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I want the UK to stay in an ever-closer union
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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
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I don't really care
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23.09.2017, 17:50
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | The fear that JC will become PM & spunk loads of dosh is very real, little to do with BREXIT.
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24.09.2017, 00:17
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The fear that JC will become PM & spunk loads of dosh is very real, little to do with BREXIT. | | | | | You didn't bother reading the link then.
Brexit and current government spending fears. Nothing remotely to do with JC.
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24.09.2017, 21:53
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Front National second largest party in France.
PVV second largest party in Holland.
AfD third largest party in Germany.
But what does Brexit mean?
RAYSISSTS!
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24.09.2017, 21:58
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Shit house Tory politicians doing their best to Barrymore Brexit. A pox on the lot of them. May is the lamest of lame ducks and needs getting rid of. Same goes for her useless chancellor. And anyone who thinks Boris is the answer needs to be put out to pasture too. Him and his backstabbing buddy Gove have too much ambition for themselves to be trusted. Just imagine that infighting, ambition and pettiness within one party could screw this up. David Davis is the only one that consistently comes across well.
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25.09.2017, 08:17
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For once in a long time I agree with you Loz, except for the choice of David Davis!
Another politician calls him thick, lazy and conceited, and considering the progress he has achieved, I can understand why. https://www.theguardian.com/politics...thick-as-mince
I believe the remainers in the government put this name Davis forward, knowing he won't achieve half of anything.
Then, when the talks fail completely, the government can call another referendum and cancel the whole Brexit challenge.
Sory Loz, it looks like bad news for your Brexit ideas!
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25.09.2017, 08:18
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | But what does Brexit mean?
RAYSISSTS! | | | | | They jumped onboard the bandwagon, but I've always found that Brexit supporters have a pitiful understanding of basic economics. I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of passporting in financial institutes, but I do have a basic grasp on the EU-US Open Skies Agreement and it's economic impact.
The fact that you keep papping on about racists only shows that the disgustingly simplistic sound bites worked on you, and you don't understand the huge, very tangled, economic impact.
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25.09.2017, 08:23
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I believe the remainers in the government put this name Davis forward, knowing he won't achieve half of anything.
Then, when the talks fail completely, the government can call another referendum and cancel the whole Brexit challenge.
Sory Loz, it looks like bad news for your Brexit ideas! | | | | | If anyone fancies a good laugh today, read the comments on the the Conservative Party's facebook page. They're hilarious in an "Et tu Brute" kind of way. | 
25.09.2017, 08:30
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | For once in a long time I agree with you Loz, except for the choice of David Davis!
Another politician calls him thick, lazy and conceited, and considering the progress he has achieved, I can understand why. https://www.theguardian.com/politics...thick-as-mince
I believe the remainers in the government put this name Davis forward, knowing he won't achieve half of anything.
Then, when the talks fail completely, the government can call another referendum and cancel the whole Brexit challenge.
Sory Loz, it looks like bad news for your Brexit ideas! | | | | | What Theresa May set out in her ridiculous speech was basically the basis for a type of associate membership which neither Remainers nor Leavers particularly want, and will likely end up being the worse of both.
The problem is, and always has been that the Tories of split over the matter of Brexit. Add to that the infighting and ambition to get the top job and you end up with the mess we're seeing unfold before our eyes. The ridiculous political set up means no one is able to hold them to account. Labour are a joke.
In all this David Davis is the only one that has consistently appeared to have a vision of the direction he would like Brexit to go. He's lucid and old enough not to get himself wrapped up in the party politics.
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25.09.2017, 19:26
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | In all this David Davis is the only one that has consistently appeared to have a vision of the direction he would like Brexit to go. He's lucid and old enough not to get himself wrapped up in the party politics. | | | | | Right and the first thing he did was to accept the EU requirements to address the exit issues before opening trade talks without even a whimper......
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26.09.2017, 08:47
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Labour won't even bring themselves to hold a debate and vote on Brexit at their party conference. Useless, the lot of them.
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26.09.2017, 09:31
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Oh I totally agree with you there Loz. They've lost their way. I heard all the theories about how the questions for debate were chosen yesterday, but they're behaving like a local council, not the country's government opposition.
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26.09.2017, 10:23
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Labour won't even bring themselves to hold a debate and vote on Brexit at their party conference. Useless, the lot of them. | | | | | It struck me recently when listening to Corbyn that his real problem with the EU is that membership would prevent him from nationalizing or subsidizing industry.
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26.09.2017, 13:17
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That the EU prevents renationalisation is another EU myth busted by Labour MEP Richard Corbett: Renationalisation is impossible under EU rules: Really?
Perhaps Jeremy just says whatever his handlers tells him. According to " All out war: How Brexit sank Britain's political class", Seamus Milne and John McDonnell have him "by the ears". Jeremy Corbyn and Seumas Milne arrive at Broadcasting House ahead of Corbyns appearance on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday. ( source)
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26.09.2017, 13:52
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Bit of a misleading one here | Quote: |  | | | It’s particularly crazy to hear this myth quoted with reference to the railways. Numerous EU countries have publicly-owned railways! Have eurosceptics never been on a train in France, Germany or Italy? (To prove the point, even within the UK, Northern Ireland’s railways are publicly owned.) | | | | | The railways in the Uk are still technically publically owned. What is privatized is the operations side.And it's not as if DB has a monopoly in Germany or SNCF in France. On the contrary, DB has lost many routes to competitors. The local lines on the German side of the border in Basel have been taken over by SBB. There was also a British operator, Arriva, who took over a number of regional lines in Germany. They were so succesful that DB ended up buying them out. But there are others out there still, and DB need to stay on their toes if they don't want to lose vast swathes of their network. Similarly DB lost its monopoly in freight trains years ago and there are now at least a dozen operators competing in Germany.
Maybe one difference is the way it is managed and regulated. Buit that's not the same as saying privatization doesn't happen.
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26.09.2017, 15:21
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | That the EU prevents renationalisation is another EU myth busted by Labour MEP Richard Corbett: | | | | | I was thinking more about advantaging home industries in general.
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After Brexit, a taste of things to come?
The Prime Minister said the UK would work with Bombardier to protect "vital" jobs after the US Department of Commerce proposed the 220% import tariff. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-41397181 | This user would like to thank Sbrinz for this useful post: | | 
27.09.2017, 11:47
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | You forget the MAY/Trump special relationship! | This user would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
27.09.2017, 13:04
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This has zero to do with Brexit and is purely a political struggle between the US and Canada. This tariff has been imposed basically at the request of Boeing in order to stifle competition.
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | This has zero to do with Brexit and is purely a political struggle between the US and Canada. This tariff has been imposed basically at the request of Boeing in order to stifle competition. | | | | | Quite: Keep jobs for America, and 25% of Belfast workers can whistle for their supper! Maybe we can slap a 220% tariff on Boeing! | Quote: | |  | | | You forget the MAY/Trump special relationship!  | | | | | It certainly looks to me like the great USA deal maker is not being pleasant to his "friends" in Anglo Saxon lands.
So much for free trade deals after Brexit. The future looks even worse today.
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27.09.2017, 13:47
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Quite: Keep jobs for America, and 25% of Belfast workers can whistle for their supper! Maybe we can slap a 220% tariff on Boeing!
It certainly looks to me like the great USA deal maker is not being pleasant to his "friends" in Anglo Saxon lands.
So much for free trade deals after Brexit. The future looks even worse today. | | | | | Bombardier is a Canadian company.
The UK is still in the EU.
Neither the UK nor the EU has a trade deal with the United States.
HTH.
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