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 tome  Inner Tantalus Time. 02 Nov 17 12.06pm |
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So, we can trade with the rest of the world while we are in the EU. Why are we leaving again?
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| tome Inner Tantalus Time. 02 Nov 17 12.08pm |
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Originally posted by Penge Eagle
Can someone else help me here? You seem to be of the view that voting Leave or Remain is an article of faith, like a religion or somethign, and that it influences all decisions. Pretty much all the experts reckon Brexit will be bad. So it's hardly a suprise that organisations that invest in serious journalism are going to report that, and regard leaving as bad, is it?
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| tome Inner Tantalus Time. 02 Nov 17 12.09pm |
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Originally posted by Penge Eagle
[Tweet Link]Being in the EU but out of the Euro probably has something to do with that.
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Rudi Hedman  Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.12pm |
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Originally posted by tome
You seem to be of the view that voting Leave or Remain is an article of faith, like a religion or somethign, and that it influences all decisions. Pretty much all the experts reckon Brexit will be bad. So it's hardly a suprise that organisations that invest in serious journalism are going to report that, and regard leaving as bad, is it? Did they all predict Armageddon if we didn't join the euro? I expect they all made bazillions trading the FTSE and bonds?
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.14pm |
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Originally posted by tome
So, we can trade with the rest of the world while we are in the EU. Why are we leaving again? There's a limit in price to what world buyers will go to with tariffs, limiting growth of smaller businesses, something this country will do well in growing.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.15pm |
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Originally posted by tome
Being in the EU but out of the Euro probably has something to do with that. A devalued pound that's probably due to actually grow an economy with a foundation rather than spend on imports with credit, go bang, repeat over and over.
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| CambridgeEagle Sydenham 02 Nov 17 12.16pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Did they all predict Armageddon if we didn't join the euro? I expect they all made bazillions trading the FTSE and bonds?
The loss of our own central bank and monetary policy, and never meeting these 5 tests meant that very few experts were ever interested. Some may have been for it for certain ease of use/integration/transaction charges/forex risk reasons, but not many serious economists were ever in favour.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.18pm |
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Originally posted by CambridgeEagle
The loss of our own central bank and monetary policy, and never meeting these 5 tests meant that very few experts were ever interested. Some may have been for it for certain ease of use/integration/transaction charges/forex risk reasons, but not many serious economists were ever in favour. Are they all really rich from their prediction expertise?
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.19pm |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
Some posters moan that I never post good Brexit news...well now you can stop whingeing. . Latest; We are only 3,000 nurses down since the Referendum. Could have been 10,000. Time to invest in the British young perhaps? Dropping tuition fees etc for nursing isn't that difficult administratively.
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| hedgehog50 Croydon 02 Nov 17 3.05pm |
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Originally posted by CambridgeEagle
People will die. If winter is bad, given the kicking the Tories have given the NHS over the past 7 years, expect significant numbers of avoidable deaths. Are there contingency plans in place to send carts round with drivers shouting 'bring out your dead' (or in East Anglia 'wydostać swoich zmarłych'
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell] |
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.| hedgehog50 Croydon 02 Nov 17 3.07pm |
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Originally posted by CambridgeEagle
Given the failure of the government's economic strategy and flasgship benefits programme some people may well starve, or at least become seriously unwell from malnutrition, not to mention the lasting effects lack of good food will have on swathes of children up and down the country. Don't forget that Grayling was saying we could just grow all the food we currently import to avoid tariffs post Brexit. Not sure how he thinks that will happen without more immigration. Unless he thinks the 75,000 bankers that will lose their jobs will go and plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land. Do you think cannibalism will break out as it did in 1930's socialist Russia?
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell] |
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| nickgusset Shizzlehurst 02 Nov 17 3.27pm |
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Originally posted by hedgehog50
Do you think cannibalism will break out as it did in 1930's socialist Russia? Toto Coelo will be pleased.
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| Hansy 02 Nov 17 3.40pm |
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Why MPs don't take a paycut is beyond me. You don't want to be an MP to be come rich, you become an MP to represent your ideas.
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| tome Inner Tantalus Time. 03 Nov 17 10.33am |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Time to invest in the British young perhaps? Dropping tuition fees etc for nursing isn't that difficult administratively. Yes, but where is the money coming from? Given that the NHS is stretched thin already, plus both the effects of Brexit and the cost of sorting it out - 8,000 civil servants to be hired, I heard. Or will the magic money tree which suddenly ripened into £1bn fruit for the DUP be tried again?
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| steeleye20 Croydon 03 Nov 17 11.20am |
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Originally posted by tome
Yes, but where is the money coming from? Given that the NHS is stretched thin already, plus both the effects of Brexit and the cost of sorting it out - 8,000 civil servants to be hired, I heard. Or will the magic money tree which suddenly ripened into £1bn fruit for the DUP be tried again? Just put it on the slate like everything else? :'(
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| topcat Holmesdale / Surbiton 03 Nov 17 11.45am |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Time to invest in the British young perhaps? Dropping tuition fees etc for nursing isn't that difficult administratively. They should never have made nursing a degree course if the first place.
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. |
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| nickgusset Shizzlehurst 03 Nov 17 9.14pm |
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Kermit8  Hevon 06 Nov 17 1.53pm |
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Wtf? You couldn't make this stuff up. Redwood, yes prominent Brexiteer John Redwood, has now given his sage advice for investors to avoid the UK and put their money elsewhere in the EU. [Tweet Link]
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| steeleye20 Croydon 06 Nov 17 3.33pm |
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Originally posted by Kermit8
Wtf? You couldn't make this stuff up. Redwood, yes prominent Brexiteer John Redwood, has now given his sage advice for investors to avoid the UK and put their money elsewhere in the EU. [Tweet Link]
'All they ever do is run the UK down' Tory SLAMS Labour attempts to release Brexit papers Really Mr.Redwood, what do you do then?
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