An Australian perspective

Heh.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-19/brexit-could-spell-the-end-of-the-united-kingdom/10510052

TL;DR:

"In this situation Australia needs to tread carefully and maintain its good relations with what has emerged as its more stable European partner, the European Union, while offering silent support for whatever governments or countries could emerge from Brexit."

...

"What does this mean for Australia? Australia was name-checked in the Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday as a country offering the prospect of a quick free trade agreement.

Britain needs Australia in a way that it hasn't since World War II. It would be best at this delicate moment to stop recklessly encouraging the British government from the sidelines: no more talk of one-page free trade agreements.

Australia must continue with its (slow) progress on the Australia-EU free trade agreement negotiations begun in June. The EU has remained remarkably unified during the Brexit negotiations despite tensions of its own. The EU is coming out of its own crises of the past decade. Now it's Britain's turn to teeter on the brink of disintegration."

Would you forward that to TMPM and Liam Fox, please.

Theresa May already knows all this, and I'm not sure Liam Fox can actually read.

Pah, we don’t need them.

I believe that everything will be fine - we just need to sell more specialist jam to China.

I always heh at the brexiteers talking up trade deals with Australia, Canada and New Zealand (basically places with limited brown people and don't speak funny) as if viable trade with those countries will make up for the loss of tariff free access to the massive block that is the EU.

And i’m pretty suspicious of Canada if we’re being honest.

Half of them speak French and the other half let them.

Heh. Whatever they're speaking over there in Québec, it ain't French.

"as if viable trade with those countries will make up for the loss of tariff free access to the massive block that is the EU"

my mother genuinely believes this - she also says that any business that struggles post brexit shouldn't be in business as it obv. isn't very good at it

fooking woman

Birds eh?

What are you going to do?

pissoff

I would normally poison her prosecco, but she has to say alive to see how fooking stupid she is/was.

Brexit is now a Topic We Do Not Discuss in my family, along with The Daily Mail, because I still want whatever's left of the inheritance in due course. Not that it will be worth much post-apocalypse.