lidar2
Castellan

You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Oct 12, 2021 15:06:20 GMT
Cant post link but good article in Guardian about how brexit is becoming lexit due to a mix of levelling up and Boris' carefree attitude to spending taxpayers' money
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 12, 2021 15:11:45 GMT
What a country. We are f***ked.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 13, 2021 0:25:07 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Nov 1, 2021 19:31:06 GMT
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Post by Chakoteya on Nov 2, 2021 9:37:12 GMT
Two generations of people who have no idea what to do with a fish with all its scales and bones, staring up at you on an array of fishmonger's ice...
Shall we blame Captain Birdseye?
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Post by Chakoteya on Nov 18, 2021 14:11:28 GMT
They deny it is anything to do with Brexit but I'm not so sure.
Several versions of this story have mentioned the interchange fee on cross-border transactions - which would not apply if Amazon did all its UK financial transactions within the UK instead of processing credit card transactions in Luxembourg, possibly for tax purposes but that's just a guess. That's why you can still use Visa bank debit cards with them, those transactions don't cross borders.
If I was a snarky cynic I might also point to Amazon's own-branded Mastercard credit card offering as a contributing factor, then reminisce about the pre-credit card days when you either bought goods with cash or cheque, and if you didn't have the readies available you had to accept whatever financing deal the seller was willing to give you.
Yup, it's potentially back to the 1950s with Amazon - exactly the decade where Nigel Farage and his hard line UKIPpers (now the Reform Party) would like us to still live.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Dec 17, 2021 21:27:01 GMT
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lidar2
Castellan

You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Dec 18, 2021 21:46:49 GMT
Not sure if this belongs in this thread or the governnent watch one, but David Frost has resigned although seemingly not over brexit policy
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jan 1, 2022 12:32:45 GMT
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lidar2
Castellan

You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jan 2, 2022 14:33:17 GMT
To be fair, he's probably correct that it is one of the main benefits of brexit
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jan 2, 2022 15:05:26 GMT
To be fair, he's probably correct that it is one of the main benefits of brexit
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