Thread: Brexit - It's Still On!

Brexit was always going to be a compromise that would end in tears for everyone. Thegent has been right all along.

Switch...they are not examples that back up your statements. Please try harder.

SeekingAss hasn't been right about anything, every economic forecast he made hasn't even been in the ballpark.

the economic loss is going to be real and brutal for the UK, marginal for the EU

but at least everyone will be happy,

no more Brit fookers in the EU decision process

quite right dragonfly. it will just be the germans pouring the pork up the french back door.

just like old times eh?

Off to Amsterdam tonight, debating getting stoned and applying for asylum. Booting possibly May out would trigger another general election and even more economic instability. Little England is a rather insignificant rock in the middle of the North Sea in the big economic scheme of things and we will need to buddy up with other countries to prosper. Some choices

The EU
USA
China

The EU is the most palatable of all and has kept post war peace in Europe for decades. America is run by a swivel eyed loon with delusions of grandeur while making Kim Jong Un appear positively statesman like. Lots of questionable wars started,too. China is a champagne dictatorship with an appalling human rights record. Lots of questionable land grabbing such as in the South "China" Sea. Given how the Chinese do business in Myanmar I think the UK should be aware how predatory they are. Protectionism on steroids would be an understatement!

You forgotten Yugoslavia.

At least we'll have wonky fruit and veg to live on- and blue passports

I was hoping this windrush scandal would also claim Doris scalp aswell as Rudds but looks like she will sadly survive.

Both Tories and Labour still basically tied at roughly 40% each in terms of how people would vote in a general election, just imagine if either party had a charismatic leader with some vision would have a 20 point lead. Tories really need to get rid of Doris and elect Rees Mogg.

Ah Rees Mogg: a vision where passports were blue and the map was imperial pink. One of hopeless nostalgia
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-a8270181.html

As opposed to Corbyn and his plan to take Britain back to the 70s, I'll take Rees Mogg thanks. Anyway now you're a house owner thought you'd be distancing yourself from Corbyns brand of socialism where property ownership is viewed as theft.

I don't think asset seizing is going to happen. Labour will increase council tax and so long as the standard of public service increases I am more than happy to pay. Conservative/UKIP ran Great Yarmouth is a bloody disaster imo- a lot of vanity projects but no real improvement to basic services- street cleaning being the most visually obvious.

But no doubt you'll be renting your property out so you won't have to pay the already extortionate council tax on top of all other taxes we are saddled with in this country. Plus you being a single occupant in your house will get a 25% discount on your council tax if do live there. My council tax for a band D property here is £1700 and apart from getting my bins emptied once every 2 weeks not sure what I get for my money as it certainly doesn't go on filling pot holes in.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

SeekingAss hasn't been right about anything, every economic forecast he made hasn't even been in the ballpark.

£ devalued, growth forestalled, manufacturing shrinking, inflation from zero to 3%, a marginal government, end of the GFA and NI peace, credit in paralysis, City to lose passporting rights and £30 billions worth of business, collapse of the British freight industry imminent all seem pretty much on the button to me but then, I'm not a deluded messer too stupid to know when the ground shifts under his feet.

£ no where near parity with the $, employment at record levels, no recession etc etc. You were wrong about everything and continue to be, is amusing though to keep watching you parrot whatever trash you read in the distanced from reality Guardian concerning Brexit.

I was all for Brexit 2 years ago, a turkey voting for Christmas, didn't realise it would pan out as it did with a weak and ineffectual PM at the helm and a hard left alternative.

Diane Abbott as HomeSec; says it all.

Pragmatism was one of the multitude of reasons not to vote for BREXIT, so the dimwits who did vote for it can hardly claim the virtual impossibility of its application as an excuse.

doesn't matter if practical or not, as long as you fookers are out of the EU

Originally Posted by buriramboy

£ no where near parity with the $, employment at record levels, no recession etc etc. You were wrong about everything and continue to be, is amusing though to keep watching you parrot whatever trash you read in the distanced from reality Guardian concerning Brexit.

£ back to 42 baht, services sector of the economy is contracting to such a degree that the interest rate hike is cancelled, but inflation is now scheduled to increase as the combined currency devaluation and increases in oil and energy kick in. Stagflation here we come, as I forecast two years ago. Higher taxes are bound to ensue given revenues will not support public expenditure as the disposable income of the working Joe is cut further.

Brexit recession is shaping up well but the mainstream economists and most markets have already confirmed the inevitability.

The comments section to this was quite funny.

Brexiters complaining about the prospect of having to pay a fee to enter EU countries after Brits have left the EU:



https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/6146...ntries-brexit/

last hope for you brits before we let you go

Brexit: EU's Juncker urges Belgian citizenship for UK staff - BBC News

I see Sterling £ is now heading back to 41. Good news I suppose in keeping out the trash but painful nonetheless for those who retired over a decade plus ago when their pensions etc then must have seemed a reasonable buffer against fluctuations. Poor fuckers never catered for the monumental stupidity of the untermenschen English lower end voting for Brexit.
Anyway, one awaits the delight of schadenfreude when they realise their money is worth shit over the Channel and in the US, and that everything will be 25% more in five years except their salaries and houses. Stagflation eats from within but in the end when the ordinary Joe can no longer borrow to pay his bills, or gets divorced, the eggshell of appearances finally cracks and economic lives are reduced to empty pieces. The statistics are really quite worrying for the Treasury when it is fairly evident a significant proportion, 70%, of the workforce considers itself insolvent in liquid terms, and 30% have savings of less than a mere £500.
This is the true bedrock of modern Britain and only a total idiot might think it can jettison EU membership and expect success and wealth.
The litmus test is the recent BoE's disclosure that new mortgages are at their lowest in three years and that personal unsecured credit card and loans debt is at its highest level since the boom.
it really is getting near to the perfect storm scenario and one yearns to read of May's sudden death, political or otherwise, and the appointment of the crazy Moggster as leader. The catastrophe will be almost delicious.

Escaped Brexitardia and headed to the mainland: it's clear that Brexit was a really, really bad idea- the idea that we can compete with The EU is beyond deluded. Bustling streets, cash being flashed, lots of factories, ports overflowing with freight and many new shops, restaurants and bars since I was last there. Meanwhile England gets a few new Betfred and a Costa Coffee branches.

It was painful getting on that ferry and coming back to a sleepy little port and train station where most of the services were now boarded up and shut. We're stuffed.

Town centres have been in decline for years and many are ghost towns just full of charity shops and betting shops, nothing to do with Brexit. It's rent and rates that make it impossible for many small businesses to survive, had a mate who has just closed his little cafe/baguette shop due to rates being £20k a year and that's on top of rent, council tax, utilities, wages, employers NI and pension contributions.