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% |  | | | 
11.12.2018, 11:27
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11.12.2018, 11:27
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | They didn't have zero-hour contracts in 1971.  | | | | | Yup, knock the 3% of the workforce who have those as their main source of employment off, and you drop to or possibly a bit below the mean for that graph.
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11.12.2018, 11:33
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Not really, however there's a mandate for exiting the EU, there's nothing for cancelling Brexit. | | | | | Referendum was advisory, not mandatory | The following 5 users would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
11.12.2018, 12:14
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No need for another referendum, just recount the old one from 2016, but not the votes of those who have since died.
For added confidence let those who have turned 18 since then have a vote.
Job done; a remain majority with no one changing their mind.
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11.12.2018, 12:18
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | ...but not the votes of those who have since died. | | | | | Slight problem. Ballots are secret, so you can't identify which votes to discount.
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11.12.2018, 12:42
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah, whatever. If you really want to see poor standards of living and inequality in the UK then visit your nearest Labour safe-seat. Keep them needy, keep them poor, keep on telling them that a few privileged rich people are to blame. Decades of voting Labour and still in the same shit as before. And what's more, they still believe that Labour is their only hope.
Back in the real world:
| | | | | Same old, same old.. if you think it's bad now you should see it when the unicorns are in full flight. Back in the real world: The IFS has predicted the number of children living in poverty will soar to a record 5.2 million over the next five years as government welfare cuts bite, more than reversing all the progress made over the past 20 years.
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11.12.2018, 12:51
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah, whatever. If you really want to see poor standards of living and inequality in the UK then visit your nearest Labour safe-seat. Keep them needy, keep them poor, keep on telling them that a few privileged rich people are to blame. Decades of voting Labour and still in the same shit as before. And what's more, they still believe that Labour is their only hope. | | | | | holly crap whats just happened??? I'm agreeing with Loz  
It really hacks me off when labour and labour supporters go on and on about the poor, the state of the nhs, pensions, council cuts etc etc etc, they where in power for 13 years and totally screwed things up, yet its not their fault, seems they conveniently forget about the damage they did to everyones pension funds via their tax grab.
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11.12.2018, 12:58
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Unless Remain can come up with something other than Project Fear (they won't) then I'd put large money on Leave winning again. | | | | | Project fear, as you call it, is all about the negative consequences to Britain and the British people should Britain leave the EU. Labelling them with a scary name doesnt mean that they dont exist, only that some either think they wont happen, or believe that it wont actually be that bad, or prefer to assume an Ostrich position and refuse to listen. Much, but not everything,that has been labelled project fear are likely consequences.
But tagging them with a phony lable doesnt make them irrelevant.
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11.12.2018, 12:59
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Great I suggest we all turn up for the British Embassy roadshows in Laurel and Hardy costumes and open
the debate by saying . . . . . .
No doubt those Expats with children can bring them along too dressed as Little Lord Fauntleroy's
to have a dig at the Brexit establishment of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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11.12.2018, 13:37
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | holly crap whats just happened??? I'm agreeing with Loz   
It really hacks me off when labour and labour supporters go on and on about the poor, the state of the nhs, pensions, council cuts etc etc etc, they where in power for 13 years and totally screwed things up, yet its not their fault, seems they conveniently forget about the damage they did to everyones pension funds via their tax grab. | | | | | I am not a labour supporter, nor do you need to be to have grave concerns about the effects of cutbacks on services across education and health. Those of us living here in the UK experience it everyday.
Folks have few political choices, it's extreme either way. The Lib Dems aren't in the picture so you're screwed as the middle ground has all but disappeared.
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11.12.2018, 13:41
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Don't forget the Greens, Caroline Lucas has been amazing.
But yes ... many of us feel totally politically 'homeless' - and it is time the FPP system, its see saw politics of extremes- was got rid of- and for more cooperation across the political spectrum.
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11.12.2018, 14:28
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Big economies such as Australia and Brazil trade under WTO rules, not sure why would that be bad for the UK.
The UK is a country with a somewhat efficient public management (compared to the EU) and a modern economy based on classical liberalism. The EU is on other hand is based on the idea of a socialist super-state full of regulations, laws, and ideas that can not be compatible with all the variety of cultures and ways of thinking. Add to that that the Euro will explode not so far away accelerating the end of the EU, then it seems the UK is in the right moment to jump off.
Sincerely I struggle to see the UK doing any worse after Brexit. It is the biggest European market for Germany, France, Italy,etc. and only if the EU bureaucrats are more stupid than they really seem to be to choose not to close a trade deal. Not to mention the possibilityof the UK to strike trade deals with the Nafta and Mercosur.
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11.12.2018, 14:45
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11.12.2018, 14:54
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Best place for her, she can't negotiate an even worse deal that way.
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11.12.2018, 15:33
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Big economies such as Australia and Brazil trade under WTO rules, not sure why would that be bad for the UK.
The UK is a country with a somewhat efficient public management (compared to the EU) and a modern economy based on classical liberalism. The EU is on other hand is based on the idea of a socialist super-state full of regulations, laws, and ideas that can not be compatible with all the variety of cultures and ways of thinking. Add to that that the Euro will explode not so far away accelerating the end of the EU, then it seems the UK is in the right moment to jump off.
Sincerely I struggle to see the UK doing any worse after Brexit. It is the biggest European market for Germany, France, Italy,etc. and only if the EU bureaucrats are more stupid than they really seem to be to choose not to close a trade deal. Not to mention the possibilityof the UK to strike trade deals with the Nafta and Mercosur. | | | | | The UK applied to the WTO but were rejected by around 20 countries "not sure why would that be bad for the UK"!
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11.12.2018, 15:51
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Got the child-locks, all that's missing is the Hello Kitty sunshade in the window. | The following 4 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
11.12.2018, 18:05
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So businesses are expected to wait until January 2019 to know under what terms they can trade with the EU from March 2019?
Has any of those idiots in the Conservative party ever worked?
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11.12.2018, 19:21
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Big economies such as Australia and Brazil trade under WTO rules, not sure why would that be bad for the UK. | | | | | If it was such a great idea, why have they negotiated some many trade deals and why are the negotiating a deal with the EU at the moment.
As for the rest, twaddle that was hashed out months ago. Try and read up.
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11.12.2018, 19:38
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | If it was such a great idea, why have they negotiated some many trade deals and why are the negotiating a deal with the EU at the moment.
As for the rest, twaddle that was hashed out months ago. Try and read up. | | | | | Because free trade deals are better than WTO, and large economies are able to negotiate them to their benefit. Australia has negotiated free trade agreements worth way more than the EU has.
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