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Brexit the economy and house prices part 6

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  • Nasqueron
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    Matt_L wrote: »
    Or you could accept that project fear never went away and these are the tactics that some use the play on that fear....


    Project Hate was alive and well on the radio today, 2 old women moaning to Jeremy Vine about "them" flooding their area. The same old lies about EU workers who actually contribute more than they take and are much more useful to the UK than the native benefit scrounging scroats with hoo hahs like a clown car.

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • Matt_L
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    Nasqueron wrote: »
    Project Hate was alive and well on the radio today, 2 old women moaning to Jeremy Vine about "them" flooding their area. The same old lies about EU workers who actually contribute more than they take and are much more useful to the UK than the native benefit scrounging scroats with hoo hahs like a clown car.

    Well these remainers do get everywhere, im sure Jeremy gets sick of them...
    "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers."
  • Thrugelmir
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    mrginge wrote: »
    How many labour MPs are going to realistically defy their party and prop her up.

    This a national issue not a party one. Not much different to just before the UK entering WW2. Westminister all in a dither. Sometimes you just need someone capable of doing the job.
  • Matt_L
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    The CBI seem to like TM's deal....
    "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers."
  • ukcarper
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    andrewf75 wrote: »
    fair enough I agree, but neither are many of our actions or statements
    I agree the one thing the negotiations have done is they haven't shown any side in a good light.
  • Thrugelmir
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I agree the one thing the negotiations have done is they haven't shown any side in a good light.

    Talks have been tough but fair. There's nothing that has come as a complete surprise. The discussions being had now by everyone are the same topics of 2016. Completely devoid of any impetus. Hence why country level agreements take an entity to finalise. Something has to happen for positions to move.
  • kabayiri
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    What's the system? In the US the rich have got richer and the poorer poorer. That's a fact. People voted for change as the establishment hasn't delivered for years.

    Sometimes a win is a vote to remind the politicians that the people are still there; that they do have a voice; that they do count.

    The recent evidence of the tech giants shows just what can happen if you treat people as data points.

    Sign away your data rights to the likes of Facebook as just reward for being able to watch cousin's cat do a funny mewing noise.
  • Herzlos
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    Apologies for being mistaken about your pro-EU bias re: 'The answer to any "they need us more than we need them" is a resounding no. ' would be more appropriate. ;)
    I stand by my assertion that we need them more than they need us for anything.
  • mrginge
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    This a national issue not a party one. Not much different to just before the UK entering WW2. Westminister all in a dither. Sometimes you just need someone capable of doing the job.

    Sorry matey it stopped being a national issue for labour, Lib Dems, snp and dup a long long time ago.
  • There are a lot of people on this thread with a very low post count. It's suspicious.
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