If there is a second referendum ...

Takedap

David_Evans wrote: »

I think this issue will drag on for years.
Events will occur in Europe,.
Things will change etc.
Who predicted the Berlin wall would fall etc in 1989?

Indeed. How many people who enjoyed holidays in Yugoslavia in the late 80s would have predicted that the population would be slaughtering each other a few short years later?

Arklight

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Attend a local police briefing you may find there's more going on in your locality than you appreciate. Major concerns over the exploitation of vunerable people around here with regards to the drugs trade.

Around where? This is meaningless on a local level. There is a huge Eastern European community where I live and they certainly aren't the ones out stabbing eachother, drug dealing, smashing cars for no reason, and breaking into shops.

Ironically the people who are doing these things all seem to be enthusiastically supportive of leaving the EU.

Arklight

RyanEzio wrote: »

What would extending A50 actually achieve? The leaving date is now set. Businesses are preparing, ports are prepared... it would just cause more uncertainty.



We've heard it all before though. Guaranteed March 30th.. nothing will change. It'll be business as normal..People will still do their saturday morning shopping, go to the football match, go to the gym, etc. The usual stuff people do on a saturday morning.

I really don't think the normal working pleb who struggles to make ends meet is too bothered if the £ is down 10% .If supermarkets raise their prices, they'll just shop somewhere else. People are making a big fuss out of nothing. I wish the news would stop going on about it.


Homelessness is a much, much bigger issue than this brexit.

Er, where?

Thrugelmir

mayonnaise wrote: »

Drug related crime and people trafficking is mostly committed by the native British.

Your fear for the other and 'open borders' is clouding your judgment. As usual.

Open borders makes transportation of cargoes far easier.......

I merely referred to a changing culture earlier. Not to any group of people in particular. We have people living from many different countries here in the UK. Some struggle to adapt to the British way of life. Or integrate fully. While people are are the same. We do differ. Young people are influenced by their peers. That's the real concern.

fatbeetle

mayonnaise wrote: »

Drug related crime and people trafficking is mostly committed by the native British.

Your fear for the other and 'open borders' is clouding your judgment. As usual.

If we said "drug related crime and people trafficking is mostly committed by immigrants," you'd call us racists.
Your love of the open border is exposing your hypocrisy.

Backbiter

Here's a Brexiter with regrets. Didn't really think things through:
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1093966760628404224

David_Evans

Takedap wrote: »

Indeed. How many people who enjoyed holidays in Yugoslavia in the late 80s would have predicted that the population would be slaughtering each other a few short years later?

Or the Yugoslav people themselves.
It was a very stable country during the 1960s-1980s.

I caught the end of the Balkans conflict, when I served in Kosovo.
Some of the Germans we were working with could remember family holidays nearby etc (obviously mostly Croatia - but some of the FY too).

I found it frightening how similar the people were to us.
But more so my older colleagues who'd served in Bosnia (pre-Dayton) etc.

David_Evans

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Attend a local police briefing you may find there's more going on in your locality than you appreciate. Major concerns over the exploitation of vunerable people around here with regards to the drugs trade.

I'm well aware all this stuff goes on.
My point is that it's easily avoided.

cogito

David_Evans wrote: »

Or the Yugoslav people themselves.
It was a very stable country during the 1960s-1980s.

I caught the end of the Balkans conflict, when I served in Kosovo.
Some of the Germans we were working with could remember family holidays nearby etc (obviously mostly Croatia - but some of the FY too).

I found it frightening how similar the people were to us.
But more so my older colleagues who'd served in Bosnia (pre-Dayton) etc.

Yugoslavia was never stable. The only time that it appeared to be was when Tito was in charge but ethnic and religious tensions were always simmering away. They still are and it won't take much to kick things off again.

smipsy

as opposed to the total lack of ethnic and religious tensions in the UK, I suppose