Leave or Remain?

Withnail

Well-Known Forumite
Does anybody have the video of Boris in BTTF Square, with the whole banana-based shenanigans?

I'd love to see that again.
 

Mikinton

Well-Known Forumite
Give it time and it might be slightly better.
I suspect that, sadly, we'll never know, at least as regards the longer term.

My view was always that the first five years after leaving will be bad for most people and disastrous for a lot. I had visions of Nissan and Toyota pulling out of Sunderland and Derby to name just two of many. And that that five years may be as long as ten.

Then, if Brexit really was a good thing, things might begin to look up as our champions of industry worked out how to play the new game. So that would be in five (or ten) to fifteen (or twenty) years time.

And in fifteen or twenty years time things will have settled down and Brexit will have either been a good thing or it won't .... but we might never know because we won't know what the EU would have been like had we stayed in it.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Got talking to a Maltese guy today, he can't believe people his age want to deprive their children of the ability to freely travel and work abroad. He doesn't think many countries in the EU will really miss trading with the UK, as we're such a small trading partner compared to the other nations in the block. Tariffs will just make them trade with each other more and import from us just the very few things they can't get elsewhere. And this is a island that heavily imports from the UK for foodstuffs due to the strong British influence.

It may cost more for cider here afterwards admittedly!
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Got talking to a Maltese guy today, he can't believe people his age want to deprive their children of the ability to freely travel and work abroad. He doesn't think many countries in the EU will really miss trading with the UK, as we're such a small trading partner compared to the other nations in the block. Tariffs will just make them trade with each other more and import from us just the very few things they can't get elsewhere. And this is a island that heavily imports from the UK for foodstuffs due to the strong British influence.

It may cost more for cider here afterwards admittedly!


We are 13% to the EU
The EU is 47% to the UK&NI
 

Mikinton

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tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Are you on Twitter by any chance?

Richard Vadon‏@richardvadon 19 minutes ago
Replying to @stephenkb
All this talk of trade deals misses out the key point we don’t produce enough things other countries want to buy even when we devalue.


https://twitter.com/richardvadon/status/922538177612611586
Nope, never understood the fascination in basically texting people you don't know.

He missed something anyway, we make weapons. As long as people keep killing each other for some reason or another we'll have some trade to speak of. Think that trade is in the other 53% though, rather than EU it's usually sold to the middle east.
 

Mikinton

Well-Known Forumite
Nope, never understood the fascination in basically texting people you don't know.

He missed something anyway, we make weapons. As long as people keep killing each other for some reason or another we'll have some trade to speak of. Think that trade is in the other 53% though, rather than EU it's usually sold to the middle east.
I quite enjoy Twitter, but anyway ....

I remember giving some thought to stuff we produce that no one else does, but it didn't go much further than Scotch whisky (I'm assuming that those that know this stuff will say that anything produced abroad is just a cheap imitation). I suppose the other things were good at is the IT stuff - games and CGI graphics.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I quite enjoy Twitter, but anyway ....

I remember giving some thought to stuff we produce that no one else does, but it didn't go much further than Scotch whisky (I'm assuming that those that know this stuff will say that anything produced abroad is just a cheap imitation). I suppose the other things were good at is the IT stuff - games and CGI graphics.
Oatcakes?
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
If a Government feels it's power is draining away

If politicians feel no courage

If the cabinet office have run out of ideas


Then the expectation is of War
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
If a Government feels it's power is draining away

If politicians feel no courage

If the cabinet office have run out of ideas


Then the expectation is of War
Who with? They would have to be fairly local these days. Portugal hasn't had a turn for a long time.
 
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