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How long until the brexiters are saying "we never said there would be adequate food, we just said "let's make sure we have adequate food", it's completely different and you're the fool for misinterpreting it".


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:12 pm
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it demonstrates he is nothing more than a self serving politician just like the rest of them.

How exactly?

Doesn’t really matter how we get there, does it Molls.

Yes and no, insofar as what happens afterwards would be pretty different. If we have to crash out of the EU I'd rather have a post apocalyptic government run by Corbs than by Mogg.

If there is a GE voting is going to be damn difficult.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:19 pm
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If there is a GE voting is going to be damn difficult.

At that point we need a stand up and be counted moment from a few people


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:23 pm
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  So, the benefit he is welcoming is… a less well off country… strange definition of “benefit”.

He needs to go.

Whether its the ERG or Corbyn and his nutters, both sides are seeking to exploit Brexit to impose their ideology, I can only presume that Corbyn may be thinking that Brexit is going to be an absolute sh*t storm that this is the way he can gain power.

To these people, the ends justify the means.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:25 pm
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"The department is working up options with industry for stockpiling medicines, medical devices and substances of human origin

Boris is currently locked in a hospital room with a dumb bell, a Tupperware container and a copy of razzle to ensure that the future of our Great Britain remains blond haired and blue eyed.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:34 pm
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Come on be serious. Boris wouldn't need a jazz mag.

All he needs is a mirror to bring himself to a froth


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:44 pm
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Substances of human origin?

Is that how they plan on sustaining the population when the supermarkets run out of food? By feeding us the remains of our dead?

This is how zombie apocalypses start. Still, I suppose it would keep things interesting.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:51 pm
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I read recently about a theory supporting the creationism belief that the world was created by god only a few thousand years ago, versus the popular scientific assertion that is it 4.5 billions years old.

The theory goes that all the scientific evidence of the world being 4.5 billion years old was in fact put there by god as part of the creation.

Therefore ALL scientific evidence can simply be dismissed as false as it's only something god created.

Brexit will be exactly like this - anything that doesn't turn out as anticipated will simply be blamed away as "the fault of the EU", "the fault of Theresa May", "The fault of traitors", "the fault of people who don't believe in democracy", "the fault of the people who weren't positive enough and ruined it from the start"....etc...

I'd be surprised if many Brexiteers every admitted that the experts were right all along.....


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:54 pm
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I have to laugh at the leavers who moaned about unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and used that as justification for voting leave (even though the unelected thing is nonsense)

the elected chumps we have running the shit show here are doing an absolutely sterling job so far...


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 8:55 pm
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We can stop importing supplies of sperm from Romanian criminals.

Some of our biggest engineering projects after Brexit, may be increasing the size of sperm banks and construction of sperm storage facilities. A home grown supply of this would not be a problem I imagine.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 9:01 pm
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Well there are clearly a huge number of ****ers in this country


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 9:10 pm
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Damn swear filter.

The word used was related to onanism


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 9:11 pm
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So Corbs has shown his hand (and itvturnscout to be the horrible, Leave-coloured hand) so I can't vote for that shower, Gove is bullshitting the farming industry, making totally unsubstantiated "you'll be better off after Brexit" claims, so I can't vote for that shower either, so I can only vote Lib Dem, who are as likely to win the next GE as England are of winning the last world cup. There must be a revolution forming somewhere - where do I sign up?


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 9:39 pm
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I see also that Theresa May has taken personal control of the Brexit talks, isn't this normally the point in her previous career where whatever she has taken control of becomes a complete disaster?

At least we'll all know who to blame, eh?


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 9:43 pm
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D.Cameron is the person to blame.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 9:49 pm
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French press are reporting that Brexit minister has been demoted and TM  is taking charge of négociations. He is only going to do admin tasks.


 
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I have to laugh at the leavers who moaned about unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and used that as justification for voting leave (even though the unelected thing is nonsense)

the elected chumps we have running the shit show here are doing an absolutely sterling job so far…

^This.

Considering the doomsday preparations being hastily discussed for a 'no deal' scenario, and thinking back months ago when we were told that 'no deal' is better than a 'bad deal' makes me realise that the government hadn't the faintest clue what constitutes a 'no deal'.

I reckon a bewildered and befuddled David Davis turned up for his EU meetings to be confronted by a team of skillful, dynamic, well drilled, suitably prepared, legally knowledgable, European counterparts.

What are the chances that we have the European negotiators to thank for informing us what we should be doing in the event of no deal as we hadn't done the proper research ourselves? I can imagine Barnier rudely awakening  David Davis with armageddon consequences by showing him paragraph 5, subsection 3.2, section 3 of regulation 4.

In his final meeting with the EU I am informed Davis had his notes written phonetically on his arms, but avoided big words. When informed about restrictions on food imports he signed off 'I am a fish', saluted and collapsed.

Seriously, the European side is clearly negotiating from a position of strength. Our strong negotiating card of 'We are British, of course you will give us what we want' has only proved to be the Joker in the pack. I bet German consumers are panicking about a potential shortfall of Wensleydale cheese and Melton Mowbray pork pies.

It is annoying that EU negotiators would have been on our side when negotiating complex trade deals with other countries if we remained, when what we have is a shambolic mess. I look forward in the future to the day when our hard fought trading negotiations result in Tesco selling line caught wild Beluga from the beautiful cooling ponds of Chernobyl. Yum!!

French press are reporting that Brexit minister has been demoted and TM  is taking charge of négociations. He is only going to do admin tasks

Yes, he now gets to wash the underpants that May will put on her head, and sharpen the pencils that she will stick up her nose prior to saying Wibble! She now realises this is probably her best way out.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 9:58 pm
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That's just it. These guys used to be on our side, now they're our opponents. Brilliant.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 10:08 pm
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Could not get an edit in time. I wish to add that it seems confirmed that Theresa May is taking personal control of Brexit negotiations.

It is truly telling that the UK raised the spectre of walking away without a deal to frighten the EU into some capitulation. The EU have not flinched. They don't have to. Our government have done all the blinking in recent weeks now that is is a potential reality. The UK government is panicking big style, and we will pay the price for this folly.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 10:23 pm
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<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">It is annoying that EU negotiators would have been on our side when negotiating complex trade deals with other countries if we remained</span>

thats an interesting point to make, so could you tell me why there was so much opposition to TTIP please?


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 10:39 pm
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The bit that amuses me the most out of all of this.

People that voted to reduce immigration are going to lose massively as there is more than a fair chance a huge amount of the developing countries and a load of the developed ones will make increased visa numbers a key part of the deal, and our idiots won't be able to do a thing about it.

India and Australia bring 2 of the most obvious.

Just think what the racists will be like when they see more brown people arriving


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 10:41 pm
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thats an interesting point to make, so could you tell me why there was so much opposition to TTIP please?

Is that the same TTIP negotiations that were a concern to many across Europe and indefinitely halted in 2016?


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 10:51 pm
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India and Australia bring 2 of the most obvious.

Just think what the racists will be like when they see more brown people arriving

They’ll move to Australia?


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 10:53 pm
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Well possibly.


 
Posted : 24/07/2018 10:59 pm
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so could you tell me why there was so much opposition to TTIP please?

Because the USA wanted to screw us all.

I wonder why, last week, the government whipped to vote down an amendment that would mean, once we're outside the EU, that the details of trade deals would have to be published before they were signed.

Bend over post Brexit UK…


 
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I see also that Theresa May has taken personal control of the Brexit talks, isn’t this normally the point in her previous career where whatever she has taken control of becomes a complete disaster?

Aye, it's a Theresa May classic. "This disaster that I've overseen? I'm now going to personally oversee it."

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Posted : 25/07/2018 12:10 am
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could you tell me why there was so much opposition to TTIP please?

A Leave voting mate of mine cited TTIP as the kind of bad trade deal that the EU was dragging us into. 🤔

I pointed out that we (the UK gov) were all for TTIP and were loud advocates of it while it was blocked by objections from other EU nations.

Outside the EU we’d sign that in a flash. And the scary thing is that now we’ll have far less bargaining power so it seems very likely that whatever we do sign will make TTIP look like an ideal fantasy deal.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 12:35 am
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thats an interesting point to make, so could you tell me why there was so much opposition to TTIP please?

Correct me if I'm wrong here. The EU commission was in favour of TTIP but member states voted against it which stopped it.

Isn't this the proper democratic outcome? Isnt the EU meant to be undemocratic? Or do you mentally separate member states from 'the EU'? Is that why you hate the idea of 'them' telling us what to do?


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 12:44 am
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That's right molgrips. The EU is large enough with enough clout to walk away with no deal and not be in a mad panic. The UK on the other hand.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 12:51 am
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And walking away from a potential trade ideal is not the same thing as walking away from all our existing trade deals, and all the far more important rules and bodies that keeps things moving between our countries and others.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 12:56 am
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Correct me if I’m wrong here. The EU commission was in favour of TTIP but member states voted against it which stopped it.

So no deal was was better than a bad deal?

who knew?


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 1:04 am
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See my comment above yours, nincompoop.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 1:11 am
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He really hasn't a clue Kelvin. He has no comeback on his previous post on TTIP. Ninfan could do well to read properly through responses in greater depth than UK Brexit negotiators read through EU regulations.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 1:18 am
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So no deal was was better than a bad deal?

who knew?

Do you think, just for a few minutes, you could stop being such a pointlessly contrary ****?


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 1:19 am
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I don't remember EU countries stockpiling food in case of a no deal with the US ?


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 6:51 am
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EU is big enough to be self sufficient if they had to be.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 10:33 am
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The UK has had a large dependance on imported food for a long time.  Cutting off supplies in both world wars was a tactic based on that fact.  We could of course grow and produce all of our own food but people wouldn't like the choices or the prices.

If you took it seriously you could have 1,000s of square miles of poly tunnels and greenhouses producing a wide range of food all year round (British food for British people) although getting the workers may be a challenge...


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 10:39 am
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So no deal was was better than a bad deal?

Sometimes, in your desire to look like a smart arse, you just look really stupid.  You shoudl be able to troll better than that.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 11:01 am
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Expecting the Brexit Cookbook will be a big-seller this Xmas - resurrected recipes using such staples as potatoes, turnips, swedes and carrots will prove popular with Brexies as they re-live the blitz and look forward to the reintroduction of ration books. Time to mobilise the masses, particularly those retired with little to do and put them to work in the fields and poly tunnels - dig for Brexit!


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 11:23 am
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Will it include “grow your own insulin “? Cold chain storage and free movement of medicines are a much overlooked inconvenience. The country is slowly waking up to its stupidity. Too late. Two years too late.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 2:31 pm
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So no deal was was better than a bad deal? who knew?

Nice. 🙂


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 2:36 pm
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Just think what the racists will be like when they see more brown people arriving

Exactly the same - lashing out randomly at everyone and everything because it's easier than having to:

a) Think

b) Confront the real reasons for their prejudices

There are lots, and I mean lots, of people in England who think that you win an argument by chinning someone.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 2:36 pm
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We didn't have insulin back in the days when the UK was great and we don't need it now.  Insulin needs us more than we need insulin.


 
Posted : 25/07/2018 2:37 pm
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Will it include “grow your own insulin “?

With all the spare cash the NHS will have they can buy it on the black market.

its a master stroke of planning. The poor will go back to the workhouses or starve. The obesity crisis will reduce. As people will be worked like dogs the state pension will return to its original plan with people only living two or three years after stopping work.

Yeah it will be shit but regression is what the people want so they are damn well going to get it....


 
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