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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

    56 vote(s)
    47.9%
  2. Get out

    61 vote(s)
    52.1%
  1. kiwiqpr

    kiwiqpr Barnsie Mod

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    nice school

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  2. DT’s Socks

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    The motor industry is changing for sure and I live in a country that is diesel but guess what they are more advanced on their green culture than the U.K. plus they are tackling much longer A to Bs

    Transport is superior in Europe it’s a fact of life and when the new tech really hits in the next decade the U.K. will be no where
     
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    DT’s Socks Well-Known Member

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    Well Staines I will take the brand challenge with anyone on this forum. It’s still the most important aspect of business and marketing and that will never change my friend
     
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    Probably Corbyn supporters like most teachers...
     
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    So you honestly think that Honda are lying about Brexit having no influence on their decision because they fear they will damage their ‘brand’ in the U.K. ?
    If so, again, I’d say that’s rubbish and they wouldn’t give a ****.
     
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  6. Sooperhoop

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    Some of these MPs are unbelieveable...

     
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    Alistair Campbell on SkyNews discussing Labour split but had to mention Brexit. He is speaking via Skype from his home in Avignon, France. <doh> No wonder the Eurofreak wants a "losers vote". He had to plug the 'losers March' in London next month. What a muppet he is.
     
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    oh dear it's not good leaving a party due "institutionalised antisemitism' and being in one that comes out with racists comments.... foot...shoot in.
     
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    Why in Brussels they say the odds of no-deal Brexit are 60%
    https://www.itv.com/news/2019-02-19/why-in-brussels-they-say-the-odds-of-no-deal-are-60/

    'It's a mess': Dutch MPs warn EU to brace for no-deal Brexit after 'alarming' meetings in Westminster
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...rn-eu-brace-no-deal-brexit-alarming-meetings/

    Brexit: Nearly a third of French people think Britain has already left the EU, poll finds
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...uk-leave-eu-germany-europe-poll-a8786871.html

    The other two thirds surrendered.
     
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    Evening Standard editorial...……..

    It is polite to make an excuse when you leave somewhere early, and, in public, Japanese investors in Britain are nothing but polite.

    That’s why Honda’s spokesman said this morning that the closure of the company’s Swindon plant had nothing to do with Brexit. Like a guest at a party where the hosts are having a nasty family row, Honda is backing out of the door as fast as it can.

    Terribly sorry, it says — it’s not you, it’s us; of course we’d love to stay longer if we could.

    We all know guests don’t mean it when they make excuses like this and we all know that Honda doesn’t mean it when it says Brexit didn’t shape its decision

    This morning’s depressing news is part of the accelerating degradation of our economic strength because of Brexit. Banking. Medicines. Aerospace. Car-making. They are all pulling back hard from Britain.

    Why? Well, nothing is simple in business and Honda is right to say that the shift to electric vehicles is a challenge for an established industry. But every car plant in the world is trying to move away from fossil fuels. So what is it that makes those in Britain different?

    The answer is that only ours also face the extra pressure of the loss of guaranteed access to the market which takes their products. Nine out of 10 cars made in Swindon are exported to other EU countries.

    A month before a no-deal Brexit which a Conservative Prime Minister insists is an option, Honda is shutting one of its car factories for the first time in 71 years. That’s not a coincidence. It’s a consequence.

    Here’s another question. What was it that brought companies such as Honda to Britain in the first place?

    It was a promise from another female Conservative prime minister. Back in the Eighties she told businesses a UK base would give them access to “a single market without barriers — visible or invisible — giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of more than 300 million of the world’s wealthiest and most prosperous people”.

    That’s the offer Margaret Thatcher made when she placed Britain at the front of the queue for investment.

    Now, in private, Japanese investors and officials are despairing at the way Mrs Thatcher’s promise has been betrayed. They feel hurt. They feel understandable disdain for the efforts of ministers such as Liam Fox, the minister who backed Brexit and is now begging for a UK-Japan trade deal.

    In sorrow, they are also rapidly adjusting their plans for Britain.

    Today it’s Honda in Swindon that’s been hit. Tomorrow it will be other workers, in other towns, who thought they had good jobs in strong companies.

    “Idiocy of epic proportions”, one Honda employee has called it. His bosses couldn’t have put it better, if they had chosen to spell out the truth.
     
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    Another Labour MP leaves for the splinter group.
     
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    As soon as I saw the words Evening Standard I stopped reading. That remoaner paper is the worst.
     
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    Perhaps Gideon should have had a word with his old chum Cameron before they offered the referendum...
     
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    I don't even bother picking up a free copy anymore because it's full of remoaner crap on every page. London paper that GO works on.
     
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    Another example of Corbyn's 'nicer' politics...

     
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    It's his editorial...
     
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    Good old George
     
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    **** me that Turk bloke contributes nothing apart from open insults ... is that allowed? Weak stuff whereas Ellers is so self obsessed with sheep food he may of overdosed

    Cold Turkey will be served up as and when
     
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