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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. Stroller

    Stroller Well-Known Member

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    If only we were still part of Europe and could take advantage of the Dublin agreement.
     
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    Uber_Hoop Well-Known Member

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    I was waiting for that from you and you didn’t disappoint. There’s nothing whatsoever stopping us from setting up cooperation on this with our without EU membership. We need to identify the albayd sayiya.
     
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  3. Quite Possibly Raving

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    You will be unsurprised that I am supportive of European co-operation!

    The "get poorer" point is a fundamental truth of demography. We already have an aging population. There will be millions more people 70+ in the near-future, and this population will grow much faster than the working age population. I'll need to look at the ONS figs to confirm but I think the working age population wouldn't grow at all without immigration.

    Higher numbers of pensioners (heavy NHS users etc) + fewer workers = poorer. Unless there is some sort of miraculous productivity gain from AI, and even then we'd have to assume those productivity gains are shared with workers instead of taken by the companies.
     
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    You're joking. We took back more than we were able to offload.
     
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  5. Uber_Hoop

    Uber_Hoop Well-Known Member

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    Agreed, but only true if sufficient numbers coming in actually work and don’t just take benefits.
     
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    I’d like to thank Stroller for recommending it to me.
     
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    He's always talking about it and its tradition values. He's sentimental like that
     
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  10. Quite Possibly Raving

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    Agreed. That's also an undeniable truth.
     
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    Jesus, this thread has gone properly race hate. What did I start?
     
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    And there it is. Uber actually has a view, albeit a rather pathetic one.
     
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  18. Toby

    Toby GC's Life Coach

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    This country needs immigration to function properly. The usual suspects on here voted for Brexit to kick out the white Europeans, now they want to kick out the brown immigrants too. There genuinely aren't enough UK citizens to plug the gaps.

    It's quite confusing to understand what they actually want.
     
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    Does anyone really have a problem with legal immigrants
    Brown or white
     
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    How many people is 4.4 percent
    Surely some of them could be trained up to make stroller his decaf soy latte





    • The UK unemployment rate for February to April 2024 (4.4%) is above estimates of a year ago (February to April 2023), and increased in the latest quarter.
     
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