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Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

Remain a member of the European Union
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80%
Leave the European Union
57
20%
 
Total votes: 279
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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by KK » Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:22 pm

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Karl's brother is dead wrote:Is anyone going to point out to her that whenever she speaks the value of the pound falls even further?


She is a pox on our country, a blight on the political system and a cancer on the economy.

Well she's not the latter yet, the UK economy is doing exceptionally well.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Alvin Flummux » Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:06 am

KKLEIN wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Karl's brother is dead wrote:Is anyone going to point out to her that whenever she speaks the value of the pound falls even further?


She is a pox on our country, a blight on the political system and a cancer on the economy.

Well she's not the latter yet, the UK economy is doing exceptionally well.


Pound's not worth much, is it?

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Tomous » Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:57 am

Alvin Flummux wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Karl's brother is dead wrote:Is anyone going to point out to her that whenever she speaks the value of the pound falls even further?


She is a pox on our country, a blight on the political system and a cancer on the economy.

Well she's not the latter yet, the UK economy is doing exceptionally well.


Pound's not worth much, is it?



Thats not sole indicator though is it?

No one would have been able to reverse the pound drop following the brexit vote in this amount of time.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Rex Kramer » Wed Jan 11, 2017 6:24 am

Tomous wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Karl's brother is dead wrote:Is anyone going to point out to her that whenever she speaks the value of the pound falls even further?


She is a pox on our country, a blight on the political system and a cancer on the economy.

Well she's not the latter yet, the UK economy is doing exceptionally well.


Pound's not worth much, is it?



Thats not sole indicator though is it?

No one would have been able to reverse the pound drop following the brexit vote in this amount of time.

May's hard Brexit position is the single biggest factor in the current position of sterling. She has chosen to take this line, no-one else.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Lagamorph » Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:12 am

Anybody could reverse the pound drop with a single sentence.

"This Brexit stuff is actually a really bad idea that's clearly going to bring the country to the brink of ruin, so let's call the whole thing off"

There you go, I just fixed the pound.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Moggy » Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:33 am

Garland Twinkleballs wrote:Anybody could reverse the pound drop with a single sentence.

"This Brexit stuff is actually a really bad idea that's clearly going to bring the country to the brink of ruin, so let's call the whole thing off"

There you go, I just fixed the pound.


But what about the exporters? ;)

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Squinty » Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:44 am

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
Garland Twinkleballs wrote:Anybody could reverse the pound drop with a single sentence.

"This Brexit stuff is actually a really bad idea that's clearly going to bring the country to the brink of ruin, so let's call the whole thing off"

There you go, I just fixed the pound.


But what about the exporters? ;)


But what about the EDL :slol:

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Moggy » Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:51 am

Squinty wrote:
Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
Garland Twinkleballs wrote:Anybody could reverse the pound drop with a single sentence.

"This Brexit stuff is actually a really bad idea that's clearly going to bring the country to the brink of ruin, so let's call the whole thing off"

There you go, I just fixed the pound.


But what about the exporters? ;)


But what about the EDL :slol:


That's just scaremongering, our electricity will be fine.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Lagamorph » Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:02 pm

Just heard an utter idiot in the office use the phrase "since we left Europe" :fp:

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by BID0 » Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:21 pm

Rex Kramer wrote:
Tomous wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:
Karl's brother is dead wrote:Is anyone going to point out to her that whenever she speaks the value of the pound falls even further?


She is a pox on our country, a blight on the political system and a cancer on the economy.

Well she's not the latter yet, the UK economy is doing exceptionally well.


Pound's not worth much, is it?



Thats not sole indicator though is it?

No one would have been able to reverse the pound drop following the brexit vote in this amount of time.

May's hard Brexit position is the single biggest factor in the current position of sterling. She has chosen to take this line, no-one else.

To be fair she has to say that going in to negotiations. But at the same time it's all rather pointless as the other side know she has to say that too :fp: just need to get on with it and then the pound can start to recover.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by KK » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:15 pm

Unlike your Dad's cock, it's gonna be hard Brexit, with the Sun on Sunday getting the scoop...

Sky News wrote:Theresa May is expected to announce the UK is prepared to leave the single market, the customs union and European Court of Justice.

The PM’s willingness to give up membership of the single market will be made clear in a major speech at Lancaster House in London on Tuesday, according to the Sun on Sunday.

Her red lines will be an end to free movement from the EU and clearance to hold bilateral trade talks with other countries, which it is thought will not be achievable while still in the single market.

A Downing Street Source told Sky News: "The issue of the single market and the customs union will be answered on Tuesday when the Prime Minister sets out her negotiations."

Pro-EU campaigner MP Anna Soubry has described the anticipated move as "grossly irresponsible, if true".

The Conservative MP for Broxtowe said: "The Government has no mandate for this. To go into the negotiation conceding on the single market and the customs union is extremely serious and very bad news."

The pound crashed last Monday after comments by Mrs May on the single market in an interview with Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

Mrs May insisted she was not "muddled" in her thinking about leaving the European Union but warned Britain cannot expect to hold onto “bits” of its membership.

The PM is also expected to use her speech to appeal for the country to unite post-Brexit and end "division and the language associated with it."

She will also condemn the use of the words "Leaver" and "Remainer" as she asks for Britain to "unite to make a success of Brexit".

She will say that while people may have had different views about the outcome of referendum, "the victors have the responsibility to act magnanimously. The losers have the responsibility to respect the legitimacy of the result. And the country comes together".

She will add: "The overwhelming majority of people – however they voted – say we need to get on and make Brexit happen.

"Business isn’t calling to reverse the result, but planning to make a success of it. And the House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly for us to get on with it too.

"So the country is coming together. Now we need to put an end to the division and the language associated with it – Leaver and Remainer and all the accompanying insults – and unite to make a success of Brexit and build a truly Global Britain."

Shadow Minister for Brexit Kier Starmer told Sky News: "Theresa May has had six months to give some clarity, she hasn’t done it. She needs to do that on Tuesday and she needs to reassure the country.

"If, as is expected, she says that she will be leading the UK out of the single market the question is, 'What are you going to put in its place? What are you going to negotiate to make sure that business can succeed in the future in the way it succeeds now?'"

Mr Starmer added that he would be setting out what Labour hopes Mrs May will guarantee in her speech – including rights to remain for EU citizens already in the UK.

Meanwhile, reports have emerged that the Netherlands will block any trade deal with the UK unless it signs up to tough tax avoidance regulations preventing it from becoming a tax haven.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Lodewijk Asscher, has written to socialist leaders across the continent stipulating his party’s red lines in coming talks.

In a letter seen by the Guardian, however, Mr Asscher writes that it is in the interests of both the UK and the remaining 27 EU member states that Mrs May’s government is prevented from creating a low-tax outpost.

He writes: "Let’s fight the race to the bottom for profits taxation together which threatens to come into existence if it is up to the Conservative UK government.

"This is why I propose to come to a new trade agreement with Great Britain, but only if we can agree firmly upon tackling tax avoidance and stopping the fiscal race to the bottom."

I wouldn't be shocked if the £ temporarily hits parity with the $ on Tuesday.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Memento Mori » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:18 pm

What a disaster. An expected disaster but still a disaster.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Wrathy » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:25 pm

Only thing worse than the proposals of TMay there are the non-existent opposition. what a disgrace.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Garth » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:29 pm

The aren't enough facepalms in the world.

Edit: maybe I should just buy a Switch now before the price goes up :P

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by DML » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:35 pm

When's the next election? strawberry float me.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by KK » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:39 pm

It's going to be a great week in politics!

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Qikz » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:54 pm

DML wrote:When's the next election? strawberry float me.


2020.

strawberry float Theresa May. She's such a massive strawberry floating banana split.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Return_of_the_STAR » Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:25 am

If may is looking to leave the customs union then there's not really a lot to negotiate? Or is she hoping that the EU will actually want us to stay in the common market and attempting to bluff them so they offer us something to stay in?

Either way it's not going to work.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by KK » Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:45 am

I think she may be gambling. 'I'm walking away from everything' is possibly her bargaining strategy.

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PostRe: The EU Referendum: The UK votes Leave
by Lagamorph » Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:05 am

That strategy worked brilliantly for Cameron after all.

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