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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 27 Dec 20 1.13pm

Originally posted by steeleye20

Whatever happened to sovereignty and freedom from Brussels rule-taking?

Would a brexiteer just like to run those arguments through again?

After all it has been a matter of life and death to them for 4 years?

Jettisoned by Johnson for his day in the sun, in a matter of hours.

Thank you brexiteers for our increased 'control' and 'sovereignty' which you have actually conceded to the EU.

Detail was never your thing, was it?

I mean it wasn't written on the side of a bus in huge lettering.

Weird isn't it we have reached a mutual accomodation with our EU neighbours that most Brexiteers are happy or at least not unhappy with. The Remoaners as opposed to Remainers are aghast that they thing they predicted would never happen has.

We didn't get everything we wanted neither did the other side but I predict there will be further deals in the coming years.

 


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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 27 Dec 20 1.21pm

Originally posted by steeleye20

The single market was actually Thatcher's great achievement she saw at once the country's access to a huge market and it has brought the UK prosperity.

That is why Johnson was so desperate to get his deal.

It won't be anything like it is now, with tariffs (it is not tariff-free as stated) and regulation the UK will be gradually strangled and lose it's competitiveness.

Financial services, not trade, provide 80% of the UK's income, there is nothing for the UK in this deal at all, in fact the access to the EU is restricted.

All pain for no gain.

Pointless trying to explain it to you Steeleye.
Go and take your meds.

 

Stirlingsays Flag 27 Dec 20 1.34pm

2016 has just rung Steely....it wants its arguments back.

 


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steeleye20 Flag Croydon 27 Dec 20 1.40pm

Originally posted by Badger11

Weird isn't it we have reached a mutual accomodation with our EU neighbours that most Brexiteers are happy or at least not unhappy with. The Remoaners as opposed to Remainers are aghast that they thing they predicted would never happen has.

We didn't get everything we wanted neither did the other side but I predict there will be further deals in the coming years.

So you were unable to run the questions over sovereignty and Brussels rule-taking again.

How surprising after 4 years of them bring the only things that matter in life.

So you are moving on to 'defunding the BBC'.

Good news, with you doing it, they will be coining it in.


 

Matov Flag 27 Dec 20 1.46pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

2016 has just rung Steely....it wants its arguments back.


Quite. And they have the audacity to claim we live in the past.

 


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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 27 Dec 20 1.47pm

Originally posted by steeleye20

So you were unable to run the questions over sovereignty and Brussels rule-taking again.

How surprising after 4 years of them bring the only things that matter in life.

So you are moving on to 'defunding the BBC'.

Good news, with you doing it, they will be coining it in.


I haven't see the treaty yet. Next week when Parliament meets no doubt there will be some objections let's see what comes out of the ERG review.

 


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steeleye20 Flag Croydon 27 Dec 20 2.27pm

Boris Johnson admits Brexit deal falls short for financial services.

Well nothing to worry about, financial services only account for 80% of our income.

 

chris123 Flag hove actually 27 Dec 20 3.23pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

2016 has just rung Steely....it wants its arguments back.

We've left and that is sovereignty as far as I'm concerned.

 

cryrst Flag The garden of England 27 Dec 20 3.39pm

Originally posted by steeleye20

Boris Johnson admits Brexit deal falls short for financial services.

Well nothing to worry about, financial services only account for 80% of our income.

Financial services has come a long way since Marley and Marley.
Its a digital world wide business. Please tell what changes may happen and if negative you should be happy; when ironically most lefties want all the wealth taken and shared out. You should also be made up as we may have less billionaires.
Run with the hound and play with the fox is what you are trying.

 

croydon proud Flag Any european country i fancy! 27 Dec 20 4.05pm

I"m just looking forward to next week when we are all going to have lots more cash in our pockets- whats not to like? In boris we trust gentlemen, in boris we trust!.......

 

chris123 Flag hove actually 27 Dec 20 5.05pm

Originally posted by Jimenez

Sinn Fein the same?????

Too socialist apparently.

 

steeleye20 Flag Croydon 27 Dec 20 5.53pm

'Brexit deal is a rubbish gift for a gullible public'

 

The Dolphin Flag 27 Dec 20 7.15pm

Remainers are so unhappy that Boris has made it happen.
On top of that the UK will prosper in due course and they just don't want that to happen.
They want it all to go wrong so that they can say "I told you do" and be all smug.
They should want our country to prosper but they just don't want that.
Sad really.

 

Matov Flag 27 Dec 20 7.57pm

Originally posted by The Dolphin


They should want our country to prosper but they just don't want that.

What you have to understand, and I am more than willing to confess that I never really comprehended it until we saw the aftermath from the 2016 referendum, that almost all of these Remoaners actually see themselves as much as Europeans as they do British. And this goes beyond the usual bulls*** where people wear Guiness hats on Saint Paddys day or get married in kilts because they had a Sweaty Great Grandmother.

It is (or rather was) actually a significant part of how they identify themselves. How they separate themselves from the common herd. Now there has always been a tendency amongst sections of our class-ridden system to sneer at their fellow countrymen with the Left especially prone to this (Orwell wrote some fantastic stuff exploring this phenomena) so getting those stupid maroon passports was them a really big deal for them.

Never in a million years did they think the Great Unwashed would actually deny them it and their spite ever since has been quite staggering. Really bitter stuff. Wishing death and destruction of wealth on millions. Actually arguing that since a load of old people had died, then it meant the result from 2016 could now be ignored.

I accept that I am boring about it and perhaps now is the time to try and shake myself free of the utter, visceral, loathing that I feel towards Remoaners, but the disgusting attempt to usurp perhaps the single biggest democratic exercise in British history is one that I hope history looks back on and condemns with absolute clarity.

These people genuinely believe their votes should count for more than other people. The definition of arrogance. With their language and actions ever since for me border into what they like to champion the most for everybody else in terms of hate speech. Many of them literally cheered on the death of people who voted Leave.

Terrible people who should be hanging their heads with utter shame.

 


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AuntyAnne70 Flag Tunbridge WElls 27 Dec 20 8.24pm

A tad generalistic I feel!

I am a remainer, but of course I want my country to prosper, but feel it is far more unlikely to now.

If I am wrong, I will also be the first to hold my hands up and say I was wrong.

Does the reverse apply?

 

Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 27 Dec 20 8.34pm

Originally posted by AuntyAnne70

A tad generalistic I feel!

I am a remainer, but of course I want my country to prosper, but feel it is far more unlikely to now.

If I am wrong, I will also be the first to hold my hands up and say I was wrong.

Does the reverse apply?

There is no reverse for me. I voted leave to escape the super state which will be an inevitable consequence of centralisation of political power and law making that the EU crave.

The rest is just details.

 

Matov Flag 27 Dec 20 9.05pm

Originally posted by AuntyAnne70

A tad generalistic I feel!

I am a remainer, but of course I want my country to prosper, but feel it is far more unlikely to now.

If I am wrong, I will also be the first to hold my hands up and say I was wrong.

Does the reverse apply?

Sorry, I should have made it clear. I have zero problem with anybody who promoted or voted for Remain in 2016. A perfectly valid and honourable position to have taken.

ALL of my ire is aimed at those who then sort to have that decision reversed or ignored. Those are the people I loathe.

 


"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

croydon proud Flag Any european country i fancy! 27 Dec 20 9.53pm

Originally posted by AuntyAnne70

A tad generalistic I feel!

I am a remainer, but of course I want my country to prosper, but feel it is far more unlikely to now.

If I am wrong, I will also be the first to hold my hands up and say I was wrong.

Does the reverse apply?

Well said, I can add that i renewed my passport recently and ditched my gb one for an Irish full access Eu one, I am a citizen of the world and might fancy living somewhere else{within Europe anyway with my Irish passport}.

 

cryrst Flag The garden of England 27 Dec 20 9.58pm

Originally posted by AuntyAnne70

A tad generalistic I feel!

I am a remainer, but of course I want my country to prosper, but feel it is far more unlikely to now.

If I am wrong, I will also be the first to hold my hands up and say I was wrong.

Does the reverse apply?

Impossible to answer tbh. How can you compare the future out of the EU when you dont have a crystal ball to show you what it (was) like still in.

 

Stirlingsays Flag 27 Dec 20 10.38pm

Originally posted by AuntyAnne70

A tad generalistic I feel!

I am a remainer, but of course I want my country to prosper, but feel it is far more unlikely to now.

If I am wrong, I will also be the first to hold my hands up and say I was wrong.

Does the reverse apply?


Therein lies the rub.

Few voted for Brexit on economic terms.

What is 'to prosper' to you is different for others.

Obviously if those who voted for Brexit discover down the line that remaining in the EU would have been better for their worldview then I have little doubt they would admit it.


Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Dec 2020 10.40pm)

 


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