Brexit

Just popping down to B&Q to see if they've got any of these Magic Money Trees in stock.

Moggy wrote:

Squinty wrote:DUP have reportedly asked for 2 billion pounds, for infrastructure projects

Nice.

I'm putting in a request for a new office chair, preferable one with a massage system.

Think how much fuel £2 billion would buy for your profitable wood-burning boiler

Turn those billions into more billions!

Glowy69 wrote:

Jam-Master Jay wrote:

Glowy69 wrote:https://amp.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/brexit-supporter-voted-to-take-back-control-but-ca/

Absolute gold. I am going out on a limb and saying most leave voters are like this. Although all this does is makes me angry again that all voters where led by lies and bullshit

I love james o' brian

That's so strawberry floating depressing.

EU superstate
Its a superstate
Facist superstate
Theyve gone from free trade to a superstate.

Whats the opposite of super

I don't know but you can read your post to the tune of 'Englishman in New York' and it's brilliant.

"Whooooa-oh
It's a superstate...
It's a fascist superstate..."

Moggy wrote:

What a complete and utter strawberry floating moron. These people are beyond stupid.

That's fantastic!

Knock-on effect being that supermarkets will have to import more fruit or farmers will have to employ UK workers, which may mean a pay rise if nobody is willing to do the work, which in turn puts the prices up in the shop. You'd have a situation where the UK grown fruit would be the Premium priced product.

KK wrote:Knock-on effect being that supermarkets will have to import more fruit or farmers will have to employ UK workers, which may mean a pay rise if nobody is willing to do the work, which in turn puts the prices up in the shop. You'd have a situation where the UK grown fruit would be the Premium priced product.

If farmers cannot find people to pick the fruit, then we will have to rely on imports. Even if they find British people to fruit pick, then prices will probably rise as British workers normally want higher wages than Eastern Europeans. That will lead to people buying the cheaper imported fruit which will send more British farmers out of business. And then we have to remember that they will no longer be getting their EU subsidy either...

But the majority of farmers wanted to leave the EU. It's hard to have much sympathy for them

I find farming situation bizarre, it's like a lot of them didn't have an understanding of their own industry. They're going to need subsidising from the government to prop them up, which is by no means a guarantee under this current one.

I don't know about EU subsidies, but there's no reason we can't have a competent immigration policy like many other countries that means this is a non-issue. But a competent immigration policy requires a competent government. It's a paperwork issue at the end of the day. Farmers have basically voted to make things more difficult for themselves. Too bureaucratic though and workers may go elsewhere.

Like so much, nobody knows how anything is going to work yet. It's all in the hands of sugar salesman David Davis.

I don't think we will find ourselves in a situation where farms, the NHS etc are not allowed to employ eu workers however what concerns me is that a lot of them are already leaving as they are worried by the uncertainty. This will at the very least have a short term impact and possibly decimate various industries.

This country is filled with morons

Interesting really, everyone wants a higher wage but everyone also wants to pay the lowest price for everything, driving down wages.

KK wrote:Like so much, nobody knows how anything is going to work yet. It's all in the hands of sugar salesman David Davis.

David Davis predicted the "row of the summer" over the timetable for Brexit talks. He capitulated less than an hour after the talks finally started.

We might not yet know how anything is going to work, but I am pretty confident that it's going to be whatever the EU want.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:I don't think we will find ourselves in a situation where farms, the NHS etc are not allowed to employ eu workers however what concerns me is that a lot of them are already leaving as they are worried by the uncertainty. This will at the very least have a short term impact and possibly decimate various industries.

I don't think we will be in a situation where no EU (or even non-EU) people can come here. There simply isn't a choice, we require migration or else this country collapses.

But Leave people did not know that 100% when they cast their vote. We still don't 100% know that now! And listening to the rabid Leavers, they seem to think it was a vote against immigration. How happy are they going to be if immigration is allowed to continue?

For a farmer voting Leave was absolute madness. From the workers they rely on, to the subsidies they got from the EU, there was next to no reason for them to want to leave. And yet the majority of them did.

Moggy wrote:For a farmer voting Leave was absolute madness. From the workers they rely on, to the subsidies they got from the EU, there was next to no reason for them to want to leave. And yet the majority of them did.

Just from a devil's advocate point of view, did they all realize that they were being subsidized by the EU? Farmers over here certainly know they are.

Photek wrote:

Moggy wrote:For a farmer voting Leave was absolute madness. From the workers they rely on, to the subsidies they got from the EU, there was next to no reason for them to want to leave. And yet the majority of them did.

Just from a devil's advocate point of view, did they all realize that they were being subsidized by the EU? Farmers over here certainly know they are.

They should have been aware, it's pretty well known over here.

Jesus.

I've listened to James O'Brien, watched Newsnight and followed things about brexit when I can. It all boils down mainly to racism imo, you can say they were misinformed and some of them were. In that scenario, right now, anyone who say's they were misinformed should now change their opinion on Brexit and anyone who still says Leave after looking at the facts or choosing not to, I think, is racist.