Aindreas Ó Gallchoir
@swimtwobirds.bsky.social
The fact you *literally no longer have goods exports as a component of GDP*, and your services exports are hobbled… I mean kids. That’s 100% Brexit, and per Osborne that total economic hit is headed for a trillion. You guys making it a “oh it’s a whole bunch of things” is… weird. It’s 90% Brexit.
July 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The fact you *literally no longer have goods exports as a component of GDP*, and your services exports are hobbled… I mean kids. That’s 100% Brexit, and per Osborne that total economic hit is headed for a trillion. You guys making it a “oh it’s a whole bunch of things” is… weird. It’s 90% Brexit.
Yet another way of saying - “yes but you see for X reason Brexit is not an existential threat, we must slowly consider the phantasmagorical failure of post imperial britain”. Austerity was tuppence ha’penny. Ireland performed it just as harshly. Brexit is what is killing you.
Read. The. Charts.
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July 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yet another way of saying - “yes but you see for X reason Brexit is not an existential threat, we must slowly consider the phantasmagorical failure of post imperial britain”. Austerity was tuppence ha’penny. Ireland performed it just as harshly. Brexit is what is killing you.
Read. The. Charts.
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Read. The. Charts.
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This country's intelligentsia going - “hmm we seem to be mortally wounded and bleeding to death. Could it be the Thatcherite policies of the 1980’s & the totally unique austerity we went through that no one else did?” - that bullshit will never not be funny. It’s Brexit kids. Brexit is killing you.
July 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This country's intelligentsia going - “hmm we seem to be mortally wounded and bleeding to death. Could it be the Thatcherite policies of the 1980’s & the totally unique austerity we went through that no one else did?” - that bullshit will never not be funny. It’s Brexit kids. Brexit is killing you.
No. It’s absolutely not. It’s not in the same ballpark, not least because Brexit is an open bleeding wound. Your economy is at least 5% smaller than it should be, solely due to Brexit. Lots of countries did austerity. Ireland did austerity. Brexit is straight up killing you. Its. Not. Tenable.
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July 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
No. It’s absolutely not. It’s not in the same ballpark, not least because Brexit is an open bleeding wound. Your economy is at least 5% smaller than it should be, solely due to Brexit. Lots of countries did austerity. Ireland did austerity. Brexit is straight up killing you. Its. Not. Tenable.
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Customs union with the EU. That'll resurrect an absolute shit tonne of British SMEs. One way or another this country has to start internalising the scale of life threatening fuck up Brexit represents and walking it back. Or continue ignoring it due to, for want to of a better word, pride.
July 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Customs union with the EU. That'll resurrect an absolute shit tonne of British SMEs. One way or another this country has to start internalising the scale of life threatening fuck up Brexit represents and walking it back. Or continue ignoring it due to, for want to of a better word, pride.
Congratulations on not mentioning Brexit once, in terms of Britain’s trading and wealth decline. This country is fucking hilarious. You’re… too proud kids. It’s not the Roman Empire comparisons killing you. It’s your unwillingness to face up to the total untenability of Brexit. It’s killing you.
July 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Congratulations on not mentioning Brexit once, in terms of Britain’s trading and wealth decline. This country is fucking hilarious. You’re… too proud kids. It’s not the Roman Empire comparisons killing you. It’s your unwillingness to face up to the total untenability of Brexit. It’s killing you.
You not mentioning Brexit vis-a-vis exports is brain damaged though. How many ways can this country go “Wow I feel really light headed and there’s blood everywhere. Is it industrial policies from the seventies causing it?” No. It's Brexit. It’s the massive 2016 gunshot wound bleeding since 2020.
July 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
You not mentioning Brexit vis-a-vis exports is brain damaged though. How many ways can this country go “Wow I feel really light headed and there’s blood everywhere. Is it industrial policies from the seventies causing it?” No. It's Brexit. It’s the massive 2016 gunshot wound bleeding since 2020.
British exports dying is directly attributable to Brexit though. How many ways can this country go “Wow I feel really light headed and there’s blood everywhere. Is it industrial policies from the seventies causing it?” No kids. It's Brexit. It’s the massive 2016 gunshot wound bleeding since 2020.
July 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
British exports dying is directly attributable to Brexit though. How many ways can this country go “Wow I feel really light headed and there’s blood everywhere. Is it industrial policies from the seventies causing it?” No kids. It's Brexit. It’s the massive 2016 gunshot wound bleeding since 2020.
Alternatively: we need to stop thinking that Brexit Is In Any Way Tenable. For the love of God stop pretending the status quo is doable, Just tuck tail and get back inside the EU guys. Like, preferably yesterday. Your goods exports have *literally disappeared*. Get a grip ffs. It’s. Not. Tenable.
July 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Alternatively: we need to stop thinking that Brexit Is In Any Way Tenable. For the love of God stop pretending the status quo is doable, Just tuck tail and get back inside the EU guys. Like, preferably yesterday. Your goods exports have *literally disappeared*. Get a grip ffs. It’s. Not. Tenable.
I’ll eat anything apparently.
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’ll eat anything apparently.
It’s this. This is the reason the economy can’t grow. Goods exports ceased to exist after Brexit kicked in 2020. This country gets weaker and poorer every day. Debt rises, tax burden rises, growth is non-existent. At a deep level the electorate knows they were gulled into wrecking the economy.
June 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s this. This is the reason the economy can’t grow. Goods exports ceased to exist after Brexit kicked in 2020. This country gets weaker and poorer every day. Debt rises, tax burden rises, growth is non-existent. At a deep level the electorate knows they were gulled into wrecking the economy.
Like, that below is this country’s safety net? It’s a Victorian squalor pisstake. You lose your job, get ready to live on the streets. Between the conversations on welfare (scroungers lol) and the viability of Brexit, you end up with the sneaking suspicion that English people might be a bit thick.
May 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Like, that below is this country’s safety net? It’s a Victorian squalor pisstake. You lose your job, get ready to live on the streets. Between the conversations on welfare (scroungers lol) and the viability of Brexit, you end up with the sneaking suspicion that English people might be a bit thick.
*Did* he get it wrong tho?
May 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
*Did* he get it wrong tho?
Really. Was an EU wide youth mobility scheme in the manifesto? You’ll presumably vote against that so eh.
In other fun news, speaking of exports: Britain’s exports post Brexit. Can you see the problem. On your own time.
In other fun news, speaking of exports: Britain’s exports post Brexit. Can you see the problem. On your own time.
May 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Really. Was an EU wide youth mobility scheme in the manifesto? You’ll presumably vote against that so eh.
In other fun news, speaking of exports: Britain’s exports post Brexit. Can you see the problem. On your own time.
In other fun news, speaking of exports: Britain’s exports post Brexit. Can you see the problem. On your own time.
Yup. Presumably our grid will look like nineteenth century wet volt batteries at some point. I do like the idea of housing units with solar capacity quietly feeding back into the grid tho? But not today or tomorrow lol. I'd put it on the timeline of the dublin airport metro.
April 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yup. Presumably our grid will look like nineteenth century wet volt batteries at some point. I do like the idea of housing units with solar capacity quietly feeding back into the grid tho? But not today or tomorrow lol. I'd put it on the timeline of the dublin airport metro.
I can’t see cob without thinking of that insane Leicester sandwich.
March 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I can’t see cob without thinking of that insane Leicester sandwich.
Nothing can touch this one tho. It should hang in the Louvre.
January 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nothing can touch this one tho. It should hang in the Louvre.
Ok, but, let’s be real - you say finance, and it has historically been an outsize contributor to the exchequer right?
The City of London is bleeding out, slowly. Just like every other part of this economy, from exports to SMEs… is bleeding out slowly. Brexit is an untreated gunshot wound. It is.
The City of London is bleeding out, slowly. Just like every other part of this economy, from exports to SMEs… is bleeding out slowly. Brexit is an untreated gunshot wound. It is.
December 31, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Ok, but, let’s be real - you say finance, and it has historically been an outsize contributor to the exchequer right?
The City of London is bleeding out, slowly. Just like every other part of this economy, from exports to SMEs… is bleeding out slowly. Brexit is an untreated gunshot wound. It is.
The City of London is bleeding out, slowly. Just like every other part of this economy, from exports to SMEs… is bleeding out slowly. Brexit is an untreated gunshot wound. It is.
lol yes. I got blocked too. TLJ is an eternal battleground hey.
November 26, 2024 at 8:16 PM
lol yes. I got blocked too. TLJ is an eternal battleground hey.
This is, no question, the best general election of our lifetime. Watching the Tory press lose their minds in public… God but it’s caviar popcorn. Caviar.
June 14, 2024 at 6:42 PM
This is, no question, the best general election of our lifetime. Watching the Tory press lose their minds in public… God but it’s caviar popcorn. Caviar.
