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If we vote for Brexit what happens

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  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    setmefree2 wrote: »
    A massive change of tune from TheCityUK, (the main lobbying arm for the financial and associated business services sectors) Indeed, it appears to have suddenly embraced Brexit!

    No choice really. Lobbying to stay in the EU is now a waste of energy and their member's money.

    May as well lobby for government favours to help realise the wondrous opportunities that Brexit might bring.
  • A report today on the UK's financial services sector explaining why "Brexit is a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to design a '21st-century' trade policy which focuses more heavily on emerging markets outside Europe, free from the 'straitjacket' of EU policy":

    http://uk.businessinsider.com/brexit-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-to-embrace-emerging-markets-2017-1

    So the people currently earning huge sums within financial services will continue to earn huge sums when we leave EU. That's good news for me.

    But how does this help the 'left-behind' who voted to leave as they were fed up of London having all the wealth?
  • Tromking
    Tromking Posts: 2,691 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Cloudydaze wrote: »
    So the people currently earning huge sums within financial services will continue to earn huge sums when we leave EU. That's good news for me.

    But how does this help the 'left-behind' who voted to leave as they were fed up of London having all the wealth?

    You misunderstand.
    The supposed terminal decline of The City was part of the Remain narrative, otherwise known as 'Project Fear'.
    “Britain- A friend to all, beholden to none”. 🇬🇧
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Cloudydaze wrote: »
    So the people currently earning huge sums within financial services will continue to earn huge sums when we leave EU. That's good news for me.

    But how does this help the 'left-behind' who voted to leave as they were fed up of London having all the wealth?

    brexiters didn't vote to leave EU because of bankers in LOndon.
  • mrginge
    mrginge Posts: 4,843 Forumite
    wotsthat wrote: »
    No choice really. Lobbying to stay in the EU is now a waste of energy and their member's money.

    May as well lobby for government favours to help realise the wondrous opportunities that Brexit might bring.

    Still miserable I see.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    wotsthat wrote: »
    No choice really. Lobbying to stay in the EU is now a waste of energy and their member's money.

    May as well lobby for government favours to help realise the wondrous opportunities that Brexit might bring.

    so basically are simply lying now but previously were as pure as the driven snow.
    of course.
  • Is this a sign of impending tactics for the French election?
    Possibly "rubbishing" Fillon and Macron to further boost the chances of Le Pen?
    French presidential candidate Francois Fillon got his wife and two of his children jobs that paid nearly one million euros ($1.1 million), according to new claims in the Canard Enchaine newspaper on Tuesday. It comes as police investigating the "Penelope Gate" fake jobs allegations raided offices at the French parliament.
    http://www.thelocal.fr/20170131/penelope-fillon-had-no-security-badge-for-parliament-as-police-seize-documents
    Brigitte Trogneux, (not actually Madame Macron) the wife of presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron, used to be his French teacher.
    http://www.thelocal.fr/20170131/whos-the-older-woman-in-presidential-hopeful-macrons-life
  • Matt_L
    Matt_L Posts: 1,459 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    So watching the debate in the commons today on the triggering of A50 with great interest when i see this......

    IMG_2809_zps4mgmxnkf.jpg

    !!!!!! is Jimmy White doing in the Commons and why has he dyed his hair blonde:eek:
    "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers."
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I am watching the Commons Live tonight. We have this in the bag, the case for Brexit is overtly positive, in spite of a few backwards looking doom mongers trying to bring the house down with gloom and fear

    The Tory MP for Boston put it very well, the referndum arguments were long and deep, the people knew exactly what they were voting for. A new confident Britain in charge of her own destiny

    Another read Shakespeare - greatness is sometimes thrust upon us, embrace in full heart
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 1 February 2017 at 12:29AM
    SNP neg heads saying we are leaping out of the plane without a parachute

    Tory MP Richard Drax, Dorset, said in reply, "we are leaping from the plane because it is on fire, the EU is over, it's dead, move on"

    He went on in rousing terms as us Brexiteers have always so done. We are not afraid.

    Another just said the EU would come off worse than us under WTO rules, another well trodden Brexiteer argument

    Richard Drax again, why do we need tens of thousands of EU bureaucrats to tell us how to make our own workers rights, God help us if we cannot manage such a thing

    So refreshing compared to the fearful gang such as Mark Durkan telling us we will fail without EU subsidy, arghhhhh, it's our money you absolute plonka
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