If we vote for Brexit what happens

Yamumuk

Thrugelmir wrote: »

You can't have your cake and eat it as the saying goes. So little point in complaining about the exchange rate for sterling for example. As it's the actions of people that collectively are causing the issues. Do you see brussel sprouts for sale in Italian or Spanish supermarkets?

Sill analogy. When abroad you of course see U.K. brands in the shops, those that any given country has a taste for. Very disingenuous. Heinz baked Beans being one, or are they American ?. Liptons Tea etc.

This buy British thing is not realistic. Shall we apply that to cars and make a proper dent in in the E.U. exports ? I bet there is almost no one with a British car on this forum, you see it is not realistic and it is not a case of taking your own medicine by buying British car.

Nissan's only from now on is it ? :A As if they are British anyway.

If we play nationalistic twattery, so will those who we export to.

Ballard

Thrugelmir wrote: »

You can't have your cake and eat it as the saying goes. So little point in complaining about the exchange rate for sterling for example. As it's the actions of people that collectively are causing the issues. Do you see brussel sprouts for sale in Italian or Spanish supermarkets?

Your point was that we should buy British. My point is that there are countless examples of items that aren't produced here. Perhaps we will start a computer software company to rival Microsoft or Apple but until that day comes we will be stuck with purchasing software from abroad.

I rather like rice and pasta and am also partial to a banana. In order to continue eating the food that I enjoy I have to buy imported produce. I don't see this as particularly unpatriotic but those who do can survive on turnips and swedes I suppose. Nothing wrong with that if that's what you want to do.

I have to confess that I've yet to go shopping for Brussel Sprouts abroad (or in this country come to that).

Yamumuk

CLAPTON wrote: »

you have made it quite plain that you prefer the Greek path to riches.
endless borrowing
high wages
high government spending
import far more than you export
high exchange rate

and indeeds it did work for a time ...................

but yes the inevitable devaluation of an overvalued currency is painful, in the short term but even more painful, if left uncorrected in the longer term

Yeah, so plain I need to ask you how ? You such lack of skill in that you can make 1+1 = 3

CLAPTON

Yamumuk wrote: »

Yeah, so plain I need to ask you how ? You such lack of skill in that you can make 1+1 = 3

probably beyond your capabilities,
but why not read an economics text book: the chapters dealing with exchange rates.
Also useful, would a discussion about the effects of the Euro on the relative progress of Germany (and the northern EU states) compared to Greece and the southern EU states.

Graham_Devon

Yamumuk wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37801847

More real and tangible price rises that mean Brexit has directly caused less money in your pocket.

Marmites increased by 10p?!



That's gonna wipe about 5 pence of my years income.

Time for a new referendum, I want back in.

prosaver

Morrisons do price match so marmite will be the same as tescos...
I see Blair stuck his nose in again .whatsder matter with him ..

Ballard

prosaver wrote: »

Morrisons do price match so marmite will be the same as tescos...
I see Blair stuck his nose in again .whatsder matter with him ..

Morrisons stopped matching prices about a year ago.

prosaver

Ballard wrote: »

Morrisons stopped matching prices about a year ago.

Yep .. true just checked it out.. .. i wonder if aldi start puting prices up?

Conrad

Ballard wrote: »

The question was very clear.

Remain a member of the European Union.
Leave the European Union.

Anyone who read this as '...and curb immigration' didn't read well enough. It's irrelevant what Cameron, Farage, Johnson or May said. What matters is what our politicians agree to during the exit negotiations. It would have been impossible for anyone to declare what we will get when the negotiations are complete.

Don't get me wrong, we may we'll end up with immigration laws that suit you perfectly. Just don't think that it's written in stone that you'll get it.

So you didn't view leaving the EU as us taking back control of our decisions on such things as immigration policy?

ruggedtoast

CLAPTON wrote: »

you have made it quite plain that you prefer the Greek path to riches.
endless borrowing
high wages
high government spending
import far more than you export
high exchange rate

and indeeds it did work for a time ...................

but yes the inevitable devaluation of an overvalued currency is painful, in the short term but even more painful, if left uncorrected in the longer term

It has apparently escaped your attention that Greece is part of the Eurozone. We are not.

Although, thanks to your generation's avaricious compulsion to acquire unfathomable amounts of debt with which to enrich yourselves while impoverishing your own children, we are not any better off in terms of indebtedness.

Maybe when they take the triple lock off your state pension, rescind your bus pass, and require you to pay for your TV licence, it will start to sink into your skull that throwing your own country into penury because you don't like foreigners has some actual consequences outside of your UKIP meetings.