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Jack Knave

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2425 on: June 24, 2016, 01:22:23 PM »
Let's face it - both campaigns were led by politicians - the Remain lot had no plan of what to do if they lost and Leave had no plan for if they won!

Both sides are now like ducks on a fast river - all serene on top and paddling like buggery underneath.

A couple of points - 10% more peolple voted yesterday than in the last General Election and a majority to Leave of over a million is not what you could call a merginal decision.

How many voted Leave because of the blatant scaremongering of the Remain supporters?

How many voted remain becasue Boris and Farage were for Leave?

And, possibly more importantly, how many didn't have a clue and voted on thge toss of a, even mental, coin.

What happens next?

PROBABLY:

. . . Scotland will demand another Independence referendum;

. . . Sinn Fein will demand a referendum in Northern Ireland on uniting the North and Eire

POSSIBLY

. . . just about anything that you can think of as nobody really knows.

One thing IS for sure - the Gravy Train of British Euro MEP/Bureaucrat expenses and backhanders has just left the tracks! As far as I personally am concerned that is a damn geeat plus!

The rest?

My fingers are tightly crossed.
You left out the upheaval that will take place in the EU as the sceptics use this to further their desire to totally overhaul the EU.

IT IS THE END OF THE EU AS WE KNOW IT!!!.......and I feel fine...

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2426 on: June 24, 2016, 01:24:10 PM »
I think Sadiq and Nicola will be having a lot of chats.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2427 on: June 24, 2016, 01:29:08 PM »
No I would strongly disagree, the debate was between the xenophobia drummed up by Leave and the economic realities spelt out by Remain - and as someone just said on the radio "Project Fear has become Project Reality"
No it hasn't!!!

It's only been half a day so far how can you make such a judgement? Come back to us in 6 months time to a year and see how things are.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2428 on: June 24, 2016, 01:32:58 PM »
Dear Jakswan,

Scare stories! is the channel tunnel open for business, who is now guarding our borders, will we still have cross channel cooperation in who we allow to enter the UK.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2429 on: June 24, 2016, 01:36:39 PM »
I blame Hope's prayer groups.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2430 on: June 24, 2016, 01:42:48 PM »
I wonder what will happen in Northern Ireland, as like Scotland the majority voted to Remain? Is it conceivable it could reunite with the rest of Ireland?
Yeah right,  ::)

If they try that there will be bloodshed once more.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2431 on: June 24, 2016, 01:44:46 PM »
Dear Jack,

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We are still in the EU and will be for a few years yet. Don't panic, nothing will change rapidly. Keep cool. 8)

Oh! I am very cool now baby :-* I listened to our Nicola this morning, I now know what to do, and she also explained why you voted to leave, never mind, we can look forward to blowing each other kisses over the barb wire fence at the border.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2432 on: June 24, 2016, 01:47:42 PM »
I think Sadiq and Nicola will be having a lot of chats.
What they need are polls telling how it is because they can't afford to lose it again else it will be dead in the water for decades.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2433 on: June 24, 2016, 01:54:18 PM »
Dear Jack,

Oh! I am very cool now baby :-* I listened to our Nicola this morning, I now know what to do, and she also explained why you voted to leave, never mind, we can look forward to blowing each other kisses over the barb wire fence at the border.

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The barbed wire would be there to stop you lot coming over to us as you lot starve and crave food, as you stupidly wait to join the EU and yet cease to be in our prosperous Union.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2434 on: June 24, 2016, 01:59:50 PM »
The barbed wire would be there to stop you lot coming over to us as you lot starve and crave food, as you stupidly wait to join the EU and yet cease to be in our prosperous Union.

Why will we have food. We cannot feed the population without imports.
We also receive a lot of farming subsidies which will disappear.
I see gullible people, everywhere!

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2435 on: June 24, 2016, 02:01:25 PM »
I see that fucking cunt Carney has just given the bankers £250 billion to make sure they are ok, so they don't get too upset. Yet when we need a handful of billions for the NHS no one seems to know where to get it from. He should be the one who should resign if anyone should.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2436 on: June 24, 2016, 02:04:33 PM »
The barbed wire would be there to stop you lot coming over to us as you lot starve and crave food, as you stupidly wait to join the EU and yet cease to be in our prosperous Union.

You and Farage seem to have a lot in common!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2437 on: June 24, 2016, 02:05:23 PM »
Why will we have food. We cannot feed the population without imports.
We also receive a lot of farming subsidies which will disappear.
We will be trading with the rest of the world plus a good arrangement with the EU.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2438 on: June 24, 2016, 02:06:13 PM »
What they need are polls telling how it is because they can't afford to lose it again else it will be dead in the water for decades.
Agreed. But that is a non sequitur to the point.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2439 on: June 24, 2016, 02:08:49 PM »
You and Farage seem to have a lot in common!!!!!!!!!!!
If Scotland choose to leave the Union then they should take the consequences.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2440 on: June 24, 2016, 02:12:12 PM »

Just leaving this here



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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2441 on: June 24, 2016, 02:15:43 PM »
Agreed. But that is a non sequitur to the point.
I don't agree. If they are likely to lose then all discussions are moot. I don't think the Scottish people have the stomach for another referendum, especially if the outcome would be to be out of the UK and of the EU, as they wait to join the EU.

What currency are they going to have; they can't have sterling if they want to join the EU. Oil prices are at rock bottom.....what else have they got to argue with?

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2442 on: June 24, 2016, 02:19:45 PM »
Just leaving this here

Isn't that the look a dog gives when it has just shat on the carpet?

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2443 on: June 24, 2016, 02:34:00 PM »
Dear Jackie boy,

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I don't think the Scottish people have the stomach for another referendum, especially if the outcome would be to be out of the UK and of the EU, as they wait to join the EU.

Not a question of having the stomach for, we have been pushed into a corner, I don't want to leave the Union but what else can I do, wait for Boris to fuck us all or go it alone, sorry but you guys have made your bed, we tried to warn you, so I can now walk away with no guilt on my hands.

Oh and Nicola has been on the phone all morning with the EU, we will be a shoo in, if only to put one over on little England. ;)

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2444 on: June 24, 2016, 02:41:24 PM »
Dear Jackie boy,

Not a question of having the stomach for, we have been pushed into a corner, I don't want to leave the Union but what else can I do, wait for Boris to fuck us all or go it alone, sorry but you guys have made your bed, we tried to warn you, so I can now walk away with no guilt on my hands.

Oh and Nicola has been on the phone all morning with the EU, we will be a shoo in, if only to put one over on little England. ;)

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2445 on: June 24, 2016, 02:45:06 PM »
Its a matter of fact that a hell of lot of people voted leave that do not fear immigration.
Have you listened to any of the interviews with outers - migration is a big issue.
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Blimey a few days ago we had Cameron almost literally shouting 'won't someone think of the children', you are suggesting the scare stories were not scary enough.

I'm saying that for whatever reason, he was unable to convince the majority of doubters that the economic threat was real.
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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2446 on: June 24, 2016, 02:48:35 PM »
London still wants to be in so perhaps they could marry up with the SNP and call in Scotlond.
How can something so perfect be so flawed.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2447 on: June 24, 2016, 02:55:32 PM »
We are still in the EU and will be for a few years yet. Don't panic, nothing will change rapidly. Keep cool. 8)

The problem is, that two years of uncertainty it leaves us in a very vulnerable position - right now our economy is just a 'play ground' for speculators.

If we are to get back on an even keel we need stability, and that means a firm plan.  All we have at the moment is the Brexiteers vague ideas of an unspecified free trade zone.
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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2448 on: June 24, 2016, 02:57:17 PM »
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England will be even smaller if Scotland leaves the union!

I really don't think it is an if, when is the word, I honestly don't see Boris and co pulling off anything extraordinary in the next couple of years which will change this.

Boris can't even point at the Union flag and ask me, where is your loyalty, for me, as a blue, white and red guy, he has walked over that flag that I once held so dear, he has taken the Great out of Great Britain.

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Re: The result of the EU referendum:
« Reply #2449 on: June 24, 2016, 03:01:27 PM »
There is a kind of black humour in the news that Cornwall is seeking reassurances, that they will still obtain various grants, formerly from the EU.   I think the Leave vote in Cornwall was about 60/40 for Leave.   Now that's what you call joined up thinking.

Further black humour, Farage wasted no time in saying that talking of money from former EU payments going to the NHS, was 'misguided'.  Wow, that didn't take long.
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