The thread for pointless arguments about Brexit

BobQ

Braveheart100 wrote: »

That's not positive.

I disagree. The BRexit campaign campaigned on policies that would lead to recession and it was a great success.

52% of the population took a really principled stand that we want to stop immigration even if it means a lower standard of living, more expensive foreign travel and imports.

This is a triumph for integrity over those horrid people who looked no further than the nation's economic interests.

It is now truly uplifting to know that we can take pride in hating foreigners and have real confidence that we can belong to the single market and stop immigration while showing the world that negotiating trade deals is so easy we can teach the world how to do it.

Conrad

First world problems eh Bob, a slight recession possibly, in order to enable the working class to see thier wages naturally rise. Your ISA will soon come up, I know it will be agony for a while...

Conrad

With regards to us doing trade deals Bob, note the Premier league became the worlds most popular league because we..... attracted world talent. Mmm, perhaps we can attract world talent trade negotiators to speed things along...

Or is that another impossible task in the land of surrender?

BobQ

mwpt wrote: »

Excuse me, I really think you are underestimating the positive impact of straight bananas. Straight bananas!

The bananas I bought to day were quite curved. Does anyone know if we still have the know how to grow straight bananas. I have never seen one ........... feel free to sing along........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjcDTRVQwg

BobQ

shaggydoo wrote: »

People seem happier.

Your tonguehas just pierced your cheek.

Big_Hairy_Spider

enthusiasticsaver wrote: »

My stocks and shares ISA has gained £2k this week due to the pound going down.

Same here. Not just on the currency market but I've made a few bob since last week on my trading account. My s/s ISA is up. The HSBC dividend is due next week and the exchange rate to the dollar settled at £0.75. Very happy with that. My pension is also up a whopping 8% with the earnings set to cash.

2016 has been very kind to me investment wise thus far with the Brexit vote, and the uncertainty over the Chinese economy at the beginning of the year.

I'm all ready for the next dip in the market :cool:

BobQ

Conrad wrote: »

Negotiations will begin shortly. The EU has not been able to get Austria and others to obey the rules on barbed wire fences... rules are merely slight obstacles

If you were in WW2, would you have been as unimaginative and cowardly as you are over the EU wheeler dealing? One of those that said Radar would never work, that Rommel could not be defeated in N Africa!

When you watch WW2 documentaries who do you admire, those that endlessly threw thier hands up in dispair and defeat?

The defeatist half full mentality never one a single battle

Its a fact that the EU cannot negotiate a trade deal with a member state.

Calling people you do not know cowardly is quite offensive particularly when you have no idea what they have done in their life.

BobQ

Conrad wrote: »

First world problems eh Bob, a slight recession possibly, in order to enable the working class to see thier wages naturally rise. Your ISA will soon come up, I know it will be agony for a while...

I think you are now wittering, perhaps sobriety has deserted you at this hour.

mwpt

JACKBLACK wrote: »

You might think this is a joke but on a train journey from London to Winchester about a month a go I definitely seen people living out in the open in makeshift tenty things. It wasn't just one lot of people either. !!!!!! this is nuts.

Exactly. Go be poor somewhere else.

BJV

Kohoutek wrote: »

If you and Clapton mean why do we need to be part of the single market, it's because if you are selling into a regulated market, you need to follow its regulations.

It affects services more than goods. Do you understand that the City of London sells services, not strawberries?

Yes I do although I am not a stock broker or have never worked in the city. I have a lay persons understanding. The strawberries analogy was tongue and cheek.

As I understand it the city of London trades on services and confidence. ( as well as other things ). The money markets which can and do make a massive difference to exchange rates thus import / export are as far as I can see based in speculative confidence. They try to predict how an economy will perform and can react accordingly.

This is in my mine why it is even more important that we all stick together and show a united front.

Strange I watched the minutes silence this morning for the "Battle of the Somme." These people normal everyday people like you and I gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we could choose and not be dictated to. So humbling. So haunting. Loved ones lost forever.

We all voted, we all had a free choice. This is what we must remember and what we are so lucky to have.!