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« on: October 19, 2020, 08:14:04 pm »
UK claims Brexit trade talks “are over” unless EU shifts its position
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Downing Street has said that Brexit trade talks are over and “there is no point” to negotiations continuing unless there’s a fundamental shift in the EU's position.
Boris Johnson says Britain should get ready for leaving without a deal on January 1st, after an EU summit in Brussels concluded it is the British who should be making concessions.

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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2020, 12:03:20 pm »
Brexit trade talks between Britain and the EU enter crucial final stretch | DW News
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in precautionary self-isolation on Monday after contact with a lawmaker who tested positive for COVID-19. The news comes during what could prove the last leg of Brexit talks in Brussels. "Our red lines haven't changed and we're preparing for whatever the outcome is," Health Secretary Matt Hancock told UK broadcaster Sky. "Of course our preference is to get a deal and that is open to the Europeans if they choose to make the progress that's needed," he said. Britain left the EU as a political institution in January, but its trading ties to the bloc are yet to change in any meaningful way. The two sides are trying to seal a long-term deal on future trading terms before a transition period expires at the end of the year. The last-ditch talks have ran well past the two sides' original planned deadlines. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney estimated on Monday that barely a week remained to strike an accord. "We really are in the last week to 10 days of this, if there is not a major breakthrough over the next week to 10 days then I think we really are in trouble and the focus will shift to preparing for a no trade deal and all the disruption that brings," Coveney told Ireland's Newstalk radio station.


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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2020, 11:55:22 am »
Northern Ireland’s Brexit balancing act | DW Documentary
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The coming months could be a real stress test for Northern Ireland. Though legally it has left the European Union, Northern Ireland will still be subject to many EU laws and regulations. Officially part of the UK but in many ways still in the EU.

What could this new role mean for a country that has struggled for decades to secure lasting peace, stability and economic success? The new situation could reignite old questions about Northern Ireland’s identity. There are currently no border controls on the island of Ireland. Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland which remains a member of the EU have a completely open border, with freedom of travel, trade and a shared electricity grid. And that is supposed to remain unchanged in spite of Brexit, in order not to jeopardize the Good Friday Agreement and the hard-fought peace that has been achieved on the island. 

Northern Ireland will effectively remain in the European Single Market, with the customs border officially in the Irish Sea. This poses a huge challenge for port authorities and haulage companies, because that customs border will effectively split Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom. The port will be required to carry out customs checks for goods coming from Britain to Northern Ireland. Haulage contractors will have to fill out customs declarations although it’s actually domestic trade.

On the other hand, some companies - like one sports clothing manufacturer in Belfast - are happy to be able to continue trading closely with the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU, despite Brexit. But it’s clear, businesses will have to realign and many fear they will be forced to decide whether to trade with the EU or the rest of the UK.

And that turns Northern Ireland’s special status into a political issue. Could it drive a wedge between Northern Ireland and Britain, making closer ties with the Republic of Ireland seem more attractive? The Unionists, who attach great importance to Northern Ireland being part of the UK, are furious. They rejected all suggestion of a customs border in the Irish Sea right from the start, while the Republicans believe this process will inevitably work in their favor, leading ultimately to the reunification of Ireland. So how is all this affecting ordinary people in the cities of Belfast and Londonderry, who continue to live with the high barriers that separate predominately Unionist neighborhoods from Republican ones?


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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2020, 10:46:14 am »
Brexit talks falter: Prospect of deal breakthrough ‘receding’
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Critical negotiations over a post-Brexit deal hampered by ‘eleventh-hour’ EU demands, UK government figure tells Reuters.
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The prospect of a breakthrough in crunch Brexit talks between the UK and the European Union is “receding”, according to a senior British government source, with time rapidly running out to broker a deal.

The UK government figure told Reuters news agency on Thursday evening that the EU had disrupted the negotiations by attempting to wrench further concessions at the last minute.
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Both sides have warned that time is fast running out to reach an agreement amid continued division over several issues, including fishing rights, competition rules and the governance of any trade treaty.

UK Business Secretary Alok Sharma on Thursday said talks were now at a “critical phase”.

“It is fair to say that we are in a difficult phase, there are some tricky issues still to be resolved,” he told Sky News.

“Right from the start of this process, we’ve always said that a deal can only be done if the EU recognises that the UK is a sovereign, independent nation,” Sharma added. “It is on the basis of that a deal will be done.”

European Council President Charles Michel said the next few days would decide matters and the 27 EU leaders holding a virtual summit on December 10-11 would take a position.

“The real question is – which political, economic, social project do they want for their own future?” Michel told a news conference. “And this is a question for the British government and for the British people.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/4/prospect-of-breakthrough-in-last-minute-brexit-talks

Will Brexit break up the UK?
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The UK officially left the European Union on Friday, beginning a transition period where London must negotiate a trade deal with the EU by the end of the year. The historic end to 47 years of EU membership was met with both celebration, mourning, and a sense of anxiety for many UK citizens living in Scotland and Northern Ireland - both places where the majority voted to remain in the EU.

The push to quit the EU has generated renewed interest in independence from the UK as some citizens outside of England say London no longer represents their interests. The Scottish parliament has already agreed to hold an independence referendum, and support for a united Ireland - an idea once viewed as unrealistic - is now part of mainstream political discussion.

So is Brexit - a campaign whose electoral success was linked closely to English nationalism - destined to break up the United Kingdom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvI00vT7x4&feature=emb_title

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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2020, 07:34:19 pm »
Brexit Talks Head for Their Climax With a Fight Over Fishing
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The U.K. and European Union are heading for a final battle over fishing rights as trade talks reach a climax, with officials cautiously predicting a deal within days.

The pound climbed against the dollar on Wednesday amid optimism that the focus on fish is a sign the two sides have largely settled their differences over the other major obstacle to an accord: the level competitive playing field for business.

And U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said that Parliament, which will go into recess Thursday, could be recalled as soon as next week to approve any deal that is reached. “Parliament has long shown it can move at pace and the country would expect nothing less,” 10 Downing Street said in a statement.

But people close to the negotiations warned that the differences between the two sides on what access EU boats will have to U.K. waters are still substantial -- and failure to reach an agreement would scupper the entire deal.

“On fisheries, the discussion is still very difficult,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament. “In all honesty, it sometimes feels that we will not be able to resolve this question.” But her tone was largely upbeat, saying there was now a “narrow path” to a deal.

In another sign that an accord may be within sight, Johnson softened his pessimistic rhetoric about the chances of a deal. Asked at a press conference Wednesday if he still stood by his Sunday claim that the “most likely” result is no deal, he demurred.

“That is very much a matter for our friends,” Johnson said. “They know what the parameters are.”

Officials said the discussions on fisheries will probably take some days before there can be talk of agreement. Negotiations are stuck over how long the transition period should be before any new rules and quotas apply. The U.K. has pushed for three years; the EU wants longer.

The two sides are also at loggerheads over how frequently access would be renegotiated: The U.K. wants to do it annually, but the EU wants a longer-term arrangement.

While the other major sticking point, the level competitive playing field -- which for months looked like it could collapse the negotiations -- isn’t completely resolved, the two sides are much closer, officials said.

The U.K. has given up on its longstanding opposition to cross-retaliation -- the idea that either side can use a breach in one area of the agreement to slap retaliatory tariffs or quotas in another. It has also pledged not to roll back from current EU labor, social and environmental standards after Dec. 31, according to officials.

But there’s still disagreement on what happens if the EU’s standards get tougher over time. Initially, the bloc wanted the U.K. to change its rules in lockstep. Now, both sides have agreed to an independent mechanism that would allow for some divergence, but the details of this are yet to be completely nailed down.

In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel repeated that the EU is prepared for no deal.

“The Commission is again negotiating, with all our agreement, in these hours and days until the end of the week, to see if there can still be a solution,” she told Germany’s lower house of parliament. “There has been progress -- but no breakthrough.”

If the two sides bridge their differences and Britain’s Parliament is recalled to vote on any trade deal, its proceedings will be adapted to focus exclusively on passing the legislation and it may start sitting at an earlier time, Johnson’s office said.

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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2021, 10:46:21 pm »
Britain moves towards Anglosphere federation


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Britain: "I'll make my own EU! With blackjack! And hookers!"

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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2021, 10:04:11 pm »
https://eand.co/congrats-america-youre-not-the-dumbest-country-in-the-world-anymore-britain-is-badad4d64754

A good read : How incompetence, malice, greed and stupidity left Britain a smoking shattered wreck....
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« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2021, 10:33:14 pm »
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Imagine if entire sections of the supermarket — reflecting whole sectors of the economy — simply vanished overnight. You probably can’t, because it’s something that doesn’t tend to happen in the absence of, say, a bully like America sanctioning you, which is something that usually only happens to poor brown people. But nobody sanctions themselves, right? That’s just…idiotic! Well, not until now, anyways.
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My British step-father believes that all his brothers who voted for Brexit against his own warnings will come to their senses and stop listening to rightists. No they won't! I suspect Germanophobia will be on the rise once again in Britain like it was prior to WWI and WWII. Could be wrong about that, but a shitty British economy usually lead to German hatred in the past, did it not?

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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2021, 07:07:29 pm »
The End of UK Fishing? Brexit Destroying Coastal Towns
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Martin Laity is a shellfish merchant in Falmouth, Cornwall whose business has been devastated by Brexit. Since January he has seen a 99% drop in his business and has been forced to lay off 50 staff because of problems with paperwork and the inability to export his product to Europe. He lays the blame squarely on Brexit and its implementation, telling Byline TV his business was actually managing to continue trading and even seeing an uptick in sales despite Coronavirus. He voted Remain having foreseen problems of this nature but says he didn't even expect the situation to be this dire. Now like many others in coastal towns, he is worried about the future for thousands of hard working fishermen who feel they have been thrown to the wolves.

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UK report denies systemic racism, prompting angry backlash
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Findings of government-ordered review into racism condemned by equality campaigners as an ‘utter whitewash’.
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London, United Kingdom – A government-commissioned review into racism has concluded the United Kingdom is not an institutionally racist country, prompting a backlash from critics who described the findings as an “utter whitewash”.

In an anticipated report published on Wednesday, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said the UK was not yet a “post-racial country” but should be regarded as a “model for other white-majority countries”, citing achievements towards equality in the sectors of education and economy.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/31/uk-race-report-says-system-not-rigged-against-minorities

Clinging onto "whiteness" and "white" identity means YOU ARE RACIST because "white" identity itself is racist to it's core. Never forget Jews and "whites" created Jewish and "white" identity for themselves and then forced the non-"white" and non-Jew (gentile\goyim) distinction on everyone else!

It would be one thing if Jews and "whites" created these identities for themselves and then left everyone else alone and stayed in their own countries, but they cannot! They must **** with everyone else, it's what they do! Lest we forget Western colonialism, a phenomenon that only Homo Hubris, ie. Westerners, could manifest.

Aren't you getting sick and tired of all these "white" people and their degeneracy and shameless idiocy? I know I am! These "whites" are bottom of the barrel genetic trash!

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/the-'black'-and-'white'-identity-politics-scam/
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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2021, 12:27:19 am »
Wow!!!

Britain sends navy after France threatens blockade
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England sends two navy patrol boats. France threatens to cut electricity. Here’s why the two countries are feuding over the island of Jersey.
#EnglishChannel​

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Ahh yes British and French and their eternal rivalry
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Finally seeing good old UK and France taking a slap at each other. Time to take out the popcorn 🍿.

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« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2021, 11:44:05 pm »
British and French gunboats in standoff over fishing rights
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As part of the Brexit fallout, British and French gunboats have eyed each other off in the English Channel over shellfish. At the centre of the feud is the self-governing Jersey Island. It's closely allied with Britain but lies just 22 km off the coast of France.

A flotilla of French fishermen are threatening a blockade over tougher licencing rules, while Jersey’s fishermen are now banned from French ports. Sarah Morice is in Jersey.

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« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2021, 11:45:39 pm »
Brexit Gets Heated: Britain Forces Changes to Northern Irish Protocol - TLDR News
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The Irish Border and the Irish Sea Border have been pretty contentious since before Brexit even started making changes - but in recent weeks things have become even harder. So to try and solve those problems Britain seems to just be... well ignoring them? In this video we discuss the changes Britain is attempting to make to the Northern Irish Protocol, the EU response and how this whole issue could be solved.

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« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2021, 11:33:32 pm »
How Brexit is Reigniting Tensions in Northern Ireland
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It's been over two decades since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement ended the violent conflict in Northern Ireland known euphemistically as “the troubles.” But earlier this year the country saw some of the worst unrest in recent years, with rioting spreading to multiple towns and cities across the country.

One of the driving forces behind the violence is Northern Ireland's post Brexit relationship with the EU. On leaving Europe it was agreed that no land border for goods or people would be placed between Northern Ireland, part of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member— as  cooperation between the two nations was a big part of what ended 30 years of conflict in 1998.

But the decision to avoid a border on the island of Ireland has resulted in a de facto sea border for goods being placed between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. This is something many in Northern Ireland's Protestant Unionist community believe is a threat to their identity and their country's future as part of the UK.

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