British exports to the EU countries fell by 40% in January (compared to the previous year).

Who'd have thunk it? 🙄

#politics #Brexit

That 40% figure, in combination with the effects of covid, is a portent of a coming catastrophe. The EU was the UK's largest export market. The Lockdown is probably just masking a terrible economic collapse.

#politics #Brexit

However, it gets worse, a lot worse.

Scotland is a small country which has to exist economically by having strong exports (and we have always *had* strong exports).

Here are the figures for some of Scotland's strongest food export sectors:

fish & shellfish down 83%
meat down 59%
dairy down 50%

EU exports in general down 63%

#politics #Brexit #Scotland

Let's do it.

#politics #Brexit #Scotland #Yes

@fitheach

What Germany thinks about Johnson, #Brexit, #scotland and #indyref2

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18260537.germany-thinks-johnson-brexit-scotland-indyref2/

@pandora
Was that article about this year's Rosenmontag? I can't find a date on the page.

The float (linked to in the article) depicting Theresa May shooting herself in the mouth was a classic.

@fitheach
You mean this one?
Yes, it's great - like most of the floats designed by Jacques Tilly

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/my-mission-to-make-germans-funny-says-duesseldorf-carnival-designer-njzjtg608

@pandora
Yup, that's the one.
I wonder if he considered her shooting her foot, instead of in her mouth?

@fitheach
In the German idiom you shoot yourself in the knee ("ein Schuss ins Knie") rather than in the foot. But both images wouldn't have been as drastic and wouldn't have implied the political suicide she actually did commit.