Boris Johnson: “Fuck business!”
Businesses: “Fuck Britain!”
^ Steve Darling @cllrsdarling via twitter
^ Chris Leslie (@ChrisLeslieMP) via twitter
Aerial footage of the #PeoplesVoteMarch shows thousands joined the protest to demand a vote on the final #Brexit deal.
Read more about today’s march here: https://t.co/2c2Dspr5Gl pic.twitter.com/NpxVwIXeaD— Sky News (@SkyNews)June 23, 2018
Apparently people in the UK are shocked to discover that shop shelves will be empty after only a few days.
This comes to no surprise to me, and it should’t to anybody else. Below some pictures I took of what supermarkets in Scotland looked like last winter, when slightly heavier than usual snow interrupted the just in time supply chain for only 3 days:
The difference is that snow melts, Brexit doesn’t.
So if you support hard Brexit, months if not years of food and fuel shortages is a price you must be willing to pay. And this is not fear-mongering, just an inevitable consequence:
9 of 10 POOREST AREAS in Northern Europe are LOCATED IN the UK!
Do these morons really believe that leaving the EU will fix this?#Brexit #FBPE #Stopbrexit #poverty pic.twitter.com/SkCT8nE7WZ— We Love Economics (@weloveeconomics)May 4, 2018
Here are the countries and groups of countries the UK already has deals with as part of EU membership:
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Caribbean Forum
- Central American countries
- Chile
- Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
- Côte d’Ivoire
- East African Community
- Egypt
- Faroe Islands
- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kosovo
- Lebanon
- Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Zimbabwe
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein
- Palestinian Authority
- Papua New Guinea and Fiji
- Republic of Korea
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Southern African Development Community
- Switzerland
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
- West Africa (members of the Economic Community of West African States)
Do I have any British followers who want to prefer their children to have a future? There are a lot of events happening this weekend, check out the map in the link.
I’ll let Mike Galsworthy do the explaining:
Huge pro-EU Action Day tomorrow. Join here: https://t.co/2zt3r0l1G3 - 130 events around UK https://t.co/BA5ZxJh5hp
— Mike Galsworthy #FBPE (@mikegalsworthy)April 13, 2018
Mr Farage told an audience in Westminster: “Chuka Umunna said the other day he thinks the Brexit vote means we’re stealing our children’s futures from them. Well I really hope we are.”
In case anybody still had doubt who drove the UK out of the EU:
A generation fuelled by false nostalgia of a time that never was, statistically over represented by the baby boomers made a decision they don’t really going to life and see the full consequences of. As by the time this happens the majority that voted for it will be dead. While they themselves never suffered through the horrors of a country destroyed by war and had lived through a historically unparalleled period of prosperity and growth (mainly thanks to EU membership), their parting gift will be decades of slow economic decline for a generation that is already worse off than they ever were.
One thought that parents look after their children, but this generation seems to hate them! And at times even seem to joy seeing them suffer!
A healthy majority of Leave voters, it found, claimed that “significant damage to the British economy” would be a price worth paying for Brexit: 61 per cent, compared to just 20 per cent who disagreed. More bizarrely, when the question was made more personal, and respondents were asked would it be worth “you or members of your family" losing their jobs, 39 per cent still thought Brexit was totes worth it – slightly more than the 38 per cent who, like normal, sane people, replied “obviously not”.
In 2013 England & Wales was by far the region within the EU with the most cases 30,788. Compared to Germany with 5,131 and France with 1,376.
2.1 Rise and fall of racist crimes
ENAR’s Shadow Reports over the years have shown an increase in racially motivated crimes. The rise in racist crimes has also been reported by other official and civil society organisations at both national and EU levels.
This was data from 2013, and we now from news reports that the situation in England has dramatically worsened since the EU referendum: Rise in hate crime in England and Wales (BBC)
The number of hate crimes in England and Wales has increased by 29%, according to Home Office statistics.
There were 80,393 offences in 2016-17, compared with 62,518 in 2015-16 - the largest increase since the Home Office began recording figures in 2011-12.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41648865
I tried to find up to date data from all EU member states. But while EuroStat keeps very good and recent record of “Crime and criminal justice statistics” they don’t break hate crime up in a unified way. As definition of what constitutes as racist motivated hate crime varies between member states, it will take some afford to normalize the data. The 2013 shadow report was the most recent one I could find : https://www.cms.hr/system/article_document/doc/189/ENAR_Shadow_report_Racist_crime_in_Europe.pdf
