Michael
@vivamjm.bsky.social
Cyprus resident, ex Leeds freight forwarder & Brexit is bloody idiotic believer
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Michael
@vivamjm.bsky.social
· Dec 7
Once again, a thread for the Brexit ignorant
1/ All countries start with their own market standards, regulated & customs territory. If an outsider wants to sell on it you must prove you meet its standards & pay a tariff at its border
1/ All countries start with their own market standards, regulated & customs territory. If an outsider wants to sell on it you must prove you meet its standards & pay a tariff at its border
It *is* quite funny really.
The EU agreed a *tariff free* (& quota free) deal with the UK & they're "punishing us" for giving us what we wanted.(*We* did not want the SM/CU closer deal)
The US/Trump regime shit on us (increased tariffs over Biden) & they're "our best friends"..according to Brexiters
The EU agreed a *tariff free* (& quota free) deal with the UK & they're "punishing us" for giving us what we wanted.(*We* did not want the SM/CU closer deal)
The US/Trump regime shit on us (increased tariffs over Biden) & they're "our best friends"..according to Brexiters
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It *is* quite funny really.
The EU agreed a *tariff free* (& quota free) deal with the UK & they're "punishing us" for giving us what we wanted.(*We* did not want the SM/CU closer deal)
The US/Trump regime shit on us (increased tariffs over Biden) & they're "our best friends"..according to Brexiters
The EU agreed a *tariff free* (& quota free) deal with the UK & they're "punishing us" for giving us what we wanted.(*We* did not want the SM/CU closer deal)
The US/Trump regime shit on us (increased tariffs over Biden) & they're "our best friends"..according to Brexiters
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Swedish the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Swedish the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
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November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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@vivamjm.bsky.social Thread:
I told you they would make a balls of it!
I told you they would make a balls of it!
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A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
A shocking new council report reveals a projected budget black hole of £46.5 million for this year. The Reform Administration has completely lost control of our finances. 🔶
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
@vivamjm.bsky.social Thread:
I told you they would make a balls of it!
I told you they would make a balls of it!
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
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@vivamjm.bsky.social keeps saying the #GammonCurtain keeps descending on our way to a #DDRBrexit, and here we are, those who can leave are leaving…
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
@vivamjm.bsky.social keeps saying the #GammonCurtain keeps descending on our way to a #DDRBrexit, and here we are, those who can leave are leaving…
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
Seriously how did anyone expect making access & sales into the EU27 (& EFTA4) much more difficult, without making it *equally* compensating easier to access & sell anywhere else (it's not in UK's sole gift to), going to do anything else other than fuck over & contract the UK economy?
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Seriously how did anyone expect making access & sales into the EU27 (& EFTA4) much more difficult, without making it *equally* compensating easier to access & sell anywhere else (it's not in UK's sole gift to), going to do anything else other than fuck over & contract the UK economy?
The UK was a blueprint for the EU concept i.e. a customs union, single market & common travel area (Schengen).
For consistency if you're in the ("sanctity of the nation state") "condemn & hate the EU" camp you should also be in the "condemn & hate the UK" ("better together") camp
For consistency if you're in the ("sanctity of the nation state") "condemn & hate the EU" camp you should also be in the "condemn & hate the UK" ("better together") camp
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The UK was a blueprint for the EU concept i.e. a customs union, single market & common travel area (Schengen).
For consistency if you're in the ("sanctity of the nation state") "condemn & hate the EU" camp you should also be in the "condemn & hate the UK" ("better together") camp
For consistency if you're in the ("sanctity of the nation state") "condemn & hate the EU" camp you should also be in the "condemn & hate the UK" ("better together") camp
Reminder of UK's (specifically GB's) choice to be poorer, more isolated & most like Russia in Europe,
behind its (still descending) Gammon Curtain ..
Schematic courtesy of John Constable
behind its (still descending) Gammon Curtain ..
Schematic courtesy of John Constable
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reminder of UK's (specifically GB's) choice to be poorer, more isolated & most like Russia in Europe,
behind its (still descending) Gammon Curtain ..
Schematic courtesy of John Constable
behind its (still descending) Gammon Curtain ..
Schematic courtesy of John Constable
Surely all those (MAGA) idiots will *now* realise they (not foreign countries) pay any tariffs Trump decides should be his trade "policy"???
"Trump lowers tariffs on coffee, beef and fruits, as Americans’ concerns about affordability grow | CNN Business" share.google/0CpQRNqzxbB6...
"Trump lowers tariffs on coffee, beef and fruits, as Americans’ concerns about affordability grow | CNN Business" share.google/0CpQRNqzxbB6...
Trump lowers tariffs on coffee, beef and fruits, as Americans’ concerns about affordability grow | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that retroactively lowers tariffs on beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas, among other agricultural imports, backdated to Thursday.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Surely all those (MAGA) idiots will *now* realise they (not foreign countries) pay any tariffs Trump decides should be his trade "policy"???
"Trump lowers tariffs on coffee, beef and fruits, as Americans’ concerns about affordability grow | CNN Business" share.google/0CpQRNqzxbB6...
"Trump lowers tariffs on coffee, beef and fruits, as Americans’ concerns about affordability grow | CNN Business" share.google/0CpQRNqzxbB6...
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to native the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to native the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
Reposted by Michael
@vivamjm.bsky.social not sure if you can access BBC player Michael but this is genuinely jaw dropping.
UK to EU: "Can we have a SPS deal please?"
BBC: "the EU told the UK if they don't give them their lunch money, they will get a serious battering behind the bike sheds later. innit."
UK to EU: "Can we have a SPS deal please?"
BBC: "the EU told the UK if they don't give them their lunch money, they will get a serious battering behind the bike sheds later. innit."
No BBC bias latest!
I cannot think of a more twisted way of reporting what's happening in brussels between EU & UK.
1/2
I cannot think of a more twisted way of reporting what's happening in brussels between EU & UK.
1/2
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
@vivamjm.bsky.social not sure if you can access BBC player Michael but this is genuinely jaw dropping.
UK to EU: "Can we have a SPS deal please?"
BBC: "the EU told the UK if they don't give them their lunch money, they will get a serious battering behind the bike sheds later. innit."
UK to EU: "Can we have a SPS deal please?"
BBC: "the EU told the UK if they don't give them their lunch money, they will get a serious battering behind the bike sheds later. innit."
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We have taken back control. Yay! Another rip-roaring success
Victory lap for the Brexit advocarseholes
Victory lap for the Brexit advocarseholes
The Brexit "news" never is. The choices were always the "self harm" of ("take back control") greater rocketing prices for less choice or (no control) unilaterally advantaging the EU .& smugglers
Govt told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat share.google/URSu9W5T89MI...
Govt told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat share.google/URSu9W5T89MI...
Government told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat
Dover Port Health Authority says "improved facilities" for staff at the port "cannot wait".
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We have taken back control. Yay! Another rip-roaring success
Victory lap for the Brexit advocarseholes
Victory lap for the Brexit advocarseholes
The Brexit "news" never is. The choices were always the "self harm" of ("take back control") greater rocketing prices for less choice or (no control) unilaterally advantaging the EU .& smugglers
Govt told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat share.google/URSu9W5T89MI...
Govt told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat share.google/URSu9W5T89MI...
Government told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat
Dover Port Health Authority says "improved facilities" for staff at the port "cannot wait".
share.google
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Brexit "news" never is. The choices were always the "self harm" of ("take back control") greater rocketing prices for less choice or (no control) unilaterally advantaging the EU .& smugglers
Govt told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat share.google/URSu9W5T89MI...
Govt told to act 'swiftly' at Port of Dover on illegal meat share.google/URSu9W5T89MI...
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
Type of reporting BBC should be doing, from @philmoorhouse.bsky.social
With caveat: there are now no British Standards for imports(enforcement of UKCA is abandoned, as is SPS control of TCA border); anything goes
...further disadvantaging UK business @nick1webb.bsky.social
youtu.be/ktPmwcszJEg?...
With caveat: there are now no British Standards for imports(enforcement of UKCA is abandoned, as is SPS control of TCA border); anything goes
...further disadvantaging UK business @nick1webb.bsky.social
youtu.be/ktPmwcszJEg?...
Farage's New Brexit Promises vs REALITY!!
YouTube video by A Different Bias
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Type of reporting BBC should be doing, from @philmoorhouse.bsky.social
With caveat: there are now no British Standards for imports(enforcement of UKCA is abandoned, as is SPS control of TCA border); anything goes
...further disadvantaging UK business @nick1webb.bsky.social
youtu.be/ktPmwcszJEg?...
With caveat: there are now no British Standards for imports(enforcement of UKCA is abandoned, as is SPS control of TCA border); anything goes
...further disadvantaging UK business @nick1webb.bsky.social
youtu.be/ktPmwcszJEg?...
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
The mansion house speech last week was really more for financial markets than UKvoters. Reeves was waving a big sign saying "I won't do a Truss!".
Quick 🧵on why tax rises means the majority of brits can't say "Brexit hasn't really affected me" anymore.
TL;DR: There's no Sunlit uplands Shocker!
Quick 🧵on why tax rises means the majority of brits can't say "Brexit hasn't really affected me" anymore.
TL;DR: There's no Sunlit uplands Shocker!
Rachel Reeves avoids answering question on tax rises in pre-budget speech
YouTube video by Guardian News
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
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I stole this meme days after the result and it will never fail to illustrate the stupidity of it all.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I stole this meme days after the result and it will never fail to illustrate the stupidity of it all.
Brexit was always going to make it much harder to access & sell into the EU27 (& EFTA4) without making it any *equally* compensating easier to access or sell anywhere else. Economic contraction was always Brexit guaranteed..1/2
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Brexit was always going to make it much harder to access & sell into the EU27 (& EFTA4) without making it any *equally* compensating easier to access or sell anywhere else. Economic contraction was always Brexit guaranteed..1/2
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Quick Quiz: ID all accurately to Number the Odd One Out. Judge's decision final 😎
Very Interesting on why the convoluted border in Ireland remains way it is; how both Ireland & UK joining SM together in 1993 resolved all these issues *forever*
& why Brexit would've brought it all (resurrected BPs & limited crossings) back, so resulting in the NIP share.google/0MAcmxTDpHHD...
& why Brexit would've brought it all (resurrected BPs & limited crossings) back, so resulting in the NIP share.google/0MAcmxTDpHHD...
How a plan to redraw the Irish border fell apart
In the early years of partition, the exact line the border took was still very much up for debate.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Very Interesting on why the convoluted border in Ireland remains way it is; how both Ireland & UK joining SM together in 1993 resolved all these issues *forever*
& why Brexit would've brought it all (resurrected BPs & limited crossings) back, so resulting in the NIP share.google/0MAcmxTDpHHD...
& why Brexit would've brought it all (resurrected BPs & limited crossings) back, so resulting in the NIP share.google/0MAcmxTDpHHD...