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[Politics] Brexit
- Thread starter KingstonSeagull
- Start date
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,221
You'll need to vote in a Labour government first for that to happen
I was slightly playing devils about house prices falling - they really are too expensive, our kids have no hope of buying anything here, but I certainly don't want us to have a recession. I fear we might have one, but I thought it was a price worth paying.
I agree. We were given expert opinion by so many biased sources (I'm reminded of the posts by NSC user 5 something) that it must have turned a lot of people against them.
I don't know if many voted for the reason. There are genuine benefits to voting leave, don't assume we've all made a mistake.
But we pay our MPs to make our big decisions for us, not gamble their own political careers by passing these decisions to a public that doesn't really have the facts to hand.
What next? A referendum on taking the country to war in Iraq? A referendum on being a republic maybe? What about on whether we want the BoE to increase interest rates?
Come on, that's more like it! One company is going to continue to trade with us, who's next?
I can see this going one of two ways: either the EU decides to drastically reform itself (already plenty of other countries saying that) OR this will be the start of the breakup of the entire project. I'm hoping for the former but I suspect it will be the latter. Either way we will be seen as the catalyst.
Medwayseagull
JCB
Lunatics running asylum.
It's quite clear. I'm getting the same message in my European wide firm.
'My European wide firm', Ultras
You Charlie Big Potato, being a Looky Looky man selling sunglasses on your college holiday's isnt really it.
I cannot fathom anyone with any intellect that would say 'I feel sorry for you' and thats it, you would need to be very very stupid not to widen the discussion beyond that on such an important political issue, I know you are busy but go back to your PA and ask what was really said.
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
- 12,337
No, of course. Well aware that people had various reasons for voting Leave.
I'm just looking forward to laughing in their stupid f**king faces when the ones who voted out of bigotry realise they were sold a closed borders lie.
EDIT: Or rather they took 'control' to mean 'closed'.
BrightonCottager
Well-known member
Or - preferably - a Green/Labour one. Caroline Lucas for PM!
I don't even think we're going to notice a difference there either.
We have to get a similar trade agreement to the one we have now. That will include the free movement of people from within the EU.
I know the 'control our borders' was a message from the leave campaign, but I never believed it. I just don't like the political ideal of the EU or the economics of the Euro.
We have to get the best trade deal for the UK and the EU - that's why I started this thread. It's too easy to think the country has voted against Europe as a whole - we really haven't, we've voted against being in the EU.
I'm off to France next week - I think I might pretend I voted IN
'My European wide firm', Ultras
You Charlie Big Potato, being a Looky Looky man selling sunglasses on your college holiday's isnt really it.
I cannot fathom anyone with any intellect that would say 'I feel sorry for you' and thats it, you would need to be very very stupid not to widen the discussion beyond that on such an important political issue, I know you are busy but go back to your PA and ask what was really said.
That's you trying not to sound "patronising and ill-informed" isn't it? Lovely stuff. As I say, two words that sum you up nicely.
They won't though, long term. It would make no sense.
Customs clearance involves time and money.
They will end up sending their instruments to a company that can do the same job for cheaper or less, within the EU, and save themselves all the aggravation and red tape.
Yup - there are pros to leaving and it's not about thinking voting for Leave was a mistake. It's about how far down the line of potential benefits we actually get to. For me there was more than a smack of the grass being greener to the prospect of leaving. No one expects a panacea but I think the path will be painful and the chances of us getting to a point that makes that path worth treading are slim.
The reality is that we are going to leave now so it's time to look forward and try and make the best of it. There's no point sitting back and waiting to crow "I told you so". It may, just may, be OK
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Except that Juncker has thrown his toys out f the pram and said the process of leaving the EU must start IMMEDIATELY! Ya boo sucks to you Brits.
- Apr 13, 2015
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jakarta
Well-known member
Come on, that's more like it! One company is going to continue to trade with us, who's next?
On further reflection you are right and I have been totally suckered in.
Chandlers are almost certainly going to email me later today to explain why my car can no longer be serviced and why I won't be able to buy a replacement next year as BMW are pulling out of the UK.
