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[Politics] Brexit
- Thread starter KingstonSeagull
- Start date
- Oct 12, 2022
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Nobody wants Brexit taz, we’re saddled with it. Nobody of any party wants to talk about it.
Our remaining industry has been bought by Japan and is choosing to list in New York (ARM) or are reconsidering their investments in the U.K. as we are seen as having a short-term reactionary government prone to sudden changes of direction.
E.g. CRH are the world’s largest supplier of building materials, they were primarily listed in London but have chosen to switch their primary listing from London to New York. The vultures are picking over our bones.
Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin are doing brilliantly out of our acts of self harm. Meanwhile the City of London shrinks in importance and influence.
Business values stability and infrastructure highly. We increasingly have neither.
The EU Commission are absolutely elected and sit a single five year term.
You are wilfully ignorant, as well as only sporadically able to find the shift key.
As for naming them, I can name Ursula von Der Leyen and Mairead McGuinness as she’s the commissioner with overall responsibility for Financial Services and financial stability in the EU. However, even if I couldn’t they are there on trust having convinced the EU’s representatives from every member country of their goodwill and competence.
I don’t know your nationality, but clearly you’re not British yourself since you say “if you don’t like your present government vote them out” this intrigues me, I can’t think of many places cheering Brexit on even now. China? Russia? North Korea?
Very clever slogan by labour "making brexit work" the labour party is fully aware that there is a full review with Brussels of trade between the UK and EU in 2025 with the emphasis on reducing red tape and ease of trade, digital borders ect, who ever is in power will clam a victory for small business including Brussels just a reminder we Have a free trade deal with no tariffs or quotas agreement with the EU,, the same as pan Pacific a car build in the UK can be sold just as easily in peru as in France, this exact same pointless red tape you now complain about discouraged the UK from trade with the rest of the planet when we were part of the EU, outside foreign investment to uk is second highest in Europe, take a look at our new free ports well away from Brussels anti competition rules, creating new jobs, once remoaners British aerospace now investing in a new helicopter factory in UK, look at the investments into British fishing ports just as Brussels demands the Irish government scrap their fleet of trawlers,, yes Ireland should leave the EU, the EU money poring in for the last 20 years has stopped, and now they will be paying back in for enterity, the Irish gdp is false just money passed through on its way to the USA by huge multi national companys for tax avoidance, it costs the equivalent to live in Ireland to living in central London, Poland and hungry will not make the same mistake once the EU billions stops coming in and their hard earned cash is poring into Albania and North Macedonia
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Thunder Bolt has covered your flaw in thinking with regard to free ports and the "free trade deal" we have doesn't cover services - 80% of our economy - which is why London's business is slowly ebbing elsewhere. Most of the rest of your post is just guess work (Hungary/Polan) and baseless nonsense (Ireland)
Apart from that, brilliant work. Very Brexit.
- Jul 10, 2003
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papachris
Well-known member
I was lucky. I escaped before the deadline. Feel for my family and friends in the UK thoughIndeed.
And we’re all worse off for it. And my kids are and my Grandkids are too
I travel around Europe fairly regularly - I always have the same feeling when I arrive back home. The UK really is shit compared to most parts of western Europe - and increasingly compares poorly to Eastern Europe. We have sacrificed SO MUCH over the past 7 years, and will continue to do so for many, many years - no doubt long past the days I'm around. I don't feel sorry for myself...but I DO feel an immense sadness for so many millions of people whose lives are blighted by Brexit - especially the younger generation who can no longer opt to move to France or Spain or wherever. The only winners in all this are the charlatans and liars who led us down this path...they have managed to line their own pockets all too easily.
cunning fergus
Well-known member
- Jan 18, 2009
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The sooner we get back to that organisation that has the interests of the people the better………
France to spend €200m on destroying excess wine as demand falls | France | The Guardian
Fund aims to help struggling winemakers as they adjust to consumers’ changing habits
amp.theguardian.com
If only British taxpayers money was helping the French in this way imagine how much prosperous we would all be.
Plus ca change as they say over the water in paradise.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The same charlatans and liars who have moved their business to Ireland, or even taken out Irish or French citizenship so they don’t have to suffer with us plebs.
- Jul 10, 2003
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And as Brexit proves to be the utter and complete disaster that was always predicted, a couple of 'well we won' and desperate 'but whatabout's' are the sum total from the posters so ardently pushing the Brexit campaign for year after year and how great it would be.The sooner we get back to that organisation that has the interests of the people the better………
France to spend €200m on destroying excess wine as demand falls | France | The Guardian
Fund aims to help struggling winemakers as they adjust to consumers’ changing habits
If only British taxpayers money was helping the French in this way imagine how much prosperous we would all be.
Plus ca change as they say over the water in paradise.
A single benefit way beyond their abilities, It would be hilarious if they had only f***ed over themselves with their naivety and ignorance and not millions of innocent people who never wanted this
- Aug 24, 2020
- 5,370
'I voted for Brexit and heard it wouldn't affect us, now I can't live in my £13k Italian house'
But the best part of the video is one of the comments:
"I didn't think any changes would apply to me, but I voted Brexit because I wanted to inflict the maximum amount of pain, trouble, and inconvenience on other people". Brexit in a nutshell.'
But the best part of the video is one of the comments:
"I didn't think any changes would apply to me, but I voted Brexit because I wanted to inflict the maximum amount of pain, trouble, and inconvenience on other people". Brexit in a nutshell.'
Truly shocking....
- Jul 10, 2003
- 25,935
I must admit, this was my first thought
So true, but unfortunately for the sad twat (obviously metaphorically speaking), they ripped off the faces of people who weren't stupid enough to vote for Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party and wanted the exact opposite. At least 'this person' deserved it (metaphorically obviously)
Barnet Seagull
Luxury Player
Lets not kid ourselves. Brexit was an act of self-harm but it was only made possible by the self-harm inflicted upon ourselves previously.
If we had a democracy which was truly representative and worked in the interests of it citizens, not it's corporations, Brexit is unlikely to have happened but it if did, the impacts would be significantly less.
Years of chronic underinvestment, privatisation and general profiteering to support the wealthy and corporations has left us where we are. Reversing Brexit alone is not enough to solve the problem - albeit it helps. Fundamentally, Radical political change is needed regardless.
...but yes, Brexit is a shitfest.
If we had a democracy which was truly representative and worked in the interests of it citizens, not it's corporations, Brexit is unlikely to have happened but it if did, the impacts would be significantly less.
Years of chronic underinvestment, privatisation and general profiteering to support the wealthy and corporations has left us where we are. Reversing Brexit alone is not enough to solve the problem - albeit it helps. Fundamentally, Radical political change is needed regardless.
...but yes, Brexit is a shitfest.
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1,890
Ugh. We’d had Moe and Larry, so I suppose Curly was bound to show up sometime.The sooner we get back to that organisation that has the interests of the people the better………
France to spend €200m on destroying excess wine as demand falls | France | The Guardian
Fund aims to help struggling winemakers as they adjust to consumers’ changing habits
If only British taxpayers money was helping the French in this way imagine how much prosperous we would all be.
Plus ca change as they say over the water in paradise.
Machiavelli
Well-known member
^ this
Wokeworrier
Active member
Although it's been tremendous fun reading the days heartfelt contributions and searing political analysis ..
from the Europhile community on NSC I must highlight one particular nugget of monumental, cretinous, cluelessness in your post ... Ursula von Der Leyen was a failed German defence minister mired in scandal who ended up getting the job after much horse trading behind closed doors to push her candidacy followed by a vote by the European Parliament to endorse the least worse option. She follows in the footsteps of numerous other failed national politicians ending up with cushy jobs in Brussels (see N Kinnock, P Mandelson).