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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostDo you really believe BMW drivers will not pay in favour of a Ford Focus?
At the height of its production there was a new Ford Focus coming off a production line at an average of one every 12 seconds (Saarlouis, Germany; Valencia, Spain; Wayne, Michigan USA; Hermosillo, Mexico). However, the Focus was never built in Britain.
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostWhereas you can only aspire be an arsewiper's pimp...
FTFY
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIf I was a Brexiteer I would be going for the uncontrolled immigration argument.
The economic one is lost for them already.
TBH I'm considering not voting because I do accept the uncontrolled immigration argument.
But if I was forced to vote I'd vote Remain as it seems to me (for now at least) much the lesser of 2 evils.
My ultimate argument is if we need an emergency brake at any point in the future, an act of Parliament can make it so, as we've established.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostThe "top of the establishment" has never had much of a requirement for brains, but even so, you don't make the cut. Sorry.
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostAnd that's why you're voting "Remain".
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostThat is brilliantly written and argued. Despite the rantings of the pro establishment lobby I base my own judgement on history and human behaviour. This suggests that the EU will eventually become an unaccountable superstate with no real democratic accountability that will simply exploit the people of Europe for the benefit of the rich and powerful.
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostI accept the argument about a short-term economic cost, but I know a thing or two about mathematical modeling, and I simply don't buy any of these forecasts about long-term economic costs, because I broadly understand the models they are using. To begin with, there is no historical precedent, so the models are revealing only insofar as they introduce assumptions that connect outputs to inputs and model parameters. Unfortunately, the inputs are politically driven (e.g. 6% reduction in GDP or assumptions about trade barriers), and the outputs are rarely that useful to the average citizen (e.g. distributing GDP across households). Rubbish in, rubbish out. It's essentially a vehicle for propaganda, and I think the average voter understands that (they understand that these forecasts are typically very wrong, even months in advance for relatively well-understood variables, let alone for decades in advance and variables that are very poorly understood).
More fundamentally, it's very difficult to know how the UK would respond to a Brexit. In other words, it may be useful to explore scenarios, but these scenarios themselves are very difficult to quantify, and the models cannot account for the legislative response to Brexit or the future success/failure of the Eurozone, only relatively narrow (albeit uncertain) predictors, such as trade barriers. The models are structurally flawed. For example, what is the relative cost of EU legislation to SMEs and their ability to innovate vs. the benefits of existing market access over any new deal? How would we fare inside vs. outside the EU to a collapse of the Eurozone? There are too many unanswerable questions in the long-term.
However, I do completely agree that our strongest single argument is w/r to reduced immigration. The same OECD report points to a reduction in inward migration of 85,000 over the forecast period (equally debatable). The main difficulty with this argument, and why I think the Bremainers will win, is that it's a ~40% argument. It turns off almost as many undecided voters as it turns on. To get 50%+, a sufficient number of undecided voters need to be willing to sacrifice the short-term economic costs for self-determination and our long-term prospects, which cannot be modeled mathematically (credibly).
I hasten to add that as soon as I become a member of this group I will be voting "remain" and you plebs can keep paying me my 25%Last edited by DodgyAgent; 27 April 2016, 11:01.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostFFS.
Yes with Brexit there would be no economic downside whatever and we'd soon become the richest country in the world..
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostI dunno, but I'd pay for a Norwegian style relationship any day of the week.
EU will try to punish Britain for leaving ,as an example. So before things become OK again it will be good 10 years by which time we will be all worse off.Last edited by diseasex; 27 April 2016, 10:47.
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