Brexit

Hexx wrote:

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Good

No sympathy. It was blatantly obvious the Conservatives would never match the EU level of spending in areas like that.

I dont think anyone would have, if they do it for Cornwall they would need to do it for everyone and if there was the money for us to do that we would be doing it not getting the EU to.

Scenes

Wonder how much Wales will be getting since they were so scared of losing funding...

Blue Eyes wrote:Bring on the hard as nails Brexit so all these stupid arseholes can starve to death. LOL @ Cornwall and all the other banana splits.

When they all starve to death then at least there will be loads more holiday homes for the rest of us to buy.

That link surprises me. I was always of the mindset that Cornwall was full of wealthy pensioners and second home owners. I'm sure I read something not that long ago about a large number of properties in Cornwall being vacant for most of the year (i.e. holiday homes).

"We love the poorly educated." - Donald Trump, 2016.

Drumstick wrote:That link surprises me. I was always of the mindset that Cornwall was full of wealthy pensioners and second home owners. I'm sure I read something not that long ago about a large number of properties in Cornwall being vacant for most of the year (i.e. holiday homes).

It’s one of the poorest areas in the entire country. Hardly any jobs and the houses are all snapped up by rich London types as holiday homes.

There might be some rich pensioners that moved there to retire, but the locals are poor as gooseberry fool. And about to get a lot poorer thanks to their own stupidity.

I'm not normally in to schadenfreude, but strawberry float these idiots. Send a news wagon over there with a reporter saying "I bet you feel like a right banana split now, don't ya" to everyone and show it to the masses.

Blue Eyes wrote:I'm not normally in to schadenfreude, but strawberry float these idiots. Send a news wagon over there with a reporter saying "I bet you feel like a right banana split now, don't ya" to everyone and show it to the masses.

Yeah but they sure did stick it to those rich elites didn't they.

Moggy wrote:

Drumstick wrote:That link surprises me. I was always of the mindset that Cornwall was full of wealthy pensioners and second home owners. I'm sure I read something not that long ago about a large number of properties in Cornwall being vacant for most of the year (i.e. holiday homes).

It’s one of the poorest areas in the entire country. Hardly any jobs and the houses are all snapped up by rich London types as holiday homes.

There might be some rich pensioners that moved there to retire, but the locals are poor as gooseberry fool. And about to get a lot poorer thanks to their own stupidity.

Well why the strawberry float did they vote to leave?

Morons.

Drumstick wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Drumstick wrote:That link surprises me. I was always of the mindset that Cornwall was full of wealthy pensioners and second home owners. I'm sure I read something not that long ago about a large number of properties in Cornwall being vacant for most of the year (i.e. holiday homes).

It’s one of the poorest areas in the entire country. Hardly any jobs and the houses are all snapped up by rich London types as holiday homes.

There might be some rich pensioners that moved there to retire, but the locals are poor as gooseberry fool. And about to get a lot poorer thanks to their own stupidity.

Well why the strawberry float did they vote to leave?

Morons.

You answered your own question there.

Mini E wrote:

Lucien wrote:The state of this page.

Mind you it's the EU thread, probably the worst thread on GR. Compared to the comments on that article's page (which nobody seems to have properly understood) though...

Good. Let them suffer. Cornwall voted for Brexit. I want to see them have Brexit good and hard. I also want to see large cuts in health and pensions spending which are the two biggest costs, and this will hopefully finish off the old codgers who voted to get their country back. Call this nature’s way of weeding out the stupid people. If people are going to vote for suicide, we shouldn’t stop them. Let them eat lard.

What is wrong with this page exactly?

Drumstick wrote:What is wrong with this page exactly?

People are being mean about the idiots in Cornwall that voted to leave despite relying on the cash. Lucien voted leave.

Moggy wrote:

Drumstick wrote:What is wrong with this page exactly?

People are being mean about the idiots in Cornwall that voted to leave despite relying on the cash. Lucien voted leave.

Ew.

Drumstick wrote:

Lucien wrote:The state of this page.

Mind you it's the EU thread, probably the worst thread on GR. Compared to the comments on that article's page (which nobody seems to have properly understood) though...

Good. Let them suffer. Cornwall voted for Brexit. I want to see them have Brexit good and hard. I also want to see large cuts in health and pensions spending which are the two biggest costs, and this will hopefully finish off the old codgers who voted to get their country back. Call this nature’s way of weeding out the stupid people. If people are going to vote for suicide, we shouldn’t stop them. Let them eat lard.

What is wrong with this page exactly?

It doesn't agree with him

Lucien are you actually suggesting that Cornwall shouldn't face the consequences of what it voted for? Do you think Cornwall should be exempt from change after EU funding is withdrawn?

Lucien wrote:

Drumstick wrote:What is wrong with this page exactly?

The petty vindictiveness.

It's vindictive to laugh at people for voting to decimate their income, but at the same time it is hilarious that they would do that to themselves.

They were warned, they didn't listen and now they face the consequences of what they voted for.

Lucien wrote:

Drumstick wrote:What is wrong with this page exactly?

The petty vindictiveness.

They voted for it!

Moggy wrote:

Lucien wrote:

Drumstick wrote:What is wrong with this page exactly?

The petty vindictiveness.

It's vindictive to laugh at people for voting to decimate their income, but at the same time it is hilarious that they would do that to themselves.

They were warned, they didn't listen and now they face the consequences of what they voted for.

They wish that's all it was

I agree with Lucien, it's vindictive and counter-productive. Dismissing any adverse affects as "they voted for it" isn't valid if you're also arguing that the leave campaign was misleading (which has also been done in this thread). If they were mislead in voting then they, presumably, /didn't/ vote to be worse off. You can lay some blame on people for not fully researching what the effects of the vote would be when they voted, but it's unfair to hold them entirely accountable when the referendum was so broad in scope, lacking any certainty or specifics in what a leave vote would actually entail, and promoted with a biased and (I would argue) dishonest narrative. It's also true that Cornwall voted by quite a majority to leave the EU - but not everyone voted leave. When we complain about the lack of compromise and the government's "overwhelming majority" and "will of the people" rhetoric, it's hypocritical to then dismiss the complaints of everyone in cornwall (many of whom did vote to remain) because "they voted for it". I personally know people who live in cornwall and voted to remain, and I think their concerns over a lack of funding post-brexit are very valid.