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Too ashamed to lead their own project


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 12:41 pm
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Seems clear who is winning at the moment. The timid one with balls is surprising everyone


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 1:29 pm
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Well, I've been writing to Damian Green (my MP) for some time now requesting a definitive list of the MPs in the European Research Group and I guess we now know who they are. No real surprises to be seen.

I've read through a great deal of reports and papers written by politicians for Brexit, but there's virtually nothing there about how to arrest stagnation of salaries, affordability of homes, how to create sustainable employment and how limiting immigration will benefit our economy. I'm more concerned about what's unsaid - i.e. that regulatory alignment with the EU will require investment in agencies that will need to be duplicated from those across the channel and the obvious temptation to race to the bottom with deregulation. What does "deregulation" actually mean and what's the net result for everyone?

Interestingly, Corbyn has at long last committed to some kind of Customs Union, but surely he must understand that we cannot simply have a bespoke arrangement put in place without concession on our part.

Interesting times.

As an aside - I'm genuinely interested in the thoughts of those on here who do support a clean break with the EU and what they think Britain will look like ten years hence. I assume that Jamba and Ninfan are in favour of a hard Brexit clean break arrangement and would be keen to read their feedback.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 1:31 pm
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Is it me, or is no real concrete, agreed progress on Brexit actually being made?

Listening to all the politicians and reporters the last few days we seem to have not agreed anything, other than not agreed to agree and carry on agreeing to try and find agreement, on the timescale for when agreement is needed....


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 1:46 pm
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Is it me, or is no real concrete, agreed progress on Brexit actually being made?

We've just asked for an extension, hahahaha!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-transition-period-implementation-period-eu-david-davis-a8220976.html


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 1:58 pm
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It’s you


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 2:04 pm
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Everyone should vote for Corbyn. He is going to deliver a jobs first Brexshit AND combine being in a CU with ability to negotiate separate trade deals with RoW. No one comes close to Jezza


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 2:11 pm
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Diversion tactics away from Tory infighting, THM?


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 2:22 pm
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its the EU california, we can check out, but we can never leave

its only been 40 years of whining & 20 months since the vote, Brexies still dont have a plan

To think May & co can make a brexit that maintaines the 'red lines' & satisfy business, teh Leavers & the rest of the electorate, even after 2 years of vassal state transition is pretty ambitous

especially as Johnson, Mogg & the other swivel-eyed undermine her at every opportunity


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 2:54 pm
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Barnier and his gang of idiots should probably visit the war graves in France, say a thankyou for all the British and Commonwealth soldiers that gave their lives to free his country from the grips of fascism and then consider the 140 billion we had to borrow from the US to fight another European war....adjusted for today's money and with a quick history lesson he should then wind his neck in and reconsider the EU negotiating position and what the divorce bill should be.

Ungrateful prick.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 3:10 pm
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While your digging through history, a large number of Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians would like a word.

The people of the Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia would like their back pay along with all the slaves from Africa that helped build the British Empire for free.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 3:37 pm
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deviant have you been on the sauce with Juncker  & Davis at lunch time by any chance?

youll never keep up!


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 3:45 pm
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Barnier and his gang of idiots should probably visit the war graves in France, say a thankyou for all the British and Commonwealth soldiers that gave their lives to free his country from the grips of fascism and then consider the 140 billion we had to borrow from the US to fight another European war….adjusted for today’s money and with a quick history lesson he should then wind his neck in and reconsider the EU negotiating position and what the divorce bill should be.

nicely forget the russian efforts in defeating Nazi Germany, 80% of all german armour was on the eastern front, but hey ho right wing revisionist history


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 3:47 pm
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I must not feed the swivel eyed loon.

I must not feed the swivel eyed loon.

I must not feed the swivel eyed loon.

I must not feed the swivel eyed loon.

I must not feed the swivel eyed loon.

I must not feed the swivel eyed loon.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 4:09 pm
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Barnier and his gang of idiots should probably visit the war graves in France, say a thankyou for all the British and Commonwealth soldiers that gave their lives to free his country from the grips of fascism and then consider the 140 billion we had to borrow from the US to fight another European war….adjusted for today’s money and with a quick history lesson he should then wind his neck in and reconsider the EU negotiating position and what the divorce bill should be.

Ungrateful prick.

You can’t even be bothered to make your own shit up - I assume you forgot to add that you’ve copied and pasted that from elsewhere.

EDIT: Apart from:

Ungrateful prick.

Which AFAIR, the newspaper didn’t print.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 4:39 pm
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You can't beat some good old-fashioned jingoistic flag-waving

You forgot to mention 1966 and the World Cup though, so you lose Farage points. Cheers anyway though....

Image result for nigel farage pint


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 5:08 pm
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Aye. Better not to think about us spending the money & lives to stop Operation Sealion. Perhaps we better thank those pesky Europeans for letting us mess up their countries to defeat Germany rather than face a land war on British soil.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 5:21 pm
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Except that people who were in the war tend to be remainers. So people like deviant are appropriating other people's sacrifices for their own political purposes. Talk about stooping low. Have you no ****ing shame?


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 5:33 pm
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Blimey - i though deviant was being sarcastic?!?

am I wrong?


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 5:38 pm
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I think that the revisionist approach to history that we fought WW2 alone and won everybody's freedom from Fascism and therefore the continent owes us a blood debt isn't terribly helpful and only serves to illustrate a sense of entitlement that from a third party point of view must be horribly offensive.

So far as I can see, the main loser in any hard Brexit scenario is us - specifically those of us who live in locations that rely upon a cross border supply chain (aerospace, automotive, manufacturing) or who rely on the trading rules of the bloc to standardise and supplement incomes that would otherwise be unviable (employment rights, farming).

In any case, none of the Brexit scenarios on the table (including Remain) specifically address legitimate grievances about affordable housing, wage stagnation, wealth inequality, austerity, quality jobs with long term prospects, erosion of state benefits (pension, working tax credits etc.) that motivated many people to vote Leave in the first instance.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 5:52 pm
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its the EU california, we can check out, but we can never leave

Beautifully put

am I wrong?

Do your own research its all there, more patronising twaddle, weak insinuation you have been drinking, lament about how everyone has a go at me etc


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 8:09 pm
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Oooh this is good....

May and Hammond have very little power (but just enough)

Rees Mogg and the swivel eyed have less power and no bollocks (let's send a stern letter) Maggie would be disgusted by the bunch of wet blankets.

The perfect storm of indecision...

Boris has a sweat on that he might end up with a proper job...

Gove is pissing up the legs of the Farming communities whilst plotting their demise.

Fox looks confused...

Jezza needs to shut the **** up and let someone with a brain take charge.

I genuinely have not laughed out loud at politicians since spitting image was on the Telly.

I don't give a shit what happens anymore but the entertainment/Machiavellian output is fantastic.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 8:23 pm
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Off to the Daily Mail blog to wind up nutters....


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 8:24 pm
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Tomorrows headlines: Please can we have an extension? Larry the cat from No. 10 ate our homework, it's so unfair!


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 8:30 pm
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Given deviant’s previous THM I think he’s serious.

Misguided but serious.

If he actually cared about British or Commonwealth war dead he’d be supporting the EU. But I don’t think he’s worked that out yet.  Hey ho.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 8:47 pm
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Beats the curling for entertainment value though.

(I don’t mean deviant - I mean the whole political “bit of a mess”)


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 9:02 pm
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At various points, right from her decision to appoint those 3 half-wits to the positions in charge of managing the whole debacle, i’ve Had the recurring thought...

is May, as a remainer, actually playing an absolute blinder here, like some Machivellian genius just pretending to be clueless?

the quiet request of what could be an endless ‘transition period’ would point again to this?

or is that just wishful thinking on my behalf and she really is as clueless as she seems?

It does seem increasingly that these supposed self-titled ‘hardline Brexiteers’ are just all piss and wind, and there’s not one of them prepared to put their money where their more than ample mouth is


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 10:08 pm
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Thanks IGM - there are only a few names that I recognise - or simply ignore in the case of the chief troll - so when I first read it, I assumed it was a piss take!!

how is Canada ?


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 10:18 pm
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So is this what taking back control looks like?

Agreed to EUs negotiation schedule- no parallel trade talks (row of the summer never materialised)

Agreed to pay EU divorce bill (that Davis didn't recognise a week b4)

Agreed to EU demands in citizens rights & no hard border in NI- Stays in CU if no deal

Now agreed to follow EU rules in transition, same rights for EU new arrivals & continued FOM, no trade deals allowed, no veto on new laws.....

Wonder what's coming next in round 2 of the talks?


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 10:34 pm
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Bit really rich to expect anything else in transition period.

You may have missed what happened in phase 1 though kimbers. The KY has still to be unwrapped.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 10:37 pm
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Odd that we now have a remoaner red bus with lies on it. What happened to rising above the Brexshiteers BS or is the new bus merely indicative that the BS baton had been full passed on?


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 10:42 pm
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I imagine Deviant's quote relates to when Barnier made some injudicious remarks about security, although that was a few months ago now unless I have missed a more recent example. It may have been then that I pointed out French hypocrisy.

Except that people who were in the war tend to be remainers.

I don't think this is the case.

If he actually cared about British or Commonwealth war dead he’d be supporting the EU.

I don't think this follows either.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 11:21 pm
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Borrowing down

Productivity up

We should do this doomsday stuff more often .....


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 11:27 pm
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Some people are never happy are they?

I know. I gave someone a choice of a punch in the balls or a kick in the balls and the ungrateful sod didnt want either.


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 11:51 pm
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😂


 
Posted : 21/02/2018 11:54 pm
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If he actually cared about British or Commonwealth war dead he’d be supporting the EU.

I don’t think this follows either.

Then we disagree. Which is fine.


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 12:21 am
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Brexit isn't going to happen, because let's face it, it's flipping rediculous.

What's happening now is the grown ups are doing a protracted damage limitation exercise.

Yes it's costly, the whole fiasco has probably set the UK back 10 years, but that's damage already done now, there's no going back from that.

The only possible way to make anything good out of this is to fool the brexiters into thinking they are getting back the power that they already had, and never lost because nothing actually changed, which is actually quite easy considering that it's true, and brexiters are utterly dumb..

"The people voted for a Mad Max dystopia and so your Conservative government will implement a Mad Max dystopia"

"But we just voted for fiery guitars!"

"You knew what you were voting for!"

"But you only said fiery guitars!"

"Traitor!"


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 12:32 am
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Did we vote for fiery guitars… or just against rules, and for simplicity…?

A good twitter thread…

https://twitter.com/garrethhayes/status/965318168028819456


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 1:34 am
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Utterly dumb yet they beat us!

Who are the fools?

On what grounds do you assume that we have been set back by 10 years?


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 7:30 am
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Who are the fools?

Mostly, those who voted for the nonsensical non-plan of wishful thinking and scapegoating known as brexit.

Next!


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 8:12 am
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Seems like mogg & co are just recycling 20 year old satire


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 10:09 am
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always worth a read

or ignoring if it raises too many awkward questions


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 10:38 am
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Thanks @Kimbers … was the big BSE **** up 20 years ago?!? Blimey. That was the last time I was race fit!


 
Posted : 22/02/2018 11:17 am
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Two dogs that is once again scary reading.

Maybe our resident leavers would care to tell us exactly how that will be resolved.

This time I would like facts rather than “it will be alright , I’m sure it will all sort itself out.”

What use is a blue passport if you can’t go anywhere with it?


 
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