Off Topic The Politics Thread

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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’

Sorry I don’t know how to do links.

Put it this way the gates from Europe will be fully open. Having recently visited the area around Dover to Ashford I think the problem maybe our road system oh and our useless custom department
 
Put it this way the gates from Europe will be fully open. Having recently visited the area around Dover to Ashford I think the problem maybe our road system oh and our useless custom department

It’s strange how once a myth about Brexit gets debunked, remainders just come up with another problem that ‘might/possibly/could’ occur ;)
 
It’s strange how once a myth about Brexit gets debunked, remainders just come up with another problem that ‘might/possibly/could’ occur ;)

It’s stranger how Brexiteers will latch onto literally anything and disregard a thousand conflicting opinions once they’ve found one that confirms what they want to hear.

Great Brexit win though if things are no better or worse than before.
 
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It’s stranger how Brexiteers will latch onto literally anything and disregard a thousand conflicting opinions once they’ve found one that confirms what they want to hear.

Great Brexit win though if things are no better or worse than before.

I’d say 1 opinion of the French fella who actually runs the port is worth more than a thousand conflicting opinions from Felicity and Edward on Twitter.
 
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’

Sorry I don’t know how to do links.

What?!!!
You can't say things like that on here.
How does that fit in with all the doom and gloom warnings remainers on here keep churning out?

We're all doomed, doomed I tell yer!
 
What?!!!
You can't say things like that on here.
How does that fit in with all the doom and gloom warnings remainers on here keep churning out?

We're all doomed, doomed I tell yer!

Probably not doomed. Unnecessarily putting ourselves into a period of being worse off than we would have been, making it as difficult and inhospitable as possible for migrants we desperately need to come here and emboldening people who were previously rightly embarrassed to air their views to be openly xenophobic. But not doomed.

Hope the street parties are worth it.
 
Should anyone get those hateful brexit coins I am able to offer a free disposal service
Apparently there is also a terrible Winston Churchill fiver out there
We can dispose of those too
Unfortunately the notes are harder to recycle so there will be a two nz dollar charge per note
 
Probably not doomed. Unnecessarily putting ourselves into a period of being worse off than we would have been, making it as difficult and inhospitable as possible for migrants we desperately need to come here and emboldening people who were previously rightly embarrassed to air their views to be openly xenophobic. But not doomed.

Hope the street parties are worth it.

Have you just wet your pants?
 
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What?!!!
You can't say things like that on here.
How does that fit in with all the doom and gloom warnings remainers on here keep churning out?

We're all doomed, doomed I tell yer!

Interesting how Remoan journalists are beginning to backpeddle madly

- when we said "Doomed", what we actually meant was... inconvenienced...slightly...for a short period of time. When we said cliff edge, we meant a small cliff, a short drop where we could twist an ankle...possibly...on a worst case basis. Hope that's all clear.

Oh, and Yasmin Alibi-Brown was going to leave the country if Boris got in - she was only joking after all, hilarious
 
It’s strange how once a myth about Brexit gets debunked, remainders just come up with another problem that ‘might/possibly/could’ occur ;)

Have you seen the M20 lately Staines? It’s in bits for 20-30 miles plus it’s concrete like the M25 section near us . Making it into a UK smart motorway! I am saying not sure that will be done before Oct

As you know traffic flows like clockwork through France

The bottleneck will always be us I’m afraid Brexit or No Brexit

Add in the knock on effect to the roads it looks to me to be tough

Still all of us will need to just get on with it but I have zero faith in the UK road infrastructure anyway that’s a calamity we may all agree on?
 
It’s stranger how Brexiteers will latch onto literally anything and disregard a thousand conflicting opinions once they’ve found one that confirms what they want to hear.

Great Brexit win though if things are no better or worse than before.

That in a nutshell for me
We will be worse off
The big question will be the cost and the impact afterwards

I am not changing my tune re Brexit at all ... I want Brexiteers to pay for the damage caused in some way.

I simply do not know any Brexiteers personally and the simple message from my European friends is that the UK has gone mad and nobody can see any sign of planning afterwards

Great win for Brexiteers but the country will be worse off and I think it will take a long long time to smooth things out
 
It's pointless arguing any more about how bad things will be after 31st October, because we'll know soon enough. Even the most ardent Brextards admit that we will be worse off by some measure, but can't say by how much or for how long. 'We'll get over it', they say, 'Be positive'. Well it's possible to get over cancer, but you wouldn't choose to get it.
 
It's pointless arguing any more about how bad things will be after 31st October, because we'll know soon enough. Even the most ardent Brextards admit that we will be worse off by some measure, but can't say by how much or for how long. 'We'll get over it', they say, 'Be positive'. Well it's possible to get over cancer, but you wouldn't choose to get it.

Brextards?

Does that make the other side Remaingoloids? :)
 
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It's pointless arguing any more about how bad things will be after 31st October, because we'll know soon enough. Even the most ardent Brextards admit that we will be worse off by some measure, but can't say by how much or for how long. 'We'll get over it', they say, 'Be positive'. Well it's possible to get over cancer, but you wouldn't choose to get it.

When did it stop being better than what we had before and start being something which will be **** but just shut up and get on with it it?
 
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Not a term I would generally use, but people on here still bang on about 'Remoaners'.

Yeah, I know. But ‘Brextard’ suggests Leavers are in some way ******ed, doesn’t it, which isn’t particularly PC in this day and age?

It’s all a laugh, though, isn’t it?

Nobody really knows what’s what until we get there.