i hope it's like that series in cuba
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The UK votes to leave the European Union |OUT2| Mayday, Mayday, I've lost an ARM
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i hope it's like that series in cuba
JonnyDBrit
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Man, even if we were somehow able to say 'Know what? Changed our minds.', we'd be taking a hit anyway from companies having acted in anticipation of it.
Everybody always said theyll activate contingency plans in spring/summer 17. UK government has done nothing to keep the big companies happy(except Nissan and Toyota). Obviously plans are being activated now as no deal is getting more and more likely
Royal_Phalanx
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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...t-transition-will-mean-years-of-free-movement
Hopefully transition will morph into "lasting forever"
Hopefully transition will morph into "lasting forever"
Here's the Economist article in question:
https://www.economist.com/news/lead...denial-about-brexits-drawbacks-country-course
https://www.economist.com/news/lead...denial-about-brexits-drawbacks-country-course
JonnyDBrit
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40697322
Fox is pinning any transitional arrangement with the EU to last only up until the next general election.
Fox is pinning any transitional arrangement with the EU to last only up until the next general election.
lol, they're setting up an attack point for when they lose the next election. "oh look its all gone to shit because we're out of government, this is why we need to be in government!!""
The sheer arrogance to suggest longer than 3 years after multiple factions of the opposing negotiation side have said theyl veto any transition longer than 3 years.
Then again well probably have 3 GEs until 2022
Billy_Pilgrim
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Corbyn confirming that he wants out of the single market because he's a brexiter dickhead
MrMysterio
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Might be my EU-citizen living in the UK paranoia speaking, but it feels like the UK is very quickly driving towards "no-deal" territory, or at least it's a real possibility.
Which means, I do have to prepare for a scenario where I could be illegal by 2019. Yay.
Which means, I do have to prepare for a scenario where I could be illegal by 2019. Yay.
Snarfington
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I can't believe this guy managed to fool people around me who said their number one priority for the election was keeping in the single market into voting for him. Many good policies but at the end of the day he's vague and duplicitous just like the rest of 'em.
Theonik
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Why are people acting like it's new. It was Labour policy from the start. Leaving the EU has to involve leaving the single market otherwise there is no point. The only alternative is admitting that the electorate is retarded and not doing this at all which is not really viable.
You wouldn't be 'illegal' but yeah unfortunate as it is the rights of EU citizens are the result of reciprocal agreements that cease to apply in a leave scenario unless both parties re-affirm them, but their foundations are largely relying on the EU itself so a new agreement would need to be reached.
Which is too bad.
Royal_Phalanx
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I knew this all along. Unfortunately this is FPTP so I have to vote for the least bad option that can realistically win. I would have voted Lib Dem otherwise. TFW when Tories are fucking the country and screwing us over but Corbyn follows them on this one issue.
Further evidence (as if it's needed) that the bastards in the Tory party want to turn the country into Singapore while Corbyn and McDonnell want to turn the country into Venezuela.
It's like they are in competition with each other to see whose vision for the country is the worst. I can't wait to see whether the welfare state gets obliterated or we get 1970s anti-globalisation socialism!
It's like they are in competition with each other to see whose vision for the country is the worst. I can't wait to see whether the welfare state gets obliterated or we get 1970s anti-globalisation socialism!
Please vote Lib Dem next time.
travisbickle
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Stop being so melodramatic.
The UK will still be the UK but with different trade policies, the culture of British people won't allow it to change to the drastic examples you give. To become Venezuela you have to have the history and culture of Venezuela.
The UK will still be the UK but with different trade policies, the culture of British people won't allow it to change to the drastic examples you give. To become Venezuela you have to have the history and culture of Venezuela.
SlipperyFishes
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Please vote an ineffective party into power?
SlipperyFishes
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Hey now. Don't.
Police state and institutionalised racism. Also death penalty and physical punishment for crimes.
Which I guess fits the dreams of some of the Tories' voters.
RedSparrows
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Never underestimate how many people love the idea of a security state.
'I will nevet do wrong, you will never do wrong, they are the problem'.
Literally throwing your vote away when voting lib dem. The only time I could justify voting lib dem is when they're keeping a tory out of a seat.
Good news: Britain looking at cancelling stupid EU laws, like bans on chlorine-washed chicken.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-ruled-out-by-no-10-in-pursuit-of-trade-deals
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-ruled-out-by-no-10-in-pursuit-of-trade-deals
That's what happens when you put a Fox in charge of the hen house.
Royal_Phalanx
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mmmm chlorine washed chicken dinner
So on one hand it sounds terrible and dangerous.
But on the other hand - 360 million Americans consuming chicken washed in that way, and its been declared safe even by the EU foods agency. So as horrible as it sounds, is it one of those things that sounds a lot worse than it actually is?
The EU has banned it because you don't need to chlorine wash if the hygiene is high enough in the rest of the chain before it. You can lower standards and cheapen out.
Spuck-uk
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I know more than a few IT/Software people eyeing up Europe and realising how much cheaper it is than London. If jobs start cropping up there because of brexit, expect a serious brain drain.
Spuck-uk
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Ah, the UK, the country famous for relying on a single natural resource for 80% of its economy, the value of which has dropped like a stone in the last ten years. Exactly like Venezuela!
Liberals smh
Spuck-uk
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Deep racial divisions.
A police/military state with massive surveillance of its own population. Death penalties for soft drug possession and.
Titanic wealth inequality. Incredibly unaffordable housing.
Real concerns about automation killing off a huge number of jobs. Almost entirely reliant on financial services sector to even exist as a country.
I was to move to london since my company was about to to open a new office in London early last year and i was shocked how expensive London is compared to Hamburg.
Long story short, the London office was put on hold and some of the guys that were to work there got hired here in germany.
CyclopsRock
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You could go really mad and not buy it.
Heaven forbid. I mean, I like chewing gum as much as the next guy but...
Violent colonialism and the subjugation of inferior natives.
MrMysterio
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Yeah, London prizes are infamously horrendous, especially when you see what you get for the money (strictly speaking quality of flat, not quality of life). Especially when you know that Hamburg really isn't considered cheap in Germany either.
I'd rather carry on eating chicken the chicken we have and not have a race to the bottom with food safety standards tbh
This whole "vote with your wallet" logic has and always will be absolute bollocks. Consumers aren't perfectly informed, and sellers have a long history of lying about how good their products are in order to sell more.
Theonik
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Also industry, especially established ones, don't act competitively. Consumer choice isn't really a choice usually.
CyclopsRock
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Yeah, thank god we have the EU here to protect us from accidentally eating horse meat we didn't want.
Incidentally, chlorinated chicken is absolutely fine. I dunno about all the rest, but then I'm not a food hygenist. I've heard enough otherwise-sensible people talk a load of cum-swill about chlorinated chicken, though, to know that someone saying "I don't want franken-foods" may well not know what they're talking about.
Agreed. And when something reaches critical mass in the mass market there's a danger of no turning back.
At least that's the path my (pre-disposed) mind has taken me.
Pretty big cut in wages, though. I was contemplating a move from London to Amsterdam and even with the 30% ruling (https://www.expatax.nl/30ruling) and the weak pound I'd be taking a pretty sizeable pay cut with worse career progression opportunities available.
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