Brexit - the gift that keeps on giving.

[Ldr]

Sorry to disappoint BST, I dont, fiscal impact wasnt a factor in my vote

[BillyStubbsTears]

£180bn? Per year? Not a factor?

Are you for real?

[DonnyOsmond]

Sometimes people need protecting from themselves.

[Ldr]

£180bn? Per year? Not a factor?

Are you for real?

I'm happy for you to lose sleep, I'm not

[BillyStubbsTears]

The country has become a f**king madhouse.

£5-10,000 of lost income for every family. Every year. And no-one seems to give a shit.

[Ldr]

The country has become a f**king madhouse.

£5-10,000 of lost income for every family. Every year. And no-one seems to give a shit.

I think you have enough worrying for everyone so we are happy to let you do it  😁.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Hilarious. Do you charge for people to watch?

[Ldr]

Hilarious. Do you charge for people to watch?

Well it would be one way to make up for the lost income you are worrying so much about

[BillyStubbsTears]

Aye. I'm sure they'd be queuing round the block.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Here's the bit I don't get.

There's teams of stuff on these pages by Leave supporters up in arms a out the horrendous financial cost to us that membership of the EU entailed.

BB today suggested it was an expensive  protection racket. And yeah, it did cost us £10bn per year "membership fee".

Ldr has posted before about his concern at how much we spent on bailing out Greece. We actually didn't give anything through the EU to a Greek bailout, but why let facts get in the way of a good rant about the EU, eh?

Sproty has waded in in the past about the horror of us putting about £10bn into loans to Ireland and Portugal. Which were paid back. With interest.

But when faced with the prospect that we stand to lose £90-160bn per year by choosing to cut our ties with the EU, the response is "meh".

I dunno. Maybe they are all really good wind up merchants and they have a good old giggle at this?

[SydneyRover]

Hilarious. Do you charge for people to watch?

Well it would be one way to make up for the lost income you are worrying so much about

It's a shame that not a single brexiteer not the government as yet are capable of showing where the money will come from to replace this gaping hole in the national accounts. When supposedly taking back control it's becoming bleedingly obvious daily that the proponents of this mess have given control to a mindless propaganda machine that is prepares to say anything to get through to the next day, and moreover they (brexiteers) have abandoned commonsense in favour of petulant outbursts as some sort of defence.

There is no plan no coherent agenda just series of stabs in the dark and defensive outburst as johnson tries to maintain a positive front, his pro-brexit front bench are having difficulty with the chook raffle and instead of them concentrating with the major task in hand keeping the country solvent they are pissing around with the side issues of which more than likely they will have to concede as unmanageable further down the track.

Did well in exam, coursework a mess with little to show for 10 years at the helm.

[Glyn_Wigley]

Hilarious. Do you charge for people to watch?

In those wonderful days of Empire they used to let people giggle at the loonies in Bedlam for a shilling.

[Bentley Bullet]

daylight robbery. It's completely free to giggle at the leftie loonies in here!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Oh, be still my aching sides!

[Bentley Bullet]

Aching sides? Is that as bad as putting up with a pain in the arse?

[BillyStubbsTears]

You're much better when you're both obnoxious AND funny, BB.

[Bentley Bullet]

I do try, BST, but I suppose I'd be better off leaving the obnoxious side to the experts.

[Iberian Red]

I do try, BST, but I suppose I'd be better off leaving the obnoxious side to the experts.

You've perfected one,but the other...
Did you have Corona virus when St Pete's did debating?

[Bentley Bullet]

No, I always discretely wiped the top of the communal pop bottle before having a swig.

[Iberian Red]

That was the rumour I heard! Around your ring piece,and not the neck.

[Bentley Bullet]

Only when I passed it on to you.

[Iberian Red]

Only when I passed it on to you.

That's extremely worry! One thing is admitting you were dirty,but considering I'm a few years younger than you,it looked like you're a dirty p@$o too!
 You really do need to change the routine. Your lame jokes just come across as very tiring

[foxbat]

i don't recall anyone even mentioning the cost of leaving in the EURef2016.
It was all about the money we would save. But it turns out the cost of leaving will be more than we've paid into the EU in 47 years.

22,000 civil servants working on EU exit at peak.
-If that were a standalone dept it would be the sixth biggest in Whitehall.
-min cost for prep £4.4bn

It’s time to stop Brexit.
It’s a massively expensive stupid damaging thing, & it’s weakening our economy & society more every day.

Brexit is dire folly.

[SydneyRover]

But that Foxbat would means a massive climb down from the the proponents of it and they don't even know what they don't know at present.

We are only aware of what the cost is so far around 200bn + and the scope of a US deal shows that few trade deals will ever replace the massive hit to the GDP that brexit will cause, I reckon we'll know much in 2 years and somewhere more accurate in 10.

[scawsby steve]

i don't recall anyone even mentioning the cost of leaving in the EURef2016.
It was all about the money we would save. But it turns out the cost of leaving will be more than we've paid into the EU in 47 years.

22,000 civil servants working on EU exit at peak.
-If that were a standalone dept it would be the sixth biggest in Whitehall.
-min cost for prep £4.4bn

It’s time to stop Brexit.
It’s a massively expensive stupid damaging thing, & it’s weakening our economy & society more every day.

Brexit is dire folly.

It's time for who to stop Brexit?

[SydneyRover]

Anyone with commonsense Steve I would have thought at this stage unless you are holding back some important information that shows Britain is going to be a better place but somehow I doubt it.   

[SydneyRover]

Why the **** are we doing this?

''UK will leave EU aviation safety regulator at end of 2020''

''ADS has estimated that it would take 10 years and cost up to £40m annually to create a UK safety authority with all the expertise of EASA, against a current contribution to the European agency of £1m to £4m a year''

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51783580

[Not Now Kato]

Why the **** are we doing this?

''UK will leave EU aviation safety regulator at end of 2020''

''ADS has estimated that it would take 10 years and cost up to £40m annually to create a UK safety authority with all the expertise of EASA, against a current contribution to the European agency of £1m to £4m a year''

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51783580

Look Sydney,  it's no good using common sense, the leavers have got their blue passports, that's all that seems to matter.
 
Just don't tell them that the words on the shield are French, they won't be happy with that!

[foxbat]

meanwhile , in the real world, another one gone

"Maintenance firm Magnetic MRO has transferred a UK production centre to Estonia in order to remain within the European Union."
 https://t.co/qtK87AmFHu

[DonnyOsmond]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52313042

After all the people losing the jobs as a result of the coronavirus were now heading straight for a no deal exit and killing the economy more. Can we get odds on financial depression?