BREXIT! BREXIT! BREXIT!

[rainbow]

You can read about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_funds_transfer

It may come to your little backward village soon.

FFS we are a way beyond that.

... but it takes 24 hours to do a transfer?

[Scot Dutchy]

Never mind. You would never understand why. That is between countries. Payments within the country are instantaneous. You probably still using grubby money and cheque books.

[rainbow]

Never mind. You would never understand why. That is between countries. Payments within the country are instantaneous. You probably still using grubby money and cheque books.

Cowrie shells and copper wire.

[Svartalf]

what's wrong with cash? I am not allowed to use cards anyway.

[Brian Peacock]

There's nothing wrong with cash - except that people use it to buy stuff they don't want others to know about, like drugs and My Little Pony annuals, and how woukd those poor impoverished Data Lords scrape together a meagre living if we all did that? Eh?

I'm not saying that we should all be sticking with good old transferable cash, but imagine if we did.


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... if we did... ... ...

[JimC]

The good thing about cash is that the tax man cannot spot it...

[Scot Dutchy]

I hate the stuff. It is dirty and horrible. I dont even know what it looks like. A load of bridges or something. As for plastic money now that is a load of shit but it suits a certain mentality; you can wash it.

[JimC]

Money laundering is illegal!

[Brian Peacock]

[Scot Dutchy]

Johnson is waiting for election result before he applies for the UK to become the 51st. state.

Johnson will wait for US election result before no-deal Brexit decision

Ivan Rogers, former UK ambassador to the EU, says prime minister will think ‘history was going his way’ if Donald Trump is re-elected

Senior figures in European governments believe Boris Johnson is waiting for the result of the US presidential election before finally deciding whether to risk plunging the UK into a no-deal Brexit, according to a former British ambassador to the EU.

Ivan Rogers, who was the UK’s permanent representative in Brussels from 2013 to 2017, told the Observer that a view shared by ministers and officials he has talked to in recent weeks in several European capitals, is that Johnson is biding his time – and is much more likely to opt for no deal if his friend and Brexit supporter Donald Trump prevails over the Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.

Rogers said: “Several very senior sources in capitals have told me they believe Johnson will await clarity on the presidential election result before finally deciding whether to jump to ‘no deal’ with the EU, or to conclude that this is just too risky with Biden heading for the White House, and hence live with some highly suboptimal (for Johnson) skinny free-trade agreement.”

He is going to have wait a long then especially if Biden is declared winner.

[pErvinalia]

He is going to have wait a long then especially if Biden is declared winner.

In English?

[Scot Dutchy]

He is going to have wait a long then especially if Biden is declared winner.

In English?

Flew away over your head yet again.

[pErvinalia]

Yes must because have English it first language what?

[rainbow]

Yes must because have English it first language what?

A ho'ses awse is mo'e claah, mate.

[Scot Dutchy]

Yet another U-turn:

UK will not import chlorinated chicken from US, ministers say

Britain will also ‘not negotiate to remove ban’ on hormone-fed beef in post-Brexit trade deal

The government has finally vowed not to allow chlorinated chicken or hormone-fed beef on British supermarket shelves, defying demands from the US that animal welfare standards be lowered as part of a future trade deal.

The international trade secretary, Liz Truss, and the environment minister, George Eustice, have also revealed the government will put the recently established trade and agriculture commission on a statutory footing with a new amendment to the agriculture bill.

“We are announcing today that it will be made a statutory body which will give independent advice on trade deals as they go through parliament,” they said in an article in the Mail on Sunday.

The move is a significant U-turn for the government, which had rejected Lord Curry’s amendment to the bill to strengthen the commission’s role and legally ban any food that does not meet British import standards post-Brexit.