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I'd say the outrage in the immediate aftermath of the referendum far outweighed the Uber thing though, it's just that you can't sustain that level of anger or you'll go mad. Life has to go on even when the prospect of an open and prosperous Britain doesn't.

 

... :jesuswept:

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13 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

I'd say the outrage in the immediate aftermath of the referendum far outweighed the Uber thing though, it's just that you can't sustain that level of anger or you'll go mad. Life has to go on even when the prospect of an open and prosperous Britain doesn't.

 

... :jesuswept:

Aye, fair comment. But I still think there's a point that the loss of that many jobs should lead to more outrage than the Uber thing. To paraphrase Dan Ashcroft, the cunts are winning.

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3 minutes ago, Alex said:

Aye, fair comment. But I still think there's a point that the loss of that many jobs should lead to more outrage than the Uber thing. To paraphrase Dan Ashcroft, the cunts are winning.

 

I agree. CT perhaps had the right of this earlier - people don't care unless it affects them.

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21 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

I'd say the outrage in the immediate aftermath of the referendum far outweighed the Uber thing though, it's just that you can't sustain that level of anger or you'll go mad. Life has to go on even when the prospect of an open and prosperous Britain doesn't.

 

... :jesuswept:

 

Which is exactly why so many Brexiteers are the way they are and vote the way they vote.

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Just now, Meenzer said:

It's all right though, now we'll be freed from the shackles of the EU and can trade with the rest of the... wait what? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41397181

 

Perversely, we need Trump to do more of this. It could well be that he saves us from this whole charade by demonstrating that we can't rely on the US, and that the world is becoming a less open place.

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Just now, Meenzer said:

It's all right though, now we'll be free to trade with the rest of the... wait what? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41397181

 

 

As I heard one observer quip, the pound has dropped, but the penny hasn't dropped amongst brexiters.

 

The world doesn't owe us a living, we are completely fucked with the present trajectory. I honestly find it frightening.

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2 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

Perversely, we need Trump to do more of this. It could well be that he saves us from this whole charade by demonstrating that we can't rely on the US, and that the world is becoming a less open place.

It may be too late. We can't cancel Brexit now, and we can't even guarantee EFTA membership. We are at the mercy of the goodwill of our fellow Europeans who we have royally fucked off since the Tories got in power. I just hope they remember that the younger, more intelligent half of the population never wanted this. 

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Just now, Renton said:

It may be too late. We can't cancel Brexit now, and we can't even guarantee EFTA membership. We are at the mercy of the goodwill of our fellow Europeans who we have royally fucked off since the Tories got in power. I just hope they remember that the younger, more intelligent half of the population never wanted this. 

 

The EU has said we can back out of Brexit at any time, and I genuinely believe they mean that. The Tories want to extend the deadline for leaving to 2021... I think there's a chance yet. 2021 gives us the full term of Donald Trump. We may well have had a nuclear war by that point, who knows what the lay of the land will be.

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Just now, Rayvin said:

 

The EU has said we can back out of Brexit at any time, and I genuinely believe they mean that. The Tories want to extend the deadline for leaving to 2021... I think there's a chance yet. 2021 gives us the full term of Donald Trump. We may well have had a nuclear war by that point, who knows what the lay of the land will be.

They don't want Brexit either so there'll be an escape route until the last possible moment.

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Just now, Alex said:

They don't want Brexit either so there'll be an escape route until the last possible moment.

 

Exactly. We just need the rest of the world to look a lot more scary than the EU to turn the Brexiters around :lol: Donald Trump could save the nation.

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1 minute ago, ewerk said:

They aren't rational thinkers though. 61% of Brexiteers think that economic damage is a price worth paying.

 

True but maybe they'd be different once they actually start to see it?

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26 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

The EU has said we can back out of Brexit at any time, and I genuinely believe they mean that. The Tories want to extend the deadline for leaving to 2021... I think there's a chance yet. 2021 gives us the full term of Donald Trump. We may well have had a nuclear war by that point, who knows what the lay of the land will be.

I hope you are right, I really do. But when I think about it, I'm not sure the EU might make substantial gains through Brexit, by poaching our most high value industries, particularly financial. What brexiters don't get is that our contribution to the EU, our only leverage, is trivial compared with the benefits. Our contribution is 0.05% of EU GDP. A rounding error basically. The ECB produces €80 billion a month through QE! Ten times our annual contribution every fucking month! Yeah, they're clearly shitting themselves over losing our money.

 

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3 minutes ago, Renton said:

I hope you are right, I really do. But when I think about it, I'm not sure the EU might make substantial gains through Brexit, by poaching our most high value industries, particularly financial. What brexiters don't get is that our contribution to the EU, our only leverage, is trivial compared with the benefits. Our contribution is 0.05% of EU GDP. A rounding error basically. The ECB produces €80 billion a month through QE! Ten times our annual contribution every fucking month! Yeah, they're clearly shitting themselves over losing our money.

 

 

Yeah but they do care about the political project. Our departure is a political failure for the EU, as much as it's a bigger one for the UK. If we turned tail and returned, they would likely see that as a political success, and hopefully as a deterrent to other members states who might think the same way. "The UK tried it but realised it would be a disaster, so came back". It would be quite an endorsement of the project, actually.

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47 minutes ago, Alex said:

The most racist and xenophobic amongst the Brexit lot are the same ones who think the rest of the world should love us though :lol:

Or say it was okay when we ruled the waves which we can do again apparently. 

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27 minutes ago, ewerk said:

I'm not so  sure they'd give us our rebate back though.

 

True, but that's the consequence of all of this. We would just need them to sort that out reasonably quietly.

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