Off Topic The Politics Thread

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

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
Interesting . So the consequence of stopping Eu migration will be much bigger numbers of Irish migrants coming over for work than ever beforeas they are entitled to whethere we are in the EU or not. Did any one tell Nigel that?
this is what the "ignorant" post was responding too
dont suppose nige cares about the irish travelling here
why should he
the few that may head to england these days would be over qualified for digging ditches
(i wonder how many irishmen work for green murphys or the fusileers these days)


the irish and the british dont want a hard border
it will be put there by the europeans to protect the so called integrity of the european market
there is no need to put a border in
have all the border checks done at the french spanish ports where the checks will have to be done AGAIN anyway

plenty on here can post anti brexit articles should they wish
i will at the very least read them no matter how long they are
Am i missing something here. Why should there be a border between the Rep of Ireland and The EU because the UK is leaving the union ?
 
Ahem...

Mr Gove told the Daily Mail in March this year: "We didn't vote to leave without a deal. That wasn't the message of the campaign I helped lead. During that campaign, we said we should do a deal with the EU and be part of the network of free trade deals that covers all Europe, from Iceland to Turkey.
 
**** me this is so painful to watch I nearly turned myself inside out I cringed so.much.
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It's always cringe-worthy seeing a politician telling a joke and waiting ages for the audience to laugh

But there's a serious point here which seems to have escaped Brexit Bin. We are all being told we have to reduce our carbon footprint for environmental reasons, so it makes sense that countries consume more of their own products, rather than flying apples etc around the world at damage to the planet and consumers eating them when they've been kept in chemical storage and are already a year old.

Buy good local produce!
 
Ahem...

Mr Gove told the Daily Mail in March this year: "We didn't vote to leave without a deal. That wasn't the message of the campaign I helped lead. During that campaign, we said we should do a deal with the EU and be part of the network of free trade deals that covers all Europe, from Iceland to Turkey.

No politician, Leave or Remain, could ever have guaranteed during the Brexit referendum that we would definitely leave with a deal from the EU.

It's an impossibility because it was not within that politician's power to deliver it. Another party had a say. The EU.
 
No politician, Leave or Remain, could ever have guaranteed during the Brexit referendum that we would definitely leave with a deal from the EU.

It's an impossibility because it was not within that politician's power to deliver it. Another party had a say. The EU.

The party that had the crucial say was the ERG. The EU agreed a deal.
 
**** me this is so painful to watch I nearly turned myself inside out I cringed so.much.
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There was me thinking it was going to be embarrassing, cringe worthy and painful...


...but it wasn’t really, was it? Bit weird, but I generally agree with her sentiment. Not a ‘disgrace’, but I’d prefer it we as a nation were set up so we could effectively feed ourselves if necessary rather than relying on imports.

Back to Welsh farmers’ fear of 40% tariffs on exported lamb when we then find ourselves importing more lamb from NZ.

A quick bit of Googling suggests we import 20X as much ‘sheep meat’ as we export, so surely we can consume Welsh lamb domestically instead and reduce the imports?
 
There was me thinking it was going to be embarrassing, cringe worthy and painful...


...but it wasn’t really, was it? Bit weird, but I generally agree with her sentiment. Not a ‘disgrace’, but I’d prefer it we as a nation were set up so we could effectively feed ourselves if necessary rather than relying on imports.

Back to Welsh farmers’ fear of 40% tariffs on exported lamb when we then find ourselves importing more lamb from NZ.

A quick bit of Googling suggests we import 20X as much ‘sheep meat’ as we export, so surely we can consume Welsh lamb domestically instead and reduce the imports?
More profit to be made exporting it than selling to the locals
Where is welsh lamb exported to