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What happens when you get something back from the EU for a change

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    #11
    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    The UK has been going downhill since Queen Vic died. Or it stopped raping other countries depending on how you see it.

    UK was sick 45 years ago. It became alot worse until Maggie came along. The principals of good housekeeping and cutting of red tape went along way(I know she had her faults too). Since Maggie left things have got worse again.
    That's a really negative way at looking at things. If you took an average family from Queen Vic's time and transported them to modern Britain, do you think he would want to go back, I don't think so.

    We can't wage war like we did but even if we had the largest best army in the world, we couldn't invade China, US etc.

    Our manufacturing base has shrunk, but that's not because of a lack of smarts. It's because we could not compete with cheap labour.

    Our services, finance, engineering, marketing, science and pharmaceutical are leading the world. We made the correct decision and decided to concentrate on services, though I wish our manufacturing was more balanced.

    We do have an issue with inequality, there needs to be more of balance whilst rewarding those that achieve.

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      #12
      £1.2B £2.3M per week to the NHS for a year
      oh wait they just borrow less
      So nothing for the NHS then

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        #13
        Daily Express gloats about France appointing hundreds of customs officers to man the UK-France border

        A bit like the prisoner chuckling about the gallows being erected in front of his window.

        I'm alright Jack

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          #14
          Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
          Daily Express gloats about France appointing hundreds of customs officers to man the UK-France border

          A bit like the prisoner chuckling about the gallows being erected in front of his window.

          Or the victims chuckling about the gallows being built in front of the guilty parties window.

          Are they there to keep us out of Europe or to keep the rest of Europe out of the UK.

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            #15
            Originally posted by original PM View Post
            Or the victims chuckling about the gallows being built in front of the guilty parties window.

            Are they there to keep us out of Europe or to keep the rest of Europe out of the UK.
            The new French customs is a guillotine ready to slice the head off Britain's commercial interests.
            I'm alright Jack

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              #16
              Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
              Daily Express gloats about France appointing hundreds of customs officers to man the UK-France border

              A bit like the prisoner chuckling about the gallows being erected in front of his window.

              FFS.

              But European leaders are plotting to undermine Mrs May and exploit her Parliamentary minority, orchestrating a secret high-stake strategy. (LINK) /news/politics/908066/EU-Brexit-UK-Europe-Theresa-May-Donald-Tusk-negotiation-deal-trade

              European Council chief Donald Tusk will sow discord through Westminster in a bid to scupper the people’s decision to leave, Brussels insiders said.

              The plot will deny Britain the opportunity to broker any bespoke sectoral deals – blocking swathes of UK industry including the nation’s lucrative financial services from seamlessly operating within the EU.
              It’s not a plot, ffs, this has literally been the EU’s published position from the start, and was reiterated from the U.K. side with Teresa May’s “red lines”.

              Remain, Norway, or Canada are the only options on the table. There is no “plus”. There are opportunities in Brexit all right, opportunities for the EU to get a lucrative (and large) slice of that financial services pie, and Brexiters have just given it all away....

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                #17
                Originally posted by original PM View Post
                Or the victims chuckling about the gallows being built in front of the guilty parties window.

                Are they there to keep us out of Europe or to keep the rest of Europe out of the UK.
                The rest of Europe is already leaving the U.K., and taking all the agencies with them.

                At least the EU is making plans for post=Brexit. Feel free to post whenever the U.K. starts setting up replacement agencies, hiring customs, building new facilities, and generally putting into place any plans.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by original PM View Post
                  Or the victims chuckling about the gallows being built in front of the guilty parties window.

                  Are they there to keep us out of Europe or to keep the rest of Europe out of the UK.
                  Customs is about goods not people. So duties and delays for British trade.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by meridian View Post
                    FFS.



                    It’s not a plot, ffs, this has literally been the EU’s published position from the start, and was reiterated from the U.K. side with Teresa May’s “red lines”.

                    Remain, Norway, or Canada are the only options on the table. There is no “plus”. There are opportunities in Brexit all right, opportunities for the EU to get a lucrative (and large) slice of that financial services pie, and Brexiters have just given it all away....
                    Mind you, today Davis was a the Brexit briefing and:

                    Davis told Rees-Mogg earlier only an “idiot” would go into a commercial negotiation with red lines, because if you do that, the red lines are all you will get.
                    Which prompted:



                    Piss-up in House of Parliament bar comes to mind...
                    Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                      #20
                      Jacob Rees-Mogg - the UK will be a vassal state of the EU

                      Full marks to Jacob for spotting the sneaky move by the UK government to make the UK a vassal state of the EU.

                      Last edited by BlasterBates; 24 January 2018, 15:11.
                      I'm alright Jack

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