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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% |  | | | 
28.01.2019, 10:53
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | The article only suggests that the trade agreements will roll over UNLESS there's a no deal. Is that the point you are making? I thought you were on the "no deal" side of things? | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
28.01.2019, 10:59
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in
OK thanks, nothing has changed.
Happy Great British Break Offing.
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28.01.2019, 11:19
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | OK thanks, nothing has changed.
Happy Great British Break Offing. | | | | | | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | https://twitter.com/Number10cat/stat...93208845557761 | This user would like to thank Blueangel for this useful post: | | 
28.01.2019, 12:50
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | So the answer to rising Euroscepism is MORE Europe? Let’s see how that works out. | | | | | Oh, if it was only the "Euroscepticism" we were talking about. No, you can't shove "Europe" down some people's throat. But far-right parties and fascist doctrines will never solve any issue either, be it economical, social or whatever.
How ironic everything is. We're talking about less Europe - some expats living a nice, sheltered life in Switzerland.....
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28.01.2019, 14:35
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | The article only suggests that the trade agreements will roll over UNLESS there's a no deal. Is that the point you are making? I thought you were on the "no deal" side of things?  | | | | | I don't read it like that, just that a deal will result in less time pressure to finalise the roll-over agreements. | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | The article also contradicts this statement: "“Some of them are challenging, one or two are even more than challenging - they are close to impossible,” he added, citing Turkey as one such difficult country as it is part of a customs union with the European Union." | Quote: | |  | | | Oh, if it was only the "Euroscepticism" we were talking about. No, you can't shove "Europe" down some people's throat. But far-right parties and fascist doctrines will never solve any issue either, be it economical, social or whatever.
How ironic everything is. We're talking about less Europe - some expats living a nice, sheltered life in Switzerland..... | | | | | To clarify I mean the EU, which Switzerland does very well out of not being a member of.
The far-right isn't the cause, it's the symptom. You want rid of the far-right? Then treat the cause.
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28.01.2019, 14:36
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | How ironic everything is. We're talking about less Europe - some expats living a nice, sheltered life in Switzerland..... | | | | | I've always been anti EU since it's inception, and one of the reasons that I became Swiss was so that I could do my part to keep us out of that mess.
Also, the EU has NEVER done anything for me or my family.
Tom
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28.01.2019, 14:42
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | You want rid of the far-right? Then treat the cause. | | | | | Not sure you can do that whilst maintaining a free press.
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28.01.2019, 14:44
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Not sure you can do that whilst maintaining a free press. | | | | | Screaming hatred seems to be selling quite nicely. I doubt they'll rein it in any time soon. | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
28.01.2019, 14:46
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | You want rid of the far-right? Then treat the cause. | | | | | So we should have got rid of the EU in the 1930s? | The following 2 users would like to thank Blueangel for this useful post: | | 
28.01.2019, 14:47
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | I've always been anti EU since it's inception, and one of the reasons that I became Swiss was so that I could do my part to keep us out of that mess. 
Also, the EU has NEVER done anything for me or my family. 
Tom | | | | | Oh, now now Tom - you strike me as a man who likes to get the budgy-smugglers on and head down to a nice clean sea for a bit of a paddle.
The EU is at the forefront of environmental legislation, so whilst you might feel they've never done anything directly for you, i'm sure you've derived plenty of indirect benefits.
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28.01.2019, 14:49
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Not sure you can do that whilst maintaining a free press. | | | | | | Quote: |  | | | Screaming hatred seems to be selling quite nicely. I doubt they'll rein it in any time soon.  | | | | | The press is dying. We haz the internetz now.
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28.01.2019, 14:53
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | So we should have got rid of the EU in the 1930s?  | | | | | Ask yourself what caused the rise of the Nazis in the first place.
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28.01.2019, 14:53
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Oh, if it was only the "Euroscepticism" we were talking about. No, you can't shove "Europe" down some people's throat. But far-right parties and fascist doctrines will never solve any issue either, be it economical, social or whatever. | | | | |
You have the sitting politicians, who seem to be the problem. Then you have the extreme right, who are the effect. Then there is the solution, which is undefined yet. It would be good if politicians would go back to their roots and try to understand why people vote for Orban for AfD, and address immediate concerns like migration or unemployment, and for the long term also themes like the democratic gap and be clear what the future scope of the EU should be.
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28.01.2019, 15:01
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | I didn't mean the print media. Advertisers will daub their adverts on any old news site which is garnering clicks and shares. If you want clicks and shares you have to post stuff which gets the hard-of-thinking popping a vein and coming back for more.
Although having said that, advertisers seem to be rethinking this now and whether being associated with hate-spitting tabloids is actually doing them more harm than good.
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28.01.2019, 15:03
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: |  | | | Oh, now now Tom - you strike me as a man who likes to get the budgy-smugglers on and head down to a nice clean sea for a bit of a paddle.
The EU is at the forefront of environmental legislation, so whilst you might feel they've never done anything directly for you, i'm sure you've derived plenty of indirect benefits. | | | | |    
Tom
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28.01.2019, 15:04
| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | The Daily Mail Online has taken up the slack and then some - it has about 11.5m views a day, just over a third from the UK. A good chunk of adults are still getting their views from Newspapers (paper or online) with editors with agendas - the best selling and most read of which, in the main, are anti-EU slanting and have been since day dot.
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28.01.2019, 15:07
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28.01.2019, 15:09
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Ask yourself what caused the rise of the Nazis in the first place. | | | | | germany being bankrupted by having to pay reparations for ww1 ?
Not really relevant to brexit unless I'm missing something
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28.01.2019, 15:10
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| | Re: The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in | Quote: | |  | | | Ask yourself what caused the rise of the Nazis in the first place. | | | | | Funny you should mention that. Apart from economic and social problems, first of all it appealed to Germans because some of them never accepted the WWI outcome, considering they suffered a great injustice. I suppose you heard of Nazi propaganda machine and the catharsis they found. It seems the catharsis these days is hating EU, immigration and immigrants, refugees, Islam, etc etc.
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