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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 .
qprbeth said:
ActuallyI have met DT and (imho) you are wrong Turkish, he is completely straightforward and not condesending or obnoxious when I met him. He is not the way you think he would be.

I think a lot of us on here have personas that are not completely what we are like in real life
( No Kiwi, lets not go into Vern the lorry driver again:emoticon-0153-broke).
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Totally agree. Only met Paul for 5 mins a few years back and seemed a good bloke to have a chat with.
I’ve had the hump with a few on here (as they probably have with me) but I’d still be happy to have a beer with them in real life.
 
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interesting comments from Nigel Farage who was in Brussels next to Junker/Barnier. He gave a speech and he reckons that we are heading for a no deal Brexit with a 2-10 year free trade deal. Apparently he said for once they were somber after he spoke with no digs or nodding heads. he said they looked scared. He also got claps which is not the norm.
well done Nigel. :emoticon-0148-yes:
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Goldhawk-Road said:
Still hope we can reach a deal - May has to go to Brussels with a workable alternative to the backstop - and if this is no go, we have to be prepared to walk away. The Spelman/Dromey amendment is a nonsense in negotiating terms. It would take all pressure off Brussels - and there is pressure. If there is no deal, there would be huge redundancies in the Low Countries and Germany. We are French agriculture's biggest export market, so Macron will feel the ire of the French farmers. Ireland will be caused huge economic and trading problems.

WTO is not as good as a good deal, but it's much better than BRINO. We have to keep preparing for it, while negotiating right up to 29 March.

Yvette Cooper type amendments are entirely negative and are a concealed attempt by Remain MP's to stay in the EU. There's a lot of evidence coming through the media that the majority of the Leave public want a clean break if a good deal is not on the table.
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WTO? Read only that they are very complex and to negotiate tariff free WTO would take 7 years or more, and damage the UK economy severely for 30 years. To go that way sounds totally crazy.
 
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Staines R's said:
Totally agree. Only met Paul for 5 mins a few years back and seemed a good bloke to have a chat with.
I’ve had the hump with a few on here (as they probably have with me) but I’d still be happy to have a beer with them in real life.
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I'd be happy to have a beer with you Stainesy, as I would everyone else on here.

Well, almost everyone.:emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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Staines R's said:
Totally agree. Only met Paul for 5 mins a few years back and seemed a good bloke to have a chat with.
I’ve had the hump with a few on here (as they probably have with me) but I’d still be happy to have a beer with them in real life.
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I did say I would like to be proved wrong in my assumption, on my post, so not all is lost as they say.
 
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The German government on Wednesday nearly halved its 2019 economic growth forecast from 1.8% to 1%, citing #Brexit as the first among key reasons for the slowdown. The shock of no-deal Brexit is widely expected to cause a recession here and elsewhere.
 
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Barclays move €190 billion of assets from London to Dublin, because ‘we can’t put this off any longer’, bringing the total bleed of assets from UK financial services overseas (not just to the EU) to close to £1,000 billion to date. Probably New York, Hong Kong and Singapore will be the biggest beneficiaries.

I have no idea if this will make any difference to ordinary people or anybody’s thinking.
 
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sb_73 said:
Barclays move €190 billion of assets from London to Dublin, because ‘we can’t put this off any longer’, bringing the total bleed of assets from UK financial services overseas (not just to the EU) to close to £1,000 billion to date. Probably New York, Hong Kong and Singapore will be the biggest beneficiaries.

I have no idea if this will make any difference to ordinary people or anybody’s thinking.
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Funnily I heard something different on the radio tonight regarding Barclays and this movement of money.
 
sb_73 said:
Barclays move €190 billion of assets from London to Dublin, because ‘we can’t put this off any longer’, bringing the total bleed of assets from UK financial services overseas (not just to the EU) to close to £1,000 billion to date. Probably New York, Hong Kong and Singapore will be the biggest beneficiaries.

I have no idea if this will make any difference to ordinary people or anybody’s thinking.
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Will it hell! Brexit will be great for this country, even it's most ardent supporter stated it could take up to half a century to see any benefits!! There are some seriously deluded people out there whom are easily swayed by propaganda. Food prices will rise with a no deal and/or supply will be harder to get. Expect more debt, poverty and Food banks. GREAT BRITAIN
 
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