Is Britain about to leave the EU?

[Arakhor]

Any chance of you debating the thread issue lest I conclude your decision to bait me by personalising this, confirms that the Remainers have no valid arguments.

Good to see that Bathsheba now represents all Remain voters and their arguments. That does make things easier.

 

[innonimatu]

Welcome back.

If Theresa May is foolish enough to put something in the manifesto that tells
80% of parents their children are losers, she may not win the next election.

And with the Tories as split as they are, that next election is going to be sooner that 2020. I expect PM Corbyn to have taken the UK out of the EU by then...

 

[Takhisis]

If Theresa May is foolish enough to put something in the manifesto that tells
80% of parents their children are losers, she may not win the next election.

Really? After this whole ‘hey not a single one of our proposals for Brexit was fulfillable and we know it’ that still hasn't started people demonstrating, I've lost what little faith I had left in the British electorate.

 

[FriendlyFire]

What is the point of Leaving if you are going to rejoin straight away ?
And wont the Leavers scream if the UK is forced to accept Schengen

Owen Smith says UK could apply to rejoin EU under Labour

Owen Smith has raised the possibility of a future Labour government seeking renewed British membership of the EU, saying the UK could rejoin the bloc if the political and economic cost of Brexit was seen as too high.

At that point, if we had gone into a further recession, if we had the prospect of another 10 years of Tory austerity

Asked if this could potentially mean Britain being obliged, as a new member, to sign up to the Schengen free-travel area, Smith said: “Potentially

Corbyn’s leadership team pointed out on Sunday that Tim Roache, general secretary of the Smith-supporting GMB union, also did not agree with Smith about this, telling Sky News’s Murnaghan programme “that boat has sailed”.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...h-return-to-eu-if-brexit-means-tory-austerity

 

[innonimatu]

Owen Smith is a nullity.

 

[Takhisis]

Owen Smith is just someone devoted to ruining Corbyn.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Really? After this whole ‘hey not a single one of our proposals for Brexit was fulfillable and we know it’ that still hasn't started people demonstrating, I've lost what little faith I had left in the British electorate.

The fact that it hasn't started people demonstrating might suggest, despite what many bitter Remain voters keep insisting, that the Leave voters (for the most part) really weren't voting based on the "promises" of Farage/Johnson/et al. After all, if 17 million people had just voted with the specific intent of getting £350 million per week for the NHS (for example) then there probably would have been demonstrations by now.

 

[FriendlyFire]

The fact that it hasn't started people demonstrating might suggest, despite what many bitter Remain voters keep insisting, that the Leave voters (for the most part) really weren't voting based on the "promises" of Farage/Johnson/et al. After all, if 17 million people had just voted with the specific intent of getting £350 million per week for the NHS (for example) then there probably would have been demonstrations by now.

I'd imagine that the leavers are still awash with Victory.
Right now they are happy with the Boom, which could have been worse had the Banks not immediately QE and slashed interest rates.

Why is US talking down Britain? Economists warn of DISASTER but figures show Brexit BOOM

BRITAIN will get its comeuppance and be hit by Brexit gloom and doom when Article 50 is finally triggered, scaremongering US economists have swiped

As a bullish Theresa May prepares to go head to head with Brussels bigwigs to strike the best deal for our nation outside of the bloc, critics say the UK is only destined for a tidal wave of economic and political uncertainty.

The doom-mongering warning come as a new survey revealed British business is rapidly regaining confidence after Britain’s momentous decision to break away from the European Union (EU).

American economists intent on wading in and forecasting Brexit gloom, warn of a delayed onset.

The Bank of America wrote to their clients, according to politics website, Politico: “The drag on growth looks less acute that we had expected but may be more chronic.”

Japan recently issued a stark warning of “great turmoil” in Britain as it threatened to pull their European head offices out of Britain at the start of the G20 Summit.

But in a scathing rebuke to warnings of financial catastrophe from many Remain campaigners, the Prime Minister recently noted that the “reaction of the economy has been better than some have predicted”.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/70...economy-finances-United-states-European-Union

 

[Silurian]

David Cameron has resigned as MP.

So there will be a bye election.

 

[JohannaK]

What cave were you hiding in for the last ten weeks?

 

[EnglishEdward]

David Cameron has resigned as MP.

So there will be a bye election.

Yes,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37342152

Be interesting to see how UKIP and Labour perform there.

What cave were you hiding in for the last ten weeks?

His previous resignations were of Prime Ministerial Office and as party leader.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Owen Smith is a nullity.

Owen Smith is just someone devoted to ruining Corbyn.

I think that the game plan for both Angela Eagle and Owen Smith was that good
Jeremy Corbyn would be pressurised into resigning in which case who ever was the
lead alternative in the leadership content would be rubber stamped labour leader.

Angela Eagle realised quite early on that Jeremy was not jumping and so quit.

Owen Smith appears to still be stuck in the new Labour Blairism cloud.

 

[Silurian]

What cave were you hiding in for the last ten weeks?

I live in a house



The tories will retain the seat unless something radical happens. They had 60% of vote in 2015, Labour were second with 17%.

 

[JohannaK]

Oh wait, MP, not PM. Silly me. Sorry.

 

[Silurian]

No problem

 

[MobBoss]

Had a great visit with some brits on vacation at a local bar Saturday night (there was a band, seating was limited, so they were gracious to invite us to sit with them).

The topic of brexit came up briefly, and their comment was 'we've existed for 1000 years before the EU, i'm sure we will be fine'.

I found that logic hard to argue with.

 

[Arakhor]

Yes, but it's not exactly very useful.

 

[aelf]

The fact that it hasn't started people demonstrating might suggest, despite what many bitter Remain voters keep insisting, that the Leave voters (for the most part) really weren't voting based on the "promises" of Farage/Johnson/et al. After all, if 17 million people had just voted with the specific intent of getting £350 million per week for the NHS (for example) then there probably would have been demonstrations by now.

You're probably right. Most Brexiters voted because of immigration.

How's that 'promise' coming along, though?

Yes, but it's not exactly very useful.

Simple arguments for simple minds.

 

[W|M]

Britain had epidemics of the Black Death for hundreds of years and survived, that doesn't mean it was a good thing

 

[Kozmos]

The topic of brexit came up briefly, and their comment was 'we've existed for 1000 years before the EU, i'm sure we will be fine'.

I'm sure the Native Americans had a similar argument when Europeans came over.