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The thread for pointless arguments about Brexit

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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Discussing a post Brexit economy is way more exciting than discussing house prices ad infinitum.

    And we can shortly put the word 'recession' back in the board title/description.
    “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.”
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  • Braveheart100
    Braveheart100 Posts: 59 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    And we can shortly put the word 'recession' back in the board title/description.

    That's not positive.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    PaulW1965 wrote: »

    Not living in a country in which half the population is angry all the time.

    You've only swapped which half will be angry all the time.
    “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”
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    Braveheart100 wrote: »
    That's not positive.

    It is if you missed the old board title.

    Besides it was genuinely the most positive thing I could think of about brexit.
    “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”
  • SingleSue
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    It gives me something else to think/worry about other than the sibling rivalry between my children now that they are all home from university.
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
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  • LauraW10
    LauraW10 Posts: 400 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    You've only swapped which half will be angry all the time.

    The majority of Brits hate the undemocratic EU so I don't think we'll stay angry for long.

    I voted Remain but a week later I'm glad we've left. The turmoil hasn't been that bad.
    If you keep doing what you've always done - you will keep getting what you've always got.
  • chucknorris
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    LauraW10 wrote: »
    The majority of Brits hate the undemocratic EU so I don't think we'll stay angry for long.

    I voted Remain but a week later I'm glad we've left. The turmoil hasn't been that bad.

    I hope that you are right, but we have only taken the first step of quite a long journey, but at least it isn't as bad as it could have been at this early stage.
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  • mwpt
    mwpt Posts: 2,502 Forumite
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    Straight bananas!

    I can stop worrying about those EU laws negatively impacting me. Such as the one about the fish, and the one about the vacuum cleaners, and also the one about the kebabs. Not too sure about the details but I don't see why some bureaucrat in Brussels has any say about my kebabs. In a few years time I won't have to wake up worrying about these laws anymore, good times!
  • the_flying_pig
    the_flying_pig Posts: 2,349 Forumite
    edited 30 June 2016 at 8:05AM
    The problem isn't that the EU doesn't have downsides. It plainly does, otherwise there'd have been no interest in a leave campaign.

    The problem is rather that these disadvantages are strongly outweighed by advantages.

    Brexit can deliver some modest gains in return for a huge cost.
    FACT.
  • wintersunshine
    wintersunshine Posts: 471 Forumite
    It has to be said - cheaper house prices :)
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