Brexit -am I stupid or what

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  1. shiney

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    I got my information from the baker at Tesco - he was a customer of mine (as was the baker at Sainsbury's). He told me he buys his bread in Sainsbury's :rolleyespink:
     
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      Petrol has gone up a bit since I last checked :)
       
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        It goes up and down like a .... drawers!!! :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
         
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          And yet, similarly, I prefer it when they both go down..........
           
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            I don't understand! :scratch: :whistle: :loll:
             
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              :rofllol:.......I could comment but I really shouldn’t :mute::mute: :heehee:
               
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                you are all making I larf again....
                 
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                    I see that yet again May has been defeated... No surprise there then..!! I just don't see how she could ever get the best deal for the country as she was always a "remain".. Then she got herself PM but has never grasped the situation they have just waffled done nothing until the last minute and where has it got us.? Nowhere... I do not see how the woman can do it.. EU don't want to know her now and nor do most of the government... They all want their place in the history books but at what cost.?
                    PM defeated over Brexit strategy
                     
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                    • pete

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                      I dont think anyone could get any deal passed Parliament, there are too many with their own ideas.
                      It was common sense that when it was decided Parliament would get the final say it would be errrr, we dont really know.
                      Parliament should not be having a final say, the final say is what we voted for, to leave.
                      We never looked like we were leaving from day one, which kind of cocked up any real chance of negotiating with the EU.
                      They, just sat back and watched the squabbling going on over here, for 18 months, as we played into their hands.
                      And they are still able to do that, even at this late stage.

                      It might be May's fault up to a point, but she cant take all the blame.
                      There are still lots of the sods that are doing their best to stop us leaving and ignoring the vote.

                      If we do leave without a deal it will be the likes of those that I will blame.

                      Im compiling my list, in readiness for the revolution.
                      Power to the people!:biggrin:

                      As Woolfie Smith used to say.:biggrin:
                       
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                        We do need immigrant workers but not primarily for the reason most often quoted. The reason that we need immigrant workers is to plug the states own black hole in the state pension fund. Only a small number of the immigrants will pay into NI for long enough to claim a pension. This is the reason that succesive governments have welcomed them with complete and utter glee.

                        But the vote made no mention of any deal, or of leaving with no deal for that matter. The question that the electorate was asked was incomplete in that regard. What was not incomplete was the lies that the electorate was told by the leave camp - "we'll get a good deal", "they have too much to lose not to give us a deal", "we can simply cut and paste existing deals and make them our own", "it would not be in their interests to impose tariffs even under a no deal scenario" (they made no mention of the fact that WTO most favoured nation rules would make it illegal for the EU not to impose tariffs if we leave with no deal unless they offered the same deal to all the other nations with whom they have no deal as well) and so on.

                        My list is coming along nicely;
                        1] Charge and convict Rees-Mogg, Johnson and Redwood with treason.
                         
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                        • pete

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                          We do need immigrant workers but not primarily for the reason most often quoted. The reason that we need immigrant workers is to plug the states own black hole in the state pension fund. Only a small number of the immigrants will pay into NI for long enough to claim a pension. This is the reason that succesive governments have welcomed them with complete and utter glee.

                          Which is a basically an EU idea which we have been forced, or cottoned onto, which is why the EU invites only countries with lower standards of living to actually join.
                          Africa will will probably be next once they have screwed what they can out of eastern Europe.I'm waiting for them to invite Ethiopia to join.

                          But the vote made no mention of any deal, or of leaving with no deal for that matter. The question that the electorate was asked was incomplete in that regard. What was not incomplete was the lies that the electorate was told by the leave camp - "we'll get a good deal", "they have too much to lose not to give us a deal", "we can simply cut and paste existing deals and make them our own", "it would not be in their interests to impose tariffs even under a no deal scenario" (they made no mention of the fact that WTO most favoured nation rules would make it illegal for the EU not to impose tariffs if we leave with no deal unless they offered the same deal to all the other nations with whom they have no deal as well) and so on.


                          Oh now come on, did you believe all that, gullible or what?:biggrin:
                          I just voted to leave, I've always wanted to leave, I even voted not to join.
                          But Ted Heath got his pay out and got us in.

                          Well I;d vote leave again if we had another vote.
                          But it would be the last time I ever bother to vote again, in any election or referendum.:smile:
                           
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                            Are you sure that you don't want to choose between the current shambles of a government and a Labour/SNP/LibDem/Breakaway Labour Coalition at the next General Election?
                             
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                              I'm still going to vote for Woo. :blue thumb: :)
                               
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                              • wiseowl

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                                Why thank you @shiney my Brexit policy hasn't changed its still"

                                Que será, será
                                Whatever will be, will be
                                The future's not ours to see
                                Que será, será…;);):blue thumb:
                                 
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