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When we leave the EU

I find it hilarious we are here arguing about the EU wasting £150m (for clarity I agree it is a waste), when by the Bank of England's assessment we have so far lost circa £80 Billion, as a result of the vote in June 2016. https://costofbrexit.netlify.com/

Is that a real site with any evidence whatsoever?
Not everything on the internet is true.
 
In America, pro-Trumpers seem to agree with your Brexit while progressive liberals think it may be a bad idea.

But among typical people, neither side understands YOUR issue well enough to have an informed opinion.

Like a lot of issues in American politics, it comes down to choosing the opinion of people who agree with us on other things.

I find your discussions quite interesting, even as they fly far over my head.
 
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So you agree £150m per year is a waste of the EUs money?
I never mentioned anything at all about EU spend of £150m per year. Yes it seems a waste of money but if it was deemed important as part of the set up then so be it. Plenty of stuff around the way the UK parliament is run that might seem excessive - perhaps like having two fancy chambers in a building that will cost a kings ransom to refurbish - one with over 600 members the other with 800.
 
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Fortunately I renewed my passport last year so will have my nice burgundy one for another 9 yrs

But as I have said. It’s done and they can get on with it. Nothing to do with me if it all turns out tickety-boo.
 
Did you look at the date, its a year old and forecasting on a no deal back then. We have voted for a Withdrawl deal and will start trade negotiations. We have not spent or lost that money, its exaggeration.
I have, and the first sentence is clear, Brexit has cost Britain £800million a week since the referendum". It went on to simply say that a no deal would make it worse.
For the record I sincerely hope the country makes a success of leaving the EU, but unfortunately all the available points me in the opposite direction. Wishing something to be true doesn't make it so, but it appears to me that is all we gave left now.
 
I have, and the first sentence is clear, Brexit has cost Britain £800million a week since the referendum". It went on to simply say that a no deal would make it worse.
For the record I sincerely hope the country makes a success of leaving the EU, but unfortunately all the available points me in the opposite direction. Wishing something to be true doesn't make it so, but it appears to me that is all we gave left now.
Wishing something bad doesn't make it so either.
So you recon Brexit (Which hasn't happened yet) is costing the country £41 Billion a year, maybe you can show where that's spent then?
 
Wishing something bad doesn't make it so either.
So you recon Brexit (Which hasn't happened yet) is costing the country £41 Billion a year, maybe you can show where that's spent then?

Since the referendum we have gone from the highest growth in the G7 to the lowest, investment is down, productivity is down, our £ is worth less making us all a bit poorer. These are facts you can easily find for yourself if you made the effort, instead of always expecting to be spoon fed.
 
Quite possibly he is, but if all of those things are improved upon during this governments tenure that would be positive and I am sure the PR machine will tell us!
Was thinking exactly that, in 3 or 4 years time when we maybe back to pre referendum levels of growth etc we'll be told how good an idea it really was , when the reality is we'll just be back somewhere near where we started.
 
Wishing something bad doesn't make it so either.
So you recon Brexit (Which hasn't happened yet) is costing the country £41 Billion a year, maybe you can show where that's spent then?

Perhaps you should try reading what I said, I am not wishing it to be bad, it is the evidence that leads me to believe it will be. But then facts and truth are conspicuous by their absence in this debate.
 
Perhaps you should try reading what I said, I am not wishing it to be bad, it is the evidence that leads me to believe it will be. But then facts and truth are conspicuous by their absence in this debate.

Not surprising as we have no facts about the future?
None
No-one knows what's going to happen.
No-one
Remainers will guess and leavers will guess, they could both be wrong. It all depends on who you talk to.
but nobody actually knows for a fact, its all guesswork.

In my view it's the uncertainty of the future felt by foreign companies that stops them investing in Britain.
And that uncertainty is laid firmly at the door of the remainers.
Leavers are optimistic and looking forward to a bright new future and wants the whole country to get together.
The remainers just want to talk about doom and gloom and the split in the country caused by their negativity.

I never mentioned anything at all about EU spend of £150m per year. Yes it seems a waste of money but if it was deemed important as part of the set up then so be it. Plenty of stuff around the way the UK parliament is run that might seem excessive - perhaps like having two fancy chambers in a building that will cost a kings ransom to refurbish - one with over 600 members the other with 800.

Unbelievable
 
Not surprising as we have no facts about the future?
None
No-one knows what's going to happen.
No-one
Remainers will guess and leavers will guess, they could both be wrong. It all depends on who you talk to.
but nobody actually knows for a fact, its all guesswork.

In my view it's the uncertainty of the future felt by foreign companies that stops them investing in Britain.
And that uncertainty is laid firmly at the door of the remainers.
Leavers are optimistic and looking forward to a bright new future and wants the whole country to get together.
The remainers just want to talk about doom and gloom and the split in the country caused by their negativity.



Unbelievable

?? oh dear
 
Not surprising as we have no facts about the future?
None
No-one knows what's going to happen.
No-one
Remainers will guess and leavers will guess, they could both be wrong. It all depends on who you talk to.
but nobody actually knows for a fact, its all guesswork.

In my view it's the uncertainty of the future felt by foreign companies that stops them investing in Britain.
And that uncertainty is laid firmly at the door of the remainers.
Leavers are optimistic and looking forward to a bright new future and wants the whole country to get together.
The remainers just want to talk about doom and gloom and the split in the country caused by their negativity.



Unbelievable
No - quite believable...

What perhaps is unbelievable is that you are telling us that nobody can have a clue about what is actually going to happen after we leave the EU - and yet many were convinced by Leave promises about life out of the EU that leaving was the right thing to vote to do. But there we go.

Noting (Lord) Gavin Barwell isn't that confident in Johnson's agreement
 
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I am sure is that I will no longer be alive when all the dust has finally settled or I will be so old that I will no longer care anyway.

Not that I care that much even now (I asked my children how they wanted me to vote and voted in accordance with their wishes). My belief is that is their futures that we voted for and not for old farts like myself.
 
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