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Brexit the economy and house prices part 7: Brexit Harder

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  • Tromking
    Tromking Posts: 2,691 Forumite
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    phillw wrote: »
    David Cameron: Give me something that I'm not entitled to because some bigots in the UK say we are better than you
    EU: ?
    Bigots: All and sundry have brushed off David Cameron, we must leave.

    Merkel: Jesus Dave, its a week until the referendum and the polls are getting a little to close for comfort. Let me help please.

    Cameron: Too late Angela, I warned you and the rest that the Brits are heartlily cheesed off with the EU and you couldn't wait to make me look a **** in front of my electorate. Its too close to call but I still think we'll win.

    Brexit. QED.

    Middle class entitled Brits: But, but, but, you mean the great unwashed have a vote that has as much electoral weight as mine?
    **** this democracy lark, we must overturn this and refer to these people as bigots, racists and xenophobes. My World view must prevail regardless.
    “Britain- A friend to all, beholden to none”. 🇬🇧
  • phillw
    phillw Posts: 5,665 Forumite
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    edited 24 April 2019 at 5:00PM
    Middle class entitled Brits: But, but, but, you mean the elite can lie and blame foreigners and the unwashed lap it up?
    Aaron Banks: Right, we'll burn the poor for fuel, poor deluded bigoted fools. I got all their money now so I'm happy.
    Middle class entitled Brits: So we all lose out apart from you and your rich mates? What will you do when they
    figure out you lied
    Aaron Banks: Will of the people, they asked for it, they'll get it.
  • SpiderLegs
    SpiderLegs Posts: 1,914 Forumite
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    The final phase of Brexit has begun today.

    SNP offer unconditional support for TMs deal in return for Indy Ref2
    Increasingly desperate and deranged TM caves
    Tory party, labour, DUP, PC, most of the electorate go into complete meltdown
    Lib Dem’s too busy in meetings to comment
    No Tory puts head above parapet to take over
    No cabinet members resign
    Labour fails to call confidence vote
    Jeremy Corbyn talks about protecting jobs then hides in a cupboard
    Parliament passes TM deal
    UK leave EU with less rights going forward than it had previously
    JC elected prime minister, resigns immediately. Diane Abbott takes over with JM pulling strings
    Scotland votes to stay in the UK

    Horrific. Especially the last one.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    SpiderLegs wrote: »
    The final phase of Brexit has begun today.

    The economy seems to be getting along nicely without the constant interference of politicians. Perhaps the HoC should stay tied up for a while longer. While the real people who run this country quietly get on with their work.
  • lisyloo
    lisyloo Posts: 30,084 Forumite
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    edited 25 April 2019 at 11:22AM
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Be a tough life without all that cheap labour to perform unskilled menial tasks.

    Well yes but it’s not quite that simple is it.
    Immigrants come in at all levels and are widely acknowledged to be hard working (dare I say it - more hard working than the natives who’ve in comparison had a cushy upbringing).
    Many of those I meet personally (I like to get cheap hairdos and manicures at training venues) are investing in themselves and working their way up.
    There are the low paid that we do need but also the qualified GPS, dentists and hospital consultants to name a few (also add in Mark Carney as well).

    I would prefer we trained up and incentivized more of our own young people to be nurses, doctors etc. partly for the sake of British you people but also I don’t like the idea of villages in India and Thailand being devoid of health professionals which I think is morally wrong.

    So whilst I value their work ethic and contribution, I am not saying I want it to be like this.
  • lisyloo
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    Herzlos wrote: »
    Isn't he one of the immigrants we want to keep out?

    There are thousands of cases and TBH I don’t know if they are the ones we want to keep out or not, but philw asked for evidence and there it is - thousands of cases.
  • Thrugelmir
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    edited 25 April 2019 at 10:23PM
    lisyloo wrote: »
    Immigrants come in at all levels and are widely acknowledged to be hard working

    I work with a number of early generation Polish people. Even they comment on the later arrivals.
    dare I say it - more hard working than the natives who’ve in comparison had a cushy upbringing

    There's the good, the bad and the indifferent in every Nation.

    If there's a way of obtaining money for doing very little then human nature tends to take over.

    In our locality we are short of 35 GP's. The population boom is unrelenting. Unfortunately GP's take years to train. The seeds needed to be planted years ago. Playing catch-up simply isn't achievable.
  • movilogo
    movilogo Posts: 3,235 Forumite
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    Brexit latest news: Less than half of Britons would back staying in EU, poll suggests

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/26/brexit-latest-news-tory-backbencher-bid-remove-backstop/
    Happiness is buying an item and then not checking its price after a month to discover it was reduced further.
  • mayonnaise
    mayonnaise Posts: 3,690 Forumite
    movilogo wrote: »
    Brexit latest news: Less than half of Britons would back staying in EU, poll suggests

    And even less would vote to leave, same poll suggests. :T
    Don't blame me, I voted Remain.
  • Malthusian
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    You can't vote "don't know" in a referendum and undecided people generally vote for the status quo, which is now Leave. Each day that passes makes floaters less and less likely to vote for the unknown quantity of committing to the European project and ever closer union.

    Remain know this which is why they have still not called a second referendum. They may be blustery but they're not thick.
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