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If we vote for Brexit what happens

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  • qwert_yuiop
    qwert_yuiop Posts: 3,617 Forumite
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    Conrad wrote: »


    Gina Miller

    Has anyone worked out which Bond film starts with a young and gorgeous Gina Miller dancing?
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    edited 18 May 2017 at 1:58PM
    Arklight wrote: »


    I am confused as to what kind of racism you think you are missing out on being a white English person in white English England.


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    Summary;


    You assert this is nasty little racist island, a 'laughing stock' facing a bleak future.


    I assert that because huge numbers still CHOOSE (that's the word) to come here each week, it cant be too bad old sport.


    I meet plenty of immigrants, lots of them are clients, mainly E Europeans and they think the opportunity and life here is unsurpassed. Take off your doom specs, get out there and see that on the whole we all rub along well.


    You should read the book Futurebabble. It describes how at every point in our history, a proportion of people always think today is worse than yesterday. Your exact gloomy outlook can be found in the late 50's when Britain was flourishing.
  • TrickyTree83
    TrickyTree83 Posts: 3,930 Forumite
    Conrad wrote: »
    But we're going darn the pan, what's wrong with these French twits? They need to be investing in the EU, Remoan Inc' says much harm is to befall the nasty UK.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/austria-to-ban-full-face-veil-burqa-niqab-in-public

    We're the worst don't you know?

    These EU types are scared of our xenophobia!


    (Give it a rest you lot, you're pathetic.)
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/31/austria-to-ban-full-face-veil-burqa-niqab-in-public

    We're the worst don't you know?

    These EU types are scared of our xenophobia!


    (Give it a rest you lot, you're pathetic.)

    Like on the "Fish" thread Tricky, they're just incapable of stopping.
    Like lemmings IMHO.
    :D



    France isn't like them though, oh no:
    The arrest of a youth worker in a Paris suburb who was allegedly sodomised with a baton led to new accusations of police brutality on Monday, reviving past controversies from France's crime-ridden housing estates.
    https://www.thelocal.fr/20170206/french-police-officer-inserted-baton-in-mans-anus

    None of these are good reasons why migrants choose the UK though.
    No-siree.
    ;)
  • Arklight
    Arklight Posts: 3,182 Forumite
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    Conrad wrote: »
    Summary;


    You assert this is nasty little racist island, a 'laughing stock' facing a bleak future.


    I assert that because huge numbers still CHOOSE (that's the word) to come here each week, it cant be too bad old sport.


    I meet plenty of immigrants, lots of them are clients, mainly E Europeans and they think the opportunity and life here is unsurpassed. Take off your doom specs, get out there and see that on the whole we all rub along well.


    You should read the book Futurebabble. It describes how at every point in our history, a proportion of people always think today is worse than yesterday. Your exact gloomy outlook can be found in the late 50's when Britain was flourishing.


    And as usual you've completely disregarded everything that was presented to you, even though it addressed exactly what you apparently wanted to debate, and gone off on some abstract tangent based around "a bloke in the pub said...".
  • gfplux
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    It's Tusk that is spitting venom because we don't want to pay for the eu for the next 5 years as a penalty for leaving.

    If they were so concerned about peace they would let us leave with a cheery wave, and should really be grateful to be rid of us as we have been a thorn in their side and halted their progress toward a federal superstate for as long as we could.

    You should know that Mr Tusk is not spitting venom or anything else. The financial settlement is purely money that Britain MAY have committed to spending in the present financial cycle.
    Briton will only need to pay its normal contribution up to March 2019 unless the process is extended by agreement of ALL 28 members.
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
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    Much has been made of the possibility of strong and powerful lobbying by German Industry. ("They need us more than we need them)

    This quote from the Times.
    "Just how deep this runs was shown this week in a Deloitte survey of 250 German companies about Brexit. Almost half said that Britain should no longer be allowed to trade on equal terms if it ended the free movement of people regarded as one of four basic principles of the single market. Only a quarter believed that special dispensation should be given to try to keep Britain on single market terms if it stopped free movement."

    This is the link. Please try it is an interesting read.
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-will-defend-europe-to-the-last-jkz33pmvm?CMP=TNLEmail_118918_1875313

    Another quote, which shows how we "Europeans" can misunderstand each other.
    "It is clear that the mood in Berlin has hardened towards Britain this year, especially since Mrs May announced that the country would be leaving the single market and likely ending free movement. The parochialism of Brexit has really worried Berlin. Especially chilling was Mrs May’s remark: “If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.”
    To a German ear, this echoed vocabulary used to demonise Jews and intellectuals. It is a small step from “citizen of nowhere” to “rootless Jew” and “rootless cosmopolitan” — terms used to whip up popular hatred against those deemed unpatriotic."
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • gfplux
    gfplux Posts: 4,985 Forumite
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    Another item for the divorce agenda.
    ?) Leaving or staying in Horizon 2020 time 1 week or 5 minutes

    https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020
    There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Conrad wrote: »
    I assert that because huge numbers still CHOOSE (that's the word) to come here each week, it cant be too bad

    So if wages keep falling in real terms and taxes rise thanks to Brexit it'll be fine because huge numbers of migrants still CHOOSE to come here?

    Good to know...
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 13,618 Forumite
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    Door left open in the manifesto for us to continue to pay to be part of the EU gang.
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