mojomonkey Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 3 hours ago, woody2 said: one year till freedom...... Will you be hosting a street party? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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woody2 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 6 hours ago, mojomonkey said: Will you be hosting a street party? nah- push a remoan day...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freggyragh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Looking forward to push a remoan day, we’ll retaliate by kicking your sticks away, popping your colostomy bags and disconnecting your mobility scooter batteries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freggyragh Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Seriously, I’m hoping to see some positives in Brexit, but most of the posters here who back it are unhinged idiots. Are there any sane brexiteers. Woolley, Pongo? You’re not Trump loving facists are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, RIchard Britten said: That's Beachy Head right? Famous as a jumping off point. Not the patriotic off-white cliffs of Folkestone. Edited March 29, 2018 by pongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 14 minutes ago, Freggyragh said: Are there any sane brexiteers. Woolley, Pongo? You’re not Trump loving facists are you? I'm so confused by this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Don't be. It looks as though Freggy's drunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Hardly read a page of this thread, but I suspect in 10 years time it will be hard to see a clear difference to the UK. With advanced economies it's hard to measure good and bad, compared to different. The EU has an economic contradiction at its heart in the shape of the Euro and until it works out how to share risks across its currency zone it is going to have crises as peripheries find the economic medicine for the core poisonous. They can threaten to default, but then will be faced with the economic consequences of a de-monetised economy. Getting the UK out of that will have certain advantages. I think real-politique is going to result in basically frictionless trade, and standards will continue to converge around the world. It isn't clear how much of a voice the UK had or will have in setting those standards - where it's products are competitive - finance, jet engines - it'll have a voice, in other areas less so. Leaving the EU is basically a wash. The main damage is simply in institutional communication at a government level. Woolley et al think that's a good thing, but having a diversity of view-points to critique policies is helpful. But also trying to fit everything into a Europe shaped hole isn't necessarily the path to utopia. The UK will have more flexibility compared to monolithic Europe. That's mean we make some mistakes by going alone, but also can more quickly set our own path when it is clear the super-tanker needs to change course. It won't be the end of the world. I've increasingly got fed up with the Remoaners continuing to pretend Brexit will be the end of the world. It won't be. People are mainly pragmatic and get on with things. Large organisations can be institutionally stupid, but at the same time pragmatism tends to trump ideology and the EU and UK aren't as ideological as the EUSSR mob claim it to be. We'll just keep buggering on and the world won't end. Bring it on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 4 minutes ago, woolley said: Don't be. It looks as though Freggy's drunk. More likely I'm just not understanding his subtle point. AFAIK he isn't one the forums drinkers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 2 minutes ago, Chinahand said: Hardly read a page of this thread, but I suspect in 10 years time it will be hard to see a clear difference to the UK. With advanced economies it's hard to measure good and bad, compared to different. The EU has an economic contradiction at its heart in the shape of the Euro and until it works out how to share risks across its currency zone it is going to have crises as peripheries find the economic medicine for the core poisonous. They can threaten to default, but then will be faced with the economic consequences of a de-monetised economy. Getting the UK out of that will have certain advantages. I think real-politique is going to result in basically frictionless trade, and standards will continue to converge around the world. It isn't clear how much of a voice the UK had or will have in setting those standards - where it's products are competitive - finance, jet engines - it'll have a voice, in other areas less so. Leaving the EU is basically a wash. The main damage is simply in institutional communication at a government level. Woolley et al think that's a good thing, but having a diversity of view-points to critique policies is helpful. But also trying to fit everything into a Europe shaped hole isn't necessarily the path to utopia. The UK will have more flexibility compared to monolithic Europe. That's mean we make some mistakes by going alone, but also can more quickly set our own path when it is clear the super-tanker needs to change course. It won't be the end of the world. I've increasingly got fed up with the Remoaners continuing to pretend Brexit will be the end of the world. It won't be. People are mainly pragmatic and get on with things. Large organisations can be institutionally stupid, but at the same time pragmatism tends to trump ideology and the EU and UK aren't as ideological as the EUSSR mob claim it to be. We'll just keep buggering on and the world won't end. Bring it on. Am I hallucinating? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 2 minutes ago, pongo said: More likely I'm just not understanding his subtle point. AFAIK he isn't one the forums drinkers. He's as subtle as a brick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Freggyragh said: Looking forward to push a remoan day, we’ll retaliate by kicking your sticks away, popping your colostomy bags and disconnecting your mobility scooter batteries. Subtle, yeah? Nice. Richard II. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 (edited) 35 minutes ago, woolley said: Subtle, yeah? Nice. Richard II. This Sceptred Isle? Is that the passage you mean? Still confused tbh. You mean the Shakespeare play? Edited March 29, 2018 by pongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 9 minutes ago, pongo said: This Sceptred Isle? Is that the passage you mean? Still confused tbh. You mean the Shakespeare play? Far more prosaic and parochial, I'm afraid. Richard Britten II. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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