[Politics] Brexit

[Klaas]

Yet another gammon trotting out the 'We fought two wars' bullshit. What is it with these ***** who've never fought anything themselves. No, slapping women about doesn't count Geoffrey.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Geoff Boycott on good morning britain giving it straight about Brexit.

Sign him up!

Snowflakes will be melting everywhere.

Geoffrey Boycott was 4 when the war ended. We came out on top? Right oh!

We needed many many allies, such as the Polish, Canadians, Americans, Australians, Kiwis, and Commonwealth to help us come out on top.
We had rationing until the 1950s.
We needed the Marshall Plan (Ie borrowing from America) to start rebuilding again.
Because there were so many casualties, we didn't have enough workforce to rebuild, so we invited Commonwealth workers to come and help us, which is why so many immigrants arrived in the 1950s.
Even in the 1960s, Harold Wilson was appealing to the public to buy British, to help save the pound from devaluation. If we could afford a package holiday, you were only allowed to take £50 out of the country.
In the 1970s, we ended up with three day weeks, strikes where the dead weren't buried, sheets weren't changed in hospitals because the laundry wasn't done, and Denis Healy producing a new budget every three months.


Many people around the Wakefield and Barnsley area know Mr Boycott for who he really is. Forgive me if I take no notice of his opinion, and, in fact, I am proud to think the exact opposite.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

But we were not in the Hotel Californiaesque EU clusterfvck during WWII.

There is a French minister who has named her new cat Brexit. She opens the door for him, but he sits on the mat refusing to go out.

 

[Is it PotG?]

There is a French minister who has named her new cat Brexit. She opens the door for him, but he sits on the mat refusing to go out.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Geoff Boycott on good morning britain giving it straight about Brexit.

Sign him up!

Snowflakes will be melting everywhere.

If you want to take advice from Mr Boycott I suggest it may be more successful if you stick to his specialist subjects (also don't take cricket tips from Mark Carney ). As a help, here's Geoffrey's proven areas of expertise

Cricket

Beating up women https://www.independent.co.uk/news/boycott-found-guilty-of-assaulting-woman-friend-1184088.html

Making Racist statements https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/geoffrey-boycott-knighthood-black-up-west-indies-cricket-confetti-viv-richard-clive-lloyd-gary-a7906186.html

Being an ignorant uneducated arse at every opportunity ..... Oh .... (Were the lessons on-to-one or were you in a group ? )

 

[The Clamp]

This whole “we made it through two world wars”. Well, actually millions didn’t.

 

[Klaas]

Can't you see when your being played by the media? It still stands, we voted leave.

Huh?

Are you suggesting that the media is 'playing' The Clamp by reporting on Boycott's conviction for assault?





In 1998.

 

[daveinplzen]

We fought alongside the USA in two world wars. They wont desert us... oh wait, still, never mind, India wont... oh...
How much damage needs to be done to the country before this nonsense, that clearly hasnt been thought through, is cancelled.


https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/06/ford...mh98pRsk3T004dBK3Y6FlFdlmmFF7akMXZNJw-yMoji6Y

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This is for anyone who insists they voted for No Deal. This is what you were told before the Referendum by Vote Leave.


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https://twitter.com/JamesMc87214259/status/1143094706382999553

 

[WATFORD zero]

Can't you see when your being played by the media?

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I like Boris. Let's make this country great again.

 

[Albumen]

Boycott is cancelled (and deleted)

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It really is a sad state of affairs when the political opinions of a drunk ex sportsman are taken seriously. That’s the current climate though is t it. If they agree with me, they must be right. Insane.

I had similar feelings a few weeks ago reading an interview with Michael Caine, with him supporting BREXIT.

He actually said something like "I know it will hit us in the pocket, but that for me is a price worth paying". Well yes Michael, BUT YOU CAN PROBABLY AFFORD TO TAKE THAT HIT!

 

[Lincoln Imp]

You are not the first remainer who seems angry that people from India could possibly have preferential treatment in obtaining work and study visas if it becomes part of a future trade deal.
I guess you will just have to adjust and live with the fact that preferential immigration from mostly white EU countries is coming to an end. Thank god.
An equal immigration policy that does not discriminate between EU and non EU is the way forward for this country.

I couldn't actually detect any sign of anger on the part of Garry Nelson's Teacher but if I could contribute... the issue as I see it isn't that more Indians will arrive but that in the real world we will not have any options over whether they do - for the simple reason that quotas will be part of trade deals and, in post-Brexit reality, we will have no options but to sign those trade deals. Again, I have no problem with this (in the case of Indians, although not in the case of abused chickens) but the Brexiteer assumption that we can pick and choose without let, hindrance or personal disadvantage implies a 19th century concept of British sovereignty.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

I couldn't actually detect any sign of anger on the part of Garry Nelson's Teacher but if I could contribute... the issue as I see it isn't that more Indians will arrive but that in the real world we will not have any options over whether they do - for the simple reason that quotas will be part of trade deals and, in post-Brexit reality, we will have no options but to sign those trade deals. Again, I have no problem with this (in the case of Indians, although not in the case of abused chickens) but the Brexiteer assumption that we can pick and choose without let, hindrance or personal disadvantage implies a 19th century concept of British sovereignty.

Thanks Imp. Of course you are right abut my view on this. It was just pasta playing his little games. If we leave him in his corner he might play nicely.

However as one grown up to another - and assuming that you are indeed in the epicentre of Lincolnshire - I did have occasion to visit Scunthorpe a couple of weeks ago and my word it did look grim. You do have to wonder what the good people of Scunny (and the like) were hoping from Brexit and (more to the point) whether they've any chance of getting it and having got it, will really want it.(If only we all knew what the 'it' is!)

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Leave or don't leave, Brexit has already cost us an absolute fortune. I mean, ridiculous amounts of money. Imagine the good that could have been done with sums like this...


The UK government has spent £97m in consultancy fees alone in its preparation for Brexit, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).


That total is 50% more than the £65m recorded by the Cabinet Office for consultants in the 12 months to April 2019.

Brexit costs UK £600m a week. This would mean that in the 145 weeks since the referendum the total cost to the UK economy is around £87bn. The report by Goldman Sachs says Brexit has cost the UK economy 2.4% of its GDP, based on a comparison with its growth before the 2016 referendum.

Figures from The Week. June 2019.

Only because we haven't left yet , save ourselves the hand out the EU want for our departure and a no deal ballances itself out a bit, time for meds ?
Regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

This is for anyone who insists they voted for No Deal. This is what you were told before the Referendum by Vote Leave.


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https://twitter.com/JamesMc87214259/status/1143094706382999553

What if it isn't the deal we want ,No Deal no problem, time to make it quite clear to the EU
what the final outcome could be
Regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

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Putting on a brave face again, Boris leading the charge out of the EU
regards
DR

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What if it isn't the deal we want ,No Deal no problem, time to make it quite clear to the EU
what the final outcome could be

Oh dear, Ppf, resorting to What if's.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Oh dear, Ppf, resorting to What if's.

Works both ways eh ?no deal no problem if it's not the right deal for the UK
Regards
DR

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Works both ways eh ?no deal no problem if it's not the right deal for the UK

It would work both ways if I'd posted a 'What If'. I didn't.