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23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?That's more Farage/Boris bull. I hate it that they would lie to us over such an important thing. We've always been in charge of our borders, we just never bothered to spend money on policing them. Here is the truth. https://fullfact.org/europe/border-security-eu/ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?So who slipped in Universal Credit, ATOS and PIP when our backs were turned. Not the EU. Which Lawmakers were censured by the UN for breaching the human rights of the Disabled? Ours, that's who. Which lawmakers are committed to repealing the EU Working Time Directive in favour of the "Gig" economy? Not only do we already make our own laws, including many oppressive statutes which have been successfully challenged in the courts, but we - currently - have a veto for anything we dont like. We don't control our borders because it costs too much money. Like everything else, we pay lots of taxes but get the cheapest service there is. We have 3 vessels to protect our entire coastline from illegal migrants landing by sea. THREE. Italy has 600. France has 40. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/674988/Britain-three-boats-stop-migrants-reaching-UK I agree about the EU gravy train. Farage has trousered €2m from us. And he never turns up! His poor attendance record is only beaten by one MEP - and that guy is undergoing long term hospital treatment. But our MPs are no better. Westminster is as corrupt as they come. When Osborne sold off the Royal Mail at a discount, his mate and Best Man at his wedding made a personal gain of £6m. For no risk. The hedge fund he manages made £100m on the privatisation. That's not decent. But at least the MEPs deliverered prosperity and better lives for their citizens. Our Government kills us off. 120,000 deaths accirding to independent research.ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?You won't get an answer. There aren't anyViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Well said. That is so true. Somebody is making a lot of money out of Brexit. But it isnt us. All the millionaire tax avoiding politicians and media owners are crying out for it. 62 Tory MPs are trying to dictate our future for their own self-serving ends. And yet they decry European Democracy as they continue to bully Brexit through while hiding money offshore. Meanwhile we can't get the Health Care and Social care we have paid for all our lives.ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Long term gains can only come from Opportunity. If we leave the EU our single biggest, closest and most prosperous customer will be thrown away. There is no better market for us than that. It's half of everything we earn. And as a part of that 500m person economic unit we get access to every nation worth trading with on terms much better than we can get as a 67m island. There is no long term prosperity. You are dreaming.ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?When was the last time tbis Government made ANY lives better? Everything is cut, cut, cut. Cheapest possible cost for everything for us, but only the best for themselves. The publically owned East Coast Rail line was making a profit, so they gave it to Branson. Fares up, service down, run into bankruptcy in two years. The taxpayer has had to pick up the loss. Enjoy your Chlorinated chicken.ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Your villa would be 20% more expensive now thanks to the exchange rate. And your pension 20% less when exchanged into foreign currency. Brexit did that.ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Go on then. Show some facts then. Use any Economic source you like, from anywhere in the world; and use any variant of applied Economics, and any projections you can justify. There is no prosperous Brexit. You will not be able to support your statement. You will not be able to show any opportunity we don't already have.ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Are you qualified to make that unsubstantiated wild guess? I suspect not. I don't know where you get the idea from. Only Minford is proven wrong. And he is paid by the Tory party. The money is moving to the Continent. Some of it is already there now...... and we haven't left yet. Every business tool showing the impact of Brexit has been proven correct. You won't like it. Time for us to know the truth.ViewDate:
23rd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?hahaha. You hope! Your grandchildren will hate what you have done. And your children wont be happy either. Not good to p off the offspring. They'll be choosing your care home!ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Gravity Lionel, gravity. I don't need to fall off a skyscraper to see if gravity exists. We don't need to wreck the economy to know that doing bad things to it will hurt it.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?I don't believe in gravity. But I'm not dumb enough to jump off a cliff, just in case I'm wrong....ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Very true Lionel. It's as if they dont trust us with the truth.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Well said. The referendum was to heal the Tory split. It did exactly the opposite. The Government has been furtive in its dealings. What are they still hiding?ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?It has already begun. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/302067/article/2018-01-22/toyota-annonce-700-emplois-crees-et-300-millions-d-euros-d-investissement And today Unilever, on top of the auto industry Global Corporations.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Must be a conspiracy, eh Tovarichie ? Or maybe we've just been thinking it through and researching independent facts, not just using our own experiences in, say, International Business Development and Strategic Marketing.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Time for your tablets, Latin. That is all. Over and out.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Oh dear. So much hate! And the rest of us are having such a nicely civilised discussion, too. I think Jane has been very polite, and undeserving of such vitriol. I don't agree with Lionel on almost everything he says, but I respect that his opinions are genuinely and sincerely held - unlike a lot of our Representative MPs, I fear, who are cashing in regardless. You don't have to leave these shores to find corruption of the highest order. I would say to you though, Latin, that over the last 2 years many predictions and warnings by experienced and well informed people were criticised as "project fear". Every single one of those predictions have come to pass on schedule. Yet the critique of the Leave politicians was so inaccurate that they tried to hide the very facts from the electorate. When you pop into tge shops and there are 3 or 4 bisvuits less in a pack for the same price, wgen you see that butter has doubled in price in the last year, and your gas, electricity and petrol has shot up; even a loaf of bread. That is because our economy - which had its problems after 2010 - hit the brick wall of Brexit. We lost our AAA Crefit Rating. The EU didn't. Our £ is worth 80p. And we have to buy our commodities and fuels in $. If Brexit was good for us I'd be all for it. But everything I know tells me it will be a disaster for ordinary folks like us. We will be seriously out of pocket personally, I don't think we will get the health care we have been promised during all these years of paying in. I can see our homes being taken from us to pay more for health. Meanwhile the rich will be rolling in it in their tax-free sanctuary that we call the UK. If it still is a UK.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Not of that is true. None of that is a logical construct from the evidence. But I accept that you have genuine emitional views on the matter. There is plenty if evidence that shows how bad it would be if we left the EU. Or at least the EEA. Google is your friend. Leaving the EU will cost us more than staying. And we benefit greatly from being in the EU for naff all cost According to HMRC I paid £18 last year to the EU - for the whole year. You couldn't get a single match-day ticket for a 2nd Division football team for that. Certainly not a night out, or an hour bowling, or cinema ticket and nibbles. It's the price of a curry. I'm very happy with that. My wife and I - and dog - have the freedom of movement across the entire Continent, ability to take work anywhere in that territory and get free medical care while I am there. And yes, I have done it, when jobs over here were impossible to find. And it was a great (and well paid) experience. I don't have to risk leaving my Human Rights at the door as I go, either. The European Court can keep these Tory gangsters in check, and prevent the worst excesses. As they have already been doing. Look at the judgements in the Court of Human Rights. The UK is the most prolific contravener of it's citizen's Human Rights of any EU nation. Are you telling me, anti-EU peeps, that if we were not in the EU that savings would exceed £18 a year? You can say goodbye to cheap wine for a start. And that Irish Beef will carry a 40% tariff. Your holidays will be more expensive. And VAT will need to rise in the UK. Actually £18 is the lowest item on the list. The next lowest is overseas aid at £40. More interestingly, I paid £83 last year to support Business and Industry. It doesn't say which, nor if it was British Business and Industry. Now THAT I would like to stop paying. Why am I paying money to support Corporations when there is £120bn a year taxes avoided by simply declaring your HQ is overseas? Why am I paying this when the Tories have been selling off public assets at knock-down prices to their mates. RBS was knocked down at 40% off market value, for example, and we were totally shafted when we bought those Lloyds shares, which again were sold at a loss to us, but at a profit for the Tory Chums. We're being shafted on a regular and routine basis. But it's by our own Government, not the EU. And don't get me started on PIP......ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?I agree with you there entirely. It's a total joke. It's 18 months since the referendum. It's, what, a year since Article 50 was submitted. And today.... T O D A Y Mrs May and her cabinet are meeting to decide what sort of Brexit they want. What a farce. If they had been working for me they would have been down the job centre by now. Every stated hope and intention has been surrendered for nothing in return. NOTHING. They've rolled over on the lot. We have agreed to pay £100bn. We'll be paying our fees for 15 years at least, just as we do now, but we will have no say, no veto, no cadhback to our farners, fisheries or deptived areas. What a bloody disaster. We must be the onky coubtry in tge wirld eho eill be paying a membership fee NOT to join a club.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?We will still get the goods. But we will pay more. We will pay 10% more on our cars. We will pay 40% more on Beef and Fish under WTO tariffs. And all % in between depending on the poduct category. That's if the £ still holds up. The Bank of England did a Brexit stress test and forecast the £ dropping a further 27%, interest rates rising by 4%, and house prices dropping by a THIRD. It's on their web site. When I downsize I don't want my equity released to be a third less. It's taken me 45 years to build up that equity. And you can't live on a state pension.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?I think you are mistaken there. Which chapter of Magna Carta (or our Bill of Rights, if you prefer) are you referring to? John Major was acting totally correctky when he signed the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Nope. Sorry. Brexit lovers are in the minority. Google your facts please. There is NO upside to Brexit. Just pain, more poverty and devastation of our once Great country.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?The 500m Eu customers are 20 miles away. Have no tariff barriers or customs delay. Have no cultural barriers to our products. Are wealthy and have a high disposable income. Do you really think you can compete with China, Malaysia, Korea or Vietnam? You would be trying to compete with workers earning $145 A MONTH. When I worked in International Business you picked your market by opportunity, not fantasy. So Sweden could afford any number of domestic air conditioners, but it wasn't hot enough to need them; Libya would welcome any number of domestic air conditioners, but had insufficient wealth to buy them. Yet by your opinion they would both be opportunities. We can already sell to the world on WTO or better tetms, btw, by Remaining in the EU. Opportunity, not geography. Close, nit distant. Especially for services.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Bollox to that. We were doing just fine until 2010. Austerity hurt the UK Economy badly, and unnecessarily, Brexit will kill it. We do not have the manufacturing base to trade well in world markets solus, and to turn our backs on our nearest and richest customer is pure folly. Japanese firms employ 140,000 people directly in the UK. 10 times more jobs than that in other firms depend on supplying those Japanese firms with goods and services. They are only here because we are a bridge into the EU. For now. Toyota this month has created 300 new jobs in France with a £700m investment in new plant there. Those jobs should have gone to Derby. Think of your grandchildren. They will be paying this farce off for decades. Long after you and I are worm poo.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?The referendum result was not only based on lies to the electorate but it was advisory. It certainly was not legally binding. No country changes it's constitution based on the ideas of 27% of the population. We have a Representative Democracy for that very reason, not a Direct Democracy. Sorry, but as facts have become known the UK has changed its mind. Remain is 12% ahead of Leave. "A Democracy that cannot change its mind is no longer a Democracy". David Davies said that.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?You are out of touch. The majority want to remain by 10% or 12% depending on which poll you look at. The last election was fought on Brexit by the Tory party. They were 20% ahead in the polls for a landslide mandate when they declared the election. Result? Decidedly not a mandate for Brexit. May lost her majority, and was only able to firm a Government by bribing ten Northern Ireland MPs for £1bn. The will of the people is R E M A I N. It's the only sensibke, practical and honest chouce.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?I don't know anything about Soros. But I do know that Rees-Mogg's millions were made by advising his rich mates to move their wealth off-shore. The last thing he wants is the new Eu legislation on tax avoidance to come in. These guys aren't your friends. We pay for everything. They take all the profits and hide them overseas.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?On what basis do you think that? So far every week this shower go back on a Brexit promise. The £350m a week for the NHS promise went before breakfast on the day after the Referendum. Now it looks like we will be paying in the same amounts for 15 years AFTER WE LEAVE! We won't have any say or vote, our veto will be lost, and we will just be a Brexited Cash machine. The worst possible position.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Unfortunately, in the not so long run we'll all be dead. I don't want my final years to be miserable. Ive worked hard all my life. I've paid my dues. I want my grandchildren to have the same chances I have had. Uk has done well out of the EU. I remember the 1960s. Great music, but a lousy quality of life. Bureacracy? Ha! Just try raising Export documentation as a Third Country under WTO. It's a nightmare. And you can forget abiut affirdable health care. Tge Americans are rubbibg their hands ready for the bargain basrment sell-off. Branson takes £5bn a year out of our NHS, and pays no tax on his own private island. Disgraceful.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?Rubbish! They will just blame somebody else while they furtively count their huge tax sheltered wealth! Its you and I who will be paying for it, make no mistake.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?AllI read about are businesses leavi g the UK and sacking their staff. We sell much much more to the EU than we do to any other market.ViewDate:
22nd Feb 2018CardinalB commented on:
Are you concerned about the economic impact of Brexit?It's scary and very stressful. My life savings are worth a lot less than 2 years ago thanks to the £ falling. Everything I buy has gone up so much, and as a pensioner I can't replace what I spend. We were promised all sorts, but in 18 months things have gone from bad to worse. What happened to this Great nation? I feel betrayed. End this stupid Brexit farce. Most people don't want it any more. The tail is wagging the dog.