Europe finished as an industrial and military region?

[meridian]

I very much doubt EU citizens will need visas, can you quote any pro-Brexit, minister on that, and even if you could can you name the 326 MP's that would support that ?

If there was a visa would they not be like Swiss visas that are automatically rubber stamped if you produce an EU passport.

On your first point, there's not much detail on the specifics of how it would work after a Brexit. Presumably, the U.K. would be free to set it's own rules.

On the second point, though, if those rules were to be like Switzerland's then it's a little bit more onerous than simply rubber-stamping, even for EU citizens:
https://www.ch.ch/en/working-switzerland-eu-efta/

[AtW]

Government will help cover energy and pension costs to save British steel, Sajid Javid indicates

Great, so who will pay for it? UK taxpayers obviously, instead of higher tariffs on Chinese steel dumping

[SueEllen]

Government will help cover energy and pension costs to save British steel, Sajid Javid indicates

Great, so who will pay for it? UK taxpayers obviously, instead of higher tariffs on Chinese steel dumping

It's only fair.

We bailed out the bankers....

[MrMarkyMark]

Once we have bailed them out an the business becomes viable, again, we can sell it back to TATA or<insert some other foreign conglomerate who doesn't give a sh1t about us here>.

Everyone's a winner

[AtW]

The business won't be viable because it's not possible to compete directly with Chinese dumping of product - they got no social security, workers are expendable, bulk buying of commodities etc.

[unixman]

Bollox.

It is only the rich and powerful who get rescued.

Running unit test:

Distance from London to Port Talbot 172 miles.

Pass.

[unixman]

Test re-run:

Distance London to Ravenscraig 402 miles - abandoned
Distance London to Consett 282 miles - abandoned
Distance London to Port Talbot 172 miles - abandoned, but gov considering "measures"

rule works every time.

[LondonManc]

Test re-run:

Distance London to Ravenscraig 402 miles - abandoned
Distance London to Consett 282 miles - abandoned
Distance London to Port Talbot 172 miles - abandoned, but gov considering "measures"

rule works every time.

London to Balmoral - 507 miles

Unit testing has failed. Need to add extra parameters.

[unixman]

What's Balmoral got to do with the price of cheese? Your test harness is defective sir.

[LondonManc]

What's Balmoral got to do with the price of cheese? Your test harness is defective sir.

Funding from government test. Balmoral would get funding. IT leading the business yet again? YMMS