BREXIT - A Poll & Discussion
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I was talking earlier to a friend who owns a successful business in France, importing and distributing goods from the UK to the public and to wholesalers. She has built this business from scratch, by hard work, honesty, and fair practice.
In just over two weeks, the UK is supposed to be leaving the EU ( ..... take two, as it should have left at the end of March.)
Today, she doesn't know if it will leave, when it will leave, how it will leave, and if she will have a viable business, or any business at all, if/when this happens. She has no idea about export protocols and restrictions, customs tariffs, documentation, currency controls, whether her staff will require work/residence permits ..... and so it goes on.
I voted for Brexit, I am still firmly in favour of the UK declaring its independence from, as AtomKraft put it : "an utter shower of cnuts" and I would vote the same again if the need arouse.
Nevertheless, I am utterly disgusted at the unbelievably shambolic, undemocratic, childish, vindictive and amateurish way in which those supposedly meant to represent the UK's people are behaving.
In just over two weeks, the UK is supposed to be leaving the EU ( ..... take two, as it should have left at the end of March.)
Today, she doesn't know if it will leave, when it will leave, how it will leave, and if she will have a viable business, or any business at all, if/when this happens. She has no idea about export protocols and restrictions, customs tariffs, documentation, currency controls, whether her staff will require work/residence permits ..... and so it goes on.
I voted for Brexit, I am still firmly in favour of the UK declaring its independence from, as AtomKraft put it : "an utter shower of cnuts" and I would vote the same again if the need arouse.
Nevertheless, I am utterly disgusted at the unbelievably shambolic, undemocratic, childish, vindictive and amateurish way in which those supposedly meant to represent the UK's people are behaving.
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That’s why I voted Remain, not through any love of the EU, but you didn’t have to be a clairvoyant to see that our political classes would be unable to make a sensible and coherent plan to leave.Nevertheless, I am utterly disgusted at the unbelievably shambolic, undemocratic, childish, vindictive and amateurish way in which those supposedly meant to represent the UK's people are behaving.
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The Vampire Squid guy is a genius. Here's what he told the Treasury Select Committee this morning:
He should be hired by the Met Office as a forecaster!
He should be hired by the Met Office as a forecaster!
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Now that’s advice I can follow! I can move my UK pounds into Aus $. Or I might not.
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Shall I move half of my GBP assets in EUR, and half of my EUR assets into GBP, and half of my CHF assets into each currency?
Will my arse be covered if I do that?
Will my arse be covered if I do that?
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The best bit of advice I ever had from a Wall Street guru was that "the Dow will go up, and it will go down, but not necessarily in that order".
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My exchange bureau down Moorgate is offering 1.146 euros to the pound. Last week I got 1.115, same place. I hope someone is making a profit 'cos I sure am not.
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The inevitable unfolds...fake Brexit and/or extension ahead
As I've said sooooooo many times we aint gonna be allowed to leave.
As I've said sooooooo many times we aint gonna be allowed to leave.
I hereby declare the U.S.A. a Pariah state.
All U.S. Citizens or persons arriving from the U.S.A. will be denied access
All U.S. Citizens or persons arriving from the U.S.A. will be denied access
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I suspect we’re about to be sold down the river if reports are true that the EU are looking favourably at the mumblings of the Blonde Rasputin.
NornIron will be upset whatever happens, our fishermen will not get their areas back from EU plundering and we’ll be tied half-in half-out in some ghastly political coitus interruptus which will go on forever.
If Blondie really wanted out he’d have teamed up with the Brexit party to stuff the Remoaners but instead the Leave without a new Surrender Treaty movement vote will be split and it will all collapse like a failed souffle.
NornIron will be upset whatever happens, our fishermen will not get their areas back from EU plundering and we’ll be tied half-in half-out in some ghastly political coitus interruptus which will go on forever.
If Blondie really wanted out he’d have teamed up with the Brexit party to stuff the Remoaners but instead the Leave without a new Surrender Treaty movement vote will be split and it will all collapse like a failed souffle.
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It has to get through Parliament first!
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BOAC, hence the suffle
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HoC might be stupid enough to vote it through?
Unless Blonde Rasputin is bluffing to pass time so’s Hallowe’en will arrive and UK will depart sans un deal with a bang?
Unless Blonde Rasputin is bluffing to pass time so’s Hallowe’en will arrive and UK will depart sans un deal with a bang?
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If the border in N Ireland is supposed to be "open" and transit-free, why does the Spanish/French border at La Jonquera, which in theory has no controls as both countries are members of the EU, need truck parks which can hold thousands of trucks, and which has customs posts on the motorway at the border?
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Europe’s Ports May Have Spent Millions on Brexit for Nothing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... or-nothing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... or-nothing
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Makes one wonder what pile of crap we’re heading for?
And the civil disorder which may follow?!
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Thanks for that link, BM.
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Amendment to post 4733. It's so the French truck drivers can park up overnight and enjoy the hospitality of
armpit-hair-free ladies of the night who patrol the giant truck parks.
armpit-hair-free ladies of the night who patrol the giant truck parks.
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And for those Leavers who yearn for a touch of fact, logic and reasoning (currently in short supply-presumably due to Brexit!) don’t forget the easybite snippets from Jeff Taylor YouTube.
MSM seems to get worse by the day.
MSM seems to get worse by the day.
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Not often you see the DUP and sensible in the same articleBoris Johnson has suffered a blow to his proposed Brexit deal as the Democratic Unionist Party said it cannot support plans "as things stand".
The support of the Northern Irish party is seen as crucial if the PM is to win Parliament's approval for the deal in time for his 31 October deadline.
The DUP said it would continue to work with the government to try to get a "sensible" deal.
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