[Politics] Brexit

Mental Lental said:

Yes it was an interesting correlation. One reason why I regularly visit this thread is to try and get my head around the stupidity that must have been involved for someone to actually go into a voting booth and vote to become poorer. I get no perspective talking to the expat community here because we're all graduates (a requirement of Japanese immigration) who have experienced what its like living as a foreigner in an inward looking xenophobic island nation. As such we are all staunch remainers to a man. I actually have a little bit more time for the racists than I do for the demonstrably thick or worse, the ones that actually have a few brain cells but have managed to fill those cells up with misinformation and lies.

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Westdene Seagull said:

So in your mind the only people that voted exit were either thick or racist ? Nice.

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The Clamp said:

Ha! No, you missed my point. What I wasn't saying was the majority of Leave voters are thick as mince.

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JC Footy Genius said:

I believe a deal will be done but I am willing to admit I could be wrong and all the Remainers who told me the EU would be completely unreasonable and intransigent to punish us could be right.

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The Clamp said:

I've stated before that I believe the vast majority of people who voted Brexit were either racist, thick or too short sighted to see the implications. I believe the other Brexit backers are people that stand to gain financially or politically from us leaving the EU.
Leave voters were, after all manipulated by folks like Boris and Farage and used as pawns in Cameron's political omni-shambles.

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Blue3 said:

For many years I was involved in Apprentice training for electrical and mechanical engineers the duming down of training and qualifications from the 1980s through to the 2010s was shameful.

Successive governments tried to modernise the curriculum's to better reflect the changing world while at the same time opening up the education providers and awarding bodies to the free market.

The old awarding bodies such as City and Guilds were being replaced by newer more flexible options module based the idea being employers could pick from huge lists subjects to be studied that provided the students with credits towards a recognised qualification and provide employers with skilled craft persons that were tailor made to there requirements.

All good so far but and there is always a but these changes were all taking place a background of other changes:

1. The steady decline in the British manufacturing base.
2. The evolving of Technical colleges and Polytechnics into new universities
3. The need for these new training providers to ensure enough students to maintain income
4. Training providers unable to deliver the vast options the new courses required
5. Training providers opting for courses that provide biggest returns for least investment
6. A national obsession to go to University at any cost when Apprentiships would have been better options
7. A series of government led very lowly paid very poorly delivered 1 year work experiences under the guise of Apprentiships

These changes were not handled very well by governments of all colours, employers were not geeting the qualified staff they needed, colleges stopped providing these courses, Awarding bodies came and went while others continually remodelled themselves.

We have endured a period of 30 years of ever declining quality of the training offered and that of the trainers providing it, no wonder many employers looked to craftsmen from other countries without them our industries would have ground to a halt.

However dispite all of this 30 years on there is some light at the end of the tunnel the much criticised NVQ system and the assessors emploed to monitor it are finally starting to show positive results, Some of the old awarding bodies have managed to modernise such as City and Guilds and agin now offer technical certification of a high standard.

The colleges are variable very variable and their ability to provide the course content changes year on year and the quality of those delivery the training is even more variable and it is here much work still needs to be done if we are to turn this sorry state of affairs round.

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Guinness Boy said:

The emphasis on OUR Government. The move away from manufacturing was nothing to do with the EU. Thatcher started it by de regulating the City while at the same time failing to support or actually closing down traditional industries. Globalisation and the internet did the rest. As soon as something can be made cheaper elsewhere it is.

If you think that turning the UK in to some sort of European Singapore but with limited seasonal labour and no trade deals to back sales is going to bring back manufacturing you're sadly mistaken. If negotiations go badly then exports will fall and so will the limited amount of manufacturing jobs.


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bashlsdir said:

Next time you get in your car count the number of French and German cars on our roads, they will want a deal and vice versa.

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Westdene Seagull said:

And what about those of us that wanted to leave well before Boris, Farage and Cameron were ever heard of ? Which convenient box do we fit into ?

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The Clamp said:

I'm sorry but how the hell else is anyone supposed to read what you stated. You literally said if a deal fails it will be the fault of EU particularly the French and anti Brexit MP's. That is what you typed, what then did you mean?

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Westdene Seagull said:

So in your mind the only people that voted exit were either thick or racist ? Nice.

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JC Footy Genius said:

Yes, I believe if we don't reach a deal the most likely causes will be EU intransigence (led by France) or anti-Brexit alliances within Parliament making our negotiating position untenable leading to the collaspe of the Government. If you really have to ask why the French you haven't been following European politics for the last 5,10,20 30,50,100 + years. Labour's number one goal is bringing down the government, creating an impasse exploiting Brexit is probably their best chance.

Obviously, others think everything's our fault, the governments always wrong etc

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ManOfSussex said:

So it'll be The EU's fault, as it always is, hence why we're leaving that rancid/awful/undemocratic/self serving organisation, not ours for making assumptions that on doing so they'll just roll over and do exactly what we're want because we're British, they're not and we stood firm in the siege of Mafeking, so they should jolly well play fair and respect us. I understand

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Mental Lental said:

Pretty much.

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ManOfSussex said:

What in your view, out of interest, is currently tenable about our our negotiating position and going well so far?

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Mental Lental said:

Yes it was an interesting correlation. One reason why I regularly visit this thread is to try and get my head around the stupidity that must have been involved for someone to actually go into a voting booth and vote to become poorer. I get no perspective talking to the expat community here because we're all graduates (a requirement of Japanese immigration) who have experienced what its like living as a foreigner in an inward looking xenophobic island nation. As such we are all staunch remainers to a man. I actually have a little bit more time for the racists than I do for the demonstrably thick or worse, the ones that actually have a few brain cells but have managed to fill those cells up with misinformation and lies.

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The Clamp said:

I've stated before that I believe the vast majority of people who voted Brexit were either racist, thick or too short sighted to see the implications. I believe the other Brexit backers are people that stand to gain financially or politically from us leaving the EU.
Leave voters were, after all manipulated by folks like Boris and Farage and used as pawns in Cameron's political omni-shambles.

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The Clamp said:

Thick, short sighted and possibly racist. Hard to say which of the three or combination thereof. I'd say you were more shortsighted whereas your JCF, thick.

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Mental Lental said:

Pretty much.

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JC Footy Genius said:

Yellow card for misrepresenting an argument. When have I ever said everything is the EU's fault? Have you ever considered the possibility that negotiations might fail because of issues caused by the EU?

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