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E.U: Leave or Stay? Your thoughts.

Discussion in 'Serious' started by TheBlackSwordsMan, 22 Feb 2016.

  1. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Let's face it, if 52% of the population voted that the earth was indeed flat i'd still not be convinced without evidence.
     
  2. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Apparently Brexit needs some experts after all...

    Also in the article, of 23 February 2020:
    On 25 February 2020: EU set to agree UK trade talks mandate.
    Meanwhile, in Barrow, which voted 60.6% Leave and voted Tory for the first time in 2019 to "get Brexit done"...

    Barrow factory to shut - 100 jobs to go

     
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  3. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    I like flat earthers far more than Brexiteers.. at least flat earthers are wholly inconsequential.
     
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  4. edzieba

    edzieba Virtual Realist

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    "Brexit Uncertainty" is one of the more disgusting weasel-phrases. It is not 'uncertainty' that is causing companies to avoid UK involvement (or to raise cost overhead projection for future UK business and make economic decisions based on those projections): it is the assumption that Brexit will occur that is driving pullout. As the chance of a U-turn reduces and Brexit gains 'certainty', the effect will only accelerate. The implicit idea in the phase that it is 'uncertainty' driving action - i.e. that "once we get on and 'do Brexit' all these companies flapping about uncertainty will settle down" - is refined nonsense: it just means that those who were holding out of an 11th hour reprieve take their contingency plans and actually enact them.
     
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  5. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    So we're back to the 'The EU will cave because German car-makers' lie -

     
  6. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Who's going to tell him that 'Treaure Island' is not the translation of 'Inselaffe'
     
  7. VipersGratitude

    VipersGratitude Multimodder

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    According to the World Bank:
    20.48% of German exports fall under transportation
    6.187% of German exports are sold to the UK
    So "Treasure Island" is roughly...1.24%?
     
  8. fix-the-spade

    fix-the-spade Multimodder

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    He's probably too busy swinging from the rafters to read the translation.
     
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  9. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    To be fair, there is little doubt that they will offer us a deal that big companies like.

    Of course if Mr "F**K Business" will like it or not is a different story.
     
  10. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Not to mention that the German car industry is overproducing anyway and covers only a single digit percentage of the German workforce. It is really not Germany's biggest worry.

    Meanwhile: strawberry fields are not forever; they last for only a very short harvesting window... Brexit: Leave voter realises his fruit farm empire faces ruin without EU migrant workers. That was in 2017; I wonder how he is doing now?
     
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  11. frack

    frack What's a Dremel?

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    I believe that only the generation of young people is not happy in all this ...
     
  12. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    That's an odd belief to have. Then again this whole fiasco has been opinion vs facts.
     
  13. frack

    frack What's a Dremel?

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    unfortunately I have never been to England, but my consideration is based only on what i heard around. And being "limited" or in any case worse connected with the rest of the world I don't think will help the future...
     
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    loftie Multimodder

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    wolfticket Downwind from the bloodhounds

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    Often items proudly stating handmade or handpicked are only that way because the humans that do the work are cheaper overall than machines would be.
     
  16. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    Most low-end jobs only continue to exist because people are, for now, cheaper than the robot. Once that's not longer the case, they'll pick the robot over Pawel from Poland or whatever.
     
  17. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Bloody Chinese robots, coming over here, taking our jobs... :p
     
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    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Damned people with their work ethics going over there, taking jobs natives are too lazy or elitist to do..
     
  19. Nexxo

    Nexxo * Prefab Sprout – The King of Rock 'n' Roll

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    Talking of which...
    Corona may have saved the career of our dear leader.

    Remember when he spouted all those lines about not extending the transition / negotiation period?
    Now he has a bullet proof excuse so his fellow Tories will not stab him in the back when he inevitably does ask for an extension.
     

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