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Old 01-10-2019, 05:56 AM
 
Location: Great Britain
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Originally Posted by GotHereQuickAsICould View Post
Getting the lavish living "Eurocrats" out of the pockets of the British citizens seems a worthy goal.

Ridding the UK of Polish plumbers and Romanian rif raf, as well as EU regulations and restraints is all well and wonderful.

But to claim there won't be an economic price to pay for this is foolish. The cost may be worth it, but no reason to lie about it.
The Polish and Romanians are going home, as for who we let in based on skills that is a matter for the UK and can be subject to change if so required.

In terms of the EU if they want a trade deal we will negotiate one with them, indeed they have free trade deals wth a number of countries outside the EU.

 
Old 01-11-2019, 12:46 PM
 
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Now this is really something. The UK Parliament is taking up debate on a petition to implement Brexit intentionally with "No deal". They apparently have a process where Parliament will take up debate on petitions with over 100,000 signatures. On this question, the petition already has over 321,000 signatures, which dwarfs the required number, and presumably that number is still growing.
Areas of UK pushing for Brexit no deal as petition HIJACKS May’s Meaningful vote

A MONSTER petition demanding Britain adopts a no-deal Brexit and simply walks away from the EU without paying the crippling £39billion divorce bill has secured a debate in Parliament hours before Theresa May’s meaningful vote after it scooped more than 300,000 signatures.

Die-hard Brexiteers hijacked Prime Minister Theresa May’s crunch Commons vote on Tuesday by winning a Parliamentary debate over whether the UK should opt for a no-deal scenario less than 24 hours before warring MPs vote on her Withdrawal Agreement. The 321,000 signatures dwarf the 100,000 needed to secure a discussion in the House of Commons.

And the debate has been set for Monday afternoon, the day before MPs take part in the meaningful vote on the Brexit deal. The petition demands the UK walk away from the EU without coughing up the billions of pounds as agreed by Mrs May at the start of Brexit negotiations.

The document, titled ‘Leave the EU without a deal in March 2019’, reads: “We will save billions of pounds from our EU divorce payment as well as a similar amount from Civil Service and Government costs. This money will be used to support our own country whilst we await the EU to talk to us to make deals more in our favour.”
This is awesome. Talk about drama. This debate is scheduled to take place, in Parliament on Monday, the day before the 'Meaningful vote' on the Brexit Agreement that Teresa May negotiated with the EU Parliament.

It looks like all the cards are in fact going to be on the table when this vote is held. Wow. What else could happen? And why do we not have this sort of petition for debate in Congress arrangement here?
 
Old 01-11-2019, 12:54 PM
 
Location: England
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Getting interesting isn't it? Tick tock........
 
Old 01-11-2019, 12:56 PM
 
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Getting interesting isn't it? Tick tock........
That is so exciting. And I am not even a Brit. Did you sign the petition?

Here is a link to the petition, by the way:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963
 
Old 01-11-2019, 12:59 PM
 
Location: England
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That is so exciting. And I am not even a Brit. Did you sign the petition?

Here is a link to the petition, by the way:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963
Course I did. Keep stirring the pot is the best thing, as we get towards the end of March. Stare 'em in the eye, and don't blink.

The remainers are starting to panic, and getting desperate. Tick tock.
 
Old 01-11-2019, 01:00 PM
 
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That is so exciting. And I am not even a Brit. Did you sign the petition?

Here is a link to the petition, by the way:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963
Sure did.
 
Old 01-11-2019, 02:08 PM
 
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I have read a number of posts about how older folks voted for Brexit because of the young people.

However, the majority young people voted against Brexit.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...and-gender-uk/

Strange, eh?
Today's young Europeans - particularly the successful ones - have an international outlook. And if there's one thing the nationalists hate more than foreigners, it's when their countrymen travel out and perhaps realize that their home country could benefit from foreign ideas.

And of course Nigel Farage made sure his kids got German citizenship so they could enjoy the right to free movement.
 
Old 01-11-2019, 02:12 PM
 
Location: England
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Today's young Europeans - particularly the successful ones - have an international outlook. And if there's one thing the nationalists hate more than foreigners, it's when their countrymen travel out and perhaps realize that their home country could benefit from foreign ideas.

And of course Nigel Farage made sure his kids got German citizenship so they could enjoy the right to free movement.
Nigel's children have a German mother, so have dual citizenship.
 
Old 01-11-2019, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Posting from my space yacht.
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Nigel's children have a German mother, so have dual citizenship.
Tut tut, don't pick at nits when being haughtily schooled about your small minded ignorance and petty sense of self preservation.
 
Old 01-11-2019, 04:39 PM
 
Location: England
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Tut tut, don't pick at nits when being haughtily schooled about your small minded ignorance and petty sense of self preservation.
Huh? This is City-Data........ five letters per word maximum.......
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