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lex-man wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:

lex-man wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:

Squinty wrote:

Lastpostamorph wrote:And now that they've capitulated to farmers every other industry and region that was getting EU subsidies but voted leave anyway (as farmwrs quite strongly did) is going to be even louder.

This is a very good point.

Worth it for bright blue passports and FREEDOM.

To be fair they were always going pay farming subsidies. It'll help slow down the rising cost of food and farmers are very pro Tory.

As part of the EU we would have been paying subsidies, but wasn't one of the points of leaving the EU to cut out spending money on things like that?

It was a strawberry floating tiny list at the beginning, but is there anything at all left on the "Pro Brexit" side?

I don't think the point was ever to stop paying subsidies inside the UK, it was to stop paying it to other countries. That said it wouldn't surprise me if someone had made that point.

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Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Holy gooseberry fool, Javier in Spain thinks I’m unpatriotic

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Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:As Errkal says, if I was going to renounce a citizenship it’d be the British one.

Photek wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:As Errkal says, if I was going to renounce a citizenship it’d be the British one.

Can you apply to get your whole family onto an Irish passport? It’d be great for your kids future.

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:

Photek wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:As Errkal says, if I was going to renounce a citizenship it’d be the British one.

Can you apply to get your whole family onto an Irish passport? It’d be great for your kids future.

Any future kids I have can get Irish citizenship, but my lad isn’t eligible as I became an Irish citizen after he was born. The wife isn’t automatically eligible either.

Christmas CrackErrkal wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:

Photek wrote:

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:As Errkal says, if I was going to renounce a citizenship it’d be the British one.

Can you apply to get your whole family onto an Irish passport? It’d be great for your kids future.

Any future kids I have can get Irish citizenship, but my lad isn’t eligible as I became an Irish citizen after he was born. The wife isn’t automatically eligible either.

Collateral damage, run for the green hills mate!

Squinty wrote:Farage and his three Brexit questions.

What a dumb strawberry floating banana split. We already know the answer to these strawberry floating things.

1. Does Michel Barnier understand why Britain voted for Brexit?

2. What happens to the EU’s economy if there’s no trade deal with Britain?

3. How does Michel Barnier view mass immigration into the EU coming across the Mediterranean and elsewhere?

Squinty wrote:Farage and his three Brexit questions.

What a dumb strawberry floating banana split. We already know the answer to these strawberry floating things.

Hexx wrote:

Squinty wrote:Farage and his three Brexit questions.

What a dumb strawberry floating banana split. We already know the answer to these strawberry floating things.

To be fair. Brexiteers don’t

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker says he believes Brexit will happen and the EU should tackle its looming budget shortfall.

"Don't believe those who say that it's not going to happen and that people in the UK have realised their error... I don't think that's going to be the case," he told a Brussels conference.

The EU budget commissioner said the UK's departure would leave a hole of about €12-13bn (£11-12bn; $14-$16bn).

The UK's exit is set for March 2019.

Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger said the budget gap would have to be closed with 50% spending cuts and 50% fresh money. He suggested a Europe-wide tax on plastic products as a source of extra revenue.

The Commission will publish a proposal in May this year and has urged EU leaders to agree a budget deal by May 2019.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and former Prime Minister Tony Blair are among the prominent voices arguing that Brexit can still be reversed, possibly by holding a new referendum on whatever deal is reached on the UK withdrawal.

The EU is bracing for hard bargaining between the bloc's net contributors and net recipients for the next budget period, 2020-2026. The UK is currently among the major net contributors.

There will have to be cuts in some major [EU] programmes - some significant cuts," Mr Oettinger warned.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said Britain will honour its current commitments to the EU budget, until 2020.

The UK is one of 10 member states who pay more into the EU budget than they get out. Only France and Germany contribute more.

According to UK Treasury figures, the UK's net contribution for 2014/15 was £8.8bn. The total contribution was more, but the UK received a £4.6bn rebate. That annual rebate was won by the late Margaret Thatcher.

In 2014/15, Poland was the largest beneficiary, followed by Hungary and Greece.

On Monday the veteran pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage met EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels. "Mr Barnier clearly did not understand why Brexit happened," he said after the meeting.

What do the EU budget figures mean?

By Adam Fleming, BBC News, Brussels

€1 trillion - Rough amount that will be spent by the EU in 2014-2020, including on agriculture, energy, regional policy and administration

€12-13bn - Permanent hole left in the budget each year by the UK's departure, according to the European Commission

1% - Size of the EU budget as a proportion of the European economy; Mr Juncker wants it to go up

85% - Size of eurozone as share of total EU economy after UK's departure - up from 73%, showing a shift of power to the eurozone after Brexit.