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[Politics] Brexit
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nicko31
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ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
A good take on things here in The Irish Times today by a former Irish ambassador to London - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/brexit-fantasies-crumbling-on-contact-with-hard-reality-1.4022596
What about the rest of us who don't resort to calling you names?
You've lost my respect for that answer. It's not an unreasonable question even if it is the same two posters asking the same question ad finitum.
daveinplzen
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- Aug 31, 2018
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I ask the question as its baffling to me that people are going on about getting a 'good deal' without knowing what a 'good deal' is, or describing what they think it is, but prepared to accept no deal, without hesitation, that could be catastrophic for the country. Its bizarre.
nicko31
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A hard read for Brexiteers....
Interesting even Murdoch's Irish Sun gives a more truthful take what really happened in Luxembourg.
https://www.thesun.ie/news/4556294/...ime-minister-who-empty-chaired-boris-johnson/
The English edition meanwhile prints pure fiction...
daveinplzen
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'Czechs often claim that they share a sense of humour with the British. The whole of Monty Python’s production is very popular in Czechia and even less famous shows, such as the Black Books and Miranda, can be found regularly on Czech television schedules. I have always belonged to those who could happily spend the night discussing whether the Monty Python’s Life of Brian is better than the Monty Python and the Holy Grail or whether the Dead Parrot sketch is funnier than the Ministry of Silly Walks. On Brexit, however, I must admit, and I believe that I speak for many Czechs when I say: I just do not get the joke.'
The money the UK sends to the EU is around £11bn per year (once the rebate has been applied). That is around 1/3 of the UK Govt spending on Housing and the Environment combined (£34bn in 2018).
Here's a breakdown of the UK Government spending in the period 1993 to 2014 in real terms, which shows that the EU contribution by the UK Government is negligible.
So what would you do with this £11bn per year? And given the hit to the tax revenue which leaving the EU will bring (as jobs are lost and companies go to the wall) are you estimating this will be more or less than the £11bn?
Bloody foreign news, coming over here, showing our British news up.
Jaxie
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Not really a lie was it. A likely outcome, which measures would have been taken to avoid. Not in the same league as “Turkey joining the EU”. “£350 million to NHS”. “Easiest deal in History”. “German car industry will not allow a no deal”. Etc. Etc. Blah Blah Blah, the list is extensive.
Pretty pink fairy
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theonlymikey
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We will be chucking money at them when we leave in order to gain tariff free access to the single market..only without the rebate.
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Pretty pink fairy
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Pretty pink fairy
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They are good friends trying to save us from ourselves.
theonlymikey
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They will continue to have it after Brexit ... has this sank in yet?
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
No.Are you ready for Brexit
Regards
DF
September payday is needed so I can brim the vehicle tank, and fill the jerry cans ( legal limits on fuel storage apply ).
I also need to stockpile a load more food over October before the catastrophic *no deal* storm hits.
nicko31
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Are you ready for Brexit
Regards
DF
Hope you've invested in JRM's fund in Ireland, I wouldn't want you to get caught out