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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 .
Goldhawk-Road said:
The only other point you made is financial services. Negotiations are just about to start. Not much else to say.

I see support for Scottish Independence has dropped 4 points. That'd be the vaccine then.
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Did you address Northern Ireland then, other than to say the EU will back off once they start getting shot at?

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Stroller said:
Did you address Northern Ireland then, other than to say the EU will back off once they start getting shot at?

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The EU Commission don't understand they are playing with a powder keg. The more strictly they enforce customs rules, the more serious the risk to peace. Even RoI accept that
 
Stroller said:
This is the agreement that Johnson made. How can you blame the EU for sticking to it?
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All such agreements are operated with discretion. Take the example of British truckers going into Europe and having their sandwiches confiscated. The EU want to use NI to leverage the UK into its market and under its control
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
You mean Northern Ireland. The EU have proved beyond doubt they don't understand the sensitivities. They think they can make the GB/NI link difficult. They'll think again if one of their customs officers is shot at.

Fishing will improve with every year we take back a greater percentage
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Keep thinking about fishing...
 
Steelmonkey said:
I'm sure someone far more in tune with what's going on in the world will rubbish this, but can't see the "Brexit win" in this.....

Brexit: London loses out as Europe's top share trading hub

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Amsterdam ousted London as the largest financial trading centre in Europe last month as Brexit-related changes to finance rules came into force.

About €9.2bn (£8.1bn) worth of shares were traded on Amsterdam exchanges each day, against €8.6bn in London.

Following new Brexit rules, EU-based banks wanting to buy European shares currently cannot trade via London, meaning a loss of fees for City firms.

Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey has warned the EU not to cut off London.

On Wednesday, Mr Bailey said there were signs that the EU planned to cut the UK off from its financial markets.

Following the new Brexit trading rules coming into effect, there are talks to harmonise rules over financial regulations - so-called equivalence

Both sides are working towards a March deadline to agree an "equivalence" regime under which the UK and Europe would recognise the other's regulations.

Number 10, said it remained "open" to discussions with the EU on the equivalence issue.
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Much Schadenfreude around that Amsterdam has (just) overtaken London as an EU share trading centre.
So are firms now choosing EU over Brexit Britain?
No: it is simply that Brussels has banned EU enterprises trading in London.
Pure protectionism rather than customer choice.
 
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Increasingly, I am impressed with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin. He is currently telling the more belligerent members of the EU who want a to spawn a trade war and an operation of obfuscation and non-cooperation with the UK, to dial down the belligerent rhetoric.

At last, there is a voice of sanity from within the EU.
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
Increasingly, I am impressed with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin. He is currently telling the more belligerent members of the EU who want a to spawn a trade war and an operation of obfuscation and non-cooperation with the UK, to dial down the belligerent rhetoric.

At last, there is a voice of sanity from within the EU.
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That might also have something to do with the meat they export to the UK? Especially when there is talk of importing meat from Australia and New Zealand.
Mr Martin may have more to lose than other member states. Good luck to him because the commission has already shown that they make the decisions.
 
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