What's the plan Stan?

CLAPTON

ukcarper wrote: »

So to be clear you want faceless unelected civil servants to draw up plans.

To be clear, I wanted my elected government to make contingency plans for probable future events.
I don't expect the elected people to actually draw up detailed plans about any significant matter but to provide a policy perspective and ensure that the civil servants carry out their orders.

I am however, content that plans and options will be drawn up now.

Why do you find that surprising?

Kohoutek

undetterred wrote: »

Yeah I voted leave, the remain plan was keep getting dry bummed by the EU.

The UK is in Europe. In Europe, the EU is the only game in town. So that's why leaving the EU doesn't make a whole lot of sense...

undetterred

spadoosh wrote: »

We'll get back to you next week, still cheering at the result and plan on spending the next week laughing at your hysteria.

Crack open another bottle of Bubbly, we've got a daft aussie, going off on 1 here, cheers.

CLAPTON

Kohoutek wrote: »

The UK is in Europe. In Europe, the EU is the only game in town. So that's why leaving the EU doesn't make a whole lot of sense...

and there I was thinking that the Germany traded with the rest of the world

lovinituk

Kohoutek wrote: »

The UK is in Europe. In Europe, the EU is the only game in town.

Yeah, because all those non-EU countries are poor as hell aren't they! Literally all 3rd world outside of the EU, a barren wasteland!!

Mistermeaner

enjoyyourshoes wrote: »

We need to start looking and thinking away from Europe as we have voted to leave.

Our destiny must be with the rest of the World, India, Canada, Oz, China and emerging markets.

We need to balance what we export to EU against what we import and use this as our bargaining tool with EU/article 50/new agreement.

Our financial services need again to focus on the rest of the World & see what opportunities this can bring us.

Remain was safe, I like safe, but leave is a risk and we need to embrace this now and see what we can do as a trading nation. Be less introverted (immigration), less trying to best guess what we need to do with EU and focus on where our opportunities lie. This is where we need the brightest and best to search out the opportunity.

great words but utterly meaningless - do you think a company with long standing import/export relationships with EU companies can just go and find equally profitable business on the other side of the globe?

Generali

spadoosh wrote: »

We'll get back to you next week, still cheering at the result and plan on spending the next week laughing at your hysteria.

Okay, I'm glad to have given you a laugh. It's good to be happy.

undetterred wrote: »

Crack open another bottle of Bubbly, we've got a daft aussie, going off on 1 here, cheers.

I'm English not Australian.

Anyway, back to the point. What's the plan? What happens next? You voted for this so you presumably have a plan for where things go from here.

Kohoutek

CLAPTON wrote: »

and there I was thinking that the Germany traded with the rest of the world

Not sure I follow your logic mate.

ukcarper

CLAPTON wrote: »

To be clear, I wanted my elected government to make contingency plans for probable future events.
I don't expect the elected people to actually draw up detailed plans about any significant matter but to provide a policy perspective and ensure that the civil servants carry out their orders.

I am however, content that plans and options will be drawn up now.

Why do you find that surprising?

Will you be happy if they include free movement of people

Contingency plans and a future plan of our position in Europe are different things.

lovinituk

ukcarper wrote: »

Will you be happy if they include free movement of people

As a leave voter, it wouldn't bother me. It never entered the equation when I was making my decision.