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3 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

More direct but less poetic imo. 

Anything else (like responding to it) is overthinking.

 

There's no satisfaction at the end of this rainbow.  He's never admitting what's obvious to everyone else.

 

Still, I occasionally get to say "cunt" so carry on.

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3 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

 

Nothing has changed, NOTHING HAS CHANGED :lol:

 

Honestly, I’m not sure if some of you are on your rag today? This from a few days after the vote has been my position. I’m struggling where you think I’ve particularly changed over 2 years. :lol:

Okay, let's do this again.

Access to single market for trade and services - Under Theresa May's plan we will have no free access to the SM for services (80% of our economy)

Control over immigration / borders - Under the white paper we will likely have similar levels of migration to what we have now

Free trade deals with rest of world - The white paper means that many FTAs are now off the table as Trump said yesterday

Sovereignty over our own laws / policies (eg Democratic accountability / vat on fuel) - We will mirror EU laws on goods and in other required areas

Separation from an union that wants to expand further geographically and politically. - Cameron got us that

Separation from the unstable Eurozone and the problems we could get dragged into financially and due to free movement. - We aren't in the Eurozone

UK decision on TTIP - TTIP is dead

 

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The thing with this bollocks from Trump on trade - he's complaining the US gets a bad deal from the EU. Which means by extension the EU must get a 'good' deal on trade. So we're swapping trading relationship which favours us, for one that won't, as far as the US is concerned.

 

It's fucking ludicrous.

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57 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

The thing with this bollocks from Trump on trade - he's complaining the US gets a bad deal from the EU. Which means by extension the EU must get a 'good' deal on trade. So we're swapping trading relationship which favours us, for one that won't, as far as the US is concerned.

 

It's fucking ludicrous.

Exactly what I was thinking when I heard it. By definition any deal we get has to be worse than what we currently have.

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2 hours ago, ewerk said:

Okay, let's do this again.

Access to single market for trade and services - Under Theresa May's plan we will have no free access to the SM for services (80% of our economy)

Control over immigration / borders - Under the white paper we will likely have similar levels of migration to what we have now

Free trade deals with rest of world - The white paper means that many FTAs are now off the table as Trump said yesterday

Sovereignty over our own laws / policies (eg Democratic accountability / vat on fuel) - We will mirror EU laws on goods and in other required areas

Separation from an union that wants to expand further geographically and politically. - Cameron got us that

Separation from the unstable Eurozone and the problems we could get dragged into financially and due to free movement. - We aren't in the Eurozone

UK decision on TTIP - TTIP is dead

 

 

Without getting into your red lines :lol: I’m saying my reasons for voting Brexit have not changed over the two years.

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7 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

 

Without getting into your red lines :lol: I’m saying my reasons for voting Brexit have not changed over the two years.

Two years ago your reasons for voting for Brexit were bullshit. They remain bullshit today as I’ve explained above. 

How about just admitting that you made a mistake?

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22 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

 

Without getting into your red lines :lol: I’m saying my reasons for voting Brexit have not changed over the two years.

 

Agreed, you're still a dipshit.

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1 hour ago, ewerk said:

Two years ago your reasons for voting for Brexit were bullshit. They remain bullshit today as I’ve explained above. 

How about just admitting that you made a mistake?

 

If May delivers what’s in the chequers plan I’ll be very happy. The only item from my original “wishlist” that is not clear is services. However there is a separate plan for that and if it is agreed that will solve a lot of the potential problems with the EU and lead to much more service growth with the rest of the world.

 

I made it pretty clear two years ago  that a disasterous few years, recession, lots of job losses then I would consider my decision a mistake. So far the promised recession never happened and jobs are at record highs.

 

If TM pulls of this deal, investment will flood in and the economy will absolutely soar. And that’s before we get all those lovely trade deals.

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28 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

 

If May delivers what’s in the chequers plan I’ll be very happy. The only item from my original “wishlist” that is not clear is services. However there is a separate plan for that and if it is agreed that will solve a lot of the potential problems with the EU and lead to much more service growth with the rest of the world.

 

I made it pretty clear two years ago  that a disasterous few years, recession, lots of job losses then I would consider my decision a mistake. So far the promised recession never happened and jobs are at record highs.

 

If TM pulls of this deal, investment will flood in and the economy will absolutely soar. And that’s before we get all those lovely trade deals.

:lol:

 

So dense I don't know where to start. So I won't bother.

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The deal won’t improve our economy because: 

a. We won’t have free access to the SM for services which make up 80% of our economy.

b. It will preclude any substantial deal with the USA which is the main country we’ll have been aiming to do a deal with.

Go on, refute those points.

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On 26/03/2018 at 15:42, Christmas Tree said:

 

As for the border, why would a few traffic cameras lead to violence? I honestly don’t appreciate why your peers are going to take up arms because a few customs cameras are there.

CT, we’ve just had a week of rioting, shots fired at police, plastic bullets being used in the streets, a bomb thrown at Gerry Adams’ house, 75 petrol bombs thrown in one night and two two IEDs at police and this is just a standard July.

Don’t dismiss the threat of violence.

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5 minutes ago, ewerk said:

CT, we’ve just had a week of rioting, shots fired at police, plastic bullets being used in the streets, a bomb thrown at Gerry Adams’ house, 75 petrol bombs thrown in one night and two two IEDs at police and this is just a standard July.

Don’t dismiss the threat of violence.

BAU

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No deal would win. Absolutely nailed on the way things have been going lately and considering May is even less popular than Cameron so can't even rely on a degree of personal trust and credibility. Farage and co would frame any arguments against it as "Project Fear", tell us to believe in Britain, take back control for our great nation, yadda yadda, while enough soft remainers would shift to May's deal because they're sick of the whole Brexit thing and just want it to be over and done with, and no deal would win. 

 

Which would at least make for some kind of accountability, you'd like to think. Except it'll somehow still be everyone else's fault. 

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I'm not so sure it would win. People are stupid but are they that stupid? Maybe I have too much faith in humanity.

We wouldn't be talking about fear though, it would be cold hard facts. Millions would be out of a job overnight. It's too stupid a prospect to even put down as an option.

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15 minutes ago, ewerk said:

I'm not so sure it would win. People are stupid but are they that stupid? Maybe I have too much faith in humanity.

We wouldn't be talking about fear though, it would be cold hard facts. Millions would be out of a job overnight. It's too stupid a prospect to even put down as an option.

 

They are, definitely.

 

If you think those facts, the ones that don't match up to the golden view of post leave britain, won't be written off as project fear then you have very much not been paying attention. Look back through this thread, every time an argument is made that the TT brexit contingent (one person) can't actually argue against its "project fear". It'll be the same again because it worked last time.

 

As for it being too stupid a prospect to be even put down as an option...well, I'd agree with you if we didn't have the likes of Priti Patel in the house whose definition of leadership is "doing whatever you're told regardless of the consequences". 

 

It's all quite simple, people are fucking stupid.

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In the last referendum leavers were told that doing a deal with the EU would be easy. That we'd keep all that trade and then increase our trade all around the world, something CT still believes.

But this time they can't point to that. We've seen that the EU won't give us our cake, the trade deals around the world, if the can be done, will take decades to complete. It's such a mind-blowingly stupid idea that anyone with even half a brain should realise it's nonsense.

It's a massive risk to test the electorate's stupidity in this way. But I can't really see an alternative.

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