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  • darmstadt
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    Not me, honest guv...

    Brexit. I ******* hate that word, ironically it sounds like a cheap imitation Kit Kat from a ******* European super market. I can see the Aldi ad now; 'Have a rest, have a Brexit.'

    I wish we would have a rest, I mean, who's ******* bright idea was this? Oh yeah, that loaded ******* toad mimicker, 'man of the people' tweed clad ****. Only he had no power did he? Apart from the Brexit hating BBC giving the twat rolling 24/7 news coverage for 5 years, like he's a ******* dead royal.

    He didn't instigate it though did he? So we can't dump all responsibility on the prick. No, that was the fault of the balding lipless pig fancier, who assumed that the public would blindly and automatically do what a man who ****ed the UK like it was the star of Babe instructed them to.

    So here we are now. 1 vs 27. More ****ed than Marilyn Monroe in the 50's. Now I'm not getting all nationalistic and patriotic, that's what got into this ******* mess in the first place, we're like the world's tuliptest Nazi's. I will point out however, that we've gone from being the biggest empire on the globe, to an annoying ******* piss head who's just glassed the landlord, needs to leave, wants to stay friends with everyone but won't pay he's ******* bar tab. We're an embarrassment. A petulant 5 year old with its fingers in its ears, running around the play ground screaming Brexit means

    Brexit over and over again. Ner Ner na ******* Ner Ner.

    All the other countries know we're ****ed, all the economists know we ****ed, but we're still lying on the bed, foggy headed, post Miss. World after party, looking up a topless grinning Trump and wondering.

    It's going to be great though, think of all the new trade deals! We can swap queuing and a sense of irony with America for Type 2 diabetes and poor spelling.

    What exactly are we going to ******* export by the way? We don't ******* produce anything apart from self doubt and small talk. Our whole ******* economy is based on PPI claims. As soon as Irene in Peterborough realises she's owed 8 grand from Barclays we're ****ed, the illusion will shatter quicker than an X Factor finalist's career.

    Come on, you must regret your decision now that the novelty has worn off? Is it depressing? Like being the last kid in class getting his eagerly awaited fidget spinner, only to realise it's just ******* rotating metal and there is no money for the NHS or any sense of hope.

    Yes, the majority have spoken! Well sorry but the majority are thick ******* *****

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  • VectraMan
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    Originally posted by squarepeg View Post
    Kids these days don't remember who won at Waterloo anymore. :-)
    Abba wasn't it?

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by squarepeg View Post
    You mean there could be a proxy war with the French? Some people can't wait for that. That pencil eraser in the shape of Napoleon's head they seel in the gift shop at the Buckingham Palace could use a new marketing push. Kids these days don't remember who won at Waterloo anymore. :-)
    Poor old Gebhard.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
    And I'm not sure the people of Dover would be too chuffed either...
    Why not? If anything Dover will benefit from Brexit - all them people trying to escape to Dunkirk...

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    I don't think Canadians would like that...
    And I'm not sure the people of Dover would be too chuffed either...

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  • squarepeg
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Yeah, but they have powers to pull out of the Commonwealth and maybe the Francophones there might decide to become a French colony
    You mean there could be a proxy war with the French? Some people can't wait for that. That pencil eraser in the shape of Napoleon's head they seel in the gift shop at the Buckingham Palace could use a new marketing push. Kids these days don't remember who won at Waterloo anymore. :-)

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by squarepeg View Post
    You got me thinking... Since Canada and the United Kingdom share the same monarch... could not the UK pull a fast one and become bound by the EU/Canada FTA somehow? Say by becoming an e-province of Canada like Estonia offers e-residency? Or by turning Dover into a Canadian overseas territory like Gibraltar :-)
    See how we get on first with Jamaica.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by squarepeg View Post
    They don't have to like it. The Queen has the powers to send their parliament packing :-)

    Besides, desperate times call for desperate measures, no?
    Yeah, but they have powers to pull out of the Commonwealth and maybe the Francophones there might decide to become a French colony

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  • squarepeg
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    I don't think Canadians would like that...
    They don't have to like it. The Queen has the powers to send their parliament packing :-)

    Besides, desperate times call for desperate measures, no?

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by squarepeg View Post
    You got me thinking... Since Canada and the United Kingdom share the same monarch... could not the UK pull a fast one and become bound by the EU/Canada FTA somehow? Say by becoming an e-province of Canada like Estonia offers e-residency? Or by turning Dover into a Canadian overseas territory like Gibraltar :-)
    I don't think Canadians would like that...

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  • squarepeg
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    Originally posted by tomtomagain View Post
    If Canada has a wide-ranging FTA with the EU does that mean it's in the EU?
    You got me thinking... Since Canada and the United Kingdom share the same monarch... could not the UK pull a fast one and become bound by the EU/Canada FTA somehow? Say by becoming an e-province of Canada like Estonia offers e-residency? Or by turning Dover into a Canadian overseas territory like Gibraltar :-)

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by tomtomagain View Post
    If Canada has a wide-ranging FTA with the EU does that mean it's in the EU?
    Free Trade Deal is the term politicians use to make trade deal sound better, free is good innit? In reality "free" trade deals got lots of limits, it's not a blanket one pager: let's have a free trade deal here!

    Typically FTDs put limit as to what other deals the country can get into, sometimes being in one deal make the other impossible.

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  • tomtomagain
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    So basically just stay in the EU
    If Canada has a wide-ranging FTA with the EU does that mean it's in the EU?

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    So basically just stay in the EU
    But them Nigel has to sit next to Romanians on the train.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by tomtomagain View Post
    A free trade agreement that is balanced, ambitious and wide-ranging. It cannot,
    however, amount to participation in the Single Market or parts thereof, as this would
    undermine its integrity and proper functioning. It must ensure a level playing field in terms of
    competition and state aid, and must encompass safeguards against unfair competitive
    advantages through, inter alia, fiscal, social and environmental dumping.
    So basically just stay in the EU

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