View Poll Results: What would you personally prefer to happen? |
I want the UK to stay in an ever-closer union
|    | 49 | 23.11% |
I want the UK to stay in a loosely connected EU
|    | 68 | 32.08% |
I want the UK out because the EU is bad for the UK
|    | 22 | 10.38% |
I want the UK out because the EU is a bad thing
|    | 23 | 10.85% |
I want the UK out because this would be good for the rest of us
|    | 17 | 8.02% |
I don't really care
|    | 33 | 15.57% |  | | | 
06.10.2019, 21:20
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Brits would, or rather should, know that GB does not include Northern Ireland, and that Brexit is about the UK, not GB, leaving the EU. | | | | | Should know is right. I'd bet beer on "would know" being wrong.
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06.10.2019, 21:36
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The deal they were offered was based on their redline items. And if you expect that the EU is going to disadvantage themselves to give you the deal you want, then you are going to be very disappointed.
And an this point I'd done responding to this kind of nonsense. | | | | | Let's see if it is nonsense, just over 3 weeks to go, can't wait. Your attitude which reflects the EU is precisely why Britain needs to leave.
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06.10.2019, 21:38
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | UK does get the worst deal of any country, it's amazing how astute the voters were in the referendum | | | | | What is the EU cartel? Care to explain?
The chart is meaningless. It might become meaningful if you provided the data or study it's derived from, who produced and paid for it. Which you probably can't because ActionBrexit doesn't either.
Next.
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06.10.2019, 21:52
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Nothing signed unless someone is telling porkies and besides, absent some weird side letter agreement, it would be treated as rejected if counter offers have been going backwards and forwards since then. But then you would know that 
Boris could put a proposal saying “in all good faith we think you have defrauded us by a trillion over the years but we’ll accept €60 billion and Juncker’s wine cellar and yes I’ll take that to parliament for a vote whenever you want”.
UK does get the worst deal of any country, it's amazing how astute the voters were in the referendum | | | | | Completely unbiased information from the Brexit party | The following 2 users would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
07.10.2019, 07:41
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | What is the EU cartel? Care to explain? | | | | | It's price fixing - like when the EU tell mobile phone companies to make their roaming charges lower. | The following 4 users would like to thank NotAllThere for this useful post: | | 
07.10.2019, 10:47
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Nothing signed unless someone is telling porkies and besides, absent some weird side letter agreement, it would be treated as rejected if counter offers have been going backwards and forwards since then. But then you would know that 
Boris could put a proposal saying “in all good faith we think you have defrauded us by a trillion over the years but we’ll accept €60 billion and Juncker’s wine cellar and yes I’ll take that to parliament for a vote whenever you want”.
UK does get the worst deal of any country, it's amazing how astute the voters were in the referendum | | | | | What data is that based on?
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07.10.2019, 11:04
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | It's price fixing - like when the EU tell mobile phone companies to make their roaming charges lower.  | | | | | Actually what the EU did (following a proposal from the commission, debate and approval from the Parliament and acceptance by the Member States in the Council) was to tell EU companies they could not charge more for services provided in another Member State.
They did not fix prices, but emphasized that this principle of the single market must be applied. Telcoms can charge anything they want.
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07.10.2019, 11:11
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Actually what the EU did (following a proposal from the commission, debate and approval from the Parliament and acceptance by the Member States in the Council) was to tell EU companies they could not charge more for services provided in another Member State.
They did not fix prices, but emphasized that this principle of the single market must be applied. Telcoms can charge anything they want. | | | | | Exactly. It's more like an anti-cartel measure actually.
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07.10.2019, 13:15
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in
Brilliant Ode to arch Brexiteer, Old Etonian, Chairman of the ERG and Leader of the House of Commons,
Jacob Rees-Mogg. Brilliant parody song of Jacob Rees-Mogg | The following 2 users would like to thank John William for this useful post: | | 
07.10.2019, 14:56
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I am amused that intelligent educated people still claim the masses were not capable of understanding the real meaning of the verb 'to leave' | This user would like to thank fatmanfilms for this useful post: | | 
07.10.2019, 15:01
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I am amused that intelligent educated people still claim the masses were not capable of understanding the real meaning of the verb 'to leave'  | | | | | Oh they understood it. But they were told that leaving would mean remaining in the single market and in customs union. Oh and no mention of having to break the GFA.
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07.10.2019, 15:12
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Oh they understood it. But they were told that leaving would mean remaining in the single market and in customs union. Oh and no mention of having to break the GFA. | | | | | I think leaving the single market is likely to be the most profitable aspect of leaving, going forward.
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07.10.2019, 16:07
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I think leaving the single market is likely to be the most profitable aspect of leaving, going forward. | | | | | Yes, but for whom? Brits can expect price increases on a very wide range of goods and services, most of which will be blamed on Brexit. No doubt some of these claims will be accurate.
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07.10.2019, 16:20
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Yes, but for whom? Brits can expect price increases on a very wide range of goods and services, most of which will be blamed on Brexit. No doubt some of these claims will be accurate. | | | | | ...and/or a considerable decline in their working and environmental standards. The single market has some level (not enough) of protection against abuse of both which workers and the environment in the UK run the risk of loosing.
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Yes, but for whom? Brits can expect price increases on a very wide range of goods and services, most of which will be blamed on Brexit. No doubt some of these claims will be accurate. | | | | | I doubt they will see any price increases, prices have not risen as a result of the fall in the value of sterling, food prices wii fall as EU tariffs won't be applied to non EU imports. Cheaper New Zealand Lamb & Argentinian beef yum yum. If you want to sell in a market place, global competition sets the market price, suppliers of commodity products can't increase prices just because their costs go up. | Quote: | |  | | | ...and/or a considerable decline in their working and environmental standards. The single market has some level (not enough) of protection against abuse of both which workers and the environment in the UK run the risk of loosing. | | | | | Far too many EU rules & red tape, far better to make it easy for disgruntled employees to set up their own business's if they think they are being abused & believe their services are worth more.
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07.10.2019, 16:24
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I doubt they will see any price increases, prices have not risen as a result of the fall in the value of sterling | | | | |
Sure. Just ask people buying Apple hardware.
Anything that is traded in Dollars and that the UK can't produce itself is going to shoot up in price.
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07.10.2019, 16:28
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Far too many EU rules & red tape, far better to make it easy for disgruntled employees to set up their own business's if they think they are being abused & believe their services are worth more. | | | | | To see the effect of not having decent environmental standards just have a look at China or India. Rivers that are no more than open sewers, air that's like smoking 40 a day.....no thanks.
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07.10.2019, 16:30
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Sure. Just ask people buying Apple hardware.
Anything that is traded in Dollars and that the UK can't produce itself is going to shoot up in price. | | | | | Apple is one of the very few companies than can increase prices as their products are special & not considered commodity items. Inflation rate is currently 1.7%, below target
Oil & Gold are main commodities traded in USD, however the price of petrol is made up mainly of tax so price of oil much less important. You will notice most things are cheaper in the USA, plenty of margin left.
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07.10.2019, 16:53
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | To see the effect of not having decent environmental standards just have a look at China or India. Rivers that are no more than open sewers, air that's like smoking 40 a day.....no thanks. | | | | | But that's enough about Switzerland...
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07.10.2019, 17:12
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Yes, but for whom? Brits can expect price increases on a very wide range of goods and services, most of which will be blamed on Brexit. No doubt some of these claims will be accurate. | | | | | Which are they? From Next Plc's "Brexit planning document":
"The Government has announced a temporary tariff regime in the event of a no-deal Brexit. This temporary measure will ensure 87%1 of UK imports will be tariff free for up to 12 months following a no-deal Brexit."
Now, the question is of course what the remaining 13% are and what happens after those 12 months, but at any rate that doesn't imply lots price increase for the time being. For clothing retailers such as Next it actually means a reduction. That may well be the general case.
Just don't ask what that means for UK employers and employees. Especially given that, assuming the UK can keep indeed export under WTO rules in the first place despite the dozens of objections against May's proposition, the typical UK export will get 30% import tariff slashed on and financial passporting rights will probably no longer exist.
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