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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 .
Funny how the head of Calais port has said that he expects there to be no disruption to traffic between ports when Brexit takes place....I thought one of the ‘fears’ touted on the remain side was that it would be mayhem and goods would be stuck at ports, leading to shortages of life saving goods........
He is even quoted as saying ‘there are certain individuals in the UK who are whipping up catastrophism for their own reasons’

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the significant majority of the country in support of WWII despite the enormous personal cost, etc.? I may have been misinformed, but I don't recall reading that a large proportion of the country started complaining that the Blitz wasn't part of the deal so perhaps we ought to tell that nice Mr Hitler it had all been a mistake and we didn't really mean to declare war in September 1939. It would be interesting to see how the electorate would have voted in 1939 had there been a referendum on whether to declare war or not.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know: Brexit and WWII are clearly not the same thing. Staying in the EU is not akin to appeasing that nasty Mr Hitler chap.

Your Tweeter ought to stick to the things he does best... like doing the voices on 'Animal Magic'.
 
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Staines R's said:
Funny how the head of Calais port has said that he expects there to be no disruption to traffic between ports when Brexit takes place....I thought one of the ‘fears’ touted on the remain side was that it would be mayhem and goods would be stuck at ports, leading to shortages of life saving goods........
He is even quoted as saying ‘there are certain individuals in the UK who are whipping up catastrophism for their own reasons’

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MB‏@markbishopuk 10h10 hours ago
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Save them up and take them into a bank. For every £10 worth of Brexit 50p pieces, ask the teller to give you back around £3.25. That's how the UK's contribution to the EU works: it returns to us about a third of what we contribute. This way, you'll have a constant reminder...

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kiwiqpr said:
looks like a dodgy site
could be best to steer clear
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You have to careful these days I was looking up how to get to Bristol city, one little spelling mistake and you wouldn’t believe where I was, it was the same when looking for info on stoke city, I accidentally typed lesbian golden showers and, well it stayed with me a long time
 
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U.S. overtakes Germany as UK's biggest source of imports: UK trade department
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FILE PHOTO: Britain's Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss arrives in Downing Street in London, Britain June 18, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States overtook Germany as the biggest supplier of imports into Britain for the first time since the early 2000s in the last financial year, the UK government said on Friday.
British trade minister Liz Truss has said the United States tops her priority list for post-Brexit trade deals and has been in Washington this week, along with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to promote UK-US ties.
Imports from the United States increased by 14% to 78.27 billion pounds ($94.43 billion) in the year to April, the Department for Trade said, while imports from Germany fell by 0.1% to 78.26 billion pounds.

While Germany has long been Britain’s biggest source of imports, the United States was already Britain’s largest export market, with exports reaching a record high of 121.6 billion pounds in the last financial year.
“Now that the U.S. is our largest market for both exports and imports, there has never been a better time for us to make the most of this golden opportunity and deliver a free trade agreement with the US,” Truss said in a statement.
The trade department said financial services imports from the United States had grown by 15% since 2018, with transatlantic trade in services worth more than 55 billion pounds annually to both countries.
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During her four-day visit to Washington and New York, Truss met U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, as well as senior officials and figures from Congress and businesses.
The trade department also said Britain’s Royal Air Force Red Arrows aerobatic team, famed for their aerial displays at military and royal occasions, had this week begun a three-month tour of North America to promote British trade and defense in more than 25 cities across the US and Canada.
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Wow the Red Arrows
 
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