The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in CH

[amogles]

	Quote:	Loz1983
	What's not to like about the Mail? People reckon it's being run by Hitler when more likely than not it's Oxbridge educated hacks who don't even believe what they write, having the time of their lives trolling the nation. This is pure gold. Master trolling. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...adies-Day.html

Yeah, wondering how they can get away with pictures like that, publishing photos of people like that without their permission. So either it's a set up job, or they have a massive budget for lawsuits.

I don't think the journalists of any newspaper with larger circulation honestly believe most of what they say (I don't actually believe many posters on this forum, myself included, believe what they write). But the nice thing about the DM is that they don't even try to hide it.

[MusicChick]

	Quote:	Loz1983
	What's not to like about the Mail? People reckon it's being run by Hitler when more likely than not it's Oxbridge educated hacks who don't even believe what they write, having the time of their lives trolling the nation. This is pure gold. Master trolling. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...adies-Day.html

Wow. What is this Ladies Day? Those pics show everything but ladyhood.

And - who pays these events? Cops...security, first aid, organisation and logistics?

Is it just the cute media semantics/myth or the UK does not see the incredible booze problem there?

[Blueangel]

	Quote:	MusicChick
	Wow. What is this Ladies Day? Those pics show everything but ladyhood.

I thought you'd like the dresses

[MusicChick]

	Quote:	Blueangel
	I thought you'd like the dresses

Lol, hahahaha. Those are t-shirts.

[Swisstree]

	Quote:	MusicChick
	Wow. What is this Ladies Day? Those pics show everything but ladyhood. And - who pays these events? Cops...security, first aid, organisation and logistics? Is it just the cute media semantics/myth or the UK does not see the incredible booze problem there?

Ha! If they were wearing docmartins, torned jeans and falling out of student night at the pub, no one would bat an eye.. put fake tan on 'em and and a fluffy dress complete with hat and the whole world points at the disgusting low-life ladies..



I must admit I do like the idea of Ted Hughes as a goat. No doubt he'd like it too

[Blueangel]

I blame Prosecco.

[MusicChick]

	Quote:	Swisstree
	Ha! If they were wearing docmartins, torned jeans and falling out of student night at the pub, no one would bat an eye.. put fake tan on 'em and and a fluffy dress complete with hat and the whole world points at the disgusting low-life ladies..

It is true, the UK does not figure in the real bozo countries, even. But I did read some concerns not so long ago over chicks becoming champs of booze there, fast. Binging. Docs or not.

Aintree, where did the nylons go? No more "real lady never leaves the house without the panty-house"?

	Quote:
	I must admit I do like the idea of Ted Hughes as a goat. No doubt he'd like it too

Hmmm..probably. "god of mud", more likely. Love that imagery he used in one of his love poems.

Very far from nylons, ha!

[Sandgrounder]

	Quote:	MusicChick
	Wow. What is this Ladies Day? Those pics show everything but ladyhood.

"Chicks in dresses" surely?

	Quote:	MusicChick
	And - who pays these events? Cops...security, first aid, organisation and logistics?

I take it you don't know much about the racing industry and its enormous profits in the UK?

	Quote:	MusicChick
	Is it just the cute media semantics/myth or the UK does not see the incredible booze problem there?

Yes, but the booze problem is now more among the middle class and their prosecco/wine habit. The youngsters are the new non-drinkers.

To be fair, basing your entire view of an event via the Daily Mail which is the UK's go-to "tits and ass" newspaper is not really going to give you a balanced account but, hey, it's fun to have a good gloat, innit?

[MusicChick]

	Quote:	Sandgrounder
	To be fair, basing your entire view of an event via the Daily Mail which is the UK's go-to "tits and ass" newspaper is not really going to give you a balanced account but, hey, it's fun to have a good gloat, innit?

Nobody can seriously base anything on DM, lol, I gotta stop you at your gleeful overinterpretation, again. Nor is anyone trying to use any opportunity to gloat, either, why..

Looked like a fine day of grace and ellegance, innit!

I think herds of henparties in Prague and decades of beer trips for guys do create a certain image that's hard to shake, though. Those are not into wine nor prosseco. I never asked them if they are middle class, either. I should, they would get a chuckle out of it, I am sure. It costs a few bucks, btw, to scoot over to Prague to get trashed, still. Not sure how Brexit will change it.

[Odile]

Certainly looks like smart pairs of trousers/pants would have been a lot more ladylike and elegant for sure.

[Blueangel]

	Quote:	MusicChick
	Aintree, where did the nylons go? No more "real lady never leaves the house without the panty-house"?

It was over 20 degrees so strappy sandals were de rigueur, and a lady does not wear tights with sandals.

to provide a balanced view of the event...

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats...ional-12863991

[Swisstree]

Brexitland - an interesting article in the guardian today explores the thinking and frustration behind the Brexit vote in Sheffield and the people Labour's forgotten

"Whatever Labour’s future, a return to a stale centrism that doesn’t understand people’s anger surely isn’t it."

[Jim2007]

	Quote:	Swisstree
	Brexitland - an interesting article in the guardian today explores the thinking and frustration behind the Brexit vote in Sheffield and the people Labour's forgotten "Whatever Labour’s future, a return to a stale centrism that doesn’t understand people’s anger surely isn’t it."

It will be interesting to see how they will react when employers start cutting wages so they can compete as a third country in the EU market place, especially consider it accounts for about 48% of exports.

[Odile]

	Quote:	Swisstree
	Brexitland - an interesting article in the guardian today explores the thinking and frustration behind the Brexit vote in Sheffield and the people Labour's forgotten "Whatever Labour’s future, a return to a stale centrism that doesn’t understand people’s anger surely isn’t it."

What can Labour do for all the workers of industries that have all gone- and will not be replaced, and the steady pace of automation. What can Labour offer? It won't bring back mines, textiles and show manufacture, manual car and ship manufacturing, manual engineering, steel, etc, etc- or even farming?

[Dougal's Breakfast]

	Quote:	Odile
	What can Labour do for all the workers of industries that have all gone- and will not be replaced, and the steady pace of automation. What can Labour offer? It won't bring back mines, textiles and show manufacture, manual car and ship manufacturing, manual engineering, steel, etc, etc- or even farming?

They can fund theatre workshops where the voiceless and oppressed can work together to produce a heartwarming musical performance in which an unemployed gender-fluid Inuk overcomes the obstacles placed in his way by a heartless Department for Work and Pensions to dance in front of Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai at the Peace in our Time conference at Davos.

That's what the common people want more than anything else these days: musical theatre workshops!

[Odile]

Yes, of course, we all know that (sounds like ...)

[marton]

No surprise really

	Quote:
	A beauty contest between member states who want the European banking and medicine agencies, currently located in London, will begin within two weeks, with selection criteria to be unveiled by the president of the European council, Donald Tusk. The European Banking Authority and the European Medicines Agency employ about 1,000 people, many of them British, and provide a hub for businesses in the UK. It is understood that the EU’s chief negotiator hopes the agencies will know their new locations by June,

Source

From the same source

	Quote:
	Senior EU sources claimed that Britain’s aggressive approach to the talks, including threats of becoming a low-tax, low-regulation state unless it was given a good deal, had backfired. “The future prosperity of the single market was challenged. That had an impact – it pushed people together.” it has emerged that Britain failed to secure the backing of any of the 27 countries for its case that trade talks should start early in the two years of negotiations allowed by article 50 of the Lisbon treaty.

It was a pity that May took an aggressive approach; looks like that bluff was soon called

[Odile]

Someone posted this elsewhere- and it really made us laugh- had never seen this version of the Monthy Python original.

Just to remind everyone, who, like John Cleese and Michael Caine- have forgotten how champion it were in them pre EU days of Yore:

https://youtu.be/ELmtC8TEiTU

[marton]

EU countries fighting to keep their fishing rights in UK waters;

	Quote:
	Copenhagen plans to point to the UN convention on the law of the sea, which instructs states to respect the “traditional fishing rights” of adjacent countries within sovereign waters. The UK and Denmark are both signatories. The so-called London convention on fisheries, which European states including the UK and Denmark signed in 1964, also recognises historical rights of access to the waters of the UK. A claim from Denmark that its fishermen have a historical right to access to the seas around Britain dating back to the 1400s.

Source

Does not seem to be so simple as was claimed?

	Quote:	marton
	EU countries fighting to keep their fishing rights in UK waters; Source Does not seem to be so simple as was claimed?

"Historical right to access". Lol, good luck with that.