peteblue
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Merkel's open door policy was another Domino, the way the EU is trying to become the USE is another Domino, they were even earlier down the line.......
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Merkel's open door policy was another Domino, the way the EU is trying to become the USE is another Domino, they were even earlier down the line.......
Toffeelover
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If the EU gets the billions out of Dublin, should they not share that out?
peteblue
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Both of which are behind Eu exports to the UK, what point are you making.....
Here's the thing I guess. Structurally the UK has been a fantastic place to have a business for some time now. It's no coincidence that we've been high up in the annual WIPO/INSEAD conditions for innovation study for a few years, and indeed were rated the 2nd best country in the world for that in the 2016 edition. That's great.
Here comes the but. A lot of those conditions for success are rather uncertain at the moment. We don't know, for instance, what kind of environment for attracting bright students to our universities will be, nor the funding situation for research. We don't know what the passporting situation will be for finance, nor how the life science sector will adapt when the European Medicines Agency relocates from its current London base. Indeed, there are quite substantial EU venture capital funds that will be distinctly uncertain, as will the abilities of Google et al to attract people to work for them. Of course, they may take what we have and make them even better (I would wager that's unlikely given the mandate given via the Leave vote, but you never know), but right now, we simply don't know.
So that's one end of the spectrum and a good deal of don't knows until the process is much further along. The other thing to consider of course is that very few of these corporate investments will be made in the kind of places where leave votes dominated. Google expanding its offices will be great for the already thriving King's Cross area, but it's unlikely to help Boston, Lincolnshire a great deal, and we're regularly told that Brexit is part of a wider process to reinvigorate these kind of places where a lot of people feel left behind by globalisation. I'm not sure we're any clearer yet on just how it will achieve that.
That's one reason I posted the second article earlier today, as it was examining the decision back in 2004 to fully open up to the A8 countries. As the Oxford stats I shared show, fiscally this has been a great deal for the country, but the article argued that politically the chicken is coming home to roost. You could argue that some differentiate between A8 migrants and Syrian refugees, but it's two sides of the same coin for me.
Now the argument is, if such things are good for the country from a fiscal perspective, and I'm sure we all benefit from cultural richness as well, is it not therefore a political argument that we should be championing rather than pouring scorn on, because if you blame Merkel now then you blame Blair back in 2004. The situation isn't really any different, it's just a different nationality of 'other'.
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I misread your quote, I thought you said US, China and Russia combined so I apologise.
However I will continue to make this point that the UK represents 16% of all EU exports whilst the EU represents 45 % of all UK exports.
You've been in business, tell me which is more significant to the other?
No just googled it they used storm troupers to gain power after a very dodgy election where they still did not have full power!
peteblue
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I thought that may have been the case. My point and question still stands though why would you not do a deal with your largest trading partner ?
Pienaar's gloves
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Of course they took over, but they still won an election with huge support. March 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933#Results
If we're out though, are we entitled.
It is too early to see what way it will go. The price hikes just around the corner may make you change your mind.Remember we are still in the EU at the moment and will be for some time and that is masking a lot of it.
I said earlier mate that it's still early days and the uncertainty is still there.
Toffeelover
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I would think so after all there is talk of us paying leaving dues to cover pensions and projects.
Toffeelover
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Gwladysstreetlad
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Mate with all due respect, the Nazis rise to power was far more complex then a simple 'win' at an election. Even when they became the largest party in the equivalent of their parliament it wouldn't of been enough to actually gain any power in itself. Furthermore Hitler was never elected to any position of government power, nobody voted Hitler to be the Chancellor of Germany and he certainly was never elected to be the Fuhrer of the Rich. It would take literally thousands of pages to properly explain the rise of the Nazis but it definitely wasn't due to something as simple as a election victory.
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