Current Affairs EU In or Out

[Aberblue]

Well apologies. I certainly read your words as conceding a bleak economic future in the short and medium term. You said you didn't think "we would be any worse off in the long term".

These "bureaucratic and authoritarian rulings of the undemocratic EU" sound terrible. Can you give me an example please?

I mentioned the European Court of Justice because it is unelected and "foreign" but I like it. I referenced the Governor of the Bank of England as he too is unelected but "British" and I have to put up with him.

A pedant writes: the Governor of the Bank of England is actually a foreigner, he's Canadian.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

A pedant writes: the Governor of the Bank of England is actually a foreigner, he's Canadian.

But he's from the Commonwealth, so we're supposed to like them coz they're all deferential and stuff, no?

 

[peteblue]

Everyone in France shows an id card, not just foreigners Pete. If there are plans to request foreigners show an ID card here, and foreigners alone, then it's not a great leap to believe that there are plans to refuse some of those foreigners access to care.

Indeed. But would you rather that we all have to show ID cards.....

 

[peteblue]

The UK has been diminishing in terms of EU country exports

ie becoming irrelevant

No problems ......what is it then, about £340bn of irrelevance.....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Indeed. But would you rather that we all have to show ID cards.....

I would rather nobody did, much less my wife who has spent the last decade working in the NHS.

 

[peteblue]

Of course a No Deal also helps to keeps the U.K. together. There is much talk of Scotland wanting to stay in the EU and have another independence referendum, but seriously just look at the numbers and what having any form of tariffs to the rest of the U.K. would do to them.....

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Aberdeen this afternoon
Pro independence and unionist (rangers fans?)
No trouble

 

[Jebus_lives]

Of course a No Deal also helps to keeps the U.K. together. There is much talk of Scotland wanting to stay in the EU and have another independence referendum, but seriously just look at the numbers and what having any form of tariffs to the rest of the U.K. would do to them.....

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Maybe it's not about the finances Pete. Maybe they're sick of being ruled by Westminster. I'm sure you'll be all in favour of their push for independence.

 

[Charlie Sweet]

Of course a No Deal also helps to keeps the U.K. together. There is much talk of Scotland wanting to stay in the EU and have another independence referendum, but seriously just look at the numbers and what having any form of tariffs to the rest of the U.K. would do to them.....

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So they'll stay because you threaten them with tariffs?!

In a nutshell Pete this is what you dont understand about Brexit.

Millions and millions of people do not want to be ruled by a right wing dominated Tory English core.

 

[peteblue]

So they'll stay because you threaten them with tariffs?!

In a nutshell Pete this is what you dont understand about Brexit.

Millions and millions of people do not want to be ruled by a right wing dominated Tory English core.

Not at all. The U.K. will offer free trade agreements with anyone, it’s only the Eu that will drag it out.....

 

[peteblue]

Maybe it's not about the finances Pete. Maybe they're sick of being ruled by Westminster. I'm sure you'll be all in favour of their push for independence.

Indeed, I do understand that, and if Scotland wish for Independence then I for one will wish them well......

 

[Berenger]

A pedant writes: the Governor of the Bank of England is actually a foreigner, he's Canadian.

Another one writes he's got British citizenship -- so he's not a foreigner -- and is incidentally an Evertonian Brit at that!

 

[Yakinblue]

No problems ......what is it then, about £340bn of irrelevance.....

...and what would spend that $340bn on then...???

 

[Tubey]

Boris's 'new' strategy is, shocker, simply to lie and claim parliament can't stop Brexit.

They er... they very much can BoJo.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Boris's 'new' strategy is, shocker, simply to lie and claim parliament can't stop Brexit.

They er... they very much can BoJo.

And he is going into see Merkel and Macron, all Churchill like, telling them they must give him a new deal... I'm sure they will respond knowing such headlines are being read at home.

Operation Chaos: Whitehall’s secret no‑deal Brexit preparations leaked

Britain faces shortages of fuel, food and medicine, a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard border with Ireland and rising costs in social care in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to an unprecedented leak of government documents that lay bare the gaps in contingency planning. The documen

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