Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Sheilbh]

.... Yeah... The left are ruining comedy.... Totally explains why there are so many great right wing comedians

This anti woke stuff is just painfully dumb.
The sad thing is many buy it.

It's all she's for in the government - this was stuff she was going off about for years, back when she was (rightly) saying Cameron and Osborne are two posh boys who don't know the price of milk and pushing for a more culturally populist Toryism.

She is going to be Secretary of State for the War on Woke.

Of course winning the War on Woke would be easier if the left didn't have a breakdown and crack out the Nazism or North Korea comparisons when a media minister talked about introducing rules about "British" content from media companies (citing such insular, fascist programming as Dr Who, Fleabag and Derry Girls) that is broadly similar to (and my guess is, based on) French media rules. And I'm adding that proposal to my possible theory that Brexit = Anglo-Gaullism

[HVC]

This was a thing - I remember Jeremy Irons raising the same thought of whether he could marry his son to avoid inheritance tax.

I think it says a fair bit about how the British view the institution of marriage

or taxes

[Razgovory]

That Nadine Dorries person sure looks "fun".

That's just silly.  Nuns can't marry.

[Duque de Bragança]

.... Yeah... The left are ruining comedy.... Totally explains why there are so many great right wing comedians

This anti woke stuff is just painfully dumb.
The sad thing is many buy it.

It's all she's for in the government - this was stuff she was going off about for years, back when she was (rightly) saying Cameron and Osborne are two posh boys who don't know the price of milk and pushing for a more culturally populist Toryism.

She is going to be Secretary of State for the War on Woke.

Of course winning the War on Woke would be easier if the left didn't have a breakdown and crack out the Nazism or North Korea comparisons when a media minister talked about introducing rules about "British" content from media companies (citing such insular, fascist programming as Dr Who, Fleabag and Derry Girls) that is broadly similar to (and my guess is, based on) French media rules. And I'm adding that proposal to my possible theory that Brexit = Anglo-Gaullism

Anglo-Gaullism is a hugely absurd oxymoron.

[Jacob]

Anglo-Gaullism is a hugely absurd oxymoron.

Perfect!

[Josquius]

I read today the Tories are looking to reintroduce imperial measures as a brexit win.
Shitty in itself but not life destroying. A petty inconvenience to get the flag shaggers masturbating furiously.
But...it seems very likely this is just a screen for something much worse to come.
Depressing.

[Tamas]

I read today the Tories are looking to reintroduce imperial measures as a brexit win.
Shitty in itself but not life destroying. A petty inconvenience to get the flag shaggers masturbating furiously.
But...it seems very likely this is just a screen for something much worse to come.
Depressing.

If true (which I am fairly certain it isn't) how is that not a big deal? Do we really HAVE to move further from the civilised world?

[Josquius]

I read today the Tories are looking to reintroduce imperial measures as a brexit win.
Shitty in itself but not life destroying. A petty inconvenience to get the flag shaggers masturbating furiously.
But...it seems very likely this is just a screen for something much worse to come.
Depressing.

If true (which I am fairly certain it isn't) how is that not a big deal? Do we really HAVE to move further from the civilised world?

I want to buy 10 carrots then I buy 10 carrots. I don't really pay attention to how many kg it is.
The days of going from grocer to grocer trying to get the best deal are quite in the past.
More often than not stuff is sold by the bag even (which is something that needs to stop to be fair) which makes the weight even less relevant.
I don't see it having much of a practical effect on my life outside of very few occasions where I'm buying from a butcher or grocer- already the local grocer sells its veg in imperial with no sign of metric.
Its a stupid move of that there is no doubt. Most of the population knows metric as their primary unit of measurement by now. But its a clear distraction and attempt to kick up culture war nonsense.

[garbon]

Won't impact much but is shitty and depressing harbinger of what's to come...

[Tamas]

I am NOT going to be fine trying to adjust to thinking in feet and bloody stones and sixpences and all that nonsense. If anybody want to play pretend 19th century, do it in the privacy of their homes.

[The Brain]

They're evolving, only backwards.

[Zanza]

Imperial measures are just a distraction.

Frosts deregulation drive wants to introduce GM food in Britain. I personally think that GM food is fine. But this will make the NIP and the controls Britsh food exports to Europe will face even more onerous, so the introduction has a clear tradeoff, which might hurt British farming more than the gains from GMO.

Also talks about change of regulation for cars. That will likely reduce choice for British consumers as not all car models will be homologated in the UK, especially considering additional cost from right side steering. It's also a problem for domestic producers who now will have to fulfill domestic and export market regulations.  Not sure what the upside is.

[Tamas]

Not sure what the upside is.

[Sheilbh]

Won't impact much but is shitty and depressing harbinger of what's to come...

I'm not really sure what the worse or what's to come this foreshadows.

It'll legalise retailers using imperial measurements only. That's it.

This feels very much like passports where people who very loudly didn't care about the colour of their passport suddenly became very emotionally invested in the colour of their passport

Frosts deregulation drive wants to introduce GM food in Britain. I personally think that GM food is fine. But this will make the NIP and the controls Britsh food exports to Europe will face even more onerous, so the introduction has a clear tradeoff, which might hurt British farming more than the gains from GMO.

Also talks about change of regulation for cars. That will likely reduce choice for British consumers as not all car models will be homologated in the UK, especially considering additional cost from right side steering. It's also a problem for domestic producers who now will have to fulfill domestic and export market regulations.  Not sure what the upside is.

Yeah Anton Spisak listed the areas that had been flagged:

Anton Spisak
@AntonSpisak
While Westminster obsesses over the reshuffle, the Govt announces the biggest changes to post-Brexit rules to date:

1. Removing a special status for retained EU law in UK legal order

2. Reviewing substance of EU-inherited rules

3. Reforming GDPR

4. Reforms of genetically-edited organisms

5. Changes to clinical trials regulations

6. Modernising of EU vehicle standards

7. New AI regulations
8. New cross-government regulatory frameworks

9. Creating a new "standing commission" for "reducing or eliminating" regulations

The first two make sense now we've left. The GDPR proposals are interesting - some good, some bad (generally I'd say more good than bad). I don't really care or know much about 4-6. 7 sounds interesting and could be very positive. I have no idea what 8 means and I think that's about the fourth time 9 has been announced

[Tamas]

I saw that they announced their GDPR rework plan by assuring people they'll get rid of those "annoying popups".