Three blokes in a pub

Posted on August 3 2018

Offering a refreshing view on why Brexit will be dire, even if it is a bit long:

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  1. Pilgrim Very Slight Return says:
    August 3 2018 at 8:10 am

    It’s when the van man said that Norway was ‘land locked’ that I turned it off.

    I seem to remember arriving at the port of Bergen when I was there in the late 1990’s.

    Oh well……………nice try.

    • Derek says:
      August 4 2018 at 8:31 am

      You should continue listening. The guy’s knowledge of geography may be poor. But his knowledge of frictionless borders in the EU is second to none.

      • Pilgrim Very Slight Return says:
        August 4 2018 at 12:37 pm

        Derek

        Thanks for tip.

        But I just got as much out of reading Tom Brown’s book ‘Tragedy & Challenge’ (2017) earlier this year. He devotes a lot of time to BREXIT in this book aimed primarily at focussing on the decline of British engineering. His explanation of how ‘just in time’ supply chains may be affected is compelling and frightening.

        He rightly identifies that many modern UK politicians do not understand manufacturing at all and – this being the case – why are they being enabled to dictate BREXIT?

        And his answers to our manufacturing and productivity malaise should form the central plank of any progressive party’s economic policy and could easily sit alongside Richard’s vision of a courageous state.

        Also, my brother was a long distance lorry driver based in Eire. In the 90’s whilst a mature student I used go out with him during University holidays and I saw the ports of Fishguard, Holyhead, Rosslare, Dublin and Dover (not to mention Calais) a lot and saw how they worked. These ports are just SO busy and any hard BREXIT or even the soft one – is bound to cause problems and – more importantly – harm jobs and raise costs.

        I bet you most of the idiots who want BREXIT just fly around rather than using these ports. If they used the ports and saw how they worked, maybe they’d think again.

        We should all be shitting out pants about this to be honest.

  2. Bill Lawrence says:
    August 3 2018 at 8:17 am

    The most sensible discussion on Brexit in the last two years – Probably.

  3. Paul says:
    August 3 2018 at 11:51 am

    Some interesting content but they’d do better to plan it and do less interrupting each other.

    Still worth a listen given one of my must listen brexit podcasts being on a break: Cakewatch.fireside.fm (Remainiacs being the other). Both highly recommended.