[Politics] Brexit

[Mo Gosfield]

UK was well positioned back in late 2015, early 2016, but we blew it. I'm continuing to steer well clear of UK investment until these clowns can demonstrate they have any sort of plan.

3.5 years and still nothing from Brexiters on here about new trade opportunities; what? where? how?

1) Sell Pork to China....NOW....they are paying fortunes for it.

2) Start a material recycling business and use all the hundreds of thousands of defunct Remain/EU flags to produce " Trump Again " flags/banners by the millions.

3) Start a " Sussex Royals " merchandise business ( aimed directly at Canada/USA ) and at the same time take out Reading FC membership to cover potential copyright challenges.

 

[beorhthelm]

There was a much better deal on the table originally, it was Boris who decided to keep the Stadium in public ownership.

i dont recall better deals (the idea of fourmula 1 circuit sounded great though), i recall some desperation to find a tenant at all, and dont recall suggestion the stadium be sold off. either way the root cause of these issues was designs that insisted it would only be an athletics venue, some said deliberately anti-football to force the issue. Johnson could have said no i suppose, and let it rot like so many other Olympic stadiums seem to do.

 

[Hampster Gull]

The government can’t even organise Big Ben celebrations

 

[A1X]

The government can’t even organise Big Ben celebrations

Couldn't organise a bell-ringing in a bell tower.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The government can’t even organise Big Ben celebrations

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[Gazwag]

The government can’t even organise Big Ben celebrations

Good, no different to goal music

 

[nicko31]

1) Sell Pork to China....NOW....they are paying fortunes for it.

2) Start a material recycling business and use all the hundreds of thousands of defunct Remain/EU flags to produce " Trump Again " flags/banners by the millions.

3) Start a " Sussex Royals " merchandise business ( aimed directly at Canada/USA ) and at the same time take out Reading FC membership to cover potential copyright challenges.

Well done Mo, finally after three and a half years someone from the leaver side has come up with something.

Just one problem, we already do nice business with China in pork under the existing trade arrangement

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201910/17/WS5da7cb8aa310cf3e35571023.html

So how is leaving the worlds biggest trading block going to boost sales?

 

[JC Footy Genius]

I agree GT.
I was horrified by the sheer arrogance of many Remainers who posted on here........and still they bang on.
We respected the democratic vote and, unlike some on here, hope that the country makes a great success of Brexit, for the benefit of everyone.Others appear to be willing failure upon the UK just so they can get stiffies and say ya-boo to all those 'retarded schoolchildren with severe learning disabilities"
Abysmal!

 

[JC Footy Genius]

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Prefer this one ..

 

[The Clamp]

Cry me a river. Grow a pair you triggered, big girls blouse.

A lot of the country don’t want Brexit. Many people will continue to protest it. Not me. It’s over. The idiots won. But some won’t be quiet. Put your big girl’s pants on and deal with it, Snowflake.

 

[nicko31]

Cry me a river. Grow a pair you triggered, big girls blouse.

A lot of the country don’t want Brexit. Many people will continue to protest it. Not me. It’s over. The idiots won. But some won’t be quiet. Put your big girl’s pants on and deal with it, Snowflake.

I keep thinking there is some rational somewhere, I answer questions but it is still blind faith, gaslit by a bunch of posh boys that convinced them they were on their side.

 

[A1X]

I hope none of our football clubs are planning on leaving their transfer business until the 31st, as bringing in foreign talent on Brexit day will rather fly in the face of the whole point of it.

 

[CHAPPERS]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...at-unless-iran-stance-changes-says-trump-ally

Boris Johnson risks jeopardising a free-trade deal with the US unless he pulls the UK out of the Iran nuclear deal, a leading Republican voice on Iran has said.

The warning by Richard Goldberg, until last week a member of the White House National Security Council (NSC), highlights the dilemmas UK foreign and defence policy-makers will face as Britain tries to steer its own course between Washington and Brussels after Brexit.

Goldberg told the BBC: “The question for Prime Minister Johnson is: ‘As you are moving towards Brexit, as your supporters of Brexit really do not like the nuclear deal, want you to get out of the nuclear deal … what are you going to do post-January 31 as you come to Washington to negotiate a free-trade agreement with the United States?’”

 

[GT49er]

I hope none of our football clubs are planning on leaving their transfer business until the 31st, as bringing in foreign talent on Brexit day will rather fly in the face of the whole point of it.

We'll be alright as long as we get enough players in to replace all our European players who get repatriated on February 1st.

 

[A1X]

We'll be alright as long as we get enough players in to replace all our European players who get repatriated on February 1st.

Nah there's the transition don't forget, next January's transfer window is going to be mega with all the clubs replacing the European players who left on Dec 31st.

 

[clapham_gull]

i dont recall better deals (the idea of fourmula 1 circuit sounded great though), i recall some desperation to find a tenant at all, and dont recall suggestion the stadium be sold off. either way the root cause of these issues was designs that insisted it would only be an athletics venue, some said deliberately anti-football to force the issue. Johnson could have said no i suppose, and let it rot like so many other Olympic stadiums seem to do.

Not really about your recollection is it ? Read the report.....

Forget about it's suitability as a football stadium - red herring. West Ham moved in !

The original offer from West Ham and Newham Council was better in that much more of risk was placed in the private domain.

A few legal problems later and hope it was gonna be used for a major Athletics event led Boris to completely "move the goal posts" and decide the stadium should stay in the public domain (based on some dodgy analysis) and re-opens the bids.

The rest is history. I'm sure he would love to tell his side of the story but refused to be involved in the official inquiry.

Basically he "dithered and delayed" regarding the future of the stadium and got a far worse deal than he could have.

Yep he could have knocked it down, but Boris really isn't one for stopping a project to stop money more being wasted is he ?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Prefer this one ..

Johnson as Quasimodo - yes, I can see how that works.

 

[Grombleton]

Mark Francois, ladies and gentleman.

Couldn't argue his way out of a limp paper bag.

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[nicko31]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...at-unless-iran-stance-changes-says-trump-ally

Would never happen, that would suggest surely we are becoming some sort of vassal state...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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