celebrating making life worse for yourselves. ****wits.
Absolutely. Most people who voted for Brexit can’t even give a coherent argument why they did.
Essentially brainwashed by Cameron, Farage and his cronies. “We don’t want the EU red tape?”, “we don’t want to be a part of Europe!”, “the NHS will save millions!”, and usually, “something something about immigration”.
That's an unnecessarily foolish and provocative comment. It serves no good purpose.
Along with America, hopefully start on the Common Wealth countriesBritain can now get these separate trade deals with the booming Asia market and developing Africa ones. Its all good in the long term.
Britain can now get these separate trade deals with the booming Asia market and developing Africa ones. Its all good in the long term.
I voted Remain, but that's pretty reductionist and demeaning to 52% of the voters, don't you think? And you don't reckon many a Remain voter was brainwashed with "better together" and "leavers are robbing our kids of their future", when in reality very few Brits (especially low-income workers) would ever be in a position to taste the benefits of EU membership, such as the ability to work in Europe (and I count myself as one who has, having lived and worked in Germany for a time)?
We need to see the detail first.
Superficially, we are told :
1. No quotas, no tariffs; Good news
2. No ECJ 'interference'; Fair enough
3. Fishing rights sorted; Not in the way that was presented in a no compromise form over the months
4. Erasmus scheme ceases to be replaced by UK's Turing Scheme (worldwide); Awaiting the details, but Erasmus was a superb project
5. Points Based Immigration Scheme + Settled Status are changes to People issues (but we knew that b4); We know this will need tuning as some farmers will confirm.
6. Heaps of Customs paperwork on goods in/out of UK (ok delayed 6 mths on non-controlled goods into the UK); Bad news
7. Broadly follow EU standards on goods or else tariffs will follow; Not in the EU, but still bound by many of its regulations. Can't interpret this any other way.
8. Services : limited equivalence? Need to see the deal first; I think the City will be sweating on this one.
So 5 & 6 are (depending on your viewpoint) negative and costly; 8 - let's see the detail.
Anything else anyone has picked up on?
Britain was a 'democracy' run through Parliament that institution was smashed when it was decided to have an advisory vote on leaving the EU and then make it policy. Parliament was further undermined when people accused MPs of being traitors for not adhering to the vote. MPs are elected to do what is best for the electorate not do what the electorate tell them. Old hat i know but you still have not understood the basic principles and why we WERE the envy of a lot of other countries.
The vote to leave the UK was a once in a generation opportunity.Well done Boris, step 2 on our path to rejoining has occurred. now SNP to win the elections in May (who would ever have thought Nicola Sturgeon would prove herself the best political leader in the Uk) Then we can vote on leaving England which no Tory can help by saying any of their ‘stronger together’ bollocks. Then we rejoin the EU and take the Euro (back to a hard currency). Won’t be much longer after that until Northern Ireland departs after that. So Boris and his ERG buddies can be proud of their break up of the UK all was it all part of little englander / bigotry / xenophobic / racist plan.
I feel so sorry for all you who lose a job next year over this
I'm dreaming of a white christmas and down comes a snowflake
Regards
DF
We are unshackled . All along Germany wanted to rule us. Didn’t win two world wars & lose so many to be part of their brand plans.
Feeling, very, very happy today. Almost as good as BHA winning the Premier or a Cup. If only lightning would strike twice