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January 24, 2021
The broken promises that led to Brexit Britain
Opinion
In her first years of adulthood, Jai Breitnauer found herself living in a bold and hopeful nation. More than two decades on, she laments on how the Britain we know now came to be.
Apparently, fish off the coast of the United Kingdom are happier because they’re British. This is what leader of the House of Commons (and everyone’s second favourite comedy Tory) Jacob Rees-Mogg told Scottish National Party MPs when they asked what the actual fuck the government thought it was doing. Thousands of pounds of fresh fish destined for export are currently rotting on Scottish docks because of Brexit bureaucracy, but “the key thing is we’ve got our fish back,” said Rees-Mogg, with no apparent tone of irony.
SNP ‘still grumpy’ over referendum result
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January 22, 2021
LONDON: Jacob Rees-Mogg has blasted Scottish National Party MPs for continuing to be “grumpy” that they lost the independence referendum in 2014.
Calling for them to respect the result, the Commons Leader added that the ongoing “row” between the party’s current leader Nicola Sturgeon and former leader Alex Salmond is “a most disagreeable spectacle”.
It came as Edinburgh East SNP MP Tommy Sheppard warned that pressure for Scottish independence is mounting with another opinion poll reporting that a majority of people are in favour of splitting the union.
He told MPs: “In the week when the 19th Scottish opinion poll reports majority support for independence, I ask again for a debate on this Parliament’s response. Yesterday, George Osborne, a man whose interventions single-handedly boosted Yes support in the last referendum, demanded that the government ignore democratic decisions.
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A hot potato: Scalpers have always been a problem for genuine consumers looking to buy the latest tech products, and they ve been particularly active this season. In the UK, a group of politicians hope to fight back against the practice by banning the resale of items purchased using automated bots.
Every recent big tech launch has had one thing in common: availability issues. The PS5, Xbox Series X/S, RTX 3000 series, Radeon RX 6800 cards, and Ryzen 5000 CPUs were all snapped up within minutes of going on sale, ending up on eBay for way more than their MSRPs.