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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 1.28pm

Originally posted by dannyboy1978

It would be a positive not a negative so would be looking forward which would only help. Talk of emergency budgets straight after the vote is not helpfull as an example

Edited by dannyboy1978 (02 Aug 2019 1.24pm)

Sorry, that’s not even close to an answer - you can’t really believe looking forward positively is a solution?

 

Stirlingsays Flag 02 Aug 19 1.31pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow



I find it incredible that the blame for this mess
is still being allocated to everyone except the people who campaigned for something that could never be delivered.

In fact, one of them has just been made Prime Minister.

What mess?

 


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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 1.39pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

What mess?

You’re right, everything is ticking along swimmingly.

 

Stirlingsays Flag 02 Aug 19 1.42pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

You’re right, everything is ticking along swimmingly.

Well we are getting political interference and agendas for sure.....but there is no 'mess'.

 


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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 1.54pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Well we are getting political interference and agendas for sure.....but there is no 'mess'.

A war cabinet and £2.1bn allocated, with public services stretched to exhaustion, to deal with entirely self-inflicted disruption - it’s a mess.

 

Invalid user 2019 Flag 02 Aug 19 2.02pm

Originally posted by .TUX.

Fighting the 'Globalists' is hard work.
I doubt Boris will do any better than May but hey ho, this is what we all signed up for isn't it, subsidising a continually failing ideal?

Maybe i'm wrong.

Edited by .TUX. (01 Aug 2019 10.52pm)

I think I've been a tad more hopeful that a change of leadership might be a positive than some on here, but I may well be proved wrong, who knows. Maybe everything is a different incarnation of the same rigged game. A bit of a depressing thought.

 

Stirlingsays Flag 02 Aug 19 2.09pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

A war cabinet and £2.1bn allocated, with public services stretched to exhaustion, to deal with entirely self-inflicted disruption - it’s a mess.

These are all remainer characterizations and fear mongering. Most business in the country doesn't even deal with the EU.

2.1 Billion is a drop in the ocean of yearly expenditure and our public services have been stretched beyond their means for decades.....and often due to policies many on the left agreed with.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Aug 2019 2.10pm)

 


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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 2.21pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

These are all remainer characterizations and fear mongering. Most business in the country doesn't even deal with the EU.

2.1 Billion is a drop in the ocean of yearly expenditure and our public services have been stretched beyond their means for decades.....and often due to policies many on the left agreed with.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Aug 2019 2.10pm)

How can it be fear-mongering when I stated two facts? This is half the problem; the debate has now reached a point where every and any concern or problem with brexit is dismissed as project fear - as I said above, this £2.1bn budget allocation would’ve been dismissed as project fear 2 years ago , and a year before that the very notion of no deal would’ve been - easiest trade deal in history, remember?

£2.1bn is certainly not a drop in the ocean - remember the uproar at the £9m expenditure on pro-remain leaflets? There are countless examples of extreme cuts by this government to save amounts considerably less than £2.1bn, but alas the magic money tree appears again.

 

EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 2.22pm

Originally posted by dollardays

I think I've been a tad more hopeful that a change of leadership might be a positive than some on here, but I may well be proved wrong, who knows. Maybe everything is a different incarnation of the same rigged game. A bit of a depressing thought.

I never understood the logic that 27 countries were going to change their position because they are taking to a different person - it was always a nonsense.

 

Stirlingsays Flag 02 Aug 19 2.33pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

How can it be fear-mongering when I stated two facts? This is half the problem; the debate has now reached a point where every and any concern or problem with brexit is dismissed as project fear - as I said above, this £2.1bn budget allocation would’ve been dismissed as project fear 2 years ago , and a year before that the very notion of no deal would’ve been - easiest trade deal in history, remember?

£2.1bn is certainly not a drop in the ocean - remember the uproar at the £9m expenditure on pro-remain leaflets? There are countless examples of extreme cuts by this government to save amounts considerably less than £2.1bn, but alas the magic money tree appears again.

The trade deal would have been a lot easier without remainers in parliament giving succor to the EU.

Like I said, it is them who have bought us here to this situation.

You are guilty of cherry picking statements from the leave side and presenting it as 'the position'.

Personally I have always stated that leaving the EU would be a up and down five years....many others have said similar. That doesn't change my view that it has to happen as the first step to this country regaining independence from too much undemocratically pooled sovereignty that was never agreed to in the first place.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Aug 2019 2.34pm)

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 02 Aug 19 2.37pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

I never understood the logic that 27 countries were going to change their position because they are taking to a different person - it was always a nonsense.

Really? Watch it happen.

This was always who was going to blink first.....and personally I'm not blinking.

We can survive this much better than the EU can as the EU is already on the edge.

 


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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 2.45pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

The trade deal would have been a lot easier without remainers in parliament giving succor to the EU.

Like I said, it is them who have bought us here to this situation.

You are guilty of cherry picking statements from the leave side and presenting it as 'the position'.

Personally I have always stated that leaving the EU would be a up and down five years....many others have said similar. That doesn't change my view that it has to happen as the first step to this country regaining independence from too much undemocratically pooled sovereignty that was never agreed to in the first place.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Aug 2019 2.34pm)

The trade deal should be easily agreed by Boris then - we’ll see.

It’s amazing how many leavers knew exactly the turmoil to be expected, despite no-deal never being discussed pre-referendum.
Similarly, it’s amazing how many leavers now claim economics was nothing to do with their decision - I guess the famous bus and all of the debate around fiscal contributions to the EU were for remainers benefit only. (I do not claim to know your personal position at the time of the referendum - I am generalising).

Speaking of undemocratically pooled sovereignty; I can’t wait to see how our unelected leader, who heads a party without a majority, delivers something for which there is no democratic mandate to do - that’s real democracy!

 

Stirlingsays Flag 02 Aug 19 3.10pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

The trade deal should be easily agreed by Boris then - we’ll see.

It’s amazing how many leavers knew exactly the turmoil to be expected, despite no-deal never being discussed pre-referendum.
Similarly, it’s amazing how many leavers now claim economics was nothing to do with their decision - I guess the famous bus and all of the debate around fiscal contributions to the EU were for remainers benefit only. (I do not claim to know your personal position at the time of the referendum - I am generalising).

Speaking of undemocratically pooled sovereignty; I can’t wait to see how our unelected leader, who heads a party without a majority, delivers something for which there is no democratic mandate to do - that’s real democracy!

Well it looks like Johnson will be timing out a 'no deal' unless the EU offer something.....which I expect but I'm not that bothered either way as I don't see remainers reliably voting for anything other than remain.

Again, you are cherry picking the leave side....we could do the same with the remain campaign.

There is a mandate to leave the EU that is for certain. However, I agree with you that Johnson should go to the public.....I thought that was the best strategy for Brexit....but ignoring Brexit....personally I think any new leader requires a mandate from the public so I'd rather we had a GE within a year regardless.

 


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dannyboy1978 Flag 02 Aug 19 3.46pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

How can it be fear-mongering when I stated two facts? This is half the problem; the debate has now reached a point where every and any concern or problem with brexit is dismissed as project fear - as I said above, this £2.1bn budget allocation would’ve been dismissed as project fear 2 years ago , and a year before that the very notion of no deal would’ve been - easiest trade deal in history, remember?

£2.1bn is certainly not a drop in the ocean - remember the uproar at the £9m expenditure on pro-remain leaflets? There are countless examples of extreme cuts by this government to save amounts considerably less than £2.1bn, but alas the magic money tree appears again.

If we are so skint you won't mind us taking it out of foreign aid then.

 

EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 3.58pm

Originally posted by dannyboy1978

If we are so skint you won't mind us taking it out of foreign aid then.

Sure, I’d be open to that - not sure why it’s relevant, but ok.

You didn’t answer how your can-do attitude would solve the current deadlock.

 

Spiderman Flag Horsham 02 Aug 19 3.59pm

Originally posted by dannyboy1978

If we are so skint you won't mind us taking it out of foreign aid then.

Well said. The amount we spend on this is ridiculous when our own public services are stretched to the limit. How much actually goes to the areas that need it? We are still asked to contribute by celebrities to clean up water in Africa...why? after decades of foreign aid? Still it helped Mugabe buy a fleet of limosines and allowed India (who I believe have more billionaires per capita than any other country but still an enormous amount of poverty) to introduce a flourishing Space Industry so at least it does do some good.

 

Badger11 Flag Beckenham 02 Aug 19 4.00pm

I listen to Theo Usherwood on LBC he talks a lot of sense and is a good political commentator.

This morning his view was this.

1. Yesterday's defeat for the Tories was better than expected. The damaged MP was allowed to be the Tory candidate because May didn't believe they could win so why waste a good candidate. Another bad decision. On the Remain side the minor parties did a deal with the Lib Dems to allow then a free run at he Tories whilst the Brexit party took 10% of the vote which would have seen the Tories win.

So yes a good day for Remain but the Boris bounce is still there.

Meanwhile no one is talking about Labour almost losing their deposit in Wales, Wales for god's sake.

So what happens now? Normally Corbyn would call a vote of no confidence and with several Tory MPs threatening to quit the party he could win. However it is now too late to hold a GE before 31 October so if one was called now that he would be blamed by the Remainers for allowing Brexit by default.

The feeling is that Corbyn will not call for a no confidence vote until after Brexit when he can say to the electorate look at the mess we're in and I am the man to clean it up.


Still all to play for.

 


One more point

dannyboy1978 Flag 02 Aug 19 4.13pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Sure, I’d be open to that - not sure why it’s relevant, but ok.

You didn’t answer how your can-do attitude would solve the current deadlock.

An ecconomy is pretty much run on confidence, if we do have a dead lock the pussy remoaners are the first to wet them selves and like the nerd at the front of class "it was his fault"
Grow some balls expect a bumpy ride and look forward to freedom after.

You lot are such a bunch of pussies , honestly.

"If you say that someone has a can-do attitude, you approve of them because they are confident and willing to deal with problems or new tasks, rather than complaining or giving up. He is known for his optimistic can-do attitude."

Edited by dannyboy1978 (02 Aug 2019 4.14pm)

 

EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 02 Aug 19 4.21pm

Originally posted by dannyboy1978

An ecconomy is pretty much run on confidence, if we do have a dead lock the pussy remoaners are the first to wet them selves and like the nerd at the front of class "it was his fault"
Grow some balls expect a bumpy ride and look forward to freedom after.

You lot are such a bunch of pussies , honestly.

"If you say that someone has a can-do attitude, you approve of them because they are confident and willing to deal with problems or new tasks, rather than complaining or giving up. He is known for his optimistic can-do attitude."

Edited by dannyboy1978 (02 Aug 2019 4.14pm)

So grow some balls, man up, don’t be a pussy - phenomenal political insight - we’re saved!!

What if the EU have just as much of a can-do attitude as us? What do we do then?

 

topcat Flag Holmesdale / Surbiton 02 Aug 19 4.55pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

So grow some balls, man up, don’t be a pussy - phenomenal political insight - we’re saved!!

What if the EU have just as much of a can-do attitude as us? What do we do then?

Blame "the left" and remoaners.

 


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