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 .
Stroller said:
How it's paid for will define them.
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It'll be paid out of taxes of course, but we know from Dennis Healy's disaster in the 1970's when he was taking over 80p in the pound that if you soak the very rich, the very rich leave the jurisdiction and you get nothing. It has to be a well thought out taxation policy
 
West WindsR said:
They barely had a choice on that when the alternative was thousands of businesses closing overnight and millions unemployed. They’ll get their pound of flesh back as they have done through a decade of austerity.

Are you really suggesting this government isn’t right wing? The one with this Home Secretary that forced out all the moderates?
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They are not "the most right wing government in generations" as you claim. I don't think May's government would have been so generous on furlough. The recession to come, indeed the worldwide recession, may well make the Austerity Years look like living in clover. That will not be down to the Tory government
 
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Stroller said:
How it's paid for will define them.
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This is right, of course. I enjoyed [sad, I know] watching the three previous chancellors appear before the Treasury Select Committee yesterday. They were all in agreement that it will essentially be treated like war debt and paid back slowly over a long time. I think Boris is likely to go with this given he's a populist and won't want to make any unpopular cuts if avoidable.
 
ELLERS said:
I read some of these posts and laugh at their hatred of the government. Goldie this is just a Brexit/election payback. I now see people moaning about the furlough and the nightingale hospital? It's a big drive from the left to attack the government at every stage. What some don't realise is that the majority of people didn't want the other lot and rejected them.
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Just because you can't disassociate from Brexit and right/left politics doesn't mean everyone else has the same issue. That you still have trust in this government is not surprising neither is your inability to accept or understand that criticism of their handling of the pandemic is not politically motivated.
 
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Frome-Ranger said:
Just because you can't disassociate from Brexit and right/left politics doesn't mean everyone else has the same issue. That you still have trust in this government is not surprising neither is your inability to accept or understand that criticism of their handling of the pandemic is not politically motivated.
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The difference being, his defence is politically motivated.
 
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In my opinion, Johnson and this government wont be remembered for 'Brexit'. They will be remembered for record deaths, lies, corruption and maybe a record recession. Nobody is arsed about Brexit whilst thousands have died.
 
The Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said chickens that have been washed in chlorine will not be allowed in the UK as part of any trade deal, once the UK leaves the European Union.

"We are not going to dilute our high animal welfare standards, or our high environmental standards, in pursuit of any trade deal," Mr Gove told the Today programme.

"We need to ensure that we do not compromise those standards," he said.
 
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