[Politics] Brexit

doogie004 said:

I'm sure it will take more than a year but to be more in control of our borders , our own destiny like years ago when Great Britain was the one country everybody looked up to there is nothing great about this country the way we are going . As I said it might be the biggest mistake marked on a ballot paper I've ever done but for me it's worth taking a chance I'm sure the next few months will be rocky ask me next year . Why were you happy to keep going as we were ?

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Soulman said:

Yeah ok, one man, one INDEPENDENT, i take it this chap is not a farmer......against REAL farmers....

Farmers Weekly poll backed Brexit

Polls carried out by Farmers Weekly have consistently shown strong farmer support for the “leave” campaign. In April, an exclusive Farmers Weekly poll of 577 farmers found 58% said they wanted to leave, while just 31% said they wanted the UK to remain in the trade bloc.

Delighted Derbyshire farmer Michael Seals of the Farmers for Britain campaign, which lobbied for the UK to leave the EU, said: “The country has voted for change – and the farming industry has clearly indicated it wants change.

“We must now all work together, government and industry representatives, to start with a blank sheet of paper to find a new and better way of supporting this industry to enable it to go forward.”

The Country Land & Business Association (CLA), which represents 33,000 landowners in England and Wales, said a Brexit would “bring challenges, but also significant opportunities”.

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Mo Gosfield said:

Sadly, you cannot fix the EU from the inside.
Farage was right and I can back him up ( with experience ) The organisation is rotten to the core. With power comes corruption and it is rife within the EU. The level of waste is staggeringly huge and there is no accountability. No internal fiscal control. They cannot sign off any set of accounts, therefore they are operating illegally. It is the most corrupt body on the face of the Earth and yet millions in this country glibly choose to ignore this and pursue some sort of Utopian dream.
My vote on Thursday was a vote for honesty, visibility, transparency and self-control. Its another matter if our own politicians waste money. We vote them in and we can vote them out again. We have some sort of control unlike this runaway black hole.
The EU is out of control. Eventually, it will eat itself and the dream will be over. All the member states will revert back to independency and all will continue to trade happily with each other. After all, business is business.

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aberdare seagull said:

Too be fair i gave them a choice of cardiff, swansea or brighton if they wanted to go and watch live games with me (possible bribes, but loves her weekends on the southcoast now). There was no way they were going to be allowed to support the mancs, scouse or chelsea like all the kids in school

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El Presidente said:

I'm a remain voter but I agree with you wholeheartedly.

The votes have been cast, the decision has been made.

So it's time to move on, although there does seem to be a vacuum in terms of decision making and control at the top of the leave organisation.

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studio150 said:

Personally I think the farmers have misjudged the benefits but we are where we are and hopefully we wont see any depressed farmers being interviewed by John Craven in a few years time.

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Blue Valkyrie said:

I suppose if it gets over 18 million signatures it'll get interesting.

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GoldWithFalmer said:

One of my reasons to vote leave is this-why does it seem to be deemed necessary to have migrant workers do menial tasks that our citizens wont?

I want to address the reasons behind why we have to have 'migrant workers in the first place for such jobs-sorry but I don't buy the English won't do jobs.....further my vote leave does not accept either.

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The Rivet said:

Yeah, interestingly fraudulent.

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lawros left foot said:

Maybe we could all sign it in biro

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Baldseagull said:

As a remainer who cannot see any good coming from leaving, I have been told I am being defeatist. I see leavers as being defeatist about the possibility for change. I don't believe it is impossible to change the E.U. from the inside, the appetite for it is there now, it is not just Britons pissed off with the status quo. Cameron should not have gone to Brussels looking for special deals for Britain, he should have gone to the other member states and gained support for changing the structure, opening up the accounts and reducing the waste.

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whitelion said:

I'm watching but wasn't a Brexit voter.

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Crispy Ambulance said:

If you ever think that would/will happen, you're deluded. Juncker said the day before the vote that there would be no more deals, re-negotiation, etc. There couldn't have been a clearer message that we won't be able to change anything from within. And his statements since the vote have simply supported the view that to get away from him and that 'cartel' was the correct decision.

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Oxy McFloppie-Tish said:

Nothing like that will have changed by this time next year. We'll still be "in" the EU for a couple more years, until the divorce. It will be rocky, though.

I was happy to keep going as we were because I believed we had more chance to influence/improve the EU from within. Also, Cornwall received a lot of funding from the EU, and I never saw immigration as a problem, any more than controlling the Cornish border at The Tamar. I also may be wrong, but I'd have wanted a much, much clearer plan of the future to even consider voting "Leave".

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