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Previously on "Something good from Brexit"

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  • PurpleGorilla
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Well you have to remember that a lot of Leavers voted to put an end to the 'global elite' being in charge, a protest vote if you like
    More of the same vs rock the tulip.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
    If you want one chart to explain brexit, it is this one.

    The rich reap what they have sown.
    Well you have to remember that a lot of Leavers voted to put an end to the 'global elite' being in charge, a protest vote if you like

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  • PurpleGorilla
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Doesn't look too good but you have to remember, this is by experts and the Leave campaign doesn't believe in experts so it's all fake news.



    If you want one chart to explain brexit, it is this one.

    The rich reap what they have sown.

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  • darmstadt
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    Doesn't look too good but you have to remember, this is by experts and the Leave campaign doesn't believe in experts so it's all fake news.

    This week it was revealed that the UK economy grew by 0.5% in the final quarter of 2018, and because this was marginally better than the even more woeful prediction of 0.4% the hard-right Daily Express ran a front page story declaring that "the Brexit Boom is here"!

    Never mind the fact that 0.5% growth actually makes the UK the second slowest growing economy in the entire developed world, or that the UK is projected to suffer the worst negative wage growth rate anywhere in Europe this year ... Britain is booming, the Daily Express told me so.

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  • PurpleGorilla
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Looks indeed like the economy will do well as the UK heads for a Norway style solution.

    May mulls paying into the EU budget post Brexit

    Brexit U-Turn as MP's consider staying in the customs union

    I've come to the conclusion that I was wrong, I thought Switzerland would be closer to where the UK would end up with at least a token distance from the EU, but it's increasingly clear that the UK will in effect be full members of the EU with some changes to the syntax rather than semantics.

    BINO is about all this government is capable of delivering.

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  • BlasterBates
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    Looks indeed like the economy will do well as the UK heads for a Norway style solution.

    May mulls paying into the EU budget post Brexit

    Brexit U-Turn as MP's consider staying in the customs union

    I've come to the conclusion that I was wrong, I thought Switzerland would be closer to where the UK would end up with at least a token distance from the EU, but it's increasingly clear that the UK will in effect be full members of the EU with some changes to the syntax rather than semantics.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    It's great that you admit there was a brexit hit, but if there hadn't been, the growth would have been even better.
    That is the "imagined" hit that exists solely in the heads of morons. Nicely picked up, although I am sure one of the other jellyheads would have done so, once they have stopped their daily window-licking.

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    It's great that you admit there was a brexit hit, but if there hadn't been, the growth would have been even better.
    I am not convinced the growth would have happened as everyone would have been going on as before and pretending everything is alright.

    I think Brexit has focussed peoples minds and we no longer suckle at the saggy teat of the EU

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    It's great that you admit there was a brexit hit, but if there hadn't been, the growth would have been even better.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    I will stock pile now in preparation for a hard brexit.....
    UK growth upgrade could 'dwarf' Brexit hit - BBC News


    Well well well................

    Britain should prepare for a much more economically optimistic 2018 because global growth is better than predicted.

    That's the argument of Lord Jim O'Neill, the former Conservative Treasury minister and Remain supporter.

    He said Britain's growth forecasts are likely to be upgraded as China, the US and Europe show increased activity.

    The gloomy predictions of the possible effects of Brexit are likely to be "dwarfed" by the more positive figures, Lord O'Neill added.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    It's Werther's Original BTW, a good German sweet, made to make old fuddy duddy Brits choke over their Daily Telegraph
    I will stock pile now in preparation for a hard brexit.....

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    <chokes on Wuirthers original>
    It's Werther's Original BTW, a good German sweet, made to make old fuddy duddy Brits choke over their Daily Telegraph

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  • BrilloPad
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    I am pleased there is something. As I am getting fed up with high house prices. When is this mythical economic crash occurring?

    F88king lying remoaning bar-stewards. They all want shooting. etc. etc.

    <chokes on Wuirthers original>

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Why do we care? That's a Turkish company so it's got nothing to do with British owned businesses.
    Unless you're Boris: Boris Johnson says UK will support Turkey's bid to join EU despite Brexit vote | The Independent

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Indeed and the endless sagas in the newspapers.

    The Neverending Story.

    We have condemned ourselves to being completely defined by Brexit for the next several years at least, possibly decades

    Fecking DC.

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