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If we vote for Brexit what happens

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  • setmefree2
    setmefree2 Posts: 9,072 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Originally Posted by ruggedtoast viewpost.gif
    Sure they will, using Latvian builders because the Brexit voters can't be bothered to get out of bed for nine quid an hour unless its to sign on.
    My word...

    Why is it that you say something bad about the Islamic faith and you're being islamophobic but say Brexit voters can't be bothered to get out of bed to sign on isn't considered hate speech?

    Bloody "liberalism", which has totally lost touch with the actual meaning of the word, is truly poison. Thankfully the people of the UK and the US are starting to see it for what it is. Long may it continue.

    What a weird pair of "lefties" Moby and Toxic are.
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    edited 9 December 2016 at 2:57PM
    Sensational news!!

    The HMS Brexit has just been holed in a dozen places below the waterline by the EU Corvette.

    Brexiteers are in panic!

    They are pumping out their bilges but their efforts are for nothing!

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-citizenship-keep-freedom-of-movement-guy-verhofstadt-chief-negotiator-opt-in-passports-a7465271.html
    EU negotiators will offer Brits an individual opt-in to remain EU citizens, chief negotiator confirms
    Exclusive: Guy Verhofstadt has fast-tracked the plan and will include it in his mandate

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    The HMS Brexit. Save the tea towels and biscuit tins!

    Well, see you Brexitwits.

    With a bit of luck they will be able to tell who voted Leave and rescind the offer for them.

    :-)
  • TrickyTree83
    TrickyTree83 Posts: 3,930 Forumite
    OMG! A left wing parliament! Of Europeans!

    ARM THE NUKES.

    While your example paints a putative and extremely improbable course of action by the EC, it fails to highlight anything that has actually happened.

    How have you been oppressed, Tricky?

    In what way are your worse orf?

    Nope, you don't get to change the topic that you started by saying you've never met a leave voter that understood the democratic operation of the EU.

    I do, I've demonstrated why it's unfit for purpose in representing the people of the EU, nukes, lefties and oppression have nothing to do with it. It's a matter of principle. The EU commission is a consolidation of power which is neither elected by nor accountable to the people of the EU.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 9 December 2016 at 3:03PM
    Sure they will, using Latvian builders because the Brexit voters can't be bothered to get out of bed for nine quid an hour unless its to sign on.

    You certainly make a very eloquent case for the massive reform of the benefits system: sad about toxic distain for the poorer members of society;
    I guess they just don't fit in with the rich boomers that run the labour party now..
  • setmefree2
    setmefree2 Posts: 9,072 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    More news that will probably be blamed on Brexit if it feeds through to UK CPI.
    China Factory Prices Rise 3.3% on Year, More Than Expected

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/china-factory-gate-prices-rise-1-5-on-year-less-than-expected
  • TrickyTree83
    TrickyTree83 Posts: 3,930 Forumite
    Sensational news!!

    The HMS Brexit has just been holed in a dozen places below the waterline by the EU Corvette.

    Brexiteers are in panic!

    They are pumping out their bilges but their efforts are for nothing!

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-citizenship-keep-freedom-of-movement-guy-verhofstadt-chief-negotiator-opt-in-passports-a7465271.html


    Well, see you Brexitwits.

    With a bit of luck they will be able to tell who voted Leave and rescind the offer for them.

    :-)

    What on earth are you posting now... why would you think leave voters would be averse to such a suggestion?
  • prosaver
    prosaver Posts: 7,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    edited 9 December 2016 at 3:14PM
    Im getting a bit sick off thr word populists. . Found this.. thank god,
    The term populism is being used by the BBC as a sneering, pejorative term to describe the extraordinary social phenomenon sweeping both Europe and the U.S
    The dictionary definition of populist is a politician or other person who claims to support the interests of ordinary people.
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    But, make no mistake, it is now being used as a sneering, pejorative term to describe the extraordinary social phenomenon sweeping both Europe and the U.S. as millions and millions of people express their anger at the ballot box over the indolence, corruption and complacency of their nation's political elite.
    People who European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi arrogantly warned last week were a danger to Europe's future, as he talked darkly in an interview about counter-terrorism and border protection, and how populism was wrecking Europe's ability to respond to immigration.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4011874/POPULISM-s-BBC-s-new-buzzword-used-sneer-uneducated-17-million-voted-Brexit.html#ixzz4SLiWGDDV
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    Forget that it was the same Establishment which tried to terrify the voters, with its Project Fear, into staying in the EU.
    By dismissing the Brexit vote as 'populist', the Remain camp insinuates that a majority of the British people were in some way gulled into voting the way we did. It suggests that we are malleable, easily-manipulated fools who fell for the sinister charms of Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.
    This is not just nonsense, but sinister nonsense.
    Not merely because it insults the general public, but because it stops those who level the claims from ever trying to understand the public at whom they are sneering.
    If a majority of voters in a country feel a certain way about something, then it is wise — especially if you are a politician — to at least consider the possibility that the public are right.
    Instead of pretending the electorate has been lobotomised by brilliant but dangerous demagogues, it is far wiser to address its genuine concerns.
    If you dismiss Donald Trump's success in the U.S. elections as a triumph of populism, you ignore a whole range of reasons behind his victory last month.
    Insidious
    You ignore the American public's loathing for Hillary Clinton and the corrupt and complacent political elite she represents. An elite, moreover, whose liberal assumptions sometimes openly deplored many of the basic principles — patriotism, belonging, community and job security — on which Western democracies were built.
    To dismiss the popular revolution in both America and Europe as populism is to ignore the fact that millions of ordinary people are furious at having seen their incomes fall in real terms while the pay gap between the haves and have-nots has widened to record levels.
    It is to ignore the valid and very genuine concerns that the line between legal and illegal immigration is everywhere being blurred, and national identity is being compromised — as was made so abundantly clear, in Britain's case, by the social cohesion tsar Louise Casey this week in her report on the terrifying level of segregation in many of Britain's immigrant communities.
    These are not small issues, and it is utterly wrong — and deeply misguided — to dismiss those who are concerned about them as though they suffer from some sort of delusion or mania.
    The truth is that it is our political elites and their acolytes in the Left-wing media who are suffering from a delusion.
    Desperation
    How can they fail to see the disconnect between ordinary people and the governing class in Western democracies?
    Why do they not understand the deep anger over the way the people's views are held in contempt by politicians who ignore them?
    Yet people such as European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker simply carry on as before, ignoring the earthquake beneath their feet, blaming Brexit on '40 years of British lies' and saying that it showed 'something is wrong in Britain'.
    This unelected buffoon glides through his well-paid career as he lectures and berates the general public for daring to make democratically-based decisions. And when millions of us express our disdain for this Eurocrat, we are dismissed as 'populist' rabble-rousers.
    To disregard the concerns of the public is a serious mistake for any politician. They may be able to ignore it for a time, but at some point the people will be heard. Using words like 'populist' to insult the public is just a desperate final attempt to put off the inevitable.
    To her great credit, Theresa May seems to understand the threat posed by the growing disconnect between the political class and the public. She, at least, knows that it is better to listen to our concerns rather than to insult us


    Read more for a more detailed report
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4011874/POPULISM-s-BBC-s-new-buzzword-used-sneer-uneducated-17-million-voted-Brexit.html#ixzz4SLhnjMWj
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    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    This has, incidentally, just completely stuffed any leverage Theresa May has to bully Scotland. They will all be remaining EU citizens after Brexit and after their own independence. Realistically along with about 53 million other Brits.
  • prosaver
    prosaver Posts: 7,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    This has, incidentally, just completely stuffed any leverage Theresa May has to bully Scotland. They will all be remaining EU citizens after Brexit and after their own independence. Realistically along with about 53 million other Brits.

    Have you been away on a dessert island for the last 9 months.?
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    prosaver wrote: »
    Have you been away on a dessert island for the last 9 months.?

    And I thought the weight gain hadn't been noticeable...
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