Forget about Brexit - what if we Remain?

marksoton

booksurr wrote: »

the map of votes by area puts paid to that idea. Very few people are egalitarian, they vote for what suits themselves not others. The divide in the UK (in so far as it is still a UK) shows that further "trouble" is inevitable as the schism is not plain for all to see, intelligent, forward looking city dwellers v country bumpkins.

Rather amusing that how to qualify for an Irish passport is trending on google searches :rotfl:. Scottish one next perchance?

Of course they do.

Hackney, Haringey etc... I wonder why....

Miss_Samantha

London and all the immigrants who live there bankroll the country.

jimpix12

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

London and all the immigrants who live there bankroll the country.

That's nice of them. Sounds like we don't need to be printing money out of thin air then.

Back in reality, the Shires feel much happier to me today.

Miss_Samantha

spunko2010 wrote: »

Back in reality.

Oh reality is going to catch up with you, that's for sure.

AnotherJoe

Reading what Juncker has just said, about what Britain "must" do and when we "must" do it by makes me think it was the right decision to leave and exposes the wholly undemocratic nature of these Eurocrats.

Kynthia

Money_saving_maniac wrote: »

Er...no. Not according to the OEC.

The top export destinations of the United Kingdom are the United States ($51B), Germany ($46.5B), the Netherlands ($34.2B), Switzerland ($33.6B) and France ($27B).

The top import origins are Germany ($100B), China ($62.7B), the Netherlands ($50.7B), the United States ($44.4B) and France ($41.5B).

So as you can see, Germany, the Netherlands and France all export more to us than we do to them. Therefore there will not be reciprocal trade barriers imposed if we leave.

There is a saying that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. The trouble with using percentages is that they fall into the statistics camp. Statistics are easily manipulated. When you look at the actual numbers the truth is clear.

The other countries in the EU, the trade is unimportant either way.

If you're interested, here's the linkie
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/gbr/

Until you show me those figures as a percentage of their totals then you can't say my figures were wrong. Large numbers for an even larger country don't necessarily equate to the impact of no longer having tariff free trade for 44% of our exports.

Money_saving_maniac

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Reading what Juncker has just said, about what Britain "must" do and when we "must" do it by makes me think it was the right decision to leave and exposes the wholly undemocratic nature of these Eurocrats.

I think that was the key reason people voted for Brexit, and why many parties across the continent support a referendum or their own countries.

Jhoney_2

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Reading what Juncker has just said, about what Britain "must" do and when we "must" do it by makes me think it was the right decision to leave and exposes the wholly undemocratic nature of these Eurocrats.

Forget democratic, what about hypocratic. "Could you hurry up please, because it will take up to/ a minimum of 2 YEARS for us to sort this out our end!:eek:

Did he miss the debates? What a fossilised idiot!

Fgs...

DRP

Money_saving_maniac wrote: »

I think that was the key reason people voted for Brexit, and why many parties across the continent support a referendum or their own countries.

the key reason for most was immigration. quite a lot of data out there on that.