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

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It's time us remoaners faced the truth...
When we cast off the eu's shackles of oppression it's clear that a fantastic uk farming industry will not only be self sufficient in growing so much lettuce in february we will no doubt be exporting the excess tarif free back to the eu and beyond
 
Paul the Wolf said:
A glimpse of the future.

Strange, we have no problems here.
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The esparagus i buy in the supermarket are from peru yet they are grown just a few miles away. it will be interesting to see what effects the eu restrictions on dairy farms has on prices. People are having to sell their farms thanks to the new ruling.
 
Pro eu politician saying nothing surprising.

Calls for guarantee of eu citizens in uk before calling for guarantee from eu for the million brits there.

Tosser
 
The government should just be guaranteeing the residency of EU citizens unilaterally, gives them a PR win doing something that everyone expects to happen regardless. Hopefully the amendment passes relatively easily.
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
We are blaming continental weather on Brexit now? I don't think even Cameron went that far during the campaign. ;)
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No, we're commenting on the possibilty of food prices going up when we leave because tariffs or costs will go up. How much of our food do we import ?
 
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but Brexiters used to tell us that trade deal = FOM. You can just dig in someone's market, make money and just keep their people away
 
jackofalltrades said:
No, we're commenting on the possibilty of food prices going up when we leave because tariffs or costs will go up. How much of our food do we import ?
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We import over 50% although some of that is due to our demands for out of season produce or things that simply won't grow in the British climate. We're a long way from self sufficiency though and the NFU estimates that by 2040 our farming industry will only be able to cope with 53% of the UK demand.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...f-of-uks-food-sourced-from-abroad-study-finds
 
Since Spain is so useless nowadays, it's even better and more appropriate that we're going to strike loads of amazing trade deals with non-EU countries. God save the greens.
 
Regulus Arcturus Black said:
Exactly, that's his point. As soon as we can't import from Spain there is rationing in the super markets, so imagine if Spain if off the cards in the future!
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I've just come back from the supermarket, most of the veg is from outside the eu so who cares
 
Walrus said:
BBC Article drilling into some more of the demographics for voting etc; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38762034

Basically confirms what we all knew/thought - that those of better education were much more likely to vote Remain, and the young were much more likely to vote Remain.
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To some extent the educational differences are a reflection of the age difference. In the 1950s roughly only 5% of teenagers went to university, 10% achieved the equivalent of 5 good GCSEs. One would expect a correlation between age and education.
 
712 said:
To some extent the educational differences are a reflection of the age difference. In the 1950s roughly only 5% of teenagers went to university, 10% achieved the equivalent of 5 good GCSEs. One would expect a correlation between age and education.
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Whats more interesting is how many people these days go to Uni for a laarff and how many gained a degree that they actually put to use
 
Stanley Road said:
No i live in the eu

I also noticed in Oz loads of the veg is imported, stuff that grows right there
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How is Oz fairing since they lost the wicked witch and her three flying monkeys to Westminster?
 
712 said:
Degree or 'degree'? Sshhh, snowflake generation and all that. They hate my age-group enough as it is.
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While I hate words invented on the internet, I am quite impressed how snowflake seems to describe its intended group very well.
 
devilish said:
How is Oz fairing since they lost the wicked witch and her three flying monkeys to Westminster?
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Feck nose, I just made an observation about veg which seemed cheaper when imported. They have had some horrendous serial killers tho, quite disgusting
 
Walrus said:
BBC Article drilling into some more of the demographics for voting etc; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38762034

Basically confirms what we all knew/thought - that those of better education were much more likely to vote Remain, and the young were much more likely to vote Remain.
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And here was me thinking there were far too many unis in Britain. Obviously need to keep building and creating more useless degrees.
 
@Stanley Road @Fener1907

I can only speak for myself personally, but I went to Uni and got my bachelor's in Accounting. Wound up working in a phone shop for 5 years from that. Couple of years ago I saved up to go back and do a Master's with the hope of it landing me a job in the field of study - it worked.

I think the issue of degree's being undervalued is more to do with employers than the degrees themselves being useless (although in some cases they definitely are). I went to a meeting of small business owners with my dad one time, and they pretty much unanimously said that they would prefer to hire people fresh out of school than graduates.

There used to be a perception that getting a degree automatically landed you a good job, which was clearly a bad system, but I would say that it has come too far in the other direction now where degrees are simply not valued. In my case, my accountancy BSc was barely worth the paper it was written on, so far as getting a decent job went.
 
712 said:
Degree or 'degree'? Sshhh, snowflake generation and all that. They hate my age-group enough as it is.
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Stanley Road said:
While I hate words invented on the internet, I am quite impressed how snowflake seems to describe its intended group very well.
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Yet you two and your co-geniuses seem to run and cry every time you are put in your place. Hypocrisy at its upmost.
 
Walrus said:
I think the issue of degree's being undervalued is more to do with employers than the degrees themselves being useless.
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Since the degree is for getting a job and building a career, it essentially is useless if the employer doesn't value it, regardless of what other criteria you want to use in assessing its worth.

Paul the Wolf said:
You don't have to have a degree to have some common sense
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It's still good in terms of the potential for people to literally remove themselves from an insular culture they may be living in.
 
712 said:
To some extent the educational differences are a reflection of the age difference. In the 1950s roughly only 5% of teenagers went to university, 10% achieved the equivalent of 5 good GCSEs. One would expect a correlation between age and education.
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The education/remain vote correlation holds up for every age group. It doesn't really matter if you look at 30 year olds with a college degree or 60 year olds with one.
 
fcbforever said:
The education/remain vote correlation holds up for every age group. It doesn't really matter if you look at 30 year olds with a college degree or 60 year olds with one.
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Do you mean within each age category as opposed to comparing one with another? If so fair enough, I didn't have the attention span to look that far! Well done.
 
712 said:
Do you mean within each age category as opposed to comparing one with another? If so fair enough, I didn't have the attention span to look that far! Well done.
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Yes, college degree 60-70 year olds are also much more likely to have voted remain than the same age bracket without a degree. For example, the AB social group in the UK, e.g. the higher managerial positions and high income groups voted between 62-38/57-43 remain (depending on the pollster).
 
fcbforever said:
Yes, college degree 60-70 year olds are also much more likely to have voted remain than the same age bracket without a degree. For example, the AB social group in the UK, e.g. the higher managerial positions and high income groups voted between 62-38/57-43 remain (depending on the pollster).
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Understood, thanks. I voted remain, must be my education over-ruling my advanced age.
 
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