Brexit, for once some facts.

Zlatan

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Time will tell us if you are correct. I can’t predict what will happen, but can predict how I will vote.

If your prophecy is correct, I can also have a good guess at who will be bleating the loudest when the leased car is seized, the banks end zero percent balance transfers on the plastic and the mortgage on the four bedroom with master en-suit becomes unaffordable. The beer sodden, fat headed, triple chinners is a fair bet. The very people who need to keep their noses to the grindstone in employment, so they can outrun the credit. Harsh lessons for them looming I fear.
Spoken like a true leaver. You got a leased car 50???
 
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Time will tell us if you are correct. I can’t predict what will happen, but can predict how I will vote.

If your prophecy is correct, I can also have a good guess at who will be bleating the loudest when the leased car is seized, the banks end zero percent balance transfers on the plastic and the mortgage on the four bedroom with master en-suit becomes unaffordable. The beer sodden, fat headed, triple chinners is a fair bet. The very people who need to keep their noses to the grindstone in employment, so they can outrun the credit. Harsh lessons for them looming I fear.

Fingers fingers crossed!

We need that sort of correction for the leavers who’ve been left behind. I like your thinking. Was this the main reason you voted leave?
 

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Where do you think they money for the welfare state comes from?

Socialists love spending the stuff - but have very few ideas on what motivates people to produce the stuff.
Who are you kidding? the people you idolise are the people who avoid paying the tax needed to run it, in fact they leech from the system. They know about taking, not creating wealth
 

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Spoken like a true leaver. You got a leased car 50???
No. I’ve only ever owned four cars since I was 17. I tend to buy a good quality high spec car around 18 months old and buy it outright. I then run it until the repairs are not economically viable. I’d rather Brexit dad take the depreciation hit and look flashy in a the new car owned by the finance agency. I’ll have it when he’s done with it. My current car is 14 years old.

I’ve never had any credit, apart from a mortgage for a brief time. Always gone without until I could afford to pay for things. That approach has paid massive dividends for me at this stage of life.
 
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Fingers fingers crossed!

We need that sort of correction for the leavers who’ve been left behind. I like your thinking. Was this the main reason you voted leave?
I voted leave because I made an error of judgment which I have since admitted and rectified. Constantly reviewing decisions and continuing to observe what affect those decisions is having gives you the best chance of navigating the best path through life. Well it’s worked for me.

If you stick doggedly to a wrong decision, even when you know it’s wrong and all around you are telling you it’s wrong, eventually you will turn into Theresa May.
 

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No. I’ve only ever owned four cars since I was 17. I tend to buy a good quality high spec car around 18 months old and buy it outright. I then run it until the repairs are not economically viable. I’d rather Brexit dad take the depreciation hit and look flashy in a the new car owned by the finance agency. I’ll have it when he’s done with it. My current car is 14 years old.

I’ve never had any credit, apart from a mortgage for a brief time. Always gone without until I could afford to pay for things. That approach has paid massive dividends for me at this stage of life.
Whoa, arent you the goody two shoes.
Find it quite amazing you can go from a leaver to being their worst critic and insulting them. I, m a Brexit grand dad, no sign of double chin, yet... Let alone a triple one. Drink perhaps a pint of lager a week, if that , hair thinning but cant be perfect like some.
Why the insults 50???,generalisations are bad enough. Me thinks you complain too much. Feeling guilty for the mess you have caused??
To be perfectly honest I dont think you ever voted leave, think its a con. Redeemed sinner's message carrying more influence?
 

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Funny you should look for specks of evidence.... Because that is exactly what Apple found. Tiny specks ,ADDED to circuit boards manufactured in China.(Bloomberg oct 2018)
the security concerns are legitimate, but all the advanced countries have the technology to spy on us so not buying Chinese 5G is a little daft.
I used to write scripts in TCL to run Cisco routers and can see how the Americans can spy on us whenever they want.
As most of the PCBs are made and the whole boards assembled in China, there are plenty of opportunities for the Chinese to implant extras in them without selling directly to us.
 
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I voted leave because I made an error of judgment which I have since admitted and rectified. Constantly reviewing decisions and continuing to observe what affect those decisions is having gives you the best chance of navigating the best path through life. Well it’s worked for me.

If you stick doggedly to a wrong decision, even when you know it’s wrong and all around you are telling you it’s wrong, eventually you will turn into Theresa May.
I don’t think it is a wrong decision though. I think the wrong people are making the errors of judgment. The very people you voted in in fact and the same ones you have voted for all your life.

Farage to the rescue though!
 
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Whoa, arent you the goody two shoes.
Find it quite amazing you can go from a leaver to being their worst critic and insulting them. I, m a Brexit grand dad, no sign of double chin, yet... Let alone a triple one. Drink perhaps a pint of lager a week, if that , hair thinning but cant be perfect like some.
Why the insults 50???,generalisations are bad enough. Me thinks you complain too much. Feeling guilty for the mess you have caused??
To be perfectly honest I dont think you ever voted leave, think its a con. Redeemed sinner's message carrying more influence?
Actually I am more of the 50hz school of car purchaser. Having had 6 since age 27 to now... Unfortunately two of them became insurance write-offs ..of the uneconomical to repair category ,from rear ended collisions. I I leant my lesson when I bought a TV on the HP in 1980 ,which cost 500 quid but 800 by the time it was paid for. . Only two of those cars were new.. Yes I have borrowed money,usually from the Credit union and now I owe nothing to anyone.
Why can you not take 50 s statements on face value?. They have been consistent ,and indicate an accountant type person.
 

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the security concerns are legitimate, but all the advanced countries have the technology to spy on us so not buying Chinese 5G is a little daft.
I used to write scripts in TCL to run Cisco routers and can see how the Americans can spy on us whenever they want.
As most of the PCBs are made and the whole boards assembled in China, there are plenty of opportunities for the Chinese to implant extras in them without selling directly to us.
.. And what if the little grain is a kill switch?. Then it goes from spying to sabotage in a microsecond. If you know microelectronics, you know that that is feasible. The USA concern, which the UK would appear to have chosen to ignore is that these rice grains, appeared in routers and internet nodes.
 

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Is a Brexit Dad like a poor gammon? If so brace yourself.

Pork is coming.

Farage will win by a landslide. Out goes any hope of a second referendum. The EU will be the ultimate reason for us leaving with no deal.

Exciting times!
But Farage supports a referendum every two years on important issues that get more than two million signatures. He said so. Therefore, he MUST support another referendum on brexit.
 

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.. And what if the little grain is a kill switch?. Then it goes from spying to sabotage in a microsecond. If you know microelectronics, you know that that is feasible. The USA concern, which the UK would appear to have chosen to ignore is that these rice grains, appeared in routers and internet nodes.
And what if the grains are just where someone was a little bit careless when scoffing their lunch rice ... ;)
 

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But Farage supports a referendum every two years on important issues that get more than two million signatures. He said so. Therefore, he MUST support another referendum on brexit.

He does say some very silly things. I think we can all agree on that.
 

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Actually I am more of the 50hz school of car purchaser. Having had 6 since age 27 to now... Unfortunately two of them became insurance write-offs ..of the uneconomical to repair category ,from rear ended collisions. I I leant my lesson when I bought a TV on the HP in 1980 ,which cost 500 quid but 800 by the time it was paid for. . Only two of those cars were new.. Yes I have borrowed money,usually from the Credit union and now I owe nothing to anyone.
Why can you not take 50 s statements on face value?. They have been consistent ,and indicate an accountant type person.
Because a person who had voted leave wouldnt insult leavers. He, s insulting himself. Dont doubt his other stuff but its irrelevant, so is your little gloat about cars,so what you, ve had 7 cars in 35 years?, or whatever it is.Is it a boast or admission.?? Or just for our information.
 
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But Farage supports a referendum every two years on important issues that get more than two million signatures. He said so. Therefore, he MUST support another referendum on brexit.
A very good point.

I expect to hear nothing in return.
 

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Because a person who had voted leave wouldnt insult leavers.
I’m just poking fun at them. These are simply words, not even sounds we make with our mouths, but shapes on an electronic screen arranged in a certain order. How can a pattern of shapes hurt or injure anyone?

How did we end up being this sensitive? It’s as if we have taken a baby, the weakest, the most vulnerable & sensitive thing imaginable and said, let’s train this thing to be even weaker. Let’s train it to be afraid of the sounds that we make with our mouths or the shapes we can create and display on a screen. It’s bonkers.
 

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.. And what if the little grain is a kill switch?. Then it goes from spying to sabotage in a microsecond. If you know microelectronics, you know that that is feasible. The USA concern, which the UK would appear to have chosen to ignore is that these rice grains, appeared in routers and internet nodes.
I think we should all go back to living in caves transporting with horses and banning electricity then we won't have any of these problems. And that looks like where we are going if the climate change fascists get their way
 

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.. And what if the little grain is a kill switch?. Then it goes from spying to sabotage in a microsecond. If you know microelectronics, you know that that is feasible. The USA concern, which the UK would appear to have chosen to ignore is that these rice grains, appeared in routers and internet nodes.
these things are parts of the new artillery.
Do you think the software can't do what those extras can? We rely on satellites which can be shot down with lasers, undersea optic cables that can be cut by robots and magnetic storage that can be wiped out with a pulse.
Assured mutual destruction.
My old friend Kevin who moved to Australia in the 90s now works for some Russian company to create a new generation of encryption technology, much more difficult to crack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography
 
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Because a person who had voted leave wouldnt insult leavers. He, s insulting himself. Dont doubt his other stuff but its irrelevant, so is your little gloat about cars,so what you, ve had 7 cars in 35 years?, or whatever it is.Is it a boast or admission.?? Or just for our information.
My car response was both factual and to illustrate that other people might share similar viewpoints. Not virtue blagging or whatever the current term is now . If you bother to read my earlier posts, I have not ever insulted leave VOTERs for what ,in my opinion was a bad decision. I have reserved my scorn for those leaders who SHOULD and indeed MAY have known better,but for a variety of reasons MISLED the public. And you know who they are.
That any leave voter can now still believe that they were told the truth, is what I find incredible. Either they are so wedded to a belief that rational discussion is impossible or obstinate I cannot say. But they need only read the pre referendum publicity and the current situation to see the truth.
So I have no difficulty in accepting that a poster would have a change of heart. Particularly if they have a memory and reasoning skills.
 

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