[Politics] Brexit

Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Blah blah blah. You remoaners just go on and on with your so-called facts.

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Mellor 3 Ward 4 said:

For me (as a remainer) it's the fall of the value of the £, making exports cheaper, my company making more money (paying more tax) and employing more people.

Of course, there's more paperwork/hassle involved now and I'd rather be in the EU (especially hate the 90/180 rule) but there are benefits.

I still think we'll rejoin the Single Market (possibly in Starmer's second term)

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McTavish said:

I'm in the wine business and we are all very excited that from the 19th September we will be able to sell wine in pints.

The fact that no-one intends to do this and it would be very costly to do so is neither here nor there. We could if we wanted to.

We will also be allowed to make and sell Piquette, a practice that had been banned by our evil European overlords. Most people in the trade were unaware of this ban as they had never heard of Piquette. Now that the end of this egregious ban has been highlighted, that no-one seems to be interested in making or selling it is again irrelevant. They could if they wanted to.

A cynical person might say that they government is un-banning things that will make absolutely no difference to anyone in order to claim spurious advantages from Brexit or as Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business Kevin Hollinrake said, “Our exit from the EU was all about moments just like this, where we can seize new opportunities and provide a real boost to our great British wineries and further growing the economy,” but that would surely be unfair.

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The Clamp said:

Quite right too. We didn’t go through a non democratic, economy destroying referendum just so we could follow sensible foreign regulations to keep our rivers clean.

If we want to pump our British shit into our British rivers then we are free to do so.

Up yours.

England’s rivers to remain in poor state as EU laws ignored post-Brexit, says watchdog

Government’s failure to match EU measures to improve condition of rivers, lakes and oceans called ‘deeply concerning’

www.theguardian.com

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Hugo Rune said:

I’m sick of these remoaners putting our country down but happy in the knowledge the due to our Nige, there won’t be none left in Parliament after the next election.

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southstandandy said:

One real bugger since Brexit has been traveling around Europe. We have unquestionably had far longer delays at airports waiting for passport control than ever before which is a real nuisance especially with the grand children in tow.

A year ago I also required a new car wing after a small prang, and the part was manufactured in the EU. Usually it takes 1 week for parts to arrive in the UK but since Brexit.....I had to wait 6 weeks whilst it sat in Dover to be inspected and certified before being allowed to be delivered to the garage to be put on my car.

There are just so many more barriers now with our nearest trading partners I just cannot see any real benefits.

The only real positive is that Farrage said he would leave the UK if Brexit was a disaster - hopefully soon he will honour his promise and leave.

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Baldseagull said:

Tony Blairs Government passed an act which meant the UK could not agree to any further EU treaty amendments, without a referendum. That has been repealed now as part of leaving, so we didn't have to have a referendum on the treaty change that involved us leaving.
When we rejoin, and we will, that legislation may not get reinstated, so the Brexit success you claim now, could yet turn out to be the opposite, as Brexit removed the referendum requirement for a Government to sign us up to a US of E.
Your Brexit succes is just a security blanket you can hide under, when you get scared of the non existent US of E.

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Weststander said:

When’s when?

I’m hoping in a Labour second term. But 6+ years is an epoch in political terms. A few world crisis engineered by Putin/Iran can soon screw any Western government’s term.

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