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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 .
ELLERS said:
That is not actually correct. I have listened to many commentators/analysts that have spoken very highly of Brexit and what needs to be done. I think it's a 'remoaner' counter argument to say "It'll be alright". Truth is that we are in new waters and it will take time to settle. Both sides don't actually know what is going to happen because it's a first.
Yeah been on here read all the long winded stuff from our experts who actually know nothing. Listen to both camps on TV, read the papers and online stuff and it all boils down to 'If", because neither side actually knows.

I believe in my country and it's workforce, I believe that will have new opportunities. We have voted to leave and people should accept it and embrace the new future and be part of it.
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Well, if your last-but-one sentence isn't another way of saying "It'll be alright" then I don't know what is.
 
TheBigDipper said:
Regarding the market price of GBP

If Mrs May does make the speech that people are saying she will make later on today, we'll probably see another drop in the market value of GBP. Currency speculators don't like to risk money on uncertainties. No-one knows what will happen, so they'll be cautious and not risk leaving their money in our currency (and therefore affecting its trading price) unless there is another factor (like generous interest rates on deposits) that mitigates that risk.

I hope it doesn't happen, BTW. Imported food and raw materials are expensive enough.
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Well, that hasn't happened, has it? :-) I've not heard the speech, so I don't know if it matched the version that was being 'pre-announced' early this morning. If it did, then I wonder why the currency market feels there's more certainty in holding GBP over USD and the Euro? Did she tell us something new? I must try and listen later on.
 
TheBigDipper said:
Well, that hasn't happened, has it? :) I've not heard the speech, so I don't know if it matched the version that was being 'pre-announced' early this morning. If it did, then I wonder why the currency market feels there's more certainty in holding GBP over USD and the Euro? Did she tell us something new? I must try and listen later on.
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It was exactly the speech we were expecting.
Another profit of doom prediction proves incorrect.
The IMF have come out, along with Mark Carney to admit that their predictions of doom and gloom were unfounded.
Obviously there will be some turbulent times ahead because of the enormity of us leaving the dreadfu EU.
Gawd help us when whinging remainers can actually point to something bad!

Let's talk up our country.
 
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rangercol said:
Superb speech from May.
Spot on.
Let's get on with it!
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Didn't catch all of it but loved the bit about some EU countries calling for 'Punitive deal'
She responded with "it would not be the act of a friend, Britain would not accept such an approach".
Well done May.
The German car companies must be quaking in their boots if some tinpot EU country wants to play hardball.
You can imagine the call to Merkel from all those car companies... "eer who are Greece"?
I also heard some insignificant politician from one of the smaller EU countries saying we could have a deal like Canada taking up to 7 years? Eer tell that to the German car companies or the rest of the exporting giants? They are not trading in a few jars of Honey or Red Oak tables.. Aint gonna happen.
 
TheBigDipper said:
Well, that hasn't happened, has it? :) I've not heard the speech, so I don't know if it matched the version that was being 'pre-announced' early this morning. If it did, then I wonder why the currency market feels there's more certainty in holding GBP over USD and the Euro? Did she tell us something new? I must try and listen later on.
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The analysts are saying the bad news about leaving the single market was released first in the media so the £ had tsken the hit, but what she said included lots of caveats about this and that, and promised a final vote in the Commons and Lords, plus in the 27 countries bla bla bla. Good inflation news too.

I don't like what she says, she should be stronger and aim to negotiate the best alternative for the UK - staying in the single market. But viewed in comparison to the Tweets of Trump and the jokes from Putin about Trump being correct, Russian prostitutes are the best, it was an excellent speech.
 
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ELLERS said:
Humor is lost on you Dipper. <doh>
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What, you were joking when you said:

"I believe in my country and it's workforce, I believe that will have new opportunities. We have voted to leave and people should accept it and embrace the new future and be part of it."

No. If that's the case, who are you and what have you done with the real Ellers?
 
TheBigDipper said:
What, you were joking when you said:

"I believe in my country and it's workforce, I believe that will have new opportunities. We have voted to leave and people should accept it and embrace the new future and be part of it."

No. If that's the case, who are you and what have you done with the real Ellers?
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He moved back to Europe on his EU passport to escape Brexit.
 
On a serious note, some German bloke from the EU said we can't let the UK 'cherry pick' so as to deter other countries from leaving?
eer... If the EU was so good why would other countries want to leave?
 
ELLERS said:
On a serious note, some German bloke from the EU said we can't let the UK 'cherry pick' so as to deter other countries from leaving?
eer... If the EU was so good why would other countries want to leave?
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"We can't let the UK"

If ever there was a sentence that screams - get the hell out of the EU.
 
Stroller said:
The pound surged before May's speech. It was a reaction to the unexpectedly high inflation figures and the possibility of interest rate rises coming sooner rather than later.
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I will tell Bloomberg they got it wrong!!

By the way, when was the speech known and when did the pound surge?
 
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