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Mapletree Flag Croydon 28 Aug 19 10.43pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

I've written in it, which is more than your sorry arse has done.

Once again, I've answered this.....larger companies will adjust to whatever the new dynamics are.

This country will continue to do well economically after an adjustment period....regardless of the EU position. If we have 'no deal'.....which I doubt....it will ultimately be a more competitive trading environment for them.

That partly explains your hatred for the US on these boards because you hate it that the UK will continue to be a coveted market regardless of the spectre of the EU.

Ah, larger companies will adjust, yes they will. When I was in the City last year I watched that 'adjustment' starting in real time. The Banks were moving people to other cities. International businesses don't have to keep all their activities here and will vote with their feet if their trading relationships are made tougher and more expensive.

I don't hate the US but I am deeply aware that it is a ruthless power bloc and will always seek greater monopolistic strength.

 

Stirlingsays Flag 29 Aug 19 1.36am

Originally posted by Mapletree

Ah, larger companies will adjust, yes they will. When I was in the City last year I watched that 'adjustment' starting in real time. The Banks were moving people to other cities. International businesses don't have to keep all their activities here and will vote with their feet if their trading relationships are made tougher and more expensive.

I don't hate the US but I am deeply aware that it is a ruthless power bloc and will always seek greater monopolistic strength.

Oh the irony.

I notice you fail to make any actual predictions.

I repeat, the UK is a coveted investment country and will continue to be so.

 


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Matov Flag 29 Aug 19 6.37am

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Oh the irony.

LOL.

For me, the key to how today pans out is how many times the option of a vote of No Confidence is mentioned. It was telling that almost all of the loudest voices from yesterday expressing outrage all failed to mention it. Perhaps they forget? Clearly many were tired and emotional (Paul Mason is my new favourite remainer).

 


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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 29 Aug 19 6.56am

Originally posted by Matov

LOL.

For me, the key to how today pans out is how many times the option of a vote of No Confidence is mentioned. It was telling that almost all of the loudest voices from yesterday expressing outrage all failed to mention it. Perhaps they forget? Clearly many were tired and emotional (Paul Mason is my new favourite remainer).

The opposition now have their chance as soon as parliament returns next week I expect they should table a vote of no confidence in the government, if not why not.

 


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dannyboy1978 Flag 29 Aug 19 7.10am

Originally posted by Badger11

The opposition now have their chance as soon as parliament returns next week I expect they should table a vote of no confidence in the government, if not why not.

No confidence in what though!!
They look twice as competent than the last lot!

 

Matov Flag 29 Aug 19 7.12am

Originally posted by Badger11

The opposition now have their chance as soon as parliament returns next week I expect they should table a vote of no confidence in the government, if not why not.


Well quite. That is what makes all this BS about a coup so ludicrous. Everything Johnson has done is in line with Parliamentary procedure. And Labour have been requesting a Queens speech for ages.

If Corbyn does not like it, he has an option to oppose it and over turn it all. Surely a no brainier?

 


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DANGERCLOSE Flag London 29 Aug 19 9.41am

 

Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 29 Aug 19 10.04am

Originally posted by Matov

LOL.

For me, the key to how today pans out is how many times the option of a vote of No Confidence is mentioned. It was telling that almost all of the loudest voices from yesterday expressing outrage all failed to mention it. Perhaps they forget? Clearly many were tired and emotional (Paul Mason is my new favourite remainer).

What’s Paul Mason up to then? He was originally a leaver, just not under the tories.

I’ve seen Paul Mason on a joe,co.U.K video sat on a protest. It’s all to do with ‘Boris undermining democracy and being elected under a coup of 150,000 old white racists voting him in.’ (Willo lol)

Nothing about parliament undermining democracy meaning Boris has to do this.

Paul Mason was all for Brexit. I lost track of it all through the months and quartets of objections. Why not now? Too Tory a Brexit? Not to no deal? What exactly?

Edited by Rudi Hedman (29 Aug 2019 11.51am)

 


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davidpercival Flag Croydon 29 Aug 19 10.43am

I think you are referring to the triggering of Article 50 to withdraw. The point was that this was done on the assumption that there would be an agreement about leaving. Mrs May ballsed up the whole thing by creating red lines about what could be in the negotiations about leaving. If she had taken the majority view in parliament she would have taken us out of the EU on the basis some sort of customs union arrangement. That would have been supported by Labour because that is what they said in the 2017 General Election.

What we have now is Johnson taking us out without an agreement and blocking out any other option by closing down Parliament at the crucial time. Even if you are a thick, racist Brexiteer, as you describe yourself, I would hope you can see it is no way to behave in a parliamentary democracy.

Originally posted by davenotamonkey

Let's see shall we.

Under your hypothetical "question", you are missing the small nugget that Corbyn would already have an ACT OF PARLIAMENT that encodes this very policy, in law, in black and white, with Royal Assent granted. Corbyn would have in fact won the vote 494-122 to put this on the statute books.

Now, to come back to your question. If the MPs felt so strongly about this "controversial policy", perhaps they shouldn't have voted in full knowledge that this is a permitted, viable and legal outcome of that act. It would sound to me then, that MPs "didn't know what they were voting for" (oh, the irony) when the bill was presented for:

- a first reading
- the second reading (and all debates therein)
- committee stage (and all amendment debates therein)
- report stage
- and third reading (again, with all the extensive debates)
(in addition to any ping-pong to the upper house).

If that were the case, in your hypothetical question, then I would have little sympathy with myself, or those MPs moaning that it is "THE END OF DEMOCRASSY!!z! ZOMG!!" when the HOC overwhelmingly voted for the bill to become law.

But then, I imagine I have a somewhat skewed take on the whole democracy thing, being a thick, racist "Brexs***ter".


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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 29 Aug 19 11.20am

Originally posted by davidpercival

I think you are referring to the triggering of Article 50 to withdraw. The point was that this was done on the assumption that there would be an agreement about leaving. Mrs May ballsed up the whole thing by creating red lines about what could be in the negotiations about leaving. If she had taken the majority view in parliament she would have taken us out of the EU on the basis some sort of customs union arrangement. That would have been supported by Labour because that is what they said in the 2017 General Election.

What we have now is Johnson taking us out without an agreement and blocking out any other option by closing down Parliament at the crucial time. Even if you are a thick, racist Brexiteer, as you describe yourself, I would hope you can see it is no way to behave in a parliamentary democracy.


You are joking right?

The Remainers in Parliament have been trying to subvert a democratic vote for months. This measure is attempting to ensure that we can leave no matter what and stop self serving MPs and die hard Europhiles trying to remove our best bargaining tool.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (29 Aug 2019 11.21am)

 

Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 29 Aug 19 11.29am

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

You are joking right?

The Remainers in Parliament have been trying to subvert a democratic vote for months. This measure is attempting to ensure that we can leave no matter what and stop self serving MPs and die hard Europhiles trying to remove our best bargaining tool.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (29 Aug 2019 11.21am)

Cue the vote was advisory (yawn).

 


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davenotamonkey Flag 29 Aug 19 11.34am

Originally posted by davidpercival

I think you are referring to the triggering of Article 50 to withdraw. The point was that this was done on the assumption that there would be an agreement about leaving. Mrs May ballsed up the whole thing by creating red lines about what could be in the negotiations about leaving. If she had taken the majority view in parliament she would have taken us out of the EU on the basis some sort of customs union arrangement. That would have been supported by Labour because that is what they said in the 2017 General Election.

What we have now is Johnson taking us out without an agreement and blocking out any other option by closing down Parliament at the crucial time. Even if you are a thick, racist Brexiteer, as you describe yourself, I would hope you can see it is no way to behave in a parliamentary democracy.

I stopped reading past these sentences. You've just proved my point. Intentions and best endeavors mean sweet FA when it comes down to Acts of Parliament. The Act was passed, overwhelmingly so, with no amendments added.

Your argument of "What May said, what Farage promised, what Tusk offered" MEAN NOTHING.

The Commons knew full well that one of the end-states of this Act would be to leave without an Agreement. After all, they all read Article 50(3), didn't they? They knew that this act gave direct effect to all the clauses in Article 50, didn't they?

What would have been the alternative to activating the Article 50 notification that was compatible with the electorate's decision to leave the EU? I'm all ears.

 

cpfc_chap Flag koh samui 29 Aug 19 11.38am

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

Cue the vote was advisory (yawn).

Or no mandate for no deal!!

If the originally referendum was non binding or advisory, why did so many remainers vote if it meant nothing?

 

Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 29 Aug 19 11.52am

What’s Paul Mason up to then? He was originally a leaver, just not under the tories.

I’ve seen Paul Mason on a joe,co.U.K video sat on a protest. It’s all to do with ‘Boris undermining democracy and being elected under a coup of 150,000 old white racists voting him in.’ (Willo lol)

Nothing about parliament undermining democracy meaning Boris has to do this.

Paul Mason was all for Brexit. I lost track of it all through the months and quartets of objections. Why not now? Too Tory a Brexit? Not to no deal? What exactly?

 


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Mapletree Flag Croydon 29 Aug 19 2.34pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Oh the irony.

I notice you fail to make any actual predictions.

I repeat, the UK is a coveted investment country and will continue to be so.

Yes, that is why the US companies are waiting until the Pound hits rock bottom before buying all our 'family silver' businesses. It is being openly discussed.

 

Stirlingsays Flag 29 Aug 19 2.49pm

Originally posted by Mapletree

Yes, that is why the US companies are waiting until the Pound hits rock bottom before buying all our 'family silver' businesses. It is being openly discussed.

Errr....have not our companies already been sold away to foreigners by....cough cough...selfish nilistic neo liberals who don't and have never cared about 'family silver' or the nation state......Ah 'family silver', evoking a generation of leaders who actually gave a feck....even if they made other massive mistakes.

Selling this nation down the road wasn't done by types like me......So forgive me if I look at this as nothing but a continuation of what has and still is happening anyway.

Except here it isn't by an external foreign force who write half our laws in parliament and insist that we can't have our own border rules.....nor want their own independent army and the eventual end of all sovereignty.

Edited by Stirlingsays (29 Aug 2019 2.58pm)

 


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Mapletree Flag Croydon 29 Aug 19 2.57pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Errr....have not our companies already been sold away to foreigners by....cough cough...selfish nilistic neo liberals who don't and have never cared about 'family silver' or the nation state......Ah 'family silver'.

That wasn't done by types like me......So forgive me if I look at this as nothing but a continuation of what has and still is happening anyway.

Except here it isn't by an external foreign force who write half our laws in parliament.

Edited by Stirlingsays (29 Aug 2019 2.50pm)

Oh dear, you don't really understand the legal system do you.

So it's fine to sell our businesses on the cheap. And for more and more of us to work for US corporations.

Please note that US owned businesses are subject to US regulations. So, for example, if the US wishes to impose sanctions with which we don't agree, our companies have to anyway.

Like I have said before, be a part of a strong group but cede some autonomy for an overall greater voice (as was expressly discussed BEFORE we entered Europe), or simply bite the pillow. I am sure we shall all get used to the latter. And one day they'll let us vote for POTUS. Just like Greenland.

 

Lyons550 Flag Shirley 29 Aug 19 3.03pm

Originally posted by jeeagles

True, but as of 2018 there were 5.7m british businesses. 96% had less than 9 employees, and 99.9% had less than 250.

Making the 6% stat pretty meaningless.


how does that make it meaningless? How do we know what the 6% represents? Some of it could be the ones you mention above.

C'mon je, you're better than that.

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 29 Aug 19 3.06pm

Originally posted by Mapletree

Oh dear, you don't really understand the legal system do you.

So it's fine to sell our businesses on the cheap. And for more and more of us to work for US corporations.

Please note that US owned businesses are subject to US regulations. So, for example, if the US wishes to impose sanctions with which we don't agree, our companies have to anyway.

Like I have said before, be a part of a strong group but cede some autonomy for an overall greater voice (as was expressly discussed BEFORE we entered Europe), or simply bite the pillow. I am sure we shall all get used to the latter. And one day they'll let us vote for POTUS. Just like Greenland.

Once again you miss the point....and just waffle on your own talking points.

What you state is no different to how it is in the EU.

And please don't make the suggestion that somehow this country accepted the idea of pooling anything like the amounts of sovereignty that Prime Ministers signed away in treaties after 75.

Because that simply isn't the case.

Every treaty that signed away the highest law making powers to a foreign body should have come with a referendum.

 


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Lyons550 Flag Shirley 29 Aug 19 3.08pm

Originally posted by Mapletree

Ah, because 6% of businesses export to the EU?

And if I said that 6% actually employs 53.7% of all employees in the UK, would you be able to disprove that?

If I then went on to say that many of the microbusinesses and SMEs are suppliers to exporters and will be indirectly strongly affected would you like to argue that one?

I think we have already established you have never studied Logic.

i think the whole of projects 'fear' and 'leave' base a lot of their assumptions on this one word as IF its fact.

 


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