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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    you can't pin this one on brexit, its a worldwide trend.
    Do you also think that they toss a coin when deciding where to cut down when a downsizing is needed?

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    declining doesn't mean autmatically shutting down local plants,

    downsizing yes, closing down? I am sure Brexit was the last drop that tilted the balance

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    Why wouldn't you close down and go to a more business friendly country for your product if the government is saying your product will be outlawed in 20 years.

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    20 years is a long time, and that never stops business for making money for an extra 20 years

    and again what governments say doesn't mean much, and business knows it

    see Brexit as a perfect example,

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    The "Independent Group", as I said, are a Blair party that is backed by Soros and Israeli money. Anybody who believes otherwise is somewhat distant from reality...

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8796576.html

    Mr Blair finished his speech saying: “These are new times. We need, despite our moderation, to embrace the spirit of insurgency.


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-group-labour/

    Tony Blair could secretly help moderate Labour MPs with a plot to form a new breakaway movement after the election, it has emerged.
    Former Labour donors who have withdrawn their support since Jeremy Corbyn became leader are set to approach Mr Blair’s Institute for Global Change, a centre-left think tank, for help with developing policy ideas.



    ^ scum of the very worst kind...

    Corbyn, who I believe is good in so much as he opens up the discourse space in UK politics, has been forced to the periphery by his own party MPs despite the fact that he is overwhelmingly supported by the Labour-minded electorate. What we are seeing is the Globalist pushback against the awakening of the masses against the Globalists; entrenched conventional power is very difficult to overcome within conventional institutions... We are seeing the house of lords spewing anti-Brexit dogma on a daily basis. We are seeing the Labour Party turning against Corbyn and the policies which gained them ground in the last election - Thornbury and Starmer are heavily pro-EU and, in Thornbury's case (probably Starmer's too although I haven't looked into him as I find him so totally repulsive in his Blairness), yet another MP who is on the Israeli pay role... [I'll add yet again that I am generally pro-Israel, but I hate foreign governments, be they European, Israeli, American or other, dominating and owning the UK's parliament.] and are now taking control of the Labour Party. Watching Corbyn this week, especially as Starmer was putting forward the Starmer vision to stop Brexit in the house of commons yesterday, was like watching a dead man walking...
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    Of course he's lying, all Brexiteers lie, right? Or maybe he isn't, that would be a shock to queasy systems!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP_Nd0IG7WY

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    Anyone fancy a flutter?

    A50 extension:
    Yes 1/6
    No 7/2

    Ref2
    No 4/11
    Yes 2/1

    No Deal
    No 1/9
    Yes 9/2

    Hard Irish border in 2019
    No 1/7
    Yes 4/1

    Britain to run out of contraceptives in 2019
    3/1

    UK Gov to announce food rationing in 2019
    12/1

    If there is rationing, what will the UK gov ration first in 2019
    Fuel 4/1
    Milk 11/1
    Olive oil 16/1
    Bread 16/1
    Cheese 18/1
    Coffee 20/1
    Butter 20/1
    Beef 20/1
    Fish 25/1
    Pork 33/1
    Champagne 125/1
    Mars Bars 150/1

    Trains not to run through the Chunnel for 7 or more consecutive days in 2019
    10/1

    PDC World Championships to be held outside the UK in 2019
    50/1

    No English clubs to take part in 2019/2020 Champions League
    50/1

    How many parents will be arrested for eating their children
    0-50 1/6
    >50 1/1

    Queen takes up permanent residency in Ireland during 2019
    80/1

    How many UK citizens will apply for Irish passports in 2019
    199,999 or less 4/6
    200k or more 11/10

    EU agrees to change the withdrawal agreement before march 29
    Yes 13/5
    No 1/5

    Next Labour leader
    Male 6/4
    Female 1/2

    Next General Election Most Seats
    Tories 8/11
    Labour 6/4

    General Election not this year
    1/2

    Ireland to rejoin the Commonwealth in 2019
    66/1

    KFC to close UK outlets due to chicken shortage in 2019
    2/1

    No Irish trained horses to run in the English Grand National 2019
    5/1

    Result of Ref2 in 2019
    Stay 2/1
    Go 5/1

    £ to reach parity with Euro at any time in 2019 (xe.com)
    3/1

    £ to reach parity with $ at any time in 2019 (xe.com)
    no odds, dead cert, just ask SA

    UK to revoke Article 50 before 30-03-2019 and end Brexit
    No 1/25
    Yes 17/1

    UK to not take part in Eurovision 2019
    11/1

    Which UK landmark will sell naming rights in 2019
    Wembley Stadium 5/1
    Loch Ness 20/1
    Blackpool Tower 20/1
    Stonehenge 80/1
    Buck House 150/1
    Big Ben 150/1

    Which of these will be privatized first in 2019?
    Rail 16/1
    BBC 25/1
    POffice 25/1
    Royal Parks 55/1
    NHS 125/1

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    What an unprecedented shambles this Tory government are:

    The government will pay £33m to Eurotunnel in an agreement to settle a lawsuit over extra ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

    In December, the Department for Transport (DfT) contracted three suppliers to provide additional freight capacity on ferries for lorries.
    But Eurotunnel said the contracts were handed out in a "secretive" way.
    As part of the agreement, Eurotunnel has agreed to make some improvements to its terminal.

    One of the firms awarded a ferry contract, Seaborne Freight, has already had its deal cancelled after the Irish company backing it pulled out.
    Shortly after it was awarded the contract, the BBC found out that Seaborne had no ships and had never run a ferry service.
    In January, Eurotunnel wrote to Mr Grayling to complain that it had not been considered when the contracts were awarded.

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    It's what happens when have a government led by remoaners, now if only Gove hadn't stabbed Boris in front and back then we'd be in a totally different position now but sadly we ended up with Doris and not Boris.

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    ^Getting the excuses in already? It wouldn't have mattered who led the Tories, Brexit was, and still is, a shambles. You simply can't vote for a pipe dream with no substance. It isn't something you bumbling along with in the hope it'll end well.

    For all its faults the EU has kept the UK in business. Project fear has been delivered time and again on the EU far more than Brexit. That's the biggest shame of this debacle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by foobar View Post
    What an unprecedented shambles this Tory government are:

    The government will pay £33m to Eurotunnel in an agreement to settle a lawsuit over extra ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

    In December, the Department for Transport (DfT) contracted three suppliers to provide additional freight capacity on ferries for lorries.
    But Eurotunnel said the contracts were handed out in a "secretive" way.
    As part of the agreement, Eurotunnel has agreed to make some improvements to its terminal.

    One of the firms awarded a ferry contract, Seaborne Freight, has already had its deal cancelled after the Irish company backing it pulled out.
    Shortly after it was awarded the contract, the BBC found out that Seaborne had no ships and had never run a ferry service.
    In January, Eurotunnel wrote to Mr Grayling to complain that it had not been considered when the contracts were awarded.
    Surely that must be Corbyn's fault...somehow?

    Either that or it's...err...nothing to do with BREXIT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    ^Getting the excuses in already? It wouldn't have mattered who led the Tories, Brexit was, and still is, a shambles. You simply can't vote for a pipe dream with no substance. It isn't something you bumbling along with in the hope it'll end well.

    For all its faults the EU has kept the UK in business. Project fear has been delivered time and again on the EU far more than Brexit. That's the biggest shame of this debacle.
    Nothing profound there, of course Brexit is a shambles, and hand wringing won't help because where we are is the only place from which we can move on.

    But you're wilfully unaware that the deception is working fine, and they still have you happily looking the wrong way; that's how the scam works, and having been conditioned to excuse its shortcomings when the Empire does strike out you and other suckers will blame anyone and anything but the gods or their consistently failed ideology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    ^Getting the excuses in already? It wouldn't have mattered who led the Tories, Brexit was, and still is, a shambles. You simply can't vote for a pipe dream with no substance. It isn't something you bumbling along with in the hope it'll end well.

    For all its faults the EU has kept the UK in business. Project fear has been delivered time and again on the EU far more than Brexit. That's the biggest shame of this debacle.
    Of course it matters who leads. Doris only achievement is to unite everyone against her leaver and remoaner. She is dull, uninspiring with no vision. The country voted leave then we ended up with remainers who don't want to leave implementing the decision. Forget the backstop the whole withdrawal agreement is basically a surrender document giving the EU all they want and keeping us tied to them and bound by their laws. It's not Brexit and no leaver PM would ever have agreed to that.

    As to Boris he has popular appeal, to get elected multiple times as mayor in Labour London is quite an achievement. Doris and her fellow remoaners are solely to blame for the deal and the consequences that follow. People didn't vote for a deal they voted to leave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    Of course it matters who leads. Doris only achievement is to unite everyone against her leaver and remoaner. She is dull, uninspiring with no vision. The country voted leave then we ended up with remainers who don't want to leave implementing the decision. Forget the backstop the whole withdrawal agreement is basically a surrender document giving the EU all they want and keeping us tied to them and bound by their laws. It's not Brexit and no leaver PM would ever have agreed to that.

    As to Boris he has popular appeal, to get elected multiple times as mayor in Labour London is quite an achievement. Doris and her fellow remoaners are solely to blame for the deal and the consequences that follow. People didn't vote for a deal they voted to leave.
    agree, not a wise move to put a remainer in charge of Brexiting
    (in my view UK was extremely lucky with Cameron fleeing a couple of days after the referendum,
    but then the Tories kicks luck out the windom and saddle on another remainer)

    having said that,

    that right awful may-deal is quite simply all what you have, you haven't got anything else
    well. you have the power to revoke A50, but that is remain and not leave
    you have the power to leave with no-deal, ain't gonna happen me thinks - parliament is allergic to this

    you could ask for an extension of the A50 period, what for?
    any reason that talks would go better after Easter?

    omni shambles

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    This guy speaks well, imho:



    I agree with him completely.

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    She has some competition, but few would disagree that she's terrible - certainly the most unintelligent MP I've seen in my lifetime:



    This is what some of the remoaners are made of...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    She has some competition, but few would disagree that she's terrible - certainly the most unintelligent MP I've seen in my lifetime:



    This is what some of the remoaners are made of...
    Even looks evil till she opens her mouth, then sounds it too.

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    ^ Is this the video you meant to post, jabir?


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    A raging torrent of Brexitears.....Hilarious!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    But you're wilfully unaware that the deception is working fine, and they still have you happily looking the wrong way; that's how the scam works, and having been conditioned to excuse its shortcomings when the Empire does strike out you and other suckers will blame anyone and anything but the gods or their consistently failed ideology.
    Whatever are you jabbering on about? The citizens of the EU will vote for MEPs that they think will steer the EU in the direction they prefer. If they think it's becoming too integrated, they will vote for people that will stop further integration. It's the way democracy works, a cycle that may overshoot the mark a little, but tends towards the wishes of the majority. A pity so many in the UK continue to believe those with ulterior motives.

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    Listen to how he answers the question at 2:56mins



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    • Kevin Casey I am now 70 years old ? worked from the age of 16 , one of the generation who help rebuild Britain up after WW2 ? served 14 years in the British army ? I didn't give all these years to see this government hand our sovereignty freedom of speech and hard earned money to a bunch of unelected criminals that run the EU ? I don't want my children or grand childrens future ruined by the proposed Lisbon treaty which May has accepted without giving us the British public a vote on ? The terms of the treaty read like a slavery bill ? The EU will own us body and soul ? Unlimited immigration for one which she completely lied about when she said we are taking back control of our borders ?this government have proved to be traitors I just hope action is taken to bring them down before it's too late ?? ��������������������������������



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    • Stuart Boate Seems to me there are two types of people, those without a spine that need an EU comfort blanket and those with a spine who see that blanket as a smothering strait jacket.
      Personally I have been involved with international business for many years, the EU is great for huge corporations but kills any entrepreneurial ambitions of smaller companies, The smaller companies exporting outside the EU are doing very well and will continue to do so.
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    ^Look at the comments, they illustrate perfectly the low intelligence of the average Brexiteer, one thinks a hard Brexit will be similar to a rain shower, another says remember the blitz ...idiots!

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    It appears the remoaning is having the opposite effect, a second referendum is highly unlikely as it will highlight even more so the British peoples resolve

    the vote was won by leave no matter what excuses and there's loads the remainers come up with., we have to leave or the democratic process is finished....

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