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Yes it does. Giving up membership of the EU means giving up membership of the SM. The vote result = the mandate

No.

You can be in the EEA, and a member of the SM, but not in the EU. It's the "Norway" model.

We've been over this 🙂


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 2:41 pm
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yet project fear jump on the most extreme

Which frankly is what we are heading towards unless the bickering children can sort themselves out.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 2:44 pm
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instead and then wonder why the “negotiations” (sic) are going badly.

Unrealistic aims, impossible to achieve contradictory positions and being lead by somebody who is being help to ransom by the extreme side of her party?

Or is it because we don't blindly cheer on brexit?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 2:46 pm
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The vote result = the mandate

Nope. Sorry but you cant claim that.

Daniel Hannan and Owen Paterson both claimed that voting leave would not mean leaving the single market.

Now of course they were lying and that was pointed out at the time. However to try and claim a clear mandate about an issue where the winning side lied about it is somewhat special.

Farage used Norway as an example of an alternative relationship as well.

How are the grownups doing by the way at sorting all this out? Since at the moment it seems the grownups are suffering from dementia, severe drug addiction and other such ailments that is getting in the way of them being all grown up.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 3:56 pm
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When does the 350 million a week start rolling in to the NHS? Surely the UK doesn't have to wait 5 years for that little gem?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 4:25 pm
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THM i get a lot of what you say however there is a problem with the whole Brexit "new markets " vision as follows -

To make it work requires not just a leap of Faith but lots of SMEs (including me) investing their capital and energy into making it work, this in turn places great risk on SMEs.

For me the vast majority who voted to leave will not be investing their capital because they have none, the vast majority who voted to leave dont employ people they are primarily pensioners, working poor, and wealth takers like JRM and possibly your good self.

The Brexiteers are asking the remainers to underwrite there decision with our money and efforts.

Massive generalisation i know but there is more truth in the above than any shit written in a big red bus.

I for one will be taking my capital and effort and ****ing off to warmer climes.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 4:26 pm
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All we have to do is pay the £40bn divorce payment, then all that we have spent so far, then once we have paid for all the other stuff needed and accounted for a reduced economy and tax take and paid all the other things we were going to keep paying for that the EU pays for, we can think about spending that on the NHS. So sometime about 2030/2040 maybe


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 4:28 pm
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2030/40..... I can understand why they left that bit off the side of the bus

No one in their right mind would have voted for that.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 4:37 pm
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Oldetc.

On your first post I suggest that you are mixing the two things still as is dissonance

you can still have access to the SM but as before this is separate.

I voted remain BTW


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 4:38 pm
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Yes it does. Giving up membership of the EU means giving up membership of the SM. The vote result = the mandate

Giving up membership, yes.

Ruling out operating within, no.

We did this months ago, or maybe even years ago. To death.

You yourself choose just now to use the figures based on us operating in the single market, EEA style, rather than those where we have access to it, via an FTA.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:14 pm
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We did this months, or maybe even years ago. To death.

Yes but splitting hairs over the details is a lot better than acknowledging how badly the government is handling all of this. Or how the balance of public opinion is coming down against the whole idea.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:24 pm
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It's not splitting hairs over details, it's using language designed to obscure the very real choices that our politicians are making, or need to be making, for us. We can operate within the Single Market, reducing the damage of withdrawal. It is one kind of access… yet quite different to the access an FTA can provide. Our government (opposed by many of their MPs) want to try and get access in the form of being part of the Single Market as regards industrial goods, while being only willing to accept the responsibilities of an FTA… all while allowing future divergence unilaterally decided by one party, us. Not going to happen. At least it's a good starting position to have… if it was what was decided before A50 was triggered… lots of time, and hard decision making, needed to move that towards either an FTA or Single Market arrangement… years I (and real trade negotiators) would say. And then, in the case of the former, years to implement.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:31 pm
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I don’t chose any figure. As an economist i am well aware of the uses and limitations of the models involved. Iprefer them for the insights they give to how the variables interact. The end numbers  are the least important bit. In this case largely meaningless especially as they ignore many of. The obvious changes that would occur

hence I reject the definitive doomsday BS


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:32 pm
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I don’t chose any figure.

You chose the figure based on an EEA type relationship, as it flattered your case more than the figure for either an FTA or no deal.

You than said that an EEA type relationship was ruled out by the referendum vote. It wasn't. It was ruled out by the leaders of both main parties.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:34 pm
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Someone please develop a block button that works on mobile browsers 😭😭😭


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:38 pm
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hence I reject the definitive doomsday BS

But you also lump in a lot of negativity as doomsday, it's going to be really really shit for a lot of people even if the only slightly negative predictions come true. There are no positive predictions for post brexit.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:43 pm
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No kelvin.

I clarified what the vote was about. You merely chose to obscure this for your own ends.

As for obscuring, I prefer what the experts say as unpopular as this position is now among those who wish to ignore the result.

For the 15th time this is what we were told before the vote

From the outset, it is important that the Government, Parliament and the public are clear about the distinction between ‘access to’ and ‘membership of’ the Single Market. Many countries have ‘access to’ the EU’s Single Market, either through agreed tariffs at the WTO or via a FTA. However, the only countries which have full membership of the Single Market—which entails the liberalised movement of goods, services, people and capital (the ‘Four Freedoms’), secured through common rules interpreted by the European Court of Justice (CJEU)— are EU Member States. The EEA states only enjoy partial membership, because the EEA agreement does not include a customs union. On the other hand, Turkey’s inclusion in a customs union with the EU does not entail the free movement of services, people or capital. Fundamentally, full membership of the Single Market is predicated upon acceptance of all Four Freedoms.

Source the experts

we know or should know what the vote was about and how that differs from what the negotiations (?) are about

unless you are deliberately trying to mislead.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:44 pm
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Yes, there is no way we can have "full membership", no one has argued otherwise.

Now, does the referendum result rule out operating in the Single Market, EEA style? Have the EU ruled that out? Or is it not actually the case that the leadership of our two main parties have done so?

Why did you choose to use the figure based on us choosing an EEA style relationship with the EU?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 5:57 pm
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Even the ardent hard Brexiters do not rule out trading with Europe. The only debate is under which terms. I prefer a bespoke FTA others EEA others WTO. These are separate debate to the referendum which was clear. Do you want to be a member of the EU?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 6:01 pm
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I quoted that figure as it is one that the gov has given - among others - that falsifies the hypothesis that giving up membership of the EU must result in significant economic damage.

Popper eat your heart out


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 6:03 pm
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Can someone please explain to me why JRM has so much say about Brexit because I thought back benchers were voiceless extras


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 6:31 pm
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An example of the unanticipated costs of leaving:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45314954

We're now looking at spending £2-5billion on a UK only GPS. That's the cost of the system, not counting the need for us to buy UK specific devices if we want to use it.

I'm sure we'll be told "The British public voted for it so we have to do it". No they didn't - and if you want to question that, ask them again now they know what the question means.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 7:06 pm
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We’re now looking at spending £2-5billion on a UK only GPS.

As it is a military system we may not be able to source components, systems and staff from outside of the UK depending on how our security negotiations go. So let’s see how that number moves...

There is a reason why the UK cannot develop military aircraft anymore. When the F-35 was around 50$ million a piece the break even qty was in the region of 700 units (2003 numbers). The RAF will maybe order 125... We do not have the resources to develop and deploy alone so why pretend otherwise


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 7:52 pm
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Sigh. Paste still didn't work on Android/Chrome.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 8:28 pm
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Works for me.

Investing money in a British GPS might boost our high tech industry though eh?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 8:40 pm
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Investing money in a British GPS might boost our high tech industry though eh?

Or spending money on stuff we don't need to when we could be spending it on Health, Medicine Research or other High Tech stuff we need that doesn't already exist.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 8:46 pm
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THM is viewing this from a high level ecomomics view and i agree at that level its probably going to be a "relatively" moderate impact but and its a ****ing big but as THM will no doubt understand as an economist that the "moderate" impact on big numbers is multiplied up and down so -

1. Poor people become piss poor

2. Rich people become richer

3. The middle (THMs moderate impact) remains "as is"

There are some horrible outcomes for the poor, however as i have said this needs to happen otherwise poor people will continue believe the utter shite fed to them by JRM and the Daily Mail

The "people" need to suffer......


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 8:47 pm
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The “people” need to suffer……

How many deaths will teach them?

3. The middle (THMs moderate impact) remains “as is”

The army of these who voted leave with triple locked pensions and a nice house and a good accountant won't suffer, they won't see a change

I'm not sure how many of the truly poor listen to JRM or read the mail.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 8:57 pm
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Afraid as nasty as it sounds, the pensioners who voted for this can get their pensions cut in line with the scale of any further benefit cuts on the back of brexit austerity.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 9:00 pm
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Investing money in a British GPS might boost our high tech industry though eh?

or potentially just try to recreate existing tech but with a 7 year lag and then lock the uk government to single sourced equipment. It's not high tech 5£bn could be invested in creating new breakthroughs which could allow real gains.

IMO it is not worth copying existing tech because we threw our toys out of the park and then pretending it is a boost to the development of an industry

astrium are a big satellite manufacturer involved with Galileo and in the uk. All this would do is maintain what we he not create new jobs.

Mind you some would say spending the money to stand still is a price worth paying...


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 9:11 pm
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pensioners who voted for this can get their pensions cut

as will the pensioners who didn't vote for it but went about telling everybody they could find what a bad idea it was...


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 9:16 pm
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as will the pensioners who didn’t vote for it but went about telling everybody they could find what a bad idea it was…

Welcome to partisan politics. If you are not me you can all go to hell...


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 9:35 pm
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The “people” need to suffer……

Why do you consider this constructive? Read more history. The blame will still be shifted onto immigrants. Current politicians will lose support because they "did Brexit wrong", but their replacements will be ready… with the likes of Bannon handing them the tools to achieve power.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 9:41 pm
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Investing money in a British GPS might boost our high tech industry though eh?

Much of the investment was going to be in British companies… with a far smaller hit to UK public budgets. Now we look to be on course for having parallel infrastructure, without any additional benefits, and without a sharing of the burden of the cost of setup and running. This isn't the only example of this, of course.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 9:45 pm
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Welcome to partisan politics. If you are not me you can all go to hell…

What's partisan about pointing out an unfair generalisation?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 9:59 pm
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Well I can't leave you lot alone for a couple of days with out the project fear misinformation machine running overtime and you remainering each other off into a frenzied brexit climax.  Lets see if I can cut through some of the absurd bull shit thats being bandied around:

I’m. Sure all the diabetics in the house are looking forward to dabbling on the black market. #exciting

Oh purrlease mikewsmith, more project fear bullshit, get past the headlines and you might get somewhere nearer the truth.  The insulin producers have already said this is a non issue and the UK does actually have a producer albeit of a certain variant and in small amounts.

I agree that it would be undemocratic now to stay in the EU without it being put to the people.

I don’t.

It would be problematic and arguably unwise, but a publicly elected government making decisions for the good of its electorate is the very definition of a democracy.

Cougar - So if we have a referendum and the government of the day completely ignores the wishes of the people this is the very definition of democracy? I don't even know where to start on this one.  In fact I won't, lets see if theres any others that warrant a response...

Yep, Damn right too,  `Give me a big stick and a bucket of shit and i’ll really * abuse them, more so than the fat blurt (really fat – so fat she couldn’t sit on a hospital chair yet in 30 mins she ate her way through the contents of a carrier bag of sweets and crisps whist constantly shouting at the staff that she needed her meds now, we had the misfortune of being sat near her in the assessment area when i took my dad up to hospital yesterday for his blood transfusion for MDS, we were waiting 2+ hours to get admitted so i had built up quite a righteous anger by this point.  She made the mistake of commenting loudly to her mother “* **** doctors in this hospital” so i let rip into her with every ounce of venom and bile i had built up and i made sure everyone else heard exactly what she had said about Dr Aziz.

A vile and disgusting lump of 25+stone flesh and fat masquerading as human,

Not quite sure where you are going with this but I assume you think all brexiteers are racist, is that the case?  I think you'll find most that voted leave have an issue with uncontrolled mass immigration rather than an objection to specific countries, cultures or skin colour, although I don't doubt that there are racists and that they would have voted leave.  Personally I'm most definitely not a racist, in fact my best mate is a black, indian, muslim, transgender lesbian.

Mr THM, Sir you have the brains of a rocking horse, oh & also what colour is the sky on your planet.

This is the first and only post orderwingate has posted on the brexit thread and this is his contribution.

Broke Funding rules

mikewsmith - no one gives a shit about this because everyone knows that the remain campaigns broke rules as well, in fact there were two separate fines issued.  Then theres the crap leaflet that cameron sent out that cost £9 million of tax payers money which is arguably the greatest scandal.

Next up is the extra spending needed to do the simple things like borders and medicine regulations…

Proper break even is a long way off and projected growth reductions mean less income over a time where more expenditure is required – more borrowing? More cuts?

But hang on didn’t the PM promise to be paying more to the NHS while maintaining current EU spending plans for agriculture and development?

Man that is a lot in the spend column and bugger all in the revenue column isn’t it.

Well we haven't left yet so how can there be anything in the revenue column?  I don't expect I'll be on here in 10+ years time but if I am I will look forward to looking you up and telling you to eat humble pie.  I think its quite feasible that the UK could overtake Germany in GDP in the next 10-15 years.

Daniel Hannan and Owen Paterson both claimed that voting leave would not mean leaving the single market.

dissonance - more bull shit project fear misinformation.   https://medium.com/@jamesforward/a-rebuttal-to-open-britain-vote-leave-never-promised-to-remain-in-the-single-market-85a0778c75a9

On Galileo, we have contributed £1 billion to it.  It just shows how weak our politicians are when they are prepared to write this off.  What a disgrace.  We should sue the EU to either get a portion of that back or get a long term usage agreement.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 10:10 pm
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On Galileo, we have contributed £1 billion to it.  It just shows how weak our politicians are when they are prepared to write this off.  What a disgrace.  We should sue the EU to either get a portion of that back or get a long term usage agreement.

What is the legal basis for suing the EU there? What are you going to sue them for?

The insulin producers have already said this is a non issue and the UK does actually have a producer albeit of a certain variant and in small amounts.

As they don't know the process for that being legal to sell it's a bit ambitious there.

Well we haven’t left yet so how can there be anything in the revenue column?  I don’t expect I’ll be on here in 10+ years time but if I am I will look forward to looking you up and telling you to eat humble pie.  I think its quite feasible that the UK could overtake Germany in GDP in the next 10-15 years.

True but they will need to exceed what we get now considerably before we break even.

Glad we are looking at over 10 years before we can expect any kind of payback on this shit show #ShouldHavePutThatOnTheBus


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 10:17 pm
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UK does actually have a producer albeit of a certain variant and in small amounts.

You have no idea about insulin & managing diabetes then

But keep up with your ignorance Dickens, it reinforces all our remoaner prejudices.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 10:22 pm
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How are we going to sue the EU when we refuse to have anything to do with the ECJ?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 10:23 pm
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Democracy is a process, not an event.

Two and a bit years ago is ancient history to democracy.

You Brexies should have acted faster if you actually wanted to leave. But you couldn’t agree, could you?

Because while you all of course knew exactly what you were voting for, none of you were actually voting for exactly the same thing.

You foolish Brexy snowflakes melting under pressure. Should have agreed what you wanted in advance - but then you’d never have got a (marginal, almost negligible) majority, would you?


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 10:23 pm
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We should sue the EU to either get a portion of that back or get a long term usage agreement.

Doesnt that rather fall down because we agreed the rules; that 3rd countries couldn't handle certain aspects of the data?

And now want to make ourselves a 3rd country.


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 10:29 pm
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The insulin producers have already said this is a non issue and the UK does actually have a producer albeit of a certain variant and in small amounts.

I believe that solitary company is Wockhardt and they produce enough insulin for approx 2000 users, quite a fair amount short of the 450,000+ users of insulin in this country,  how do I know this?......... A good friend works in procurement for the NHS and the medical implements and drug supply issue is a very real and genuine worry for the entire NHS at the moment.

dickens by name d*ck by nature


 
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On what do you base that?

Also, will we have the same opportunities as the Germans in 2028?  Will there be as many British kids working abroad as Germans?  Am I ever going to live and work abroad again?

Answer to those is most likely no.  Do you care about that, dickens?


 
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The people who voted for this, who were conned by Boris, Nigel, Aaron, JRM et al need to understand the implications first hand.

They wont be able to blame the EU, immigrants etc as they will no longer be an issue.

Hard rain needs to fall then lessons will be learnt and yes they will look for scapegoats but they will be few and far between.

If they dont learn then they and their children will live in shit and misery.

You can lead a horse to water ......


 
Posted : 26/08/2018 11:02 pm
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The insulin producers have already said this is a non issue and the UK does actually have a producer

Good news. However, as ever, the devil is in the detail

albeit of a certain variant and in small amounts.


 
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