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Brexit plan: Answer me this, how where Leave suposed to come up with a plan when we where prevented from having any access to the civil service or other government machinery

You can start throwing excuses around now if you like, but it doesn't avoid the fact that if you fail to plan, you should plan to fail.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 9:24 am
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Ok here goes, Jamba knows nothing, Jamba knows nothing; duh stupid Jamba 😆


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 9:31 am
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it doesn't avoid the fact that if you fail to plan, you should plan to fail.

That's literally what the Leave campaign's leaders were doing, planning to fail. But they failed at it.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 9:42 am
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Yep it sure is one unholy mess! Every day brings new surprises though, which gives us something to talk about instead of our shite summer! 😥


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 9:49 am
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And there you have the Brexit plan in a nutshell: always blame someone else

Yeah I'm already groaning at the excuses from the Leavers 2 years after TAKING POWER BACK , after 2years of recession, the phenomenal legal bill for our disastrous negotiations that look set to deliver a worse version of the Norway deal*

It will all be Cameron/Osborne/Johnson/Corbyn/the EU bogeyman/the BBCs fault

* Of course it might not happen like that -farige might get on the negotiation team and we'll end up flooding Europe with Brefugees astje country really tanks.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 9:50 am
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Farage has just stepped down as leader of UKIP

So there we have it. Just Gove to go now. I'll give him 2 days, tops! So a jolly amusing parlour game between a bunch of posh boys has led to them all walking away, there lives unaffected, having caused all manner of damage

How very Bullingdon


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 10:21 am
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I knew I'd heard take the power back and anti-euro views somewhere previously.

Who'd have thought Leadsom, Farage et al were fans? Boris, yes, I could see Boris dad dancing to this.


The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back
- Rage Against The Machine


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 10:38 am
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Well done Leavers...
Look at your leaders now 👿


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 10:44 am
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Boris, yes, I could see Boris dad dancing to this.

Boris's dad was a remainer and critized his son for being on the leave side, so what is your point ?


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 10:46 am
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instead of our shite summer!

I fitted some mudguards to my bike yesterday to tempt fate. The weather is great today so it might be working - and I am buying a new umbrella later...


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 10:48 am
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Boris, yes, I could see Boris dad dancing to this.
Boris's dad was a remainer and critized his son for being on the leave side, so what is your point ?

[url= http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boris-johnson-video-watch-london-1258790 ]Boris Dad Dancing[/url]


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 11:00 am
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extend voting to UK passport holders living abroad as the French, Australians, US do.

Like already exists? I'm a Brit living in Oz, voted in the referendum, voted in GEs, and can for 15 years since date of departure from the UK.

Another "fact" brought to you by Jamby...


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 11:02 am
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inigomontoya has it - Boris dad-dancing, not Boris's dad dancing.

Not sure what my point is, except perhaps that ideas come from strange places sometimes, but it was just Leadsom repeating endlessly about taking power (or was it control, I forget) back reminded me of something and I just remembered what.

That said someone with more IT skills than me could do an excellent Brexiter -v- RATM mashup.

That album, RATM by RATM, was excellent actually.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 11:07 am
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Farage has just stepped down as leader of UKIP

What, [i]again?[/i]


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 11:24 am
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Brexit plan: Answer me this, how where Leave suposed to come up with a plan when we where prevented from having any access to the civil service or other government machinery ?

As said above - having an excuse for not having a plan still means you don't have a plan.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 11:59 am
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Well it has started, the main beneficiaries of Brexit would always be big business, as their influence would increase (which is pretty much what Murdoch said)...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/03/george-osborne-looks-at-corporation-tax-cut-to-attract-overseas-investors

So, they'll contribute even less to UK PLC...

We'll be in a race to the bottom with Eire....


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:01 pm
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We'll be in a race to the bottom with Eire....

We always where with and with Luxembourg too. If we exit the EU we have a chance to fight back. Maybe we can make it a requirement that Apple, Google, Facebook, Starbucks are legally domiciled and taxed here in the UK. Personally I doubt the politicans have the b@lls


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:28 pm
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Maybe we can make it a requirement that Apple, Google, Facebook, Starbucks are legally domiciled and taxed here in the UK. Personally I doubt the politicans have the b@lls

As it's not really working out for the rest of the world I'm not sure it's a likely outcome.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:30 pm
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Its the government's job to have a plan. I can volunteer and shout all I like but I am not the government. Cameron could have made the Referendum binding and laid out an outline plan which we then voted on but he did not


 
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As it's not really working out for the rest of the world I'm not sure it's a likely outcome.

I think you'll find the next US government is going to address this too. 60% of Apple's global profits go throigh Ireland where they are taxed at 1% - that's criminal.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:32 pm
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From what I can tell something like £50bn a year ish comes from corporation tax receipts. So we'd be losing £12bn ish. which is extremely roughly £200-250m a week we'd be out of pocket.

First Brexiter to counter this by mentioning future investment gets a slap.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:34 pm
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Its the government's job to have a plan.

The government had a plan! It was to remain in the ****ing EU!


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:34 pm
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The government set out exactly what they thought brexit would look like before the vote, now it's their job to implement that vision and bring about economic catrastophe.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:39 pm
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The massive corporations seem to pretty much choose what corp tax they pay, a cut would benefit smaller firms maybe allowing more investment, wages rises etc.
It's funny when you talk to Brexiters, actually getting one to acknowledge the reality of where we are and admit it might be a mistake is virtually impossible. I think it's because in general they're "a bit thick".


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:40 pm
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I think you'll find the next US government is going to address this too. 60% of Apple's global profits go throigh Ireland where they are taxed at 1% - that's criminal.

Are you scratching your crystal balls again? Which government they start their election in November, and also require a cooperative congress to pass anything.

It also might not be criminal, perfectly legal just not moral but in many ways it requires more cooperation not less to get tax reform


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:41 pm
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[i]The massive corporations seem to pretty much choose what corp tax they pay, a cut would benefit smaller firms maybe allowing more investment, wages rises etc.[/i]

+1 It'll be the UK-based SME's that will benefit and those business that have predominately UK-based income. It may also bring back some head quarters, but only 'letter-box' ones, probably few jobs.

Whether it will provide an increase in the total tax take, no idea.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 12:55 pm
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Jambas - you have been arguing that the EU was the cause or at least a contributor towards corporate tax avoidance.

And yet, a few days after Brexit we are competing on tax and of course this was a big part of yS's plans for an independent Scotland.

I think you case has been unproven.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 1:09 pm
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think you'll find the next US government is going to address this too. 60% of Apple's global profits go throigh Ireland where they are taxed at 1% - that's criminal.

I thought Ireland's corp tax was 12.5%

Don't be confused as tax percentage on earnings.

Besides the commission are leaning on them.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 2:41 pm
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I have a feeling you remainers are worrying over nothing. My conspiracy theory mind has been doing overtime and I have come to the conclusion that Theresa May was setup to be the next PM in the event of an exit vote. Given she was a quiet remain voter effectively means she can come in and do the brexit voters over and cosy back up to the EU dictators.

It's just all to coincidental that the leave camp do not have a credible candidate and Cameron knew when he resigned that May would be the next tory PM.

I am hoping I will be proven wrong, but I have a sneaky suspicion that is what is going to happen.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 2:48 pm
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I have a feeling you remainers are worrying over nothing

Nope, this pretty much sums up what we're in for now....

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/04/disaster-capitalism-tory-right-brexit-roll-back-state


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 2:53 pm
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We always where with and with Luxembourg too. If we exit the EU we have a chance to fight back. Maybe we can make it a requirement that Apple, Google, Facebook, Starbucks are legally domiciled and taxed here in the UK.

It would also conflict with our international tax treaty obligations which as I have stated ad nauseam* would still be in place.

* you seem incapable of gaining even a scintilla of an understanding of how international tax works hence the need to continually repeat.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:00 pm
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Jamba would vote for that I think footflaps


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:01 pm
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Never let a good crisis go to waste.

George set the ball rolling this morning


 
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Given she was a quiet remain voter effectively means she can come in and do the brexit voters over and cosy back up to the EU dictators.

Didn't she say she'd trigger A50 though?


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:09 pm
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Jamba would vote for that I think footflaps

Sadly yes, but I don't think the rest of the 52% realise quite what they have unleashed...

Esp the poor and disenfranchised who have just voted to be kicked in the nuts with an even bigger boot..


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:11 pm
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I have a feeling you remainers are worrying over nothing. My conspiracy theory mind has been doing overtime and I have come to the conclusion that Theresa May was setup to be the next PM in the event of an exit vote. Given she was a quiet remain voter effectively means she can come in and do the brexit voters over and cosy back up to the EU dictators.

It's just all to coincidental that the leave camp do not have a credible candidate and Cameron knew when he resigned that May would be the next tory PM.

I am hoping I will be proven wrong, but I have a sneaky suspicion that is what is going to happen.

The problem with conspiracy theories is that they credit governments/politicians with a level of skill and control that they are incapable of fulfilling.

This is just a simple unprepared bit of a mess


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:12 pm
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Esp the poor and disenfranchised who have just voted to be kicked in the nuts with an even bigger boot..

They were warned.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:19 pm
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They were warned

🙂

To be fair if there was some way only the 52% suffered and the other 48% were unaffected, I'd be quite happy with it....


 
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Posted : 04/07/2016 3:21 pm
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The government had a plan! It was to remain in the **** EU!

I don't think they'd even got that far.
I think Cameron hoped we'd have a nice quiet referendum where no-one really gave a shit, Remain would win by a country mile, then he could appease the hard-right/UKIP defectors within his party, tell them all was well with the world and get back to screwing the NHS.

I don't think even he thought that it would take on an unholy life of it's own with his supposed mate Boris openly fighting him.

It's the worst possible outcome of all of it. A very finely balanced Leave/Remain, both major parties in complete meltdown, catastrophic economic fallout already (apart from the big investors who've done very well out of trading currency thank you very much) and now they're all just walking off as though nothing had happened.

Seriously, none of them have even the faintest ****ing clue what to do to resolve this!

Cameron should have stayed in power, offered a month or so of "reflection", of analysis, settling down (and waiting for Farage to bugger off thinking he'd achieved his goal) and then said that the referendum was non-binding and he'd be ignoring it.

That would trigger it's own power struggle within the Tory party but at least we'd not be left with the complete total shitpile of uncertainty we have now. 52% of the country would be pissed off about it but they were already so pissed off with the Government that they ignored every single bit of advice coming from every single expert around and voted against it - it (mostly) wasn't a protest vote against the EU, it was a protest vote against the Government.

The problem is with Cameron that he's spent so long lying to everyone that on the one occasion he told the truth, no-one listened.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:23 pm
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pretty difficult to argue with that analysis crazy-legs.

The trouble is that now the right wing of the Tory party (The Bill Cashes and John Redwoods) will take this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (cheers to the utterly ****ing useless Labour party!) to dismantle the welfare state, privatise the NHS, abolish workers rights.

They're going to make Dave and George, with their austerity program look like santa and the tooth fairy


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:29 pm
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pretty difficult to argue with that analysis crazy-legs.

The only problem after that is trying to appease all the people who thought they were getting everything....


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:31 pm
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[b]"Theresa May is a Tory shocker"[/b]

Theresa May's voting record is very much what you would expect it to be for a Tory politician, it's certainly not very different to David Cameron's voting record.

David Cameron opposed repeal of Section 28, he voted against gay couples adopting, and he opposed giving lesbians the right to VF treatment.

Theresa May supported civil partnerships and it was her who pushed that same-sex marriage should be in the Tory 2010 election manifesto.

Theresa May's position on gay issues has been in line with Tory policy, she has followed the Tory whip, as you expect a senior Tory politician to do.

Although if you want to judge the candidates in the Tory leadership contest solely on their commitment to gay rights then Michael Gove is probably your man.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:45 pm
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[quote=molgrips ]Didn't she say she'd trigger A50 though?

You have to bear in mind who her current electorate are. Of course she has to avoid getting complacent because it certainly wouldn't be impossible for her not to finish in the top 2 of the MPs' vote, but realistically she is currently appealing to the ordinary members of the Tory party. I don't think they've been polled, but given the way Tory voters voted in the referendum you'd have to assume a majority in favour of Leave.

Maybe she is telling the truth, but it would be a fairly unusual position regarding leaving the EU.


 
Posted : 04/07/2016 3:56 pm
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she is currently appealing to the ordinary members of the Tory party

Hence the photo op of her biting the head of a new born (poor) baby and hunting homeless people in Newark...


 
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