The latter. Thank God for small mercies, better than opening up your racist websites.
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[Politics] Brexit
- Thread starter KingstonSeagull
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The latter. Thank God for small mercies, better than opening up your racist websites.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
They already are and know the sunlit uplands wont be reached.
Quite, Nobody in the fishing industry thought Brexit would save them. Just a few head in the sand Tory boys like PPf and Pastafarian who have never done a hard days work in their lives trying to stick up for the "working man". Easy to do from their middle class enclaves in the South East. Clueless doesn't begin to cover it. By voting Brexit they have sealed the fate of many a small, working class community. Sad, really, I think they genuinely meant good on the whole, just too ignorant to know what they were voting for.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
We actually import nearly twice the tonnage of fish we export,apparently.All to do with who has a taste for what,with mackerel being our biggest export.Any tariffs put on by the EU would obviously be returned by us in a pointless tit-for-tat.
melias shoes
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That must make you so glad you sad man. Rejoicing about a vote that said leave and gloating because the fishermen aren't getting what they wanted. You must be delighted.
Who am I to judge, obviously. I find it very interesting how concerned the some right wing tories are about relatively small deprived communities who are reliant on an industry that doesn't make much money. If only the same people were in charge when coal mines were being closed then the caring lot would have stood by them. It is almost as if they are using a group of people to try and score political points against the EU. Maybe I am just cynical.
Seriously, Farage being on th fisheries committee and turning up a handful of times in several years and is still viewed as a friend of fishermen - you couldn't make it up. People seem to have lost all semblance of reality.
Good to see relatively good news on the economy. Hopefully the rise in unemployment won't become a trend.
Seriously, Farage being on th fisheries committee and turning up a handful of times in several years and is still viewed as a friend of fishermen - you couldn't make it up. People seem to have lost all semblance of reality.
Good to see relatively good news on the economy. Hopefully the rise in unemployment won't become a trend.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
Garry Nelson's teacher
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I can't recall any real discussion/debate over the issue of Gibraltar on this thread (apologies if I've missed something). I confess that as a Leaver I don't really feel very well informed on this, other than a feeling that Brexit was hugely unpopular there and that probably they feel very badly let down. The issue now appears to have the potential for scuttling any interim agreement (see extract below). Do Brexiteers in particular have any strong feeling on this one? (Believe it or not and contrary to most assumptions on the thread I'm actually interested in the responses, silly old naïve me.)
The hard-fought agreement between the UK and EU over a 21-month transition period after Brexit has been thrown into doubt after Spain refused to endorse the deal without further concessions over Gibraltar.
With days to go before the 27 EU leaders are expected to welcome the two sides coming together over a 129-page withdrawal agreement, including the terms of the transition, Madrid said it was withholding its support.
It is understood that Spain, which lays claim to the Rock, wants the legal text to be clearer that it has a veto on Gibraltar continuing to enjoy the benefits of the single market and the customs union.
While EU officials are confident they can persuade Spain to back the withdrawal agreement before a sign-off by leaders in Brussels on Friday, it would be a hammer blow if the full 27 member states were not able to endorse a deal in principle on the transition period, given the need to offer reassurance for British businesses.
The hard-fought agreement between the UK and EU over a 21-month transition period after Brexit has been thrown into doubt after Spain refused to endorse the deal without further concessions over Gibraltar.
With days to go before the 27 EU leaders are expected to welcome the two sides coming together over a 129-page withdrawal agreement, including the terms of the transition, Madrid said it was withholding its support.
It is understood that Spain, which lays claim to the Rock, wants the legal text to be clearer that it has a veto on Gibraltar continuing to enjoy the benefits of the single market and the customs union.
While EU officials are confident they can persuade Spain to back the withdrawal agreement before a sign-off by leaders in Brussels on Friday, it would be a hammer blow if the full 27 member states were not able to endorse a deal in principle on the transition period, given the need to offer reassurance for British businesses.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Delighted? That fisherman from my home town have been ****ed over again and were lied to?
Not really.
Fishing makes up 0.3% of our GDP. It is an iconic but very small industry. We have more important things to worry about. Harsh but true. Voting leave has done that industry more harm than good anyway, they won't be able to shift the small amount of fish they are allowed to catch. Tarifs will finish off that market. Well done, you must be so proud of yourselves.
Two Professors
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ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
The fact that the one Lib Dem MEP for South East England attempted to do more in actually lobbying The EU and DEFRA for changes to the quotas on behalf of her constituents who are fishermen, than all The UKIP expense claimers ever did says it all.
You should have stopped after "I'm really rather puzzled".
You shouldn't have started at all.
Pretty pink fairy
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and you call yourself British ,
regards
DR
And you call yourself Das Reich, you knob.
GT49er
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You have to remember that all his sad ramblings are based on his belief that anyone who disagrees with him is ignorant.
Pretty pink fairy
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on an internet forum , shocking eh
regards
DR
Shocking? No. Revolting? Yes.
Wages rising, inflation falling, lowest unemployment for 42 years, people in employment record highest level ever, GDP + 1.7%, house prices up 4.9%, public sector net borrowing down 7.2 Billion, sterling/dollar exchange rate similar to pre referendum level. Probably a good time to remind ourselves what was predicted for the immediate aftermath of a leave vote...
Could all those peddling this project fear nonsense pre-referendum please form an orderly queue for suitable ridicule
I've lost count, but for (I think) the forty second time, WE HAVEN'T LEFT YET.
GT49er
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And the fact that the one Lib Dem MEP for South East England achieved next to naff all, if that, in that respect sums up the EU and the reasons for leaving it! Even the zealots who believed in it heart and soul and were prepared to submit everything to the rule of Brussels could not make the damn thing work for us.