARJ SINGH

23 hours ago

410 comments

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...vealed-expressing-doubts-brexit-a7363781.html

Boris Johnson said Britain remaining in the European Union would be a "boon for the world and for Europe" in a previously secret newspaper column.
The Foreign Secretary wrote the unpublished Remain-backing article only two days before shocking David Cameron by revealing he would be campaigning for Brexit.
Mr Johnson is now seen as a backer of a "hard Brexit", this week insisting the UK can get a trade deal that is "of greater value" to the economy than access to the EU single market, which he described as an "increasingly useless" concept.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 16, 2016

man himself:

Sekee · Oct 16, 2016

Boris was made foreign security so he’ll spend much of his time abroad, hopefully dressed as a killer clown in Aleppo.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 16, 2016

Sekee said: ↑

Boris was made foreign security so he’ll spend much of his time abroad, hopefully dressed as a killer clown in Aleppo.

pensioners abroad and inside the UK allready suffer for the vote for Brexit

Sekee · Oct 17, 2016

A Conservative councillor has launched a petition to make anyone who supports the UK remaining a member of the EU punishable under the treason act.
Christian Holliday, the Tory councillor for Burpham, set up the parliamentary petition to amend the Treason Felony Act, first set up in 1848 and previously carried a penalty of death, in order to include anyone who still campaigns for Britain to remain part of the EU after it officially leaves.

The petition reads "The Treason Felony Act be amended to include the following offences:
- To imagine, devise, promote, work, or encourage others, to support UK becoming a member of the European Union;
- To conspire with foreign powers to make the UK, or part of the UK, become a member of the EU."
If successful Holliday wants to law change to take place the day the UK leaves the EU, which estimated to take place by April 2017.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tory-counc...g-eu-treasonable-offence-after-brexit-1586758

I think it should say; "The Treason Felony Act be amended to include the following offences:- To imagine, devise, promote, work, or encourage others, to undermine the freedom of speech, thought or expression because they are unable to convince others that they are right through reasoned debate.

I despair at what’s happening in the UK at the moment.

Sekee · Oct 17, 2016

Tory councillor suspended for petition urging EU supporters to be jailed for treason

A Conservative councillor who launched a petition urging all those who back Britain remaining as part of the EU to be punished under the treason act has been suspended by his local party.
Christian Holliday, the Tory councillor for Burpham, set up the parliamentary petition to amend the Treason Felony Act 1848, which previously carried a penalty of death, in order to include anyone who still campaigns for Britain to remain part of the EU after it officially leaves.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tory-counc...rging-eu-supporters-be-jailed-treason-1586847

Sekee · Oct 18, 2016

Now we finally know the real reason for Brexit

Austerity, not immigration, was the main reason people voted Brexit, a comprehensive new study shows. But the media appears to have ignored the findings, with a brief report on “Indy100” being the only mainstream coverage.
The apparent media blackout comes in spite of the groundbreaking nature of both the study and its conclusions. “Slightly less harsh” spending cuts from the Conservatives (and Lib Dems) could have swayed the referendum result, the district-level analysis from the University of Warwick indicates. In other words, if the coalition government along with the present Conservative one hadn’t presided over such an extreme ideological austerity programme, Brexit may not have happened.
While the study found that austerity economics was the driving force behind Brexit, it also concluded that the immigration factor has been overplayed. In contrast to toning down fiscal cuts, the study found that even “drastic” changes in immigration levels would “probably” have made no difference.

http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/18/now-finally-know-real-reason-brexit-media-silence-deafening/
https://www.indy100.com/article/bre...ws-latest-results-referendum-2016-why-7364051

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 19, 2016

Sekee · Oct 19, 2016

I’d have more respect for his stance if he wasn’t a tax exile.

Today, the Virgin group is a vast warren of around 400 companies registered offshore (in places including, aptly, the Virgin Islands). As David Runciman wrote in the London Review of Books, Branson “has been very careful about when he pays tax and to whom.” Meanwhile, his “wish to avoid being taxed by the British government means he cannot spend more than ninety days a year in the UK.” Such is one of the many ironies of life as Britain’s most famous entrepreneur.

http://www.slate.com/articles/busin...indiscretion_helped_create_a_billionaire.html

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 19, 2016

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 19, 2016

We Europeans will welcome Britain back in if they decide not to trigger article 50

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 21, 2016

I really LOL'ed:

WORLD NEWS|Fri Oct 21, 2016 | 10:53am EDT
Exclusive: Parlez-vous Brexit? EU negotiator wants Brits to talk French

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-language-exclusive-idUSKCN12L1E0

By Francesco Guarascio| BRUSSELS
The European Union's lead Brexit negotiator would like British and EU officials to work in French rather than English during the divorce talks, an EU official familiar with Brussels' Brexit task force told Reuters on Friday.
After the report caused waves during British Prime Minister Theresa May's first EU summit in Brussels, Michel Barnier took to Twitter to deny - in English - having expressed such a view. However, he noted that language rules would be agreed by negotiators only once May launches the formal Brexit process next year.
The source told Reuters that people working with the former French foreign minister understood he would prefer his native tongue. "Barnier wants French to be the working language in Brexit negotiations with Britain," the EU official said.
Barnier, whose nationality and track record as an EU regulator overseeing the City of London financial center has raised hackles in Britain, said no decision had been made yet.
"Never expressed myself on negotiation language. Work as often in English as French. Linguistic regime to be set at start; to be agreed between negotiators," he said on Twitter.
An EU spokeswoman said: "This will be agreed upon at the beginning of the negotiations - after receiving the Article 50 notification - and in common agreement with the negotiators."
Asked about the negotiating language, May told reporters: "We will conduct the negotiations in the way that is going to make sure that we get the right deal for the United Kingdom."
Using French would mark a shift away from standard practice among multinational teams in Brussels, where French lost its status to English as the EU's main working language after northern and eastern states joined in the past two decades.
Even officials from the EU's founding powers France and Germany now communicate with each other mainly in English.

SIGNAL
It would also send a signal to London that the EU plans to put its own interests first in negotiating divorce talks that the prime minister has promised to launch by the end of March.
Barnier's boss, former Luxembourg premier and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who met May over lunch on Friday, has said the EU must be "intransigent" in defending its principles during the talks.
Most British diplomats in Brussels are fluent in French but ministers and Whitehall officials largely share with fellow Britons the distinction of being among the poorest linguists in Europe. Barnier's task force, currently numbering 15 staff and including no Britons, has been conversing mainly in French. But most EU officials are more at ease in English.
Asked about the issue, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after the summit: "Each of us is allowed to speak their own language. Since Mr Barnier is a French citizen, it's hardly surprising that he speaks French, just as I speak German."
Barnier, who speaks fluent if accented English, was an unpopular choice for some British politicians. Some described it as "an act of war" by Juncker. As a commissioner until 2014, Barnier, 65, had a difficult relationship with Britain, where one newspaper called him the "scourge of the City".
Some EU politicians have suggested that English might lose its status as one of three official EU working languages, along with French and German, as a result of Brexit.
However, few see a challenge to the global lingua franca's position in Brussels.

(Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Noah Barkin and David Stamp)

Sekee · Oct 21, 2016

Boris speaks French, are they sure they want to talk to him?

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 23, 2016

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Brexit: Leading banks 'planning to leave UK early next year'

'Their hands are quivering over the relocate button' head of British Bankers' Association warns

Samuel Osborne

@SamuelOsborne93

7 hours ago

708 comments

"It is the UK's biggest export industry by far and is more internationally mobile than most. But it also gets its rules and legal rights to serve its customers cross-border from the EU.
"For banks, Brexit does not simply mean additional tariffs being imposed on trade - as is likely to be the case with other sectors. It is about whether banks have the legal right to provide services."

TomNoone25 · Oct 24, 2016

<------Like my design about Brexit?? whats next?

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 28, 2016

Apple, Electrolux Raise U.K. Prices in Brexit Christmas Pinch

Nate Lanxon
,
Lucy Meakin
, and
Hanna Hoikkala
October 28, 2016 — 4:28 AM EDT October 28, 2016 — 11:15 AM EDT

Computer maker increases U.K. prices for some models by 20%

Swedish home appliance producer increases prices by 10%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...increases-prices-of-macs-in-u-k-by-20-percent

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 28, 2016

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 28, 2016

I am not the most perfect person to fight for womens rights.

The Internet · Oct 29, 2016

I would have expected you and the KittyKatGrabber to get along better, KKS.

But seriously, even if Clinton has a massive stroke I am still voting for her and I urge everyone else to do the same.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 29, 2016

The Internet said: ↑

I would have expected you and the KittyKatGrabber to get along better, KKS.

But seriously, even if Clinton has a massive stroke I am still voting for her and I urge everyone else to do the same.

Donald Trump’s sycophant problem, in one tweet
Updated by Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com Oct 28, 2016, 12:10p

http://www.vox.com/2016/10/28/13456682/donald-trump-sycophants

One thing that’s come out in various hacked emails released by WikiLeaks is that many of Hillary Clinton’s campaign staffers and informal advisers are sensible people. They recognize that Clinton’s reluctance to apologize for things is bad. They worry that she has too much of a soft spot for certain longtime hangers-on who don’t necessarily serve her interests well.
Donald Trump says that he would not tolerate the presence of people who say bad things about him in his campaign or his White House.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/792031499075944448?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

If my people said the things about me that Podesta & Hillary's people said about her, I would fire them out of self respect. "Bad instincts"

KittyKatSpanker · Nov 3, 2016

The dress down of a Populist:

The backstab by Boris Johnson of "his" Brexit

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The Wrong Guy · Nov 3, 2016

Brexit court defeat for UK government | BBC News

Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37857785

The British High Court May Have Just Killed Off Brexit | teleSUR English

The complicated process of carrying out Britain’s EU exit continues, confusing even Stephen Hawking.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/ne...ve-Just-Killed-Off-Brexit--20161103-0005.html

The Internet · Nov 27, 2016

KittyKatSpanker · Dec 27, 2016

AMERICA IS A FRIEND ? ORLY
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Brexit is a ‘God-given opportunity’ to steal trade from UK: Wilbur Ross

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/27/brex...unity-to-steal-trade-from-uk-wilbur-ross.html

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Zak McKracken · Jan 19, 2017

KittyKatSpanker said: ↑

AMERICA IS A FRIEND ? ORLY
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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/27/brex...unity-to-steal-trade-from-uk-wilbur-ross.html

I dont know about America,
but Anonymous is your friend.
I swears it.

KittyKatSpanker · Jan 21, 2017

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KittyKatSpanker · Jan 21, 2017

"Zak McKracken said: ↑

I dont know about America,
but Anonymous is your friend.
I swears it.

Anonymous means wearing pink knitted cat hats ? I am in !

KittyKatSpanker · Jan 27, 2017

Britain’s excruciating embrace of Donald Trump shows how little independence it has gained from Brexit

Leaving the European Union means the country has less, not more, control over its circumstances

Jan 28th 2017

http://www.economist.com/news/brita...ns-country-has-less-not-more-control-over-its

KittyKatSpanker · Apr 18, 2017

Theresa May seeks general election - BBC News

KittyKatSpanker · Apr 23, 2017

FUCKING LOL

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Trump bumps Britain down the queue 'after Merkel lobbies for EU trade deal first'

Report comes days after senior Republican said the US was ready to forge an agreement with Britain 'as soon as possible'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...de-deal-eu-angela-merkel-brexit-a7696376.html

Donald Trumphas bumped Britain down the queue for a new free trade agreement after Angela Merkel convinced him he should first strike a deal with the EU, it has been claimed.
Ms Merkel's lobbying reportedly led to a "realisation" in Washington that a deal with the EU would benefit the US far more than one with the UK post-Brexit.
Citing American officials, The Times reported Mr Trump was now convinced making an agreement with Europe would be easier than he had thought.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 5, 2017

With friends like that you don't need enemies.

Sleep tight sweet UK, enjoy your epic fail.

British farmers could be worse off as Trump objects to UK-EU deal on food quotas

BRITISH farmers could be left worse off after Brexit as the United States and six other countries objected to a provisional UK-EU deal on food imports.

By JON ROGERS
PUBLISHED: 08:17, Thu, Oct 5, 2017 | UPDATED: 15:01, Thu, Oct 5, 2017

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/86...ald-Trump-food-imports-quotas-British-farmers

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 5, 2017

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Trump opposes EU-UK trade deal in blow to May’s Brexit plans

White House objects to preliminary plan on how to split existing quotas under WTO rules

about 12 hours ago

https://www.irishtimes.com/business...-deal-in-blow-to-may-s-brexit-plans-1.3245711

Calle · Oct 5, 2017

Trump isn't held in very high esteem by Mrs May and it's highly unlikely she will allow him to hold the UK hostage to further his plans.
He would be greatly mistaken if he underestimates her.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 7, 2017

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