Brexit

PostRe: Brexit by **Lagamorph** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:34 am

Boris lost his head decades ago.

PostRe: Brexit by **Rex Kramer** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:59 am

Errkal wrote:Favourite Farage moment recently

twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/906555325347540992

EU states working together, if only there was a kind of union for that.

I think the sort of union he's talking about hit the buffers round about 1944.

PostRe: Brexit by **Moggy** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:25 pm

twitter.com/pointlesslettrs/status/907544636134215680

PostRe: Brexit by **Hexx** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:27 pm

He wants a British Empire approah

The only problem with the EU is that it's run by upperty foreigners!

twitter.com/hrtbps/status/907374208795242497

It's done now. Brexit shows that as long as you go jingoistic, small minded idiots will blindly and wildly vote for you

PostRe: Brexit by **Moggy** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:43 pm

What a delightful country we are.

twitter.com/ninadschick/status/907373565250588672

PostRe: Brexit by **Hexx** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:16 pm

twitter.com/faisalislam/status/907679888542453761

PostRe: Brexit by **Hexx** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:21 am

twitter.com/LeaveHQ/status/907692257200963584

1. Our intel is that May is going to announce in her speech that she's to give formal notice to leave the EEA.

2. And, in an attempt to by-pass the Commission, extend an invitation to all the EEA members to enter into direct talks with the UK

3. This would be to create a new EEA Agreement, under a different name, without the four freedoms ... just trading rules.

4. She's not going to walk away, but it will be a take it or leave it offer. Either take it or we walk.

5. It would appear they are going with the Legatum template.

https://t.co/V3Uuvo6EUQ

6. The idea that existing EEA members will seek to weaken their agreement is delusional. Close to insane.

7. If this is the UK proposal then May will end up with egg n her face and we'll be back to square one - or walking away with nothing.

8. Government clearly misses the point that any deal must be substantially more than just trade.

9. The EU is not about to unpick the entire EEA agreement for the sole benefit of the UK. What is May smoking?

10. EEA agreement is configurable for the UK but anything beyond that is howling mad.

11. More to the point, the EU could not be any clearer that no talks on trade etc will happen until divorce terms agreed.

12. This smells like an attempt to circumvent the entire process. A refusal to engage. It will not succeed.

PostRe: Brexit by **Rex Kramer** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:24 am

I hope Grumpy David adjusts his investment portfolio ahead of this one as there'll be bumpy times ahead!

PostRe: Brexit by **Photek** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:26 am

Well looks like EU has done half its job already at dissuading other countries from leaving.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/19/no-eu-exit-for-us-say-italys-on-the-rise-eurosceptics

PostRe: Brexit by **Squinty** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 10:31 am

strawberry floating hell. This gooseberry fool never gets any better, does it?

PostRe: Brexit by **Moggy** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:17 am

Squinty wrote:strawberry floating hell. This gooseberry fool never gets any better, does it?

Cheer up, one day we will all be dead and wont have to worry about this anymore.

PostRe: Brexit by **Squinty** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:20 pm

Moggy wrote:
Squinty wrote:strawberry floating hell. This gooseberry fool never gets any better, does it?

Cheer up, one day we will all be dead and wont have to worry about this anymore.

Can't strawberry floating wait for the sweet embrace of death.

PostRe: Brexit by **Alvin Flummux** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:34 pm

Photek wrote:Well looks like EU has done half its job already at dissuading other countries from leaving.

Britain's ongoing shambolic performance is the major dissuader here, me thinks.

PostRe: Brexit by **Garth** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 11:11 am

Missed this the other day :lol:

Airships could patrol Irish border, says think tank

A think tank has suggested that drones or airships could be used to monitor the Irish border after Brexit.

The idea is raised in a paper from the Legatum Institute, examining how the UK and EU could resolve the border issue.

It states that "persistent surveillance of the border region" could be achieved through patrols by unmanned aerial vehicles or deployment of aerostats.

But it concedes "that these solutions are subject to a number of limitations, not least weather and cost".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-north ... d-41232991

PostRe: Brexit by **Lex-Man** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 11:32 am

Garth wrote:Missed this the other day

Airships could patrol Irish border, says think tank

A think tank has suggested that drones or airships could be used to monitor the Irish border after Brexit.

The idea is raised in a paper from the Legatum Institute, examining how the UK and EU could resolve the border issue.

It states that "persistent surveillance of the border region" could be achieved through patrols by unmanned aerial vehicles or deployment of aerostats.

But it concedes "that these solutions are subject to a number of limitations, not least weather and cost".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-north ... d-41232991

How would these systems help stop people importing stuff without paying duty? Or work out who's allowed into the country and whose not. Without any boarder check anyone can just walk through. This is going to stop anything.

PostRe: Brexit by **Moggy** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 11:52 am

Airships.

How long will it be until the Leavers work out just how strawberry floating ridiculous this whole thing is? :slol:

PostRe: Brexit by **Garth** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:07 pm

The red universe is bleeding through, someone better call Walter Bishop.

PostRe: Brexit by **Return_of_the_STAR** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:38 pm

Moggy wrote:Airships.

How long will it be until the Leavers work out just how strawberry floating ridiculous this whole thing is?

It depends how long outlets like the Daily Mail Online continue to spin the news (forever) and whether Facebook can crackdown on fake news (it can't)

PostRe: Brexit by **Moggy** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:54 pm

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
Moggy wrote:Airships.

How long will it be until the Leavers work out just how strawberry floating ridiculous this whole thing is?

It depends how long outlets like the Daily Mail Online continue to spin the news (forever) and whether Facebook can crackdown on fake news (it can't)

Whatever happens we will be out of the EU before it changes. It’s amazing though that some Leavers will look at the idea of airships patrolling the Irish border and think “that’s a jolly good idea!”.

The Daily Mail have flipped on the issue before. They used to be very pro UK entry into Europe, then turned against it. When Dacre retires/dies then there may well be a change in the papers attitude, especially if we are doing poorly, the EU is doing well and we have an anti-EU Corbyn as Prime Minister.

Facebook/Twitter is more of a concern, as they become ever more popular and the influence of the mainstream media declines, it will be essential that they find some way of combatting Russian propaganda and the trolls that infest them. And maybe they will but I have my doubts, after all doesn’t Zuckerberg want to run for President at some point?

PostRe: Brexit by **Photek** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:03 pm

I'm sure Russia are alarmed at how things are going so far, they want to split up the EU but the more the UK implode the less chance anyone else will decide to go the same way.

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