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Here's a thorny little problem. https://mobile.twitter.com/JeanneBartram/status/931940574529249280/photo/1Or maybe this. https://mobile.twitter.com/RettopNoj/status/919087078469722112/photo/1Still. Never mind. Boris reckons it's not beyond the wit of man to sort it out, so I'm sure it's all in hand.
Quote from: hoolahoop on November 07, 2017, 05:35:45 pmQuote from: MachoMadness on November 06, 2017, 09:24:13 pmDonning the old tinfoil hat, I wonder if the latest bout of leaks surrounding offshore tax havens sheds any light as to why certain very wealthy, influential figures ploughed so much into the Leave campaign, considering the EU's talk of clamping down on tax havens?Of course it was always to do with protecting themselves . Fortunes were pouring into various " Leave " campaigns , even from the DUP to be used in English papers . It wasn't from the DUP, it was through the DUP. ie laundered to deliberately avoid the spending rules in the rest of the UK.
Quote from: MachoMadness on November 06, 2017, 09:24:13 pmDonning the old tinfoil hat, I wonder if the latest bout of leaks surrounding offshore tax havens sheds any light as to why certain very wealthy, influential figures ploughed so much into the Leave campaign, considering the EU's talk of clamping down on tax havens?Of course it was always to do with protecting themselves . Fortunes were pouring into various " Leave " campaigns , even from the DUP to be used in English papers .
Donning the old tinfoil hat, I wonder if the latest bout of leaks surrounding offshore tax havens sheds any light as to why certain very wealthy, influential figures ploughed so much into the Leave campaign, considering the EU's talk of clamping down on tax havens?
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/01/brexit-vote-cost-niesr-economic-growthHey-ho. 16 months ago, there were plenty saying they wouldn't judge the effect of the Brexit vote on the economy because economists were predicting different things. Well, this isn't a prediction. It's a measurement of what's already happened. The drop in economic growth has already left the country poorer to the tine of £600 per household. On top of that, higher inflation due to the drop in the value of the pound means that the cost of living is higher by £400 per household. And the predictions of the ones who were right last Summer are that this lower performance will be a long-term problem. And it builds, year on year. If their predictions are right, by 2020 we'll be £3-4000 per household worse off per year. But when you add the effects together over 4 years, it'll mean a sum of maybe £8-10,000 per household that we've lost. Still, we took back control, eh?
Quote from: Glyn_Wigley on November 07, 2017, 06:40:16 pmQuote from: hoolahoop on November 07, 2017, 05:35:45 pmQuote from: MachoMadness on November 06, 2017, 09:24:13 pmDonning the old tinfoil hat, I wonder if the latest bout of leaks surrounding offshore tax havens sheds any light as to why certain very wealthy, influential figures ploughed so much into the Leave campaign, considering the EU's talk of clamping down on tax havens?Of course it was always to do with protecting themselves . Fortunes were pouring into various " Leave " campaigns , even from the DUP to be used in English papers . It wasn't from the DUP, it was through the DUP. ie laundered to deliberately avoid the spending rules in the rest of the UK.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42055523
Ah, but you're forgetting Hoola, the standard way of explaining away what experts say these days is "what the feck do they know anyway?".
How many " lost " £ 350 million a week to the NHS " do you make that too Billy - seems like a lot of lost weeks to me . Where is Filo by the way , perhaps he can explain all this expert opinion away ? As for me I'm fecked off with the lot of it now .
Quote from: hoolahoop on November 23, 2017, 02:20:21 amHow many " lost " £ 350 million a week to the NHS " do you make that too Billy - seems like a lot of lost weeks to me . Where is Filo by the way , perhaps he can explain all this expert opinion away ? As for me I'm fecked off with the lot of it now . Still here, just sick of reading you bleat about the result of a democratic vote that you don't like. And just to clarify, I am not an expert, have never professed to be. You need to stop calling people because they voted in a different way to you, look at other remain voters in this thread and you'll see that none of them use the same vitriol as you
Steve, why do you keep sarcastically bringing up the point that we won the war on our own?Anybody with any sense knows how much we needed allies to win the the war. By the same token, had we capitulated in 1940 there would have been nobody to stop Hitler. Russia would have been facing far more German troops and armour even earlier.
Most of the people that i know who voted in favour of brexit told me that the biggest influencing factor in them voting to leave was that "we have to be able to have control of our borders and stop foreigners coming in as they please".My guess is that they never gave a thought to the financial grief that we are now facing.
Quote from: drfchound on November 23, 2017, 01:29:04 pmMost of the people that i know who voted in favour of brexit told me that the biggest influencing factor in them voting to leave was that "we have to be able to have control of our borders and stop foreigners coming in as they please".My guess is that they never gave a thought to the financial grief that we are now facing.What do they think now?
You remember all those scare stories about how companies wouldn't invest in UK because of concerns about Brexit? How the Leave campaign said it was scaremongering and we'd be fine?This is a list of investment in each country as a % of GDP for 2016. https://mobile.twitter.com/JoMicheII/status/933726759303958528/photo/1At least we're doing better than Burundi.