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For those who voted 'to get Brexit done'
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Re: For those who voted 'to get Brexit done'
Who saw that coming :hehe:
We did have a benefit of negotiating our vaccines on our own, which is the first tangible benefit I think.
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Former Labour leader
Is he reading the Bible ?
Apart from this pandemic , which will take years to recover from , leaving Europe is one of the biggest disasters this country will ever face
We didn't vote for the pandemic but we voted brexit
Nightmare
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Isn't everything constantly negotiated?
Climate targets, corporation taxes.. Hence why European parliament gather every few weeks.
Just were negotiating outside rather than inside, we've already seen some benefits (Vaccinations) and some drawbacks (Border trade) in the first few weeks of it
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
Is he reading the Bible ?
Apart from this pandemic , which will take years to recover from , leaving Europe is one of the biggest disasters this country will ever face
We didn't vote for the pandemic but we voted brexit
Nightmare
Just out of interest, are you in an age group that is likely to be vaccinated soon ?
If so, that's good news for you. But just take a moment to think of those poor people living under the jurisdiction of such an unwieldy organisation as the EU.
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
Just out of interest, are you in an age group that is likely to be vaccinated soon ?
If so, that's good news for you. But just take a moment to think of those poor people living under the jurisdiction of such an unwieldy organisation as the EU.
My mother is , she's getting hers in hospital and I am likely to get one soon
But if I have to wait then so be it
Clearly you are of a right voting leaning and I think its fair to assume that you voted for Brexit , given your claim about its unwieldy nature
Good luck both with getting a jab and being part of the brexit generation
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Originally Posted by
WJ99mobile
Isn't everything constantly negotiated?
Climate targets, corporation taxes.. Hence why European parliament gather every few weeks.
Just were negotiating outside rather than inside, we've already seen some benefits (Vaccinations) and some drawbacks (Border trade) in the first few weeks of it
clutching at straws springs to mind
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
clutching at straws springs to mind
It's a fact,why keep on? Learn to lve with it.
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Huge assumption being made is that the EU will still be around in 50 years
We have seen over the last few years different EU countries wanting more for themselves and less willing to help out the poorer countries
During the first few months of the pandemic Italy and Spain were given very little support when they needed it most
The richer EU countries are unwilling to commit to combined EU debt bonds to help “bail out” poorer EU nations
The problems the EU as a whole are having with vaccinations
Don’t forget that the EU has just lost one of its biggest net contributors meaning other countries are going to have to pay extra to plug this gap
Creaking at the seems at present and won’t survive if another one or two countries vote to leave
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
Just out of interest, are you in an age group that is likely to be vaccinated soon ?
If so, that's good news for you. But just take a moment to think of those poor people living under the jurisdiction of such an unwieldy organisation as the EU.
Brexit did not mean that vaccine approvals could be done any quicker.
https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-brexit/
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Originally Posted by
Poolerblue
Huge assumption being made is that the EU will still be around in 50 years
We have seen over the last few years different EU countries wanting more for themselves and less willing to help out the poorer countries
During the first few months of the pandemic Italy and Spain were given very little support when they needed it most
The richer EU countries are unwilling to commit to combined EU debt bonds to help “bail out” poorer EU nations
The problems the EU as a whole are having with vaccinations
Don’t forget that the EU has just lost one of its biggest net contributors meaning other countries are going to have to pay extra to plug this gap
Creaking at the seems at present and won’t survive if another one or two countries vote to leave
If Greece is not out of the EU in the next 10 years I will be extremely surprised.
Then it'll be the case of how Germany and France clean up after it.
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Originally Posted by
Poolerblue
Creaking at the seems at present and won’t survive if another one or two countries vote to leave
I doubt any other country will have watched the way we went about Brexit and thought "We'll have a bit of that."
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Originally Posted by
Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
I doubt any other country will have watched the way we went about Brexit and thought "We'll have a bit of that."
Net favourability of the EU has increased significantly in all EU countries since Brexit.
I also don't think that Greece leaving would bring the whole thing crashing down somehow.
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Rjk
I didn't say it did but that is even more of an indictment of the EU seeing the mess they're currently in with the vaccine roll-out.
Even the German press are saying that the way Brussels are dealing with the roll-out is the best ever advert there could be for Brexit.
Germany, France, The Netherlands and Italy all had a preliminary supply agreement with Astrazeneca last June but the EU insisted on dealing with them on on behalf of the bloc.
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
It's a fact,why keep on? Learn to lve with it.
Its done
And by god we really have been done
The UK finance sector and investment banking advice was a major employer . Now UK based banks are no longer able to advise European business
Wealth , taxable income all pissed away to Germany etc
Rule Brittania
This is just the start
Its all very well saying live with it but its going to feck everyone up the arse
Switch the lights off
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
I didn't say it did but that is even more of an indictment of the EU seeing the mess they're currently in with the vaccine roll-out.
Even the German press are saying that the way Brussels are dealing with the roll-out is the best ever advert there could be for Brexit.
Germany, France, The Netherlands and Italy all had a preliminary supply agreement with Astrazeneca last June but the EU insisted on dealing with them on on behalf of the bloc.
christ this mans a libertarian crackpot
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Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
I doubt any other country will have watched the way we went about Brexit and thought "We'll have a bit of that."
indeed , its been a superb transition and we now have total control of our borders, a bit and our economy , not at all
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
christ this mans a libertarian crackpot
Get your head out of the sand Sludge and take a more objective view of your beloved EU. Come back when you've had a chance to digest the facts and present a more cogent argument.
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
Its done
And by god we really have been done
The UK finance sector and investment banking advice was a major employer . Now UK based banks are no longer able to advise European business But that doesn't matter because it is only the ricxh fat cats that you are alwayswanting to bring down anyway so Brexit has done it for you.
Wealth , taxable income all pissed away to Germany etc Same answer as above
Rule Brittania
This is just the start
Its all very well saying live with it but I think its going to feck everyone up the arse your opinion.
Switch the lights off
You're wasting your breath and you time sludge. Why don't you employ it on something you can actually help to effect?
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Mike, can we have a yawning smiley please? :hehe:
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Originally Posted by
Rjk
Net favourability of the EU has increased significantly in all EU countries since Brexit.
I also don't think that Greece leaving would bring the whole thing crashing down somehow.
Until they're saddled with the debt.
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
Get your head out of the sand Sludge and take a more objective view of your beloved EU. Come back when you've had a chance to digest the facts and present a more cogent argument.
The country has made a decision
But its going to feck us
Twenty percent drop in trade this quarter predicted
If a business does everything online thats fine but many jobs are going to be lost
The economists almost overwhelmingly said it would be stupid to leave the EU
The brexit crew rolled out that far right pillock from cardiff University, Midford, a former advisor to Thatcher
We have dived into a sea of glass
UK financial sector , a huge generator of taxable income and jobs ?
Thats going to be losing influence to Germany
Goods from China, our main supplier , come through Europe, more expensive to get in
And goods from Europe itself ? More expensive to get in
Still we have a new deal with Japan, even though we have one already
This is just the beginning
Enjoy the ride
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
You're wasting your breath and you time sludge. Why don't you employ it on something you can actually help to effect?
the opinion of the vast majority of respected economists
Sir Patrick Midford doesn't count , he's in the John redwood camp
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
The country has made a decision
But its going to feck us
Twenty percent drop in trade this quarter predicted
If a business does everything online thats fine but many jobs are going to be lost
The economists almost overwhelmingly said it would be stupid to leave the EU
The brexit crew rolled out that far right pillock from cardiff University, Midford, a former advisor to Thatcher
We have dived into a sea of glass
UK financial sector , a huge generator of taxable income and jobs ?
Thats going to be losing influence to Germany
Goods from China, our main supplier , come through Europe, more expensive to get in
And goods from Europe itself ? More expensive to get in
Still we have a new deal with Japan, even though we have one already
This is just the beginning
Enjoy the ride
Why don't you get out of the habit of stating something as fact when it is only your opinion. Nothing can be fact if it hasn't yet happened.
Any country outside the EU that has a trade agreement with it will/have set up a continuity agreement with UK. These things have been being arranged for a year. Why do you say that anything from China must come though the UK? Have the bullied China into not trading with us, like the tried to bully the vaccine companies to divert our vaccine supply?
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Originally Posted by
Poolerblue
Huge assumption being made is that the EU will still be around in 50 years
We have seen over the last few years different EU countries wanting more for themselves and less willing to help out the poorer countries
During the first few months of the pandemic Italy and Spain were given very little support when they needed it most
The richer EU countries are unwilling to commit to combined EU debt bonds to help “bail out” poorer EU nations
The problems the EU as a whole are having with vaccinations
Don’t forget that the EU has just lost one of its biggest net contributors meaning other countries are going to have to pay extra to plug this gap
Creaking at the seems at present and won’t survive if another one or two countries vote to leave
That could be true but what replaces the EU will probably be an improvement, we have voted for something that we can be almost certain is tangibly worse.
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
I didn't say it did but that is even more of an indictment of the EU seeing the mess they're currently in with the vaccine roll-out.
Even the German press are saying that the way Brussels are dealing with the roll-out is the best ever advert there could be for Brexit.
Germany, France, The Netherlands and Italy all had a preliminary supply agreement with Astrazeneca last June but the EU insisted on dealing with them on on behalf of the bloc.
I actually respect the commission for their decision. Brexiteers simultaneously complained about Germany using the bloc to advantage themselves to the detriment of smaller countries and are now making light of the fact that Germany have been prevented from doing exactly that by the commission, which is it?
As much as I praise the rollout efforts and foresight to invest public funds into the AZ vaccine, I can't help but wonder how bad this would be going if AZ/Oxford was at the same stage as the many other vaccines. We effectively have a preferential deal with one of the few vaccines to have reached the market, we hit the jackpot.
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
Why don't you get out of the habit of stating something as fact when it is only your opinion. Nothing can be fact if it hasn't yet happened.
Any country outside the EU that has a trade agreement with it will/have set up a continuity agreement with UK. These things have been being arranged for a year. Why do you say that anything from China must come though the UK? Have the bullied China into not trading with us, like the tried to bully the vaccine companies to divert our vaccine supply?
It is a fact that the finance sector (as Sludge says, a huge generator of taxable income and jobs) is losing influence, although not just to Germany . Already, thousands of jobs and trillions of pounds in assets have left the country. That’s not scaremongering - my wife was involved in an asset transfer worth hundreds of billions and that’s just one of many going on.
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I imagine all the countries left in the EU will be saying thank goodness those self-serving tossers from the UK have now left us and we will now be able to create an improved EU.
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I'm amazed that things aren't much worse than they actually are with regards movement of goods from the UK to the EU and vice-versa. I had imagined that every French "jobs-worth" over there would be scouring every single document for the slightest typo or unticked box in order to reject a shipment with consequent queues of lorries building up on either side of the channel. That clearly hasn't happened as the BBC would have been sure to find at least a couple of disgruntled truck drivers or their transport managers having a whinge, much to the delight of the ever optimistic Laura Kuenssberg.
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Dorcus
I imagine all the countries left in the EU will be saying thank goodness those self-serving tossers from the UK have now left us and we will now be able to create an improved EU.
The reverse is probably true specially in some of the samller/weaker countries. They relied on UK to face up to the likes of France because they didn't have the clout to do so, and they were worried about UK leaving for fear of being bullied into every little whim the leading lights thought up.
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It's nothing to be light-hearted about unfortunately.
Wales has benefitted enormously from EU funding, particularly over the last 20 years and the money will or cannot be replaced by the Welsh or British Governments.
The problem isn't the spin doctors and downright liars who influenced the referendum, it's the gullible and ignorant who voted to leave.
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Rjk
I agree. But it did mean that we could secure supplies more quickly
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
The reverse is probably true specially in some of the samller/weaker countries. They relied on UK to face up to the likes of France because they didn't have the clout to do so, and they were worried about UK leaving for fear of being bullied into every little whim the leading lights thought up.
Are there examples of the UK sticking up for smaller nations? I once read that we were often seen (and appreciated, even by the bigger countries) as the level-headed, sensible member during debates etc. Those were the days!
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Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
Are there examples of the UK sticking up for smaller nations? I once read that we were often seen (and appreciated, even by the bigger countries) as the level-headed, sensible member during debates etc. Those were the days!
Level headed and sensible, and more importantly fair to all is exactly what those countries wanted.
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Originally Posted by
B. Oddie
It's nothing to be light-hearted about unfortunately.
Wales has benefitted enormously from EU funding, particularly over the last 20 years and the money will or cannot be replaced by the Welsh or British Governments.
The problem isn't the spin doctors and downright liars who influenced the referendum, it's the gullible and ignorant who voted to leave.
Thanks for the confirmation that I’m gullible and ignorant. My wife’s been telling me that for years
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
Why don't you get out of the habit of stating something as fact when it is only your opinion. Nothing can be fact if it hasn't yet happened.
Any country outside the EU that has a trade agreement with it will/have set up a continuity agreement with UK. These things have been being arranged for a year. Why do you say that anything from China must come though the UK? Have the bullied China into not trading with us, like the tried to bully the vaccine companies to divert our vaccine supply?
I know for a fact that the financial services sector in the UK is now prevented from advising European business and all those jobs will now go to Europe
And I know for a fact that China is the world's leading manufacturer and it comes through Europe, to the UK
And it means goods are going to more expensive to buy
We don't make anything anymore and almost everything we consume is made in China
That snazzy Japanese hi tech smart TV? Made in China
And its still going to be coming through Europe to get here
Except we are not part of Europe anymore so its going to cost us , big time
We could of course trade with another major world market on our doorstep and be part of that but I think the nearest one is a 7 hour flight away
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
I know for a fact that the financial services sector in the UK is now prevented from advising European business and all those jobs will now go to Europe
And I know for a fact that China is the world's leading manufacturer and it comes through Europe, to the UK
And it means goods are going to more expensive to buy
We don't make anything anymore and almost everything we consume is made in China
That snazzy Japanese hi tech smart TV? Made in China
And its still going to be coming through Europe to get here
Except we are not part of Europe anymore so its going to cost us , big time
We could of course trade with another major world market on our doorstep and be part of that but I think the nearest one is a 7 hour flight away
Why does it have to come through the EU?
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xsnaggle
Why does it have to come through the EU?
how do you think stuff from China arrives in the UK
How does it get here ?
Where do you think the major terminals for manufactured goods are for distribution to this country ?
Why do you think Dover , Rotterdam , Hook of Holland are so important to trading links between the UK and Europe and beyond
Planes are important but what else do you think brings goods from China to Europe?
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
how do you think stuff from China arrives in the UK
How does it get here ?
Where do you think the major terminals for manufactured goods are for distribution to this country ?
Why do you think Dover , Rotterdam , Hook of Holland are so important to trading links between the UK and Europe and beyond
Planes are important but what else do you think brings goods from China to Europe?
If something comes by ship/container it is only in transit. And strange to relate this poor little backward island of ours populated, as you say, by morons and idiots (Read people who don't agree with sludge) does have container ports.
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
Just out of interest, are you in an age group that is likely to be vaccinated soon ?
If so, that's good news for you. But just take a moment to think of those poor people living under the jurisdiction of such an unwieldy organisation as the EU.
So unwieldy that their death rates from covid 19 are way way lower than ours.