Current Affairs EU In or Out

[jaycee]

<possibly unrepresentative anecdote>When I was in Czech, a daughter of my aunt (whatever that makes her), was saying that she thought about moving to the north of the country (near the border with Germany) but decided not to because she was worried about all the refugees flooding across the border from German refugee camps. She's a police woman.

Alas, perhaps a more realistic picture was painted by the boyfriend of my sister in law, who works in security in these camps. He was saying that most of the refugees are well educated and pretty well off people, and his main job was to stop other staff at the camp from stealing their belongings.</possibly unrepresentative anecdote>

And that is mainly down to media portrayal,switch on tv and watch immigrants on benefits,benefits street,create a common enemy and distract from the real problems,use it as an excuse to tighten up human rights in the name of protection,

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Because the euro will flop without a powerhouse like the UK behind the EU, and ultimately UK economy has residual strength and the business concerns over brexit will soon evaporate when the process of leaving becomes clear.

lol

Just lol

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

It's going to take place all over England and between Glasgow and Edinburgh eventually. Obviously everyone will complain but the shale gas is there, it'll be cheap, and will keep everyone warm for years.......

Good God

 

[Bruce Wayne]

lol

Just lol

Just thinking out loud, obviously the £ has slumped massively against the $ in the last few months, but how has the € done?

 

[dholliday]

but how has the € done?

decent. buying stuff from UK is significantly cheaper for me now than it was merely a week ago.

 

[ToffeeTim]

lol

Just lol

Sorry mate. You're right actually.

WE'RE ALL DOOMED

lol

 

[Joey66]

Rather than carrying on a dead debate about membership etc., why don't those who favour the E U do something positive? There's clearly a gap in the market, so help form a new political party which will seek to apply for British membership in 15 or 20 years.

Leaving is (apparently) going to be such a catastrophe that such a party will rapidly gain members and political clout.

If the EU was so good it has zero growth over its total membership - I think it was the main reason out won the Euro currency is almost bust, the same experts who were telling us to vote to stay in we're the experts who told us to join the euro?
I feel it will crumble in years ahead whether we had stayed in or left IMO!

 

[peteblue]

Just thinking out loud, obviously the £ has slumped massively against the $ in the last few months, but how has the € done?

It dropped from about 1.14 to 1.10 on The Brexit result and has been reasonably steady at about 1.12 since.......

 

[peteblue]

decent. buying stuff from UK is significantly cheaper for me now than it was merely a week ago.

Excellent, keep on buying.......

 

[peteblue]

I see that the failed politician and destroyer of the Labour Party, Ed'stone, has decided that the vote was only to leave the EU and not the single Market. In which case why all the hullabaloo for remain in the first place. These attempts at rewriting the purpose of the vote are really extracting the michael from the whole of the electorate.........

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It dropped from about 1.14 to 1.10 on The Brexit result and has been reasonably steady at about 1.12 since.......

Why is it that the € hasn't suffered against the dollar to the extent that the £ has?

 

[edge]

I wouldnt argue with that point Bruce, what im saying is the MSM portray a very real threat from terrorists so a hell of a lot of people are prepared to see borders closed,allow multiple CCTVs and monitering of emails,texts etc because they are told its the only way to fight the threat,

sounds good to me nothing to hide nothing to worry about

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

sounds good to me nothing to hide nothing to worry about

Birmingham six had nowt to hide, Edge.

 

[jaycee]

sounds good to me nothing to hide nothing to worry about

Its not about having anything to hide mate,its about privacy,

 

[edge]

Birmingham six had nowt to hide, Edge.

plenty more I suspect were they came from, but surveillance really doesn't bother me to be honest, suppose its how it got used afterwards that could.