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    England is in truth about to drop out of the G8 countries and really should not qualify any longer for its seat on the UN Security Council which should now be given to Japan, a country that has much more sway and influence in SE Asia which should be recognised in a more global representation.

    And of course China will welcome Japan onto the security council with open arms. That little thing in Nanjing? Oh we've forgotten all about it. At least your knowledge of world affairs and history matches your knowledge of economics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by foobar View Post
    You Brexiteers are displaying some next level delusion if you think other countries are going to leave the EU, after witnessing the very public UK shitshow going on 2 years now.
    They will if we show them the way so they know they have an alternative sadly though if we end up with Doris deal that won't be the incentive others are waiting for to leave. If you think the people in numerous countries are happy with the EU then you are sadly deluded but because of years and years of ever closer integration and power transfer to Brussels it makes it harder and harder to leave as is being shown now by our spineless government who continue to try and negotiate with people who you can't negotiate with. Leave means leave, out of the EU altogether and just trade with them on what ever terms we agree as we do every other country on the planet.

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    The UK, soon to be GB, has quite a few pipe dreams at the moment. To accompany Hard Brexit we have a new GPS satellite system and a new fighter aircraft. Just need to change the Union Jack back to its original colours and all will be okay by Christmas.

    Is there some sort of world lottery the UK needs to win first or are you loons going to dig up Gatwick and turn it into an oil field?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    The UK, soon to be GB, has quite a few pipe dreams at the moment. To accompany Hard Brexit we have a new GPS satellite system and a new fighter aircraft. Just need to change the Union Jack back to its original colours and all will be okay by Christmas.

    Is there some sort of world lottery the UK needs to win first or are you loons going to dig up Gatwick and turn it into an oil field?
    With comments like this you clearly have no idea what much of Europe relies on the UK for, if the EU want to go down this route fill yer boots I say. Do you think all this EU pettiness is going to persuade people to vote remain in another vote?

    Have another vote and leave will win by a much larger majority and put an end to this once and for all I say. But then again remoaners don't accept the first vote so why have another when they lose again will they accept the result of another vote.

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    not leaving would be a tragedy, can't do that now, or you will be the joke of Europe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    not leaving would be a tragedy, can't do that now, or you will be the joke of Europe
    I agree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    not leaving would be a tragedy, can't do that now, or you will be the joke of Europe
    That honour will remain with the dullest, most insignificant country in the world, no matter what the outcome of Brexit is.
    Belgium.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    That honour will remain with the dullest, most insignificant country in the world, no matter what the outcome of Brexit is.
    Belgium.
    You do realise Butterfly is of North African descent?

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    You do realise Butterfly is of North African descent?

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    Algeria isn't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    With comments like this you clearly have no idea what much of Europe relies on the UK for, if the EU want to go down this route fill yer boots I say. Do you think all this EU pettiness is going to persuade people to vote remain in another vote?
    Clearly I don't but I'm sure you will enlighten me.

    I can provide plenty of examples of projects where the UK have relied on the EU for help.

    Name some projects where the EU has relied on the UK...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    Clearly I don't but I'm sure you will enlighten me.

    I can provide plenty of examples of projects where the UK have relied on the EU for help.

    Name some projects where the EU has relied on the UK...
    The whole EU project is linked in part, to the money that UK dutifully hands over to the commission very year. It’s a bit like having a second foreign aid budget, but with no oversight on how it gets spent. Does that money go to 3rd world European countries or to pay inflated salaries for commissioners, or to keep cap dependent countries in clover?
    Monocular rose tinted vision is a wonderful thing isn’t it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    Clearly I don't but I'm sure you will enlighten me.

    I can provide plenty of examples of projects where the UK have relied on the EU for help.

    Name some projects where the EU has relied on the UK...


    Oh... Maybe the world wide web. The turbojet engine. The Industrial revolution. The Train. The electric motor. The light bulb. Cement. I could go on. Without some of those inventions, the EU would be doing SFA projects. You seem to have become such a eurofile you cannot acknowledge anything that has benefited Europe from your own country. In short, from your posts you appear to have become EUs answer to OHOH. Just an observation.

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    Tin foil hat time!


    Get on with it,public paid servants! !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Corbyn is pathetic. Too scared to admit he called her a stupid woman. He couldn't even man up on his own comment. He could have called her a cupid stunt that might have at least been a lttle harder to explain but would've at least added a little spice to the parliament. There's more balls in a girls netball team than in Corbyns' pants.
    Don't talk about Corbyn like that, it triggers the fubar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    Algeria isn't it?
    Must have been his time in the Legion to avoid jail for ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    With comments like this you clearly have no idea what much of Europe relies on the UK for, if the EU want to go down this route fill yer boots I say. Do you think all this EU pettiness is going to persuade people to vote remain in another vote?

    Have another vote and leave will win by a much larger majority and put an end to this once and for all I say. But then again remoaners don't accept the first vote so why have another when they lose again will they accept the result of another vote.
    It's clear that May is secure and will lead the Tories until March. After her disastrous trip to Bruxelles she returned to the Commons and categorically ruled out Ref2; it will not happen during her tenure, end of. Well, not quite end of, because you have to be careful with this woman. But if she did go back on it the Tories would implode as would the country, and I don't think she's prepared to risk that. So, definitely no Ref2, unless there is one; that's the miserable state of Brit politics.

    Corbyn the Unelectable then blundered with his no confidence vote at absolutely the wrong time, prompting not just the Cons to unite behind her but also the DUP.

    On 17 Jan she puts her deal to Parliament and without significant 'clarifications' it will be turned down; at least 100 Tory MPs are on record as saying they will vote against it, Corbyn has so strongly rejected it that he cannot possibly now support it, so it must be voted down.

    If May then sticks by her decision that there will be no Ref2, and there is no way it could happen against her will while she sits in downing Street, then it's goodbye EU hello WTO.

    The only good bit is that the gov and civil service, finally, are taking it seriously and working 24/7, military being dusted off, and more will happen toward a Brexit in these next weeks than in the past 30 months.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    [/B][/U]Oh... Maybe the world wide web. The turbojet engine. The Industrial revolution. The Train. The electric motor. The light bulb. Cement. I could go on. Without some of those inventions, the EU would be doing SFA projects. You seem to have become such a eurofile you cannot acknowledge anything that has benefited Europe from your own country. In short, from your posts you appear to have become EUs answer to OHOH. Just an observation. [/SIZE]
    You need to think a little more before you jump in the deep end with your replies. I am not talking about inventions, which you appear to be misguided, I'm talking about large scale projects.

    It has become too expensive for many countries to develop large scale projects alone, such as fighter aircraft and their avionics. How many aircraft have BAE Systems designed and built alone since their inception...precisely none!

    Following from this single example what will happen to the UK and its defence industry, which relies heavily on Thales and Leonardo, neither of which are UK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    Oh... Maybe the world wide web. The turbojet engine. The Industrial revolution. The Train. The electric motor. The light bulb. Cement. I could go on. ...
    Most of which go way back well before EU times, when Britain was still "Great".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    The whole EU project is linked in part, to the money that UK dutifully hands over to the commission very year. It’s a bit like having a second foreign aid budget, but with no oversight on how it gets spent. Does that money go to 3rd world European countries or to pay inflated salaries for commissioners, or to keep cap dependent countries in clover?
    Monocular rose tinted vision is a wonderful thing isn’t it.
    Of course there's oversight on how it gets spent. The UK was instrumental in budgeting for the improvement of Eastern European countries when they joined. It is this budget that will be curtailed when the UK leaves. Ironically, it would be the UK and its service industry that would benefit most once those countries were fully developed.

    You continually insinuate EU budget fraud without proof. It is no more than an extension of the Brexiteer deceit, which is quite unfounded. In reality the EU budget is very small scale wrt the overall wealth of its nations.

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    He really does swallow the daily mail version of history whole.

    He'll be on about straight bananas next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    [/B][/U]Oh... Maybe the world wide web. The turbojet engine. The Industrial revolution. The Train. The electric motor. The light bulb. Cement. I could go on. Without some of those inventions, the EU would be doing SFA projects. You seem to have become such a eurofile you cannot acknowledge anything that has benefited Europe from your own country. In short, from your posts you appear to have become EUs answer to OHOH. Just an observation. [/SIZE]
    Nice. Someone else has spotted that Troy is stuck inside the remain cement mixer. I wonder if he will ignore your post like he did mine. That’s the EU answer to everything. Ignore it and it might go away.

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