Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 18:36:17 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Our latest Opinium poll shows that over 60% of people now think Brexit has either gone badly or worse than they expected. It also found that 42% of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how Brexit had turned out so far.

The Guardian wrote the following post Sat, 25 Dec 2021 18:20:02 +0100

Brexit one year on: so how’s it going?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/25/brexit-one-year-on-so-hows-it-going

#TheGuardian #RSS #News #Bot #Economicgrowth(GDP) #NorthernIreland #Economicpolicy #Foreignpolicy #EuropeanUnion #Politics #Farming #Fishing #Brexit #Europe #Fish

brexit

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Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:28:23 +0100 last edited: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:29:58 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hubzilla.fediversum.de

Dear UK, let's make an agreement: If you agree to imagine the choir of the EU singing in uni sono "We told you so", we will refrain from doing so...

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:33:01 +0100

Khurram Wadee

mkwadee@diasp.eu

There's enough of us doing that here already.

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:48:52 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Brexit has at least done one good thing: even the few secessionist politicians in this country have stopped claiming that leaving the EU would be a good decision.

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:54:35 +0100

Khurram Wadee

mkwadee@diasp.eu

Same in France, I think.

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 22:07:43 +0100

Andreas Geisler

andreas_geisler@pluspora.com

I think the EU should allow the UK back in. With no say in how anything is done, of course. Clearly their judgment is impaired.

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 22:14:01 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

If it's up to me, they're welcome to return, including their voting rights. Both UK and EU would be better off. But no more special status and all that, just as a regular member, like all the rest of us.

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 23:11:58 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hubzilla.fediversum.de

There is a second one:
When (not using if on purpose) they will revert, they will have lost their universal argument for preferential deals over the rest of the EU members:

UK: "We will not contribute in relation to our economic power... or... or... or we will stop playing with you!"
EC: "OK, no problem - See you in a few years, after adjusting your economic power to what you are willing to contribute..."

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:51:56 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

This is glorious... #Brits are finally discovering that #Brexit may not be what they were told it would be.

So, you've voted #Leave and are glad that you can now finally keep all those damn foreigners out, finally an end to that horrible Freedom of Movement that's one of those horrible #EU laws. You have won your #sovereignty back, and in a couple of years you retire and move to your holiday house in #France.

Until you realise that your much anticipated end to Freedom of Movement works both ways, and you can only be in that house for 3 months a year...

Of course, that's all #Brussels' fault!

https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1277505330885386240

politics brexit

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Sat, 04 Jul 2020 08:40:48 +0200

He is back again: https://twitter.com/PunkProfStories/status/1278645906598961152

#brexit #idiotson

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 14:48:17 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Lots of fakes, but this one seems real:

https://twitter.com/archer_rs/status/1280444544371372033

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 01:30:46 +0200

Clarinda

clarinda@social.woefdram.nl

Seems to me that after the reboot someone else was writing. The style isn't the same.

No deal

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:04:49 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Both #Britain and the #EU are going to regret this oncoming no-deal #Brexit. But by now I'm ready to say: fuck 'em, let them bugger off, we've had it.

https://twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1271398188621193222

politics brexit

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:17:03 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

It's "Great Britain" now. I expect this is a nice point in time to reunite #Ireland, and I expect #Scotland to walk away too. Soon it'll be "Little Britain", what a comedy...