Neverending Story 3: The Ongoing Brexit Thread

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  1. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    I'd agree with that.

    But I assume you mean undecided and, if so, I'd only tack onto to the last sentence, '... as usual' :eek:

    :D
     
  2. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    Doesn't matter if they can or not... the eurosceptics and the rest outnumber the foamy-mouthed brigade.
     
  3. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    But that's just about being mean to immigrants. It doesn't mean they're going to leave the eurozone and go back to their old currency, the Schilling.

    They'll bitch and whine but the chances of Austria leaving the EU are slim, to put it mildly. IIRC support for remaining in the EU runs at about 70+%.
     
  4. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    As usual, your post seems to be based on an understanding of a meaning that's precisely the opposite to the point I made.

    It's almost impressive... but not quite! :D
     
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  5. Antario2

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    From a business point of view, a reasonable deal is very possible, the real question is what political window dressing is required to make such a deal palatable to the voters.

    To the mainland electorates, it has to to look like the UK won't get their cake and eat it, while to the UK voters the deal has to be preferable to no deal and WTO rules.
     
  6. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    Well, we'll have to see, obviously but I think it's going to be a matter of us being nominally outside the EU but with a lot of the same conditions and terms being in place.

    People, including the tories, have already accepted the idea of a 'transition period' which can last for quite a while. If there's another general election, almost regardless of the result, and we're still in that, (supposedly still negotiating), I can WELL see us reverting to something akin to an efta-style arrangement, albeit a 'red-white-and-blue' efta-style arrangement, whatever THAT means :rolleyes: , (i.e. probably nothing).

    What we can't do is have another re-run of the original referendum. That would be disastrous as it would inevitably lead to people adopting a harsher position, full of idiotic 'red lines'. It's better to just cobble up something sensible at THIS stage and move on, even if it takes a while.
     
  7. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    920227079672745984 is not a valid tweet id
     
  8. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    lol Spiegel rulezzz

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  9. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    923584341078433792 is not a valid tweet id
     
  10. The Biscuitman

    The Biscuitman Member+

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  11. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
    Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
    Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
    Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
    Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
    J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?
     
  12. The Biscuitman

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    The now infamous 'MP sex pest list' gets leaked online.

    Kwasi Kwarteng you naughty boy! :ROFLMAO:
     
  13. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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  14. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
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    Brussels only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down

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  15. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    Uh-huh
     
  16. The Biscuitman

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  17. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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  18. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    Bum zua City
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  19. The Biscuitman

    The Biscuitman Member+

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    Michael Fallon quit the Cabinet at the start of the week after deciding that his past misdemeanours, some known, some likely to come out soon, were inappropriate.

    Priti Patel given the boot today after it was discovered she arranged 12 secret meetings with members of the Israeli government while on a family holiday.

    This government goes from bad to worse. I was reading something today about how this feels like the last days of Major's government with everything falling apart around him.
     
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  20. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    Indeed!

    To be fair, even MAJOR didn't have the set LITERALLY falling apart around him when he was giving a speech as May had.

    I'm telling yer, if Armando Ianucci had written this stuff, NOBODY would believe it.
     
  21. Skandal!!!

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    Britain for the Brits!
     
  22. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

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    Wiki vandalism that we can all agree on.


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  23. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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  24. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
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    We obviously have broken you guys. 70/90 years of going downwards
     
  25. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    sclerotic Eurozone outperforming EU 27 and Britain

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