Brexit Benefits Log

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This is good news.

40,000 students will be able to study and work abroad thanks to the government’s new Turing Scheme, with universities and schools due to be told this week that their bids for funding have been successful.

Over 120 universities, as well as schools and further education colleges across the UK, will be awarded grants from the £110m Turing Scheme – which will see 48% of places go to those from disadvantaged backgrounds

[drfchound]

Hull had a bit of good news today as well.
Siemens to double the size of their wind turbine manufacturing plant and creating almost 500 new jobs.

[BillyStubbsTears]

NR
That's a bit like the EU ERASMUS scheme. Only smaller.

Hound. That's great. Really great. But what is it doing on a Brexit Benefits thread?

[drfchound]

I see you are back posting then instead of just reading every day.
It is on this thread because the turbines that Siemens will be making were previously made abroad.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Hound. Touching that my presence or absence is so important to you.

Back on topic, there are thousands of business decisions every year that move work from one country to another. What has this one got to do with Brexit?

[drfchound]

BST, I have ssssooooo not missed you or your antagonistic attitude.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Clearly.

[drfchound]

Yep, you are certainly back.
Cases must be on the up then.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Yep. That's right. I sat twisting my fingers in knots and sticking pins in my gonads just hoping and praying the drop in COVID cases would end and more people would die just so I could come back in here and say "See!"

Strange holiday, it was.

[Bentley Bullet]

At least sticking pins in your gonads stopped them talking for a while! 

[BillyStubbsTears]

Be still my aching sides.

[belton rover]

Billy must have had a shit holiday.

[selby]

 The truth is he had to come back, his backing group were crap by themselves.

[Axholme Lion]

The truth is he had to come back, his backing group were crap by themselves.

They'd almost fizzled out to nothing. It was like the Beatles without Lennon. Ringo ( Sydney ) was hopeless! 

[belton rover]

Billy. Why are you posting anything at all on a Brexit benefit thread?

[Not Now Kato]

Billy. Why are you posting anything at all on a Brexit benefit thread?

A more appropriate question would be 'why aren't you Brexiters posting any benefits as a result of the thing you voted for?'

[Axholme Lion]

Billy. Why are you posting anything at all on a Brexit benefit thread?

A more appropriate question would be 'why aren't you Brexiters posting any benefits as a result of the thing you voted for?'

We don't need to, we're not the ones complaining.

[Axholme Lion]

Just to keep you happy, wages for HGV drivers are going through the roof.

[belton rover]

Billy. Why are you posting anything at all on a Brexit benefit thread?

A more appropriate question would be 'why aren't you Brexiters posting any benefits as a result of the thing you voted for?'

How is that more appropriate?

[belton rover]

Anyway, Not. Apart from Billy’s holiday return, this thread is slowing down a bit. Isn’t it about time you started a new thread about your Brexit bitterness, but under another title? Perhaps you could go for a non ironic one this time.

[SydneyRover]

A new approach, you decide, clusterf**k ...... or not?

''Emergency Brexit powers for lorry queues to be made permanent
Exclusive: ministers to make traffic provisions indefinite in expectation of further cross-Channel disruption''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/10/emergency-brexit-powers-for-lorry-queues-to-be-made-permanent

[bobjimwilly]

Anyway, Not. Apart from Billy’s holiday return, this thread is slowing down a bit.

Exactly! Surely this thread should be buzzing, with new posts every day about all the benefits we are seeing from Brexit?

[belton rover]

If you like, Bob.

[belton rover]

A new approach, you decide, clusterf**k ...... or not?

''Emergency Brexit powers for lorry queues to be made permanent
Exclusive: ministers to make traffic provisions indefinite in expectation of further cross-Channel disruption''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/10/emergency-brexit-powers-for-lorry-queues-to-be-made-permanent

So which one is it: permanent or indefinite?

[Glyn_Wigley]

Just to keep you happy, wages for HGV drivers are going through the roof.

Because we're 100,000 drivers short of what we need.

[belton rover]

So potentially, Glyn, 100,000 new jobs with excellent pay! You’re good at this Brexit benefit lark, aren’t you?

[foxbat]

"Brexit lorry traffic controls to be made permanent" @standardnews

This is madness.
Stark admission of Brexit failure.
And the Brexit problems are only just beginning.

[Glyn_Wigley]

So potentially, Glyn, 100,000 new jobs with excellent pay! You’re good at this Brexit benefit lark, aren’t you?

The only problem is, you can't just get HGV drivers off the street. Where are they going to come from, and how is stuff going to get delivered while we're waiting for them all to get qualified?

If you haven't got an answer to that you're not very good at this Brexit lark, are you?

[belton rover]

So potentially, Glyn, 100,000 new jobs with excellent pay! You’re good at this Brexit benefit lark, aren’t you?

The only problem is, you can't just get HGV drivers off the street. Where are they going to come from, and how is stuff going to get delivered while we're waiting for them all to get qualified?

If you haven't got an answer to that you're not very good at this Brexit lark, are you?

You’re not very good at coming up with your own phrases are you?

It was your Brexit benefit, not mine.

[Axholme Lion]

For job roles such as HGV and Police we should be training up soldiers about to leave the army, to give them the future they have earned, rather than leaving them to become homeless.