Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1. Euro.
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  2. Because, even if trade unbalance widened in EU's favour, as you can see, EU's sales in UK grew less than with ANY other partner and UK is the only partner whose sales in the EU diminished. Even if the outcome isn't nearly as disastrous as for UK, less trade isn't good for EU either.
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  3. It has already been negotiated. Now UK has to implement what they already signed.
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  4. "France has to stop threats, or ese we'll be too much shaken to print those licences fast enough to please them!"
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  5. It's the "Fog in Channel; Continent Cut Off" syndrome. The others need the UK more than the UK needs them. So they are gloating, thinking they are forcing all those EU citizens that crave to visit UK to apply for a passport.
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  6. The Aussies realised they can ask for more. Free hotels for Australians visiting GB... Gift cards... The Crown Jewels...
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  7. Should the EU start sending Red Cross parcels to UK?
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  8.  @verystripeyzebra  That deal only applied to the transit of few kind of goods between GB and NI. A "Swiss style deal" in the terms that are sold to the public nowadays is another unicorn. Nont only Switzerland is a rule taker, pays for the access to the Single Market, and accepts the jurisdiction of the ECJ, but between Switzerland and the EU there is freedom of movement for the people, and there is an open issue between EU and Switzerland exactly because, to EU, "freedom of movement" means "for EU citizens", without limitations, while, for the Swiss means "of the employees", so it only applies to who has a job (with the EU citizens that can't be discriminated in favour of the Swiss), or is wealty enough to mantain himself in the Confederation. It's OBVIOUS than, in an eventual negotiation with UK, the matter would be very clearly defined the EU way. So, four freedoms. No escapes. In reality, "a Swiss style agreement" is an oxymoron. The relationships between Switzerland and EU are the result of the sedimentation of decades of different agreements. A single agreement would be different, and much more organic and without loopholes, exactly because it would be a single agreement.
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  9. The EU "mild" sanctions had been decided BEFORE the Russian attack. Those in response of the invasion have yet to be announced.
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  10. How many times do you want to post this shit? The EU works thanks to treaties that ALL the members have to follow once they have signed them. You can't sign a treaty, and then declare you'll follow it if you'll feel like that. That's why EU laws have supremacy over national laws.
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  11. See... It's not the task of the EU to campaign for Labour. Johnson is UK's Prime Minister and his government represents ALL of UK. If that government is unreliable, is UK that's unreliable. If UK acts as a rogue nation, it's UK that must be punished. The EU can think to hit the Tory constituencies and interests more than proportionally, but they are not required to do that exclusively.
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  12.  @anonnemo2504  It seems you are practicing a little delusion, I recommend you more realism. Have you datas stating that people are dying for COVID in EU at an higher rate than in the UK?
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  13. Strangely, shelves are full and there are no queues on petrol stations in France and Germany.
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  14. More tourism for EU countries. Thank you UK!
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  15. I actually want to commend the UK government for the ingenious solution to the problem. It must be applied to other sectors as well! Why none thought to say to sick people to stop being sick and start be healty? To the ones that call for emergency to stop being in danger? It could save billions!
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  16. Shelves are filled everywere in the EU, sorry.
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  17.  @justonecornetto80  US cares. UK has no case for triggering anything.
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  18.  @justonecornetto80  So the US cares, only you don't like it. UK has not even started to implement its part of the NI protocol, so it can no speak of "diversion of trade" or "societal difficulties", so UK has no case for triggering anything. Ireland being united or has nothing to do with the protocol.
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  19. And people will finally return to buy their cellphones from the local cellsmith.
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  20. Yeah, yeah, it's collapsing any moment! Hold your breath!
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  21. None in the CPTPP gives a damn about UK.
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  22. The only problem with the NI protocol is that UK refuses to implement it. The refusal of UK to implement the NI protocol damages the Single market, and that's enough to allow economic reprisals. EU can decide to check 100% of the people and goods coming from UK to EU at any time without even the need for the UK to do something wrong. UK can do the same, if it wants to starve it's own people.
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  23. No. "Germany" NEVER declared that in certain circumstances German law has supremacy over EU laws. On the contrary, about the ruling by Germany’s Constitutional Court of May 2020, that triggered the “infringement proceeding” by the Commission (so it has not gone without consequences), the German government argued that "the court acted in accordance with EU law", so recognising the primacy of EU law.
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  24.  @Petal4822  If you decide to exercise your freedom to post bullshit, the others can exercise their freedom to school you. The misplaced racist delusion pretty much define brexiters.
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  25. "Finally our rivers will be provided with all the heavy metals they need. Let those Europeans chug their chemicals. British metal-enriched water is going to be much stronger than the soft water available in the EU!"
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  26. Despite Italy being one of the signatories, the news in Italy had not even got close to be told on TV. Maybe in some remote article on newspapers.
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  27. Actually there is an open issue between EU and Switerland exactly because, to EU, "freedom of movement" means "for EU citizens", without limitations, while, for the Swiss means "of the employees", so it only applies to who has a job, or is wealty enough to mantain himself in the Confederation. It's OBVIOUS than, in an eventual negotiation with UK, the matter would be very clearly defined the EU way. In reality, "a Swiss style agreement" is an oxymoron. The relationships between Switzerland and EU are the result of the sedimentation of decades of different agreements. A single agreement would be different, and much more organic and without loopholes, exactly because it would be a single agreement.
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  28. They are happy ports because they are British ports! They are unloading cargos of SOVEREIGNTY!
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  29. They realised that "Brexit" had been a mistake, but if you present them the same thing wrapped in a different paper, they'll buy it again, because it's consistent with their way of thinking. With what they consider "real". "Fuck the EU!", "Tougher stance!", "They need us more than we need them!", "The French will back down!". Those had been their ideas for decades and none of them realised "my ideas were wrong", only "I've been lied to".
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  30.  @lellyparker  No, they didn't. But it's nice to hear that the Brexiters still dream of seeing the EU "cave". In reality, "a Swiss style agreement" is an oxymoron. The relationships between Switzerland and EU are the result of the sedimentation of decades of different agreements, many of them dating back to when the EEC was way smaller. A single agreement would be different, and much more organic and without loopholes, exactly because it would be a single agreement.
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  31. "I isn't true that we have no friends post Brexit" "Ok, let's pretend someone ever said that, what friends we have?" "We pissed off the French!" "Oh..."
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  32. UK chose to leave the single market while leaving NI in it. They had been told IN EVERY WAY by the EU partners that it implied putting a border on the north channel, but every anticipation of problems arising had been labelled by the UK government as "project fear". NI economically is no more part of UK (it had never been part of Britain). NI is in the single market, and Britain is not. Welcome to project fear.
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  33. Infact the other option (the one that would be taken) is to apply retailatory measures on UK trade proportional with the possible damage to the Single Market. UK is breaching an internation agreement by not applying it, and the answer is not to not apply it (that would be to do what the culprit wants), but to fine the culprit.
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  34. The EU did what had been agreed by both parties. The EU have claimed? When? Are you able to provide the source?
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  35.  @susancurtis1651  Many matters still require unanimity. Enough that one vote out of 27 has much control over everything. NOTHING had been done in the EU without UK's approval. Despite Uk politicians always selling to their voters "it's EU's fault", and Brits eagerly buying it. EU fishermen ceased to care about UK fishermen in 2016. “they are not worth a light” is how UK government consider it's fishermen it seems.
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  36. During the Great Depression the Americans invented the "Hoover Stew", to feed a family with the cheapest ingredients available. Time for the Brits to invent the "Johnson Stew".
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  37. The possibilities for the UK-Irleand bid to beat the Spain-Portugal bid (without even mentioning the others) for WC 2030, after the last two matches at Wembley, are at the level that people directly laugh in your face.
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  38.  @gbormann71  Actually they thought those negotiations were not important. That they were not the REAL negotiations. UK government lived in the expectation that, at a certain point, Merkel would have stepped in and given them all that they wanted to not lose market shares in the UK. They never realised that, across the channel, Brexit was old news. And the EU members would have treated it like any other trade negotiation, leaving it to the "unelected bureocracy", AKA "the professionals".
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  39. The EU works thanks to treaties that ALL the members have to follow once they have signed them. You can't sign a treaty, and then declare you'll follow it if you'll feel like that. That's why EU laws have supremacy over national laws.
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  40.  @Petal4822  You can enjoy freedom as much as you want but, if you decide to exercise your freedom to break contracts you signed, the other will exercise their freedom to retaliate. The misplaced racist delusion pretty much define brexiters.
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  41. It's still collapsing tomorrow?
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  42. Actually, if the Commission can now openly challenge the Polish government, treatening to cut their subsidies if they don't behave, is exactly because they know that, thanks to the UK example, every public opinion of the EU is now shit scared to exit from it.
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  43.  @casteretpollux  That's not decided at political level. Retaliatory measures for breaching of agreements, for the EU, are bureocratic-level actions. They are applied automatically and immediately. Like they had been with the US.
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  44. Mandatory masks are surely to blame. Without masks the shelves would be filled!
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  45. The EU has learned to cope with it's own gigantism, by leaving political-level decisions to the minimum. To sign the good friday agreement was a political-level decision. Since the political-level signed the good friday agreement, the EU bureocracy negotiated the NI Protocol. Already there was very little political involvment in it by the EU. If the protocol is broken by the other party, retaliatory tariffs are practically automatic, like they had been in the last trade war with US. For the EU they are not a decision, they are a reflex.
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  46. Solar generated electricity doesn't work? LOL! In what world you live in? Solar ALREADY revolutionized electricity cost structure. Mid-day generated electricity USED to be the most expensive one, because consumption was higher in those hours. NOW mid day electricity is dirt-cheap, because consumption is higher in those hours, BUT those are the hours solar produces the most. The most expensive energy is now the one produced around dinnertime. Solar produced energy is SO cheap that research, NOW, is not that much on more efficient panels, but on the most cost-effective ways to store that super-cheap energy produced around noon, to use it just after the sunset.
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  47.  @jazzx251  Everyone loves the Scots. They are in the world's imagination. Everyone watched Braveheart, Rob Roy..., everyone imagines the highlands, Macbeth, the castles... "Made in Scotland" would be a very powerful brand.
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  48. To carry the carcasses abroad to be processed and then re-imported is a short-term strategy, because obviously that pork is not competitive in the long term with that simply imported from the EU. It will be carried on until enough farmers had gone bankrupt.
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  49. Essentially, the only EU states whose political situation would be "favourable" for UK's plans, those of the Visegrad group, depend heavily on EU development funds, so their eventual solidarity will never come to the point of breaking the cash machine.
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  50.  @pam-gw6uk  Are we talking of the UK that, after a week of bombing Lybia, had to call for the US because they were running short of bombs? Them intervening or not in Ukraine is pretty much irrelevant.
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