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Previously on "Brexit Britain's creeping irrelevance"

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by tarbera View Post
    In my building in canary wharf these are several treasonous sabotage plots a week about moving your business after Brexit when "Passporting" is no more
    FTFY

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  • tarbera
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    Financial services,

    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Australia is in bed with China. Mining all the raw materials which China turns into iCrap etc.

    We need to be more like Iceland. Financial services, fishing, energy independent.

    The country not the budget supermarket.
    In my building in canary wharf these are several seminars a week about moving your business after Brexit when "Passporting" is no more

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    The reason that the UK won't, or can't, pay the divorce bill is to pay David 'thick as mince and lazy as a toad' Davis's bar bill
    Updated your post to reflect the current Vote Leave position.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    we agreed to pay JC Drunker's bar bill?
    The reason that the UK won't, or can't, pay the divorce bill is to pay Davis's bar bill

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  • meridian
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    Brexit Britain's creeping irrelevance

    Originally posted by No2politics View Post
    They were the only country to send their bankers to jail after the financial crisis. So quite a good role model actually
    They're also a geothermal island of 350k or so. It's easy to say "fishing and energy independent", but a bit harder for the UK to actually put that into practise.

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  • No2politics
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    More like Iceland? Fecking hell, the role models you pick
    They were the only country to send their bankers to jail after the financial crisis. So quite a good role model actually

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    1966 England wins the World Cup
    2016 UK scores the biggest own goal in history
    we agreed to pay JC Drunker's bar bill?

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  • scooterscot
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    1966 England wins the World Cup
    2016 UK scores the biggest own goal in history

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    More like Iceland? Fecking hell, the role models you pick
    Reduce the population bt >99% and join EFTA? One of those makes sense.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    well they didn't do their accounts right and screwed their creditors, its just like the EU, you should be happy.
    Why should I be happy about living in a country that fecks up creditors?

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    well they didn't do their accounts right and screwed their creditors, its just like the EU, you should be happy.
    AtW does not believe in screwing creditirs. Only squirrels.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    More like Iceland? Fecking hell, the role models you pick
    well they didn't do their accounts right and screwed their creditors, its just like the EU, you should be happy.

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  • AtW
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    More like Iceland? Fecking hell, the role models you pick

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  • DimPrawn
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    Australia is in bed with China. Mining all the raw materials which China turns into iCrap etc.

    We need to be more like Iceland. Financial services, fishing, energy independent.

    The country not the budget supermarket.

    Leave a comment:


  • northernladyuk
    started a topic Brexit Britain's creeping irrelevance

    Brexit Britain's creeping irrelevance

    Not looking so good for Empire 2.0 with its jam centred trade strategy. Even teh Telegraph is starting to give up hope. Soon the only believer will be Diana's ghost.

    Brexit Britain's 'creeping irrelevance' to Australia hinted at in foreign policy blueprint

    Australia has pledged to bolster ties with a post-Brexit Britain – including signing a free trade deal – but its new long-term foreign policy blueprint appeared to signal London’s “creeping irrelevance” to Canberra.

    In a sign of Australia’s shifting priorities, a 136-page foreign policy white paper released by prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra included no special section on ties with Britain, which received just twelve mentions.

    In contrast, the previous white paper in 2003 featured a two-page section highlighting the “alignment of our security interests and our shared values and history” and made 49 mentions of Britain.

    James Curran, an expert on Australia’s foreign relations, said the latest white paper was “confirmation” of the rapidly diminishing importance of relations between the two nations.

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