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Do you think there will be a Deal or No Deal?


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I'm not sure how not being a member of the EU guarantees me a job.

Lucky you moved when you did. The UK government wouldn't let you move here with no qualifications if you came from outside the EU. When they extend those rules to apply to EU members the EU will reciprocate

Nothing guarantees you a job anywhere and get this, not even the eu will do that.
 
No paul it isn't but you get the drift, i know you do.

But the point is that the cheap labour will come from somewhere, whether it's EU citizens or Africans or Asians or wherever - or the other alternative is that companies will go out of business or prices will skyrocket. As you said 'that's life'
 
But the point is that the cheap labour will come from somewhere, whether it's EU citizens or Africans or Asians or wherever - or the other alternative is that companies will go out of business or prices will skyrocket. As you said 'that's life'
Well im all for that, lets see the real costs, let's see companies go down the pan, lets see banks fail and countries go bankrupt then we will really know where we are at. We are living unrealistically and it needs to change. 5 quid a pint of milk then fine, lets drive prices and wages up not down. Lets see how the people react to that. I'm all for it.
 
Well im all for that, lets see the real costs, let's see companies go down the pan, lets see banks fail and countries go bankrupt then we will really know where we are at. We are living unrealistically and it needs to change. 5 quid a pint of milk then fine, lets drive prices and wages up not down. Lets see how the people react to that. I'm all for it.

But it's been like that since the dawn of time.
150 years ago the UK ruled a quarter of the earth, exploited people left right and centre, the rich were really rich, and the poor were extremely poor and that includes Brits.
Even that was a considerable advance from from Tudor times or medieval times right back through history.
The world evolves and gradually people have better lives, this has not reached everybody and there's a long way to go .

50 years ago who would have thought China or India would become major world players.

Brexit is a major step backwards for me.
 
This is no reason to stick with the norm for me and just cos "thats how its always been" doesn't suit me.

Let the people rise up amd protest.

you are my accuser, now look in my face
Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace
So one man has and another has not
How can you love what it is you have got
When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?
Liars and thieves you know not what is in store

There will come a time I will look in your eye
You will pray to the God that you always denied
 
This is no reason to stick with the norm for me and just cos "thats how its always been" doesn't suit me.

But the EU is not how it's always been, it is a comparatively recent project which still has to develop , still has to improve. The Uk could have helped to improve it from within.

I don't see how by being outside on its own, the life of an average Brit is going to improve by leaving. As you know I believe the opposite will happen. I've said before, be careful what you wish for.
 
Like the crazy coyote who runs off the cliff and, finding himself suspended momentarily in midair, smiles and thinks everything's fine. We all know what happens next.
 
This is no reason to stick with the norm for me and just cos "thats how its always been" doesn't suit me.

Let the people rise up amd protest.

Yeah, because if something isn't working the way you want, the very best thing you can do is burn it to the group and hope something better materializes in its place.

I think the thing that makes me most furious (and it's a fairly long list to be fair) is that the pro-Leave people don't seem to have any interest in actually building a new system themselves. It's always just 'we want something better!' and then the people who never wanted the change in the first place are left to fix it all.

Where are the deep, carefully planned strategies from Leave campaigners laying out a roadmap for a future economic direction? No, instead we just get some vague bullshit about new trade deals that are just going to materialize and the rest is left for someone else to figure out.
 
Oh come on @Kentonio, we all know that if everything turns to shit post Brexit it will be the vindictive EU and the uncooperative remainers that scuppered it.
 
Yeah, because if something isn't working the way you want, the very best thing you can do is burn it to the group and hope something better materializes in its place.

I think the thing that makes me most furious (and it's a fairly long list to be fair) is that the pro-Leave people don't seem to have any interest in actually building a new system themselves. It's always just 'we want something better!' and then the people who never wanted the change in the first place are left to fix it all.

Where are the deep, carefully planned strategies from Leave campaigners laying out a roadmap for a future economic direction? No, instead we just get some vague bullshit about new trade deals that are just going to materialize and the rest is left for someone else to figure out.
The same can be said about the stay camp.

Where are your carefully planned strategies for change in the eu?

How would you have convinced the other 27 nations?

Why are you all so negative?
 
One thing I have never got about the 'trade deals'

If we have all this trade we could do with the US, India and everywhere, why haven't we been doing those trade deals for the last 40 years, given we have the EU trade agreements to do it with?

What changes, what trade is going to materialise outside the EU that we did not have inside it?
 
You can blame them all you want but you are factually wrong. The responsibility to police the minimum wage is for the individual nations. Your determination to blame the EU is sad
You already said that, and repeated it once before. Can you respond to my arguement or not? Of course I blame it on the EU, they forced it upon is, they didn't take responsibility for making sure it worked out right, and they prevented national governments from adressing the problems with it.

It is part of the EU'S remit. They spend money on Eastern Europe and poor bits of western Europe.
And on rich bits of Western Europe, the problem is it's not their money, they have lots of overhead and the spending is not democratically checked.

The EU has enacted so many laws that protects workers, environment and consumers at the cost of business. The Leave leaders were forever bemoaning the red tape that comes with being a member of the EU. The idea that the EU is an organisation determined to screw the poor is fantasy. The way legislation is made in the EU forces a centrist policy
Most countries had those protections in place well before the EU existed. It's a good thing there's one body to work out rules for the whole of the EU, but this not about safety helmet requirements, this is about jobs and wages. The number of laws the EU produces is irrelevant.

Freedom of movement applies to you and me, not just eastern Europeans. Why would you want to make your horizon smaller?
Don't you read anything I write? I thought I made it perfectly clear that I'm just opposed to mass migration because of differences in living costs and the wages related to it.

The twats who ran the leave campaign will be fine. They have money, they have staff who can fill out forms and chase paper work to let them live and work across the continent. I am from a poor working class background, I could tomorrow move to Germany and start a new job. This to me is a great thing. I may never take advantage of it, but I would be devastated to lose it
If you could think any further than your own self interest, you'd see there something very wrong with the EU. And as I already pointed out twice, there's nothing wrong with moving from the UK to Germany or the other way around. You move there because there is a job you like there, not because the wages are much higher because life is much more expensive.

I have experienced the dole in Holland, 3 months of being talked to like a convict.
Is that all? I thought foreigners were supposed to get equally bad treatment.
 
Yeah, because if something isn't working the way you want, the very best thing you can do is burn it to the group and hope something better materializes in its place.

I think the thing that makes me most furious (and it's a fairly long list to be fair) is that the pro-Leave people don't seem to have any interest in actually building a new system themselves. It's always just 'we want something better!' and then the people who never wanted the change in the first place are left to fix it all.

Where are the deep, carefully planned strategies from Leave campaigners laying out a roadmap for a future economic direction? No, instead we just get some vague bullshit about new trade deals that are just going to materialize and the rest is left for someone else to figure out.

Simply because I do so love to play devils advocate you can flip this argument entirely on its head and say that the pro-remain people have no interest in actually changing the current system even though a majority of those who voted wanted some form of change. Its the typical liberal response of 'we get you are angry/dissatisfied/disenfranchised ' but be damned if we are going to alter things because 'we are alright jack' and 'we know whats good for you'. No wonder countries end up in shambolic messes. Those in power hear but refuse to take notice.
 
Simply because I do so love to play devils advocate you can flip this argument entirely on its head and say that the pro-remain people have no interest in actually changing the current system even though a majority of those who voted wanted some form of change. Its the typical liberal response of 'we get you are angry/dissatisfied/disenfranchised ' but be damned if we are going to alter things because 'we are alright jack' and 'we know whats good for you'. No wonder countries end up in shambolic messes. Those in power hear but refuse to take notice.

Many of us recognized that the changes that are so desperately needed are actually needed at a national level. The EU has always been a lazy scapegoat for the major issues which can all be sorted by our own governments. Except that means taking responsibility for the problems, and hey why bother when you can just blame it on the foreigners instead.
 
Many of us recognized that the changes that are so desperately needed are actually needed at a national level. The EU has always been a lazy scapegoat for the major issues which can all be sorted by our own governments. Except that means taking responsibility for the problems, and hey why bother when you can just blame it on the foreigners instead.
You didn't want change in your previous post
 
You didn't want change in your previous post

I said changes made on a national level. The stuff that actually matters, such as the diminishing of workers rights and opportunities have feck all to do with the EU. After Brexit the same problems will still be there, only now we'll also be a poorer country, making conditions even harder on the poor.
 
I said changes made on a national level. The stuff that actually matters, such as the diminishing of workers rights and opportunities have feck all to do with the EU. After Brexit the same problems will still be there, only now we'll also be a poorer country, making conditions even harder on the poor.

I suggest you try telling the Greeks that reduced workers rights, unemployment levels and increasing debt has 'feck all to do with the EU'.
 
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You already said that, and repeated it once before. Can you respond to my arguement or not? Of course I blame it on the EU, they forced it upon is, they didn't take responsibility for making sure it worked out right, and they prevented national governments from adressing the problems with it.

There is no argument other than it's difficult to police. The answer is not to stop freedom of movement. The answer is to enforce the law effectively.


And on rich bits of Western Europe, the problem is it's not their money, they have lots of overhead and the spending is not democratically checked.

No, the poor bits, like Wales and the north east of England. The EU has a staff smaller than Birmingham city council. The rules around how money is spent are agreed by the nation states, so their is democratic over site.



Most countries had those protections in place well before the EU existed. It's a good thing there's one body to work out rules for the whole of the EU, but this not about safety helmet requirements, this is about jobs and wages. The number of laws the EU produces is irrelevant.

They did, but to facilitate trade and prevent a race to the bottom on safety and environmental standards these have been agreed at EU level.


Don't you read anything I write? I thought I made it perfectly clear that I'm just opposed to mass migration because of differences in living costs and the wages related to it.

If Britain enforced minimum wage laws there wouldn't be the difference.

If you could think any further than your own self interest, you'd see there something very wrong with the EU. And as I already pointed out twice, there's nothing wrong with moving from the UK to Germany or the other way around. You move there because there is a job you like there, not because the wages are much higher because life is much more expensive.

If you could see at all you'd know you're blaming the wrong people for the problems you identify
 
I suggest you try telling the Greeks that reduced workers rights, unemployment levels and increasing debt has 'feck all to do with the EU'.

I'm happily telling that to every single Greek I ever see. And they agree.
They've brought this upon themselves and can be lucky the EU bailed them out again and again. Without the EU, the country would be some third world shithole already.