TOT: Not for EU

and if you have a few million to hide the rules don't apply to the criminal nor the "well respected" financial organisation that accepts it

and also, the EU was good for their economy

Meaning we wouldn't install one.

They had all the net receipts they were going to get, and the foreign businesses were attracted by a very low corporation tax rate, which the EU cannot allow to continue for much longer.

Indeed. Or they could have just said 'we need to renegotiate the GFA because that was set up in the context of an arrangement between two EU countries and is now null and void'

Instead the EU used it to force alignment with the EU instead and May went along with it because she didn't believe in brexit anyway and was the stupidest cow ever to become prime minister. Mind you if some public spirited citizen shoots keir starmer, we will have the ginger nut, who will definitely be worse.

None of which wasn't foreseen at the time. We had the UKs top brains on the problem - David Davies, Lord Frost, Boris Johnson personally - to name a few. People the UK knew, loved and trusted to deliver the best possible deal. It's a bit off that some armchair expert thinks they could have done better.

When someone says "don't go in that cave, there is a bear in it" and someone goes in the cave and discovers there is a bear in it, is it the bears fault if they do what bears do ? Or the f****ng numpty that thought "Bare ? I don't see any problem there" ?

Lord Frost argued against it absolutely. He understood. But Boris wanted to 'get brexit done' and didn't care what sort of half arsed crap deal he delivered. His heart wasn't in it anyway.

Well parliament was overwhelmingly remain and wanted to take revenge on Brexit voters. This was how they connived with the EU to do it.

The EU was panic stricken that a brexited UK would de regulate out compete and make a laughing stick of their protection racket.

Using Ireland as a tool to enforce regulatory alignment was a gift from heaven

Those sausage-shaped plastic tubes of 'pate' that used to be common back in the 1980's were rumoured to have kangeroo meat, and other stuff in them.

Sausages in decades past were always made with the bits of the pig that you would never eat intentionally.

They always said that the parts of a pig that were not eaten were the teeth, bones and eyes. Everything else went into something, or eaten directly.

anyone for Chitterlings ?

I'm a celebrity....

Le 16/01/2025 à 20:58, Joe a écrit :

Bollocks!

Le 17/01/2025 à 10:26, Jethro_uk a écrit :

If these were the top brains, imagine the scum!

My mother used to make delicious pork brawn with a pig's head or pigs trotters. I love kidneys and hearts, pork or lamb. Never tried tripe but it was always available in local butchers. I don't think young people have the cooking skills these days to make use of 'offal'.

Why would they?

nib

I'm seeing less availability of kidneys and hearts in Morrisons these days. Either sold out or not there in the first place.

However, probably a regional thing. I visited a butcher in a Market near New Street, Birmingham - lots of surprises, on what does get sold and eaten.

A Brazilian friend treated us to a fantastic BBQ a few years ago, with some traditional Brazilian meats. Particularly tasty was a skewer of small chicken hearts, about twenty on the stick. Each heart about one third the size of a golf ball.

Hmmm, that was from twenty chickens... no longer clucking....

Because it's cheap, it's nutritious and it's good ecologically to use the whole animal if your going to eat it.

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Possible because of a very large pet food market.

Then explain why now that the UK has left the EU exporting to the EU has become much more difficult.

What else would you expect? If you leave a free trade area it does seem rather likely that it would become more difficult to export to countries in that area surely!?