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Post by alancalverd on Feb 9, 2019 10:54:33 GMT 1
Apparently the ferry company with no ships has now lost its contract to provide additional cross-channel shipping in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Being a simple soul, I would have thought that leaving the EU would result in less, not more, trade through Channel ports, and as in previous times of strained relations with the continent, most freight would eventually run through Liverpool, Bristol and Southampton.
What is going on?
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Post by jonjel on Feb 10, 2019 15:17:34 GMT 1
Apparently the ferry company with no ships has now lost its contract to provide additional cross-channel shipping in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Being a simple soul, I would have thought that leaving the EU would result in less, not more, trade through Channel ports, and as in previous times of strained relations with the continent, most freight would eventually run through Liverpool, Bristol and Southampton. What is going on? You must be psychic Alan. I made exactly the same point yesterday on another forum. Ramsgate-gate I called it. Since there will be zero trade after Brexit according to the mongers of doom we will need fewer ships, so what is going on? The current fleet seems to cope quite well. (Anyone wanna buy a boat?)
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Post by alancalverd on Feb 10, 2019 18:38:17 GMT 1
"Cherchez la femme" is replaced, in public finance forensics, by "cherchez le frère-en-droit". Grayling is a slippery fish, and what with HS2 smelling evermore like H2S, Government subsidies to the shareholders of strike-bound railway companies, and now Ramsgategate, one wonders where the cash is really going.
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 10, 2019 23:43:05 GMT 1
"Cherchez la femme" is replaced, in public finance forensics, by "cherchez le frère-en-droit". Grayling is a slippery fish, and what with HS2 smelling evermore like H2S, Government subsidies to the shareholders of strike-bound railway companies, and now Ramsgategate, one wonders where the cash is really going. More poetry! Stop it, please. This is a cultured board.
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 10, 2019 23:50:20 GMT 1
Talking of which, I've just listened to ten minutes of the BAFTa awards, which seems to have grown from a two-minute mention on the Late Show to an all bloody night marathon on primetime. Whoever told these over-indulged over-paid over-praised poppycocks that anyone else was interested in their bottomless capacity for self-glorification?
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Post by alancalverd on Feb 11, 2019 23:54:51 GMT 1
Good to hear that Grayling "has the full confidence of Number 10" - the usual kiss of death for football managers.
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Post by mrsonde on Feb 12, 2019 17:52:51 GMT 1
Good to hear that Grayling "has the full confidence of Number 10" - the usual kiss of death for football managers. Ulrike? Generous of you - I'd go no higher than a 3 myself. Grayling's the Selwyn Gummer or John Prescott of the current cabinet. We may all be a bit thick and hopeless, but at least we're not as obviously hapless as that idiot - if anyone gets the chop, it'll be him before me. So, I think he's doing an excellent job.
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