- Jul 10, 2003
- 25,887
The thread for discussion is here The Brexit thread as always. But it was pointed out that we haven't had a poll for 7 years, and what with it being summer. No fence sitting
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[Politics] Brexit - Deal we have or Rejoin CU/SM
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Creaky
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Rejoining in the long term is imo the way to go.
However the country is not in any state to survive another long period of uncertainty nor to get the best possible deal for any application to rejoin.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 14,864
With things going so swimmingly at the moment, why would we do anything to put all that at risk?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Rome wasn't built in a day.
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
- 5,653
It's been a complete cock up from start to finish. I honestly can't think of one thing that has improved my life since. I could name numerous things that have had a detrimental effect to things I've ordered, posted, places travelled to, prices of certain goods increasing, that sincerely piss me off.
I won't go on - as they say 'You learn by your mistakes', and this IMO was a pretty monumental one.
I won't go on - as they say 'You learn by your mistakes', and this IMO was a pretty monumental one.
People have actually voted to carry on with the deal we have?
This is working okay for some people is it? This festival of disaster? This utter shambles is agreeable to some?
Colour me shocked.
This is working okay for some people is it? This festival of disaster? This utter shambles is agreeable to some?
Colour me shocked.
Hit wrong choice. 
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Absolutely we should rejoin the single market in some form. Shame none of our current crop of politicians, who have a chance of gaining power, have the balls to put it in a manifesto.
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
- 7,904
it would've been, if everyone joined in
If they’d just believed harder.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
True, but on the other hand the last thing we need is another election defined by voter's opinion of the EU - because it ends up being at the expense of everything else.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
It fell in pretty much a day though...
- Jul 10, 2003
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There's a change vote option for just such an eventualityHit wrong choice.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
It is not an opinion on the EU though. The two things (EU and the Single Market) have always been conflated but they shouldn't be.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
They shouldn't be, but we'd be in the SM if they weren't.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
Indeed
Ultimately the Single Market (with or without Customs Union) will happen, it's a geopolitical inevitablity. Every country in the world trades first and foremost with those nearest to it, and in the most frictionless way t can find. We're no exception to that rule. It'll take a couple of cycles for the poison of Brexit to be flushed away fully, but I expect SM membership to be in at least one of the serious manifestos come the election after the upcoming one.
FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
- 2,830
For the BREXIT campaign and decision, and the COVID PPE scandal - I would like a full investigation into who in the political spectrum profited from the decision / situation, I want the full weight of our investigative powers to be applied. And then I want convictions for those who made this happen. If now laws were broken, I want the laws to be retrospectively changed so the guilty parties can be incarcerated. Exactly like when they changed the law to make all those people using 'tax efficient' schemes illegal in retrospect. Live by the sword and all that.