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 Badger11  Beckenham 21 Aug 19 10.21am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
My "predictions of doom and gloom" aren't mine at all! They are where the consensus of export opinion lies. Actually I am far less worried about the short term issues. No doubt there will be some disruption but we will muddle through as we always do. Where there is a will and way will be found. I am much more concerned about the long term implications of separating ourselves from the EU regulatory regime and the power that such a big organisation brings to trade agreements and in world affairs. The regulatory regime aspect of this is hardly ever discussed but is actually one of the biggest downsides of us leaving. We are a service driven economy yet many of those services are not covered by the single market. I heard one businessman explain that it was easier for him to do business in Asia than in the EU which still protects many of its service sectors. Germany and France have done well out of the EU because the rules play to the strength of their economies perhaps if they had liberalised the service sectors for us we might not be complaining so much.
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| Midlands Eagle 21 Aug 19 10.47am |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Germany and France have done well out of the EU Of course they have as it's their club
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| chris123 hove actually 21 Aug 19 11.06am |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Of course they have as it's their club Not sure France has - the CAP has left a lot of French farming sub economic.
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| DANGERCLOSE London 21 Aug 19 12.03pm |
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[Tweet Link]
Awesome
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| steeleye20 Croydon 21 Aug 19 12.33pm |
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Wetherspoon's beer cheaper? Must be a reduction in their water rates....
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| dannyboy1978 21 Aug 19 1.52pm |
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Well there is a surprise
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| Spiderman Horsham 21 Aug 19 2.11pm |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Not sure I did.... I'm sure you did, on 13 March 2019 and I quote: Currently my kids and everyone I speak to below the age of 25 blooming hates you and others like you So maybe they will change their view. Or maybe the EU is right and they will take us back in when they realize the cost/benefit balance and when they have the power back from the generation that 'knew better than them'.
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| Lyons550 Shirley 21 Aug 19 2.32pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
The European Union has been blamed for many of the serious problems in British society, including the power of vacuum cleaners and the shape of bananas, and a new charge must now be added: football’s handball rule. The former Queens Park Rangers manager Ian Holloway has bizarrely claimed that the EU is responsible for Gabriel Jesus’s late goal for Manchester City against Tottenham being disallowed.
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| Penge Eagle Beckenham 21 Aug 19 3.03pm |
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'BBC Admits To FAKE NEWS EU Election Coverage' [Link]
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| Midlands Eagle 21 Aug 19 3.07pm |
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Originally posted by Penge Eagle
'BBC Admits To FAKE NEWS EU Election Coverage' [Link] It's not fake news but a "lapse in editorial standards"
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| dannyboy1978 21 Aug 19 3.18pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
It's not fake news but a "lapse in editorial standards" What other lies have they spread!!
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| chris123 hove actually 21 Aug 19 3.50pm |
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I think LBC pointed this out too.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 21 Aug 19 5.02pm |
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Originally posted by Penge Eagle
'BBC Admits To FAKE NEWS EU Election Coverage' [Link] I was one of the complainers so having told me my complaint had no merit are they now going to send me an email apologising? I won't hold my breath.
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| dannyboy1978 21 Aug 19 5.23pm |
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Time we off loaded Scotland as well as the EU.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 21 Aug 19 6.29pm |
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Originally posted by dannyboy1978
Time we off loaded Scotland as well as the EU. The reason Scotland joined the union was they were bankrupt because they couldn't manage their economy and needed the English to bail them out. 300 years later and it seems they still have not learned that lesson. I would have thought that rule 1 for any independence party would be to show your voters that you can be trusted to run the country in a fiscally responsible manner. This is why the SNP wants to keep using the pound after independence it means that the BOE and the UK government would have to bail them out or risk crashing the UK economy. Or put it another way "darling I want a divorce but I still want access to your bank account and no you don't get a say in how I spend your money." Edited by Badger11 (21 Aug 2019 6.30pm)
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| davenotamonkey 21 Aug 19 8.18pm |
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I genuinely can't tell any more. Are these just utterly unhinged (possible ex-members of HOL), or are they really good parodies. Prep for the Brexit genocide, lads! [Tweet Link]
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| dannyboy1978 21 Aug 19 10.11pm |
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Originally posted by davenotamonkey
I genuinely can't tell any more. Are these just utterly unhinged (possible ex-members of HOL), or are they really good parodies. Prep for the Brexit genocide, lads! [Tweet Link]That made me my day lol. Pathetic no back bone wally lol
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jeeagles  21 Aug 19 10.31pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
The European Union has been blamed for many of the serious problems in British society, including the power of vacuum cleaners and the shape of bananas, and a new charge must now be added: football’s handball rule. The former Queens Park Rangers manager Ian Holloway has bizarrely claimed that the EU is responsible for Gabriel Jesus’s late goal for Manchester City against Tottenham being disallowed.
I think the argument is missed here on both sides of the debate by most people. One of the biggest problems with the EU is that it has no defined scope or remit. The phrase "an ever closer union" doesn't actually mean anything. Therefore, like any badly run bureaucracy it's full of high paid people making laws and processes for the sake of it. A lot of the time they are pointless and expensive. The politicians and civil servants involved are the only people who really benefit, and they are unaccountable because no one ever bothers to turn up and vote in EU elections. I'm not fussed about the shape of bananas, but you have to question why a multi-national task force is required to determine the shape of them at great expense? Prior to the referendum, I argued that we should remain because we would only be replacing one bunch of b*stard politicians with another. What's changed is that the Brexit will cost the EU 12.5% of it's population and 15% of its GDP but has not considered that it may be require any reforms at all! What other business would that be allowed to happen in? Heads should be rolling, instead they are all protecting their own positions and trying to blame lies on buses or xenophobia, not due to house prices and competition for low income jobs.
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| jeeagles 21 Aug 19 10.33pm |
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Originally posted by davenotamonkey
I genuinely can't tell any more. Are these just utterly unhinged (possible ex-members of HOL), or are they really good parodies. Prep for the Brexit genocide, lads! [Tweet Link]Dianne Abbot has been practicing her sums again.
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