Current Affairs The UK/EU thread....

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peteblue said:
All options should remain open and the ability to just walk away can be very powerful. It's not the best option by any means but it helps keep negotiations sensible......
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It's not a viable option as it'd be a complete car crash if we crashed out of the single market and the customs union without a deal, via the cliff edge flounce off option.

I have no doubt this is what the far right in the Tory party are pushing for though, and it'd be calamitous for this country if they get their wish.
 
hallamblue said:
I think EU expense fiddles are even worse tbh. Ridiculous gravy train. Imagine if you're Scottish, you have the local council. MSP, MP and MEP, all taking part of your tax to pay their salary. Not that I foresee bureaucracy reducing when we're out of the EU.
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They are all as bad as each other.Mr Townshend had it about right.Meet the new boss...
 
ToffeeTim said:
Was hilarious on the news last night seeing the BBC bring on the Maltese PM to have a rant at brexit and British people having the audacity to democratically choose to take back control. Pipe down you irrelevant no mark.
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London accounts for 22% of UK GDP, which is over 6x the next largest city, and it voted overwhelmingly to stay in. How would you feel if they told the rest of the country to 'pipe down you irrelevant no mark'?
 
Bruce Wayne said:
London accounts for 22% of UK GDP, which is over 6x the next largest city, and it voted overwhelmingly to stay in. How would you feel if they told the rest of the country to 'pipe down you irrelevant no mark'?
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London is part of the UK so it's voice in UK affairs is clearly valid. The opinions and threats of the Prime Minister of Malta are not.
 
ToffeeTim said:
Was hilarious on the news last night seeing the BBC bring on the Maltese PM to have a rant at brexit and British people having the audacity to democratically choose to take back control. Pipe down you irrelevant no mark.
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Aren't you Irish?
 
Bruce Wayne said:
A far away country of whose people we know little, you could say.
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We know a lot about them being a one time part of the British Empire and now a member of the Commonwealth, A wonderful people, but they still have a population less than Liverpool......
 
Bruce Wayne said:
London accounts for 22% of UK GDP, which is over 6x the next largest city, and it voted overwhelmingly to stay in. How would you feel if they told the rest of the country to 'pipe down you irrelevant no mark'?
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London, by dint of the River Thames, and its ease of sea passage to the continent of Europe in the Middle Ages, became the capital. No surpirse then that a lot of business is generated there.

I get fed up of reading from you the boring, boring, detail that London voted to Remain. So feckin' what! It is one small part of the UK. Life exists outside of London. Now that may come as a shock, but get over it. In a democratic process, the majority prevails. If you come second in a two-horse race, tough, get over it.

And finally, given that the Pennines is the backbone of the UK, guess where London is. Yep, that's right...
 
Old Blue 2 said:
London, by dint of the River Thames, and its ease of sea passage to the continent of Europe in the Middle Ages, became the capital. No surpirse then that a lot of business is generated there.

I get fed up of reading from you the boring, boring, detail that London voted to Remain. So feckin' what! It is one small part of the UK. Life exists outside of London. Now that may come as a shock, but get over it. In a democratic process, the majority prevails. If you come second in a two-horse race, tough, get over it.

And finally, given that the Pennines is the backbone of the UK, guess where London is. Yep, that's right...
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Okay, so it's perfectly fine to call Malta insignificant on account of its size and lack of economic clout, but it's not okay to do the same between regions of the UK?
 
peteblue said:
We know a lot about them being a one time part of the British Empire and now a member of the Commonwealth, A wonderful people, but they still have a population less than Liverpool......
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As I've said many times previously, most of the large population areas of the UK voted to remain, including the capital cities of each country of the United Kingdom. I'm sure you're not discounting the small towns that voted to leave on the basis that they're small and 'insignificant'. Lets at least be consistent.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Okay, so it's perfectly fine to call Malta insignificant on account of its size and lack of economic clout, but it's not okay to do the same between regions of the UK?
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I think the point was that Malta isnt even part of the UK, ergo, insignificant. In this issue. As the USA is.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
As I've said many times previously, most of the large population areas of the UK voted to remain, including the capital cities of each country of the United Kingdom. I'm sure you're not discounting the small towns that voted to leave on the basis that they're small and 'insignificant'. Lets at least be consistent.
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But most of the population voted leave, rightly or wrongly.

A voter in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast are not more intelligent than a voter in Bolton. Are they?
 
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