Off Topic BREXIT

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How will you be voting?

  • Remain

    Votes: 89 46.1%
  • Leave

    Votes: 104 53.9%

  • Total voters
    193
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Our economy was doing just fine before this vote, now we've got to face the massive market uncertainty that will lead to a shrinking of our GDP as companies choose to take safer investments while Britain remains in a protracted Brexit negotiation.

To say our economy was more at risk if we remained is absolute twaddle. As we're not liable for a bean if the likes of Greece need a bail out again, due to the agreement signed by Cameron.
We did so well we got to pay an extra 1.5 billion to the EU.
 
We were in the EU when it happened. You can't pick & choose your economies. It's been good in the EU & it's been ****e. What did our recovery have to do with the EU?
Were Japan in the EU as well like? <laugh>

The World recession was **** all to do with our membership of the EU or otherwise.

The EU is primarily a trading collective people have lost sight of its prime reason for existing.
 
What things?
It will be a slow process, but in 3 or 4 years we should hopefully be in a position where we can plan our public services better.
Having some control over immigration will allow us to better determine the number of school places, houses, that are likely to be needed, and what skills shortages we have in our workforce. We can then allow people from anywhere in the world of our choosing, to come and fill these specific vacancies.
It simply was absolutely unsustainable to allow migration of 300,000 to 400,000 people per annum indefinitely.
It will take a few years to get this to a more sustainable number (around 50,000 to 100,000 is reasonable in my opinion).
It was also crazy that we could not stop EU citizens coming here with no job, whilst commonwealth doctors and nurses have to jump through hoops to try and come here sometimes taking months to process if let in at all.

There will be economic bumps in the road first, but you can't bake a cake without breaking a few eggs to start with.

I am proud of the British people having confidence in our ability to govern ourselves, and I look forward to a brighter future for kids and grandkids.
 
Were Japan in the EU as well like? <laugh>

The World recession was **** all to do with our membership of the EU or otherwise.

The EU is primarily a trading collective people have lost sight of its prime reason for existing.

& neither was our recovery.

I think the only people to lose sight of anything are the remainers who have resorted to idiotic claims, insults & accusations. It appears they've lost sight of democracy.
 
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Isn't the whole point of us doing a trade deal with the EU, is that the conditions will be that we can't make a trade deal with anyone else?
that doesn't make sense
why would we make a trade deal with the EU if it means we are not allowed to trade with anybody else?
the EU trades with lots of countries and I'm sure they trade with other countries too
I've never heard of this "one trade deal per country" rule.
Do you have any link that explains this rule?
 
It would be a waste of time having another referendum. They wouldn't get it reversed if they want the rules to say it is only valid if the leader has to have 60% of the vote in a 75% turnout to win.
There's no legal requirement for the Govt to action the result of the referendum at all....

It'd be political suicide, but so will being the incumbent party who's now lumbered with dealing with the economic mess that the next few years is going to provide.
 
& neither was our recovery.

I think the only people to lose sight of anything are the remainers who have resorted to idiotic claims, insults & accusations. It appears they've lost sight of democracy.
you can't say how we'd have faired in 08 if we were outside the EU, what you can do is state the facts as they stand 8 years later. It appears some want to try and re-write history based on hypotheticals
 
.The World hasn't ****ing ended ...
Not quite, yet, but this could well be the beginning of The End. I, for one, don't like the way events seem to be simultaneously lining up around the world.
What I understand is that millions of Leave voters feel they have nowt to lose, as they live in places abandoned by successive Londoncentric governments and the obsequious smug media who infest the place.
Now these Remain voters get to feel a fraction of the pain felt by communities all over Britain, and they're squealing like pigs, and showing themselves up with embarrassing comments about the intelligence, age and education of the majority of voters. Poor losers.
Has Hull got an electrified rail service yet? No
Has the M62 been extended to Hull yet? No
Not much sign of EU benevolence locally, just a rotting Lord Line building where our fishing industry used to be. I'm sure other parts of the kingdom have similar views, and the malaise is not necessarily down to the EU or even the current govt., but people presumably feel that someone needs to be told.
It's not the EU's task to build these projects but many communities feel they have **** all trickle down from Brussels. What we have had, though, is a trickle through our porous borders of chancers from all over the globe, and that concerns people, especially as there seems no will or mechanism to stop it.
Do the people of Hull almost always vote Labour? Yes.
Are the people of Hull represented by forward-thinking, knowledgeable councillors? No.
 
There's no legal requirement for the Govt to action the result of the referendum at all....

It'd be political suicide, but so will being the incumbent party who's now lumbered with dealing with the economic mess that the next few years is going to provide.
You dont think that's an over reaction, Corporal Jones?
 
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Go find it if you want an example why the EU simply can't agree to us trading duty free with them and be free to do any deal we like elsewhere.
So we negotiate it. I saw Farage saying a 5% tax on trade as an example.

This is the opportunity for our politicians to get their finger out and do something. I doubt they will as for the most part they're lazy self centred ****ers on a cushy gravy train.
I'm hoping theres someone of whatever party to take this opportunity.
 
I love it. The Remainers are panicking about the future which is ALL hypothetical!
So the pound hitting a 30 year low and the BoE having to put up £250BN to arrest the decline was a figment of my imagination then? Pheeewwwww.
 
A growing economy. If you'd have found a graph that shows our GDP growth compared to our peers in Europe post the WORLDWIDE CRASH then you might have actually had a point

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG/countries/EU-DE-FR-CZ-BE-GB?display=graph



No but I used the word "may".

That should have indicated I was speculating. Not being omnipresent nor psychic as you seem to think you were.

Keep up.
 
Do the people of Hull almost always vote Labour? Yes.
Are the people of Hull represented by forward-thinking, knowledgeable councillors? No
I'm hoping that the large number of people who must have registered to vote in the referendum, have now got a taste for politics, actually having seen that their vote actually counted and made a difference.
Hopefully in the next round of local elections they will be more engaged and we might be able to get rid of some incumbent imberciles.
 
So we negotiate it. I saw Farage saying a 5% tax on trade as an example.

This is the opportunity for our politicians to get their finger out and do something. I doubt they will as for the most part they're lazy self centred ****ers on a cushy gravy train.
I'm hoping theres someone of whatever party to take this opportunity.

The EU have no option but to negotiate a deal that punishes us, we have to be made an example of, to stop anyone else from jumping ship.

Whoever has to negotiate for us has an impossible job.
 
Go find it if you want an example why the EU simply can't agree to us trading duty free with them and be free to do any deal we like elsewhere.
Trumps idiot spokesman was on and implied that any trade deal that we make with you (which would be under Trump obv since its his spokesman) would be contingent on you invading Syria and Iraq with us.
 
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