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Should the UK remain a member of the EU


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  1. 1. Should the UK remain a member of the EU

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On 05/03/2022 at 12:17, M_B said:

Wait until you find out we have an overseas aid budget taking money away from the least fortunate in this country. 

Wait until you find out we have a Government taking money away from the least fortunate in this country

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4 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Had to look up Dominique Samuels. Yes, this Turning Point UK group is dangerous. The last thing we need is them infiltrating UK education the way they have in the US.

Wait until she overhears tobacco gnashers calling her a box ticking exercise 

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'The best came near the end as Conservative Kevin Hollinrake tried to tease out why the UK growth forecasts were so low. Rishi took this on the chin. Everyone had always known that a change in trading relationships with the EU would cause a hit to the UK economy. Really? That was odd. Because no one could remember seeing “Brexit will make you poorer” on the side of the bus. Maybe it had just been written in German.

 

Not that Sunak could bring himself to say the B word, even when committee chair Mel Stride followed this up. “Oh no, no, no …” Rishi stammered, suddenly aware he had disclosed the government’s worst-kept secret. The 18-year-old Treasury official sitting next to Sunak went white. The chancellor tried to cover it up by saying it was impossible to disaggregate Brexit from the pandemic, but Stride wasn’t having it. The truth was there in black and white. The OBR had a graph showing the UK worse off because of Brexit.

 

For the first time Sunak lapsed into near silence. Just waiting for the end. There were no photo ops to be had. No flags to pose behind. If his budget hadn’t been career-ending, then his Brexit indiscretion might be. His life was just going from bad to worse. It would be just his luck to end the week with a fixed penalty notice for Partygate.'

 

From John Crace's article yesterday.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/28/do-you-think-people-are-stupid-sunak-shrugged-of-course-he-did

 

 

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On 14/04/2022 at 21:39, Anubis said:

Brexit chickens coming home to roost.

 


 

That came out a while ago that.

Johnson stood up and told them the exact opposite. 

I.do find it a bit strange the government have been strangely muted on these multitude of Brexit wins which have come our way.

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2 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Boom! 
 

Another of those bonuses’ 

 

UK to have slowest growth of all G7 for 2023, the good times just keep a rollin’

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/imf-sees-uk-growth-slowing-weakest-g7-next-year-2022-04-19/

Our slow growth has absolutely nothing to do with our governments incompetence and mismanagement, nothing at all.

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Part of voting for Brexit and then doubling down at the election was knowing who was driving Brexit home or getting it done, so that’s part of their incompetence. It’s so clear now that Brexit is ridiculous, but it was obvious then too. It’s all very well hiding behind ‘the government are incompetent’, but even the most competent government would have seen massive dents to the economy due to Brexit. 

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1 hour ago, Gnasher said:

Our slow growth has absolutely nothing to do with our governments incompetence and mismanagement, nothing at all.

It has everything to do with them and their desperation to force Brexit though at all costs despite it being a disastrous idea for the normal British person. 

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10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

It has everything to do with them and their desperation to force Brexit though at all costs despite it being a disastrous idea for the normal British person. 

 

I disagree, Brexit wasn't the reason our growth was fairly good to other G7 countries these past couple of years and it's not the main reason it's so low now. If we blame everything on brexit we give the Conservatives a free pass for their incompetence and the next election will go the way of the previous one.

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I'm amazed that Brexiteers are able to separate the Brexit Government from Brexit. Gnasher is like that Frost buffoon, lauding the deal and then a few months later saying the Protocol he negotiated, which was amazing and the greatest protocol in the history of protocols, is shit and doesn't work and is nothing to do with him.

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46 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

It has everything to do with them and their desperation to force Brexit though at all costs despite it being a disastrous idea for the normal British person. 

"Normal British person"

 

Are the low paid haulage drivers, fruit pickers, meat factory employees, construction workers etc who experienced a long awaited increase in both wages and vacancies, normal British people, or don't they count?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/12/uk-job-vacancies-record-12m-brexit-covid-staff-shortages-unemployment

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2 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

"Normal British person"

 

Are the low paid haulage drivers, fruit pickers, meat factory employees, construction workers etc who experienced a long awaited increase in both wages and vacancies, normal British people, or don't they count?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/12/uk-job-vacancies-record-12m-brexit-covid-staff-shortages-unemployment

Brexit is a disaster no matter how hard you try and spin it. Unless of course you're one of the many millionaires who benefited from it. 

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