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After Brexit - am I stupid or what?

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  1. ARMANDII

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    I'm looking at putting some money on a WTO brexit:

    Talks started in Brussels on Monday and were due to last until tomorrow afternoon, but finished earlier today.

    It is understood very little progress was made this week - but discussions in London scheduled for next week will continue as planned.
     
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      I dont think they are going anywhere unless one side gives in, I'm hoping it wont be us.
      The EU seem to think they should still have unlimited access to our fishing waters and us to be bound by the European court of human rights.
      The "level playing field" means we have to still abide by all their regulations.
      I dont think they actually understand the meaning of "leaving" its a totally new concept to them.:biggrin:
       
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        I saw an alleged threat from France a day or so ago, saying that they would send 300 fishing boats into our waters on 1st January 2021.

        Nice of them to give us a few months warning to have the torpedoes made.
         
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            I reckon they will continue to fish at least for a short time. It's no different to a French farmer nipping over to the UK to harvest a UK farmers maize crop - it's theft. Massive fines will discourage them - what we need to do is take them to the ECJ :scratch:.
             
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              Macaroon needs to be careful that the French PM and cabinet don't resign in objection to the French stance on fishing..
               
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                All I can say is we will have to build some gunboats and use the same tactics that Iceland used against our fishermen during the cod war.

                Can't see us doing it though.
                 
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                  Good - :dbgrtmb:

                  Angela Merkel said the EU should be prepared for a no trade deal Brexit on Wednesday, the day after Boris Johnson warned the German chancellor that Britain was "ready" to walk away without an agreement.
                   
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                  So they have agreed on something :blue thumb: :heehee:
                   
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                    A couple of interesting quotes:

                    Well done, Great Britain - Brexit is saving you 80bn euros as I'm writing! The @EuropeanCouncil is finalising the #RecoveryFund. If the #uk were still in the #UE it wd still be the 2nd largest contributor to the EU budget + be contributing 80bn euros on top for the #RecoveryFund.

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                    The report on this morning’s EU recovery deal in the Irish Times is very comprehensive, reporting all of the issues in detail, except for one, which is, very strangely, totally left out of the coverage.

                    Nowhere in Naomi O’Reilly’s report, for some reason, will you read that Ireland will contribute vastly more to the seven-year EU budget (which is separate to the recovery fund) than we get back. In fact, according to a German MEP who has the official figures, Ireland will contribute almost €16billion more than it receives.
                     
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                      This is the man in charge of the UK - is is time to panic?

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                        I read somewhere recently that. Mrs Merkel is/has predicted the total break up of the EU in the very near future.
                         
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                          On the news today, its now been proven what Farage has been saying all along, the French Navy are escorting illegals in rubber boats into British waters so that our Coast guard have to pick them up.

                          The french Navy are turning off their radar recognition as they cross the channel with the boats, so that they dont show up on British radar, but they have been spotted by air doing this.

                          The illegals collecting at Calais are an EU problem , not just a French/ British problem, they enter the EU and are then allowed to roam without any restraint until they reach Calais due to the stupidity of open borders.

                          Its about time the EU sorted its borders out.
                           
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