The EU debate - Part III

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Stanley said:
Hard Brexit will cost Treasury up to £66bn a year, ministers are told
Leaked papers suggest leaving EU single market will cause between 5.4% and 9.5% slump in GDP, with massive loss of tax revenue

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/11/hard-brexit-treasury-66bn-eu-single-market
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Don't worry though we'll still have the saving from not paying the EU to give the NHS more cash, and pay for all of the EU funded projects with the rest of it.

Oh wait £13BN - £66BN = a net loss of £53BN.

So we'd be up to £53BN worse off, which means massive public spending cuts....

Kustard your tax credits will be going down the ****ter.
 
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Where is the human biscuit barrel this morning? I thought he would have been on by now, reminding us that the collapse in our economy is actually in the national interest, and we're all too stupid to understand.
 
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Stanley said:
The crash in the pound punctures the delusion that Brexit Britain will flourish
There’ll be no boom outside the EU. With a paltry manufacturing industry, we can’t pay our way. And it will be the poorest who suffer most

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/11/crash-pound-delusion-brexit-britain-flourish
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Absolutely spot on that piece.

This part in particular;

What the pound’s weakness will chiefly achieve is to stop Britons buying as much. The middle classes will swap the wonders of the Alhambra for a week in Anglesey. The working classes will find Zara 15% more expensive. The resulting rise in inflation will really hurt those relying on benefits, such as child and working tax credits and jobseekers’ allowance, frozen by George Osborne.

According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020. Half of that is lower wages, the other half will be benefit cuts.
Think about those figures: a Britain that doesn’t make things, that can’t pay its way in the world and where two generations have been brought up believing that what your wages won’t pay, your credit will buy. As the promises for Brexit are broken and people get poorer; as the consumerist model breaks down, who do you think will pay the price?
The answer, I’d suggest, was on show in Birmingham last week. Without Brussels, the right still has one set of scapegoats left. They number the Muslim woman in the headscarf, the Pole in the wrong kebab shop, and the African cleaner on the nightbus.
 
It's hard to keep up on here, what with some lauding the legal challenge that'll stall or prevent it and saying the finance houses are leaving despite this, so seemingly have no confidence in the legal challenge, and all when sod all has actually happened so far.

Such a flimsy system is better off dismantled and replaced with something more robust and with less excitable reactionaries involved.
 
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Hull City AFC (DMD) said:
It's hard to keep up on here, what with some lauding the legal challenge that'll stall or prevent it and saying the finance houses are leaving despite this, so seemingly have no confidence in the legal challenge, and all when sod all has actually happened so far.

Such a flimsy system is better off dismantled and replaced with something more robust and with less excitable reactionaries involved.
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That's where The Sensible Party comes in. They would start with a blank page, which is evidenced by the Policies section of their website.
 
Stanley said:
Are you on Pete's payroll or do you felch for free? <laugh>
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Go easy on him, he's the only member of the Little Britain club who hasn't gone to ground in the last 24 hours.

In the absence of any "Johnny Foreigner Bows before UK Brilliance" type headlines from the fail and the excess to provide links to, the rest of the gang have melted away like one of Kustards snowflakes.
 
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Archers Road said:
Go easy on him, he's the only member of the Little Britain club who hasn't gone to ground in the last 24 hours.

In the absence of any "Johnny Foreigner Bows before UK Brilliance" type headlines from the fail and the excess to provide links to, the rest of the gang have melted away like one of Kustards snowflakes.
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I have executed them, no room for snowflakes in my country!!!1 <laugh>

You are next..
 
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Hull City AFC (DMD) said:
The content of your posts seem to replicate that blank page.
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Most of what's been posted is just simple facts. Facts that you don't want to hear.

There will be a legal challenge to May planning to trigger article 50 without consulting parliament. That's a fact. The lawsuits have been in preparation for months.

The Gvt's own treasury produced those figures showing the potential loss to the economy and drop in GDP.

Just because you don't like the reality of what's happening and what is likely to happen, is not going to change anything.
 
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