Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[celedhring]

Milk, on top of that, is what many supermarkets use as a "hook" product, offering the lower possible prices to attract customers. That's why dairy farmers are screwed over so frequently and why they protest so much.

Yeah. I suppose it already happened in your neck of the woods, but over here we're seeing an increasing amount of local dairy producers banding together and launching their own brands of fresh milk products, skipping the huge industrial/supermarket brands they usually sold to.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Looks like Teresa May is about to announce an election.

Think she fancies a huge majority to get the brexit-lite through 

[celedhring]

Looks like Teresa May is about to announce an election.

Think she fancies a huge majority to get the brexit-lite through 

Brexit-lite? How would that work? Genuine question.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Looks like Teresa May is about to announce an election.

Think she fancies a huge majority to get the brexit-lite through 

Brexit-lite? How would that work? Genuine question.

Well the devil is in the detail. But she has a wafer-thin majority and is currently in thrall to the nutters. The opinion polls show a colossal tory lead, if that was replicated in a general election she would be able to bypass the brexit extremists - the "Singapore-on-Thames" folk, who want to go for a complete divorce and WTO rules.

[Gups]

Looks like Teresa May is about to announce an election.

Think she fancies a huge majority to get the brexit-lite through 

Brexit-lite? How would that work? Genuine question.

I can't see it. Brexit-lite is only possible if we accept free movement. That's politically toxic in the UK right now and for the foreseeable future and too big a risk even with a massive majority and a dysfunctional opposition.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Pure speculation on my part Gups, she is not an easy person to read.

[celedhring]

Probably she might be willing to compromise in other areas (like standards) in order to get a trade deal.

[Josquius]

We could always follow the Swiss way.
In Switzerland there is free movement though Europeans technically do need to get a work permit just the same as all outsiders.
In practice this has traditionally largely been a formality which is done as part of your standard registration with the commune (which is necessary in practically every European country that I'm aware of except the UK).
Though recently they have implemented a "Swiss first" employment law which they hope will allow them to meet their European commitments whilst satisfying the 'Chexit'  referendum which demanded they stop foreign workers.

As I've said before, our Brexit referendum really came at a terrible time. If only it had been a few years later we'd have been able to see how things work out in Switzerland

[The Larch]

Milk, on top of that, is what many supermarkets use as a "hook" product, offering the lower possible prices to attract customers. That's why dairy farmers are screwed over so frequently and why they protest so much.

Yeah. I suppose it already happened in your neck of the woods, but over here we're seeing an increasing amount of local dairy producers banding together and launching their own brands of fresh milk products, skipping the huge industrial/supermarket brands they usually sold to.

Yes, they've done that here recently as well, and revived an old co-op brand that used to be ran by the farmers themselves. Some smaller producers are also selling themselves directly, mostly the ones that sell fresh milk rather than UHT.

Edit: So, general elections, it seems.

[Richard Hakluyt]

General election on June 8th.

[Gups]

Election announced for June 8th. Funeral for the Labour Party, June 9th.

[Josquius]

Wow.
Never saw that one coming.

Time to make a who do I vote for 2017 flowchart.

[garbon]

About time for another one.

[Syt]

Is parliament going to vote for new elections?

[Duque de Bragança]

General election on June 8th.

3 days before the first round of legislative elections in France. Summer could be fun.