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% |  | | | 
10.01.2019, 10:10
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Sandgrounder, were you trying to hint about the general views portrayed about certain religion based on the actions of a small minority? | | | | | | Quote: | |  | | | Anything to do with Brexit? | | | | | Brexit is a strange beast which is many things to many people. | 
10.01.2019, 10:42
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I'd hesitate to label the word "referendum" ineligible.  | | | | | Haha, I was hungry and I ate some letters.
Anyway, no Welsh speakers here. I'm afraid to repeat the experiment with Gaelic... | This user would like to thank greenmount for this useful post: | | 
10.01.2019, 11:12
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Haven't done much adulting in your life then have you?
Just call your landlord and tell them you're leaving tomorrow then. Then your employer and finally your phone provider. Tell them you changed your mind and you're leaving and you don't owe them anything. | | | | | The difference is you gave the landlord money up front to build the house......
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10.01.2019, 11:29
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The difference is you gave the landlord money up front to build the house...... | | | | | Think you can walk out of a Genossenschaft apartment here from one day to the next?
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10.01.2019, 11:39
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The difference is you gave the landlord money up front to build the house...... | | | | | | 
10.01.2019, 11:50
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The difference is you gave the landlord money up front to build the house...... | | | | | I guess you are making a rather clumsy reference to the UK's original joining of the EEC (or EC or whatever it was at the time), but it still doesn't make a difference. Sure it was financed but it still doesn't mean they can walk away scot-free*. Yes, they might be able to shut down membership overnight with a hard Brexit but I'd be surprised if they manage it without some kind of financial penalty either directly or indirectly.
*no pun intended for the Scottish referendum. | 
10.01.2019, 12:11
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The difference is you gave the landlord money up front to build the house...... | | | | | If you're trying to make an analogy here it doesn't work. There's no particular joining fee for the EU, only the subs you pay annually, just like the rent payment in your example. And when you leave you have to pay for the services etc. accrued while you were a member. Pension liabilities to pick one obvious example.
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10.01.2019, 12:31
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Just call your landlord and tell them you're leaving tomorrow then. Then your employer and finally your phone provider. Tell them you changed your mind and you're leaving and you don't owe them anything.
Tell us how it plays out and if you get another job or apartment anytime soon. | | | | |
Contrary to leaving an organization like the EU, all examples that you have mentioned have clearly defined termination conditions. That's a key difference.
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10.01.2019, 12:35
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Contrary to leaving an organization like the EU, all examples that you have mentioned have clearly defined termination conditions. That's a key difference. | | | | | The Brexit farce in a nutshell.
Shame the government didn't have this in mind before they triggered the dog's dinner of a referendum.
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10.01.2019, 12:37
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | If you're trying to make an analogy here it doesn't work. There's no particular joining fee for the EU, only the subs you pay annually, just like the rent payment in your example. And when you leave you have to pay for the services etc. accrued while you were a member. Pension liabilities to pick one obvious example. | | | | | Let's see if it does work, hard BREXIT & we will find out.
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10.01.2019, 12:43
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | The Brexit farce in a nutshell.
Shame the government didn't have this in mind before they triggered the dog's dinner of a referendum. | | | | |
The EU simply doesn't foresee an exit scenario, which is understandable as it is pretty complex. And UK is a relatively uncomplicated country, as it is not using the euro and not part of Schengen.
You can't blame a current government for it. The only ones to blame would be the governments at the time of joining or founding the EU.
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10.01.2019, 13:20
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | The EU simply doesn't foresee an exit scenario, which is understandable as it is pretty complex. And UK is a relatively uncomplicated country, as it is not using the euro and not part of Schengen. | | | | | Well clearly they do see an exit scenario otherwise there would be no Article 50. | Quote: | |  | | | You can't blame a current government for it. The only ones to blame would be the governments at the time of joining or founding the EU. | | | | | No government in the UK either joined or founded the EU. | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
10.01.2019, 13:24
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No government in the UK either joined or founded the EU.  | | | | | | This user would like to thank fatmanfilms for this useful post: | | 
10.01.2019, 13:32
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | The UK "joined" the EEC, not the EU. EU formed later out of the old EEC.
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10.01.2019, 13:50
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | No government in the UK either joined or founded the EU.  | | | | |
They did by ratifying the Maastricht Treaty.
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10.01.2019, 13:57
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | The UK "joined" the EEC, not the EU. EU formed later out of the old EEC. | | | | | If we never joined, no reason to pay a divorce bill | The following 2 users would like to thank fatmanfilms for this useful post: | | 
10.01.2019, 14:00
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | If we never joined, no reason to pay a divorce bill  | | | | | Sounds as good as any of the other bodged reasoning currently circulating around Westminster. I'm surprised JRM hasn't been bleating this to whoever will listen. | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
10.01.2019, 14:45
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in
A bit of light relief. This twitter thread had me in stitches last night | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | https://twitter.com/faisalislam/stat...51711685038080 | 
10.01.2019, 21:43
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Let's see if it does work, hard BREXIT & we will find out. | | | | | Totally agree.
Let's do this b***s!
Let's see which union will survive hard Brexit.
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10.01.2019, 22:43
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swiss and UK have already signed their agreements
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