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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 .
So latest is that Jezza has just scared the 2222 out of business with his new rules on companies and giving 10% to the workers as well as giving people rental rights that they can buy a house they are renting.... that will go down well.
 
colognehornet said:
How do you know at the point of entry who is coming with the aim of claiming social security ? With so many EU citizens not having passports, it's difficult to put an entry stamp onto an ID card - so how can you check how long EU citizens have been in the country ? You can prevent them from claiming social security but that is quite another thing well away from the border itself. I do not understand what the fuss is all about. When you move to Germany you have to register with the local authorities (also when you move to a new area) where you get an Anmeldebestätigung (certification that you have done so). Without this it is impossible to open a bank account or health insurance - without a bank account you cannot get a job in Germany. If you have not worked and paid into the system you cannot claim social security benefits for a certain period (not sure how long). The problem is with Britain that people think the chances of picking up semi legal cash in hand jobs is higher there - and that is the case. Even unemployment money in Germany is transferred direct onto your bank account. All of the means to reduce unwanted immigration are there already Goldie, without leaving the EU to do it. You can deport known criminals, and also ask people to leave if they have no obvious means of subsistence.
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All I can say is, Cameron asked for it and the EU refused it. So there is an issue. I don't know the bureaucracy on tourist entrants. That will be hammered out once the withdrawal act is through. It's just a statement on intent from the EU at present - visas not needed
 
ELLERS said:
So latest is that Jezza has just scared the 2222 out of business with his new rules on companies and giving 10% to the workers as well as giving people rental rights that they can buy a house they are renting.... that will go down well.
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Excellent, might go rent another house and buy it.
 
Stroller said:
Trump campaigning for Johnson now. That'll go down well with the Great British public.
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yeah
we dont need any interference from those ****ing americans
bad enough dealing with those russians

Cameron 'personally requested Obama's back of the queue Brexit warning'
An ex-White House adviser says the former PM asked Mr Obama to be pessimistic about a trade deal in April 2016.
By Greg Heffer, political reporter
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Image: Barack Obama used an April 2016 visit to make a dramatic Brexit intervention
  • A former key aide to Barack Obama has confirmed David Cameron personally asked the US president to warn Britain would be "back of the queue" for a post-Brexit trade deal.
    Ben Rhodes, an ex-White House adviser, admitted Mr Obama's dramatic intervention in the EU referendum campaign came at the personal request of the former prime minister.
    In April 2016, two months before the Brexit vote, the former president used a visit to London to caution the UK would not be a priority for a trade deal with America if British voters chose to quit the EU.
    Mr Obama warned: "The UK is going to be in the back of the queue."
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    Image: Mr Obama talks with aide Ben Rhodes in the White House in 2010
    At the time, the remarks were furiously rejected by Brexit campaigners, who suspected co-ordination between 10 Downing Street and the Obama camp.
    They pointed to the president's choice of the word "queue", rather than the typically American usage of "line", as evidence of British involvement in scripting Mr Obama's comments.
    Mr Rhodes, who recently released a memoir of his time working for Mr Obama, has now revealed that was the case.
 
Official Trump statement:
Boris has already agreed to sell the NHS off to the USA. Boris said "not to worry about the British public as they believe anything I tell them"!
 
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bobmid said:
Official Trump statement:
Boris has already agreed to sell the NHS off to the USA. Boris said "not to worry about the British public as they believe anything I tell them"!
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<laugh> I thought it was Halloween not April Fools! <laugh>
 
****ing hell. Boris excellent deal gets worse by the minute! Trump says it would be nearly impossible to strike a trade deal with them! Really really good deal Boris. Hats off to you:emoticon-0136-giggl
 
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