IdonthaveaScooby

Don’t get caught sleeping with ze old enemy ??!!!

Wurzel

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Nowt wrong with sleeping with the old enemy, they even shave their armpits now

BMWhere?

Updated for accuracy

BMWhere?

The Government is running scared about the break-up of the Union! Ironically funny given the Brexiteers all though the EU was certain to collapse after the UK left!
Scottish independence: What is behind the shake-up in No 10?

Here's an interesting article detailing all the additional paperwork the fish exporters are now having to go through. Export now takes 24 hours longer, which mean the product isn't as fresh as it used to be, which is pretty significant for fish!
Brexit: 71 pages of paperwork for 1 lorry of fish

More export problems in the North East - unbelievable, the government advice is to move jobs from the UK to Europe!
Brexit leaves a bitter taste and a mountain of clothes

IdonthaveaScooby

No great surprise


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.i...198.html%3famp

andy97

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The photo typifies the situation, youths loitering causing an explosion in crime. How do I know, I have a few friends who live around Boston. The mass immigration Blair set going has completely changed the local population. Weekends there are running pitch battles between Polish, Romanian youths in the market square. Crime is rife.

Families that have lived there for generations have left.

All in the name of GDP, its not the be all. Basically its a sh!!thole of a town. Lost its traditional coastal town feel

DPB, you need to stop worrying all times of the day and night about Brexit, posting in the early hours.

IdonthaveaScooby

White flight !

andy97

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Replaced by white foreign gangs

Sad Weevil

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How does a photo of two grown men having a conversation in a shop doorway signify an explosion in crime? Do you see everything through a tabloid lens? Lincoln has more crime than Boston. Boston certainly used to be a sh!thole town, I used to visit my sister there in the mid 70s. Full of mean spirited bigots, pitch battles of drunks every saturday night. I was spat at in the street because I had long hair, and refused service in the pubs. Most of the town was boarded up, horrible joyless place. Here's an article from the local press concerning the changes in the town, with some interesting observations from Bostonians:

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/n...hanged-4802404

andy97

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Lincoln is a university city, being much bigger. Your time was 50 yrs ago. The mass immigration has changed Boston, unrecognisable to those who have lived there. Pretty much the same as Bradford. My sister worked there, my wife did too. I go around Bradford and Leeds to get to the north Wharfedale valley side via Wetherby, even though its much further to get to relatives

IdonthaveaScooby

So the high point for Boston was Thatchers Mid eighties early nineties was it

Or was it in Charles Dickens time maybe ...

lol

Sad Weevil

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Jolly good job too.
Biggest cultural changes in UK since the 50s are all American: supermarkets, junk food outlets, shopping malls, out of town shopping centres, branding, corruption of language. In comparison, the influence of a Polish off licence here and there pales into insignificance. The reason that Boston has 10% of it's population from eastern Europe ("mass" immigration lol) is because there is plenty of farm work, because the locals don't want to do it. If they did, people from Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Portugal, etc, would have no reason to go there, would they?

IdonthaveaScooby

He just dont like foreigners , even naturalised

BMWhere?

Interesting article!

Bit of a chicken and egg situation. Is the economy in these towns doing well because the immigrants came or did the immigrants come because the economy was doing well? Probably a bit of both!

Regarding Boston, that seems an interesting case. The UK high-street has been in decline for decades. Boston would appear to have a thriving high-street of immigrant businesses. Without the immigrants it would more than likely all be boarded up instead!

Of course Andy and his bigoted kind would rather see food rotting in the field than have these foreign muck coming here and doing the jobs Brits won't do and opening foreign businesses bringing life back into the dying high-streets! Double standards when his company opens a business in eastern Europe to get around the Brexit regulations though!

Wurzel

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If you ask me it is a fecking digrace, foreigners owning shops, round my way all the shops are owned by Germans, and you can't go out without hearing everyone speaking German, bloody Europeans are everywhere.

BMWhere?

Same round here mate! Even the local British shop is run by Germans!

IdonthaveaScooby

He wants a pretty high street full of english speaker cafes and charity ( cos thats all can make a living )

and pretty harbours full of engleesh fishing boats catching english crabs for english consumers

BMWhere?

...but of course its perfectly acceptable for Spanish holiday resorts to be packed full of English bars and restaurants!

Wurzel

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Damn right!!! Those Deigos wouldn't survive if it wasn't for us Brits exploiting them and making them speak English in their own country, and if they don't understand just shout louder

andy97

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Nope it isnt,. I dont go to another country to see these bars and restaurants down a crappy old town. I want some see and experience a countries culture. Hence never been to the Costa's.

andy97

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What's wrong with that

BMWhere?

That's where we differ! If there is a market for it, then businesses should be there to meet their customers demands! I too don't want to go to Spain to turn out I'm just visiting little Britain, but that doesn't mean that little Britain shouldn't exist in Spain, I just don't want to see it myself. I have however been to the Costas but just avoided the tourist traps. There are plenty of places to visit that are perfectly nice and offer a Traditional Spanish experience..

Here in Germany, I'm very grateful that my local town has a British shop (run by a German), where I can get all the things that I otherwise wouldn't be able to find in German shops, such as Oxo cubes, Sarsons vinegar and proper bacon! I'm also glad there are Turkish supermarkets as they are the best place to buy Lamb. I also regularly visit the Asian markets as I particularly like cooking Thai food and you just can't get the sauces in German shops for the authentic taste. The local Irish pub is also the busiest bar in the town, so what's not to like!

The reality is, migrants like a taste of home and create a market for specialist shops, bars and restaurants, which inturn bring an opportunity for the local population to discover the cuisine of other cultures without having to travel. Can you honestly say you've never been to an Indian, Chinese or even Italian restaurant in the UK? If it wasn't for migrants, these restaurants wouldn't exist and these restaurants need local suppliers for the ingredients you don't (or didn't) find in British supermarkets!

Throughout history there has always been immigration, sometime slowly, sometimes en mass! Unless you're verifiably 100% Celtic, you are almost certainly of immigrant origin in the UK - Roman, Viking, Norman and Saxon invasions all brought mass migration to the UK, often violently driving much of the domestic (Celtic) population to the extremes of the country (Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and across the sea to Ireland). Even the name Anglo-Saxon reveals the reality of this mass migration. The 'British' culture, cuisine, language and everything has been shaped throughout the history of the British isles. Being English means being a migrant and everything you think of as being English is a result of hundreds of years of migration and its a process that will continue for hundreds of years to come!

IdonthaveaScooby

Can you imagine how much less the spanish economy would be without visa free tourism

albob

Bridlington shellfish company forced to close due to excess paperwork necessary for EU exports... Brexit Dividend !?

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news...ompany-4979421

IdonthaveaScooby

Andy et al brexiters sadly unwiiling to stray from their battered cod in the name of pretty fishing harbour scene

Wurzel

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https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-ir...urope-12213189

ALi-B

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So he was happily importing British produce BEFORE the common market existed without any issue?


As an aside in the Aldi's in Spain most "British" produce was from Ireland anyway...like Kerry Gold Farmhouse Cheddar...Urrgh.

Wurzel

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How do you work that one out Ali? the common market has been going since 1972 which is about 49 years ago and he has been trading for 39 years or have I missed something?

stevebt

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its a small price to pay to get control of our borders, let them all go under even the farmers so we can breakeven financially as a country in 50 years time if we are lucky. The extra added duty is going to affect both sides of the EU and it will get worse as the EU pushes its toys out the pram.

BMWhere?

Well pointed out Wurzel!

JD Sports now also complaining about the headache from Brexit and moving jobs from the UK to EU now!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-b1799804.html

Brexiteers will argue that the profits still come back to the UK, which is true, but those employees don't pay taxes in the UK and don't spend their earnings in the UK, so there is still a net loss to the UK and the business itself has extra costs in making the investment and additional management costs in running a new location far away from their HQ.