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[rburtn] 04/11/2016 15:43

Just a pause for thought Brexiteers - because I don't think one of you has thought this through! Supposing just one of the 27 countries in the EU says 'That's it, you wanted out UK, no deals, you are on wto rules (note there still are rules inside or out) in two years. There would then be open season on companies in the UK only for EU access from every one of the 27 to get them to move. How much are you going to put up to persuade them to stay. And what kind of negotiating position would we have as supplicant to non-EU countries in that kind of situation. No doubt some Brexiteers want economic collapse and anarchy but for the rest beware of what you wish for.

[portside1] 04/11/2016 15:33

by the way I am down over 120k on barcs but not upset its a game I enjoy

[diku] 04/11/2016 13:50

When we joined the EU did we know where we were going?....you iron out the bumps and reach to your destination...nobody is saying it is going to be an easy path....but you never know it can be an easy path only if there was less scaremongering & bickering...

[rburtn] 04/11/2016 12:47

For the benefit of warranty, the promises made by the exiteers, were phrased in terms which no thoughtful person could believe. This country, according to the swivel eyed letter writers in The Telegraph, would be free to do whatever deals it wished with the rest of the world - as if it cannot do this now - without any kind of reciprocal commitment to replace those we entered into when we joined the EU. We quite simply could set ourselves free to dictate terms wherever we wished. We are just as free to do this now as are Germany but we perform - on almost on any metric - as amongst the most under-performing of the world except in financial services. Those who voted out - and I know of some who did it for sheer bloodymindedness and now regret it -did it in total ignorance of the facts or consequences. I am honest enough to admit I'm not qualified to know what they all are but I do know where the advocates of exiting are coming from and it is a place of deceit. There are people around who do know but they have been discarded in favour of those who unfailingly march through the polling booths to their own detriment at the behest of an entrenched elite of media bosses.

[alphorn] 04/11/2016 12:31

"drag you to better times"

Fact is that you have no idea where you are going.

Do you invest by spinning a coin???

[joe say] 04/11/2016 12:18

Most people who voted out are now really regretting it already.

Are they really?

[rburtn] 04/11/2016 11:04

The problem Portside is that this government doesn't have a policy to get out of the EU, only a gang who have mounted a coup using the gullible want that. A few politicians have fallen in behind the power of the media. They smell more power to do dubious deals for themselves. It is a mess, such a big decision as pulling out of a treaty which has delivered so much needs considered thought not mob indoctrination. Using the EU as scapegoat for free market fundamentalism which has made the winners immensely rich and trickled down absolutely nothing to those left behind is a trick by the winners - e.g. Murdoch and the Barclays. What we are witnessing here, and in the US, is the failure of Milton Friedman's mantra which effectively said greed is good.

[portside1] 04/11/2016 09:47

the fact is the country is now in a mess uncertainty is not good . it will hurt the
working class big time ,
if the gov can not carry out its policies then it must call an election

[alphorn] 04/11/2016 09:45

It does not worry anybody that the governemt's representative is said to be detached from reality? Pretty serious to me.

[amoore70] 04/11/2016 09:44

diku
4 Nov '16 - 09:40 - 119747 of 119748 0 0

Do you have to be so direct?...

You have to be with these idiots sometimes.

[diku] 04/11/2016 09:40

Do you have to be so direct?...

[portside1] 04/11/2016 09:29

millars husband alan as made millions on is wives actions .
read about what he shorted before she took her actions

then you will see what they did and what for MONEY

[qantas] 04/11/2016 09:24

Do we need to know holiday plans???? boring.

[portside1] 04/11/2016 09:21

3 weeks and will be in Lanzarote till jan 6th just to relax and then off to florida
on jan 17th for two months
will post from lanz telling you our warm it is

[portside1] 04/11/2016 09:16

another one who does not want democracy .

[alphorn] 04/11/2016 09:10

rburtn - excellent post.

[diku] 04/11/2016 09:04

I think so much bickering going on that an early general election will come spring 2017...to me I think Corbyn comes across someone who just wants play the opposition leaders role...oppose everything that the conservatives say/do but does not have any ideas of his own...playing within his comfort zone....give the impression he connects more with the normal joe public...

[portside1] 04/11/2016 09:03

will say this what ever happens it will not affect my family .

but I do open my eyes and see my fellow uk people out of work on the streets
and no hope I also see immigrants living around 15 to a 2 bedroom home hundreds of these homes living like rats , paying one council tax . councils struggling to cope
round London living in sheds ,

if any one thinks that free movement is good then they must have reasons like filling these homes for greed

if that is what people died for then they died fighting for nothing

[portside1] 04/11/2016 08:56

rburt , it is you that needs to open your blind eyes
you are saying the voters who vote out were wrong
well a lot now who voted in now want out
so should we keep having a vote till no one bothers to vote ,

the only answer is for MAY to call a general election that suits me fine

[lrj] 04/11/2016 08:53

Article 50 needed to be implemented for us to exit the European Union. What were the Government legal brains doing, for the years leading up to the vote in order to successfully implement it. There was no plan B, Government, never thought it would happen.