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REMAINERS -there is no recession

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  • Pincher wrote: »
    There are six billion people too many in the world.

    Britain's problem is a bit more specific than too many people. Anyone with enough about them to emigrate to another country looking for work is usually young and hard working - just what the country needs to pay taxes to maintain the growing older population, since there is nothing in the kitty to pay for their pensions and healthcare but a mountain of debts. Not only are people drawing their pensions for longer, but they are being kept alive by expensive treatments which is a double whammy for the taxpayer.
    Lets face it, the problem is too many old people.
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  • cloud_dog
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    For all those REMAINERS, the experts have just admitted there was no economic decline in the last three months as the experts predicted. Wrong!
    Seriously, come back in a decade.

    No, seriously, just go away and come back in a decade ;)
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  • JohnRo
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    In short, your post just about sums up the intelligence and awareness that characterised the pro-Leave campaign.

    It sums up the puerile nature of brexit which, ignoring the jingoism that characterised most of the campaign, amounts to sticking two fingers up at our closest trading partners and then hoping those already dealing with them and making the country successful can fix the mess it creates and that 'something good' will then mysteriously happen.
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  • talexuser
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    Nothing has yet happened except a 15% decline in sterling which has not come through in prices yet since existing stock has to be cleared and some hedge against currency which will keep their prices lower a little bit longer. Many believe eventually this will work through to 4 or 5% inflation, see how long 0.25% base rate lasts if that comes about with our level of debt.
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    Yawn........:whistle:
  • It took till mid 2009 for data revisions to show that the UK economy entered recession in Q2 2008. It's too early to tell
  • I was, and am, a staunch BREXITER. I always believed that there will be short term decline followed by real growth and prosperity, where our children will be able to buy their homes and have better access to health services and schools..

    It is too early as nothing has changed dramatically. Still masses of unskilled Eastern Europeans are pouring in and houses are being built to rent to them. Only when border controls are introduced will BREXIT have any effect.
  • aspiration wrote: »
    I was, and am, a staunch BREXITER. [...] where our children will be able to buy their homes and have better access to health services and schools..

    Your children won't be able to buy their homes...

    ... because they are being priced out by Greedy British house owners.... who love seeing their house prices rise. (let's face it: house owners never cheer when the house prices crash)

    ... because they are too busy buying the latest gadgets and going to pubs and clubs and getting wasted.
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  • cloud_dog
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    aspiration wrote: »
    Only when border controls are introduced will BREXIT have any effect.
    At what cost? The words 'cake' 'eat it' spring to mind.
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