Brexit, for once some facts.

oldgroaner

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That makes a great deal of financial sense, but for some reason I could not bring myself to do it, which is crazy. Why would I want to own a house when I'm dead? Wouldn't it be better to enjoy the cash now than to wait for some distant relative to benefit after my death?
You could invest in a life of debauchery and waste what was left
 

oldgroaner

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he's been pretty much single issue hasn't he. Get us out of the EU???
The only single issue he is in interested in is himself, he just parasited off Brexit for profit when the NF thing proved unprofitable and unpopular, and does the same as an MEP
And now he has a new moneyspinner
 
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May I suggest the next time you buy a car, Get up from the dealers table and start to walk away.
I bet the deal gets better not worse.
I see leave advocates trotting out this type of thing all the time in interviews and the interviewer almost never points out the massive flaw in their logic. If we leave on WTO rules, yes we cause harm to the EU but (and this is where the car sale analogy breaks down) we will probably (only probably because no one can accurately predict the future) cause a lot more harm to ourselves. Its a shame interviewers aren't brave enough or smart enough to point this out to the likes of Farage etc but they very rarely do.
 
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Those advocating leave always said we would be better off if we go out but they never went into detail exactly how that would be. We were told we would be able to business with the rest of the world which we can't do at present only we can and do.
 

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We were told we would be able to business with the rest of the world which we can't do at present
I've never understood how Brexiters fell for this silly lie.

EU members Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands and Finland among others trade very successfully throughout the whole world, using both EU trade agreements and WTO terms with non signatories.

There's never been anything stopping us doing it. The only reason we've failed to do as well as they do is because we just haven't been good enough. And leaving the EU won't magically make us good enough.
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there was no option for anything other than remain or leave and leave won the vote.
Would you support a second referendum if there is an option to vote for no deal brexit?
 

oldgroaner

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That's right. Your far right left wing agencies told lies, like they always do.
Now that is good and original!
Can anyone explain what manner of beast a " far right left wing agency"
Might be?
I like this kid, he may be dumb, but he's funny! :D
 

oldgroaner

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I'm not complaining. I'm just pointing out facts because I'm worried for other people that are not so well informed.

It's surprising how many people are unaware of how unreliable and inaccurate the media are in their reporting, like people here using quotes from the Guardian of all publications.

Trust Pilot is completely independent. Anybody can post there. That's where you can get the truth about an organisation, provided there is a large enough sample of reviews You can see that the BBC have had over 4000 reviews and they got a Trustpilot score of 0.1. Anybody with half a brain cell can see from that that the BBC can't be trusted. I think that's something like 100 reviews saying they can't be trusted for every one that says they can.

Look at Wisper Electric bikes 107 reviews and a 5 star rating. You can see that the rating system is working more or less correctly.
Your ability to miss the Elephant in the room is amazing and typified by this line
"Trust Pilot is completely independent. Anybody can post there. "
And that includes every half baked conspiracy theorist on the planet of course, do you post there often by the way? :cool:
This one is even better
"Anybody with half a brain cell can see from that that the BBC can't be trusted. I think that's something like 100 reviews saying they can't be trusted for every one that says they can.."
So the people who say they can't be trusted have half a brain cell do they?
I'll take your word for it, I'm sure your expertise is greater than mine on the subject.
 
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I see leave advocates trotting out this type of thing all the time in interviews and the interviewer almost never points out the massive flaw in their logic. If we leave on WTO rules, yes we cause harm to the EU but (and this is where the car sale analogy breaks down) we will probably (only probably because no one can accurately predict the future) cause a lot more harm to ourselves. Its a shame interviewers aren't brave enough or smart enough to point this out to the likes of Farage etc but they very rarely do.
Its never been actually walking away that benefits anyone, plainly it does not, rather its the threat of doing so and other side thinking you might if deal isnt good enough. The EU has known from the start we had no intention of ever walking away, this being proved when no deal was removed from table on our side.
Thats like saying to salesman in car show room, whatever deal you offer me I will take.
Walking away is far removed from the withdrawal of ever doing so.
We should have given impression we were willing to walk away whatever the reality was.
You dont walk in a car show room and say I, m buying that car, whatever the price and whatever it comes with, or doesnt. Unless, you are showing off, in which case salesman will bend you over nearest desk... Metaphorically ofcourse.
 
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oldgroaner

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Its never been actually walking away that benefits anyone, plainly it does not, rather its the threat of doing so and other side thinking you might if deal isnt good enough. The EU has known from the start we had no intention of ever walking away, this being proved when no deal was removed from table on our side.
Thats like saying to salesman in car show room, whatever deal you offer me I will take.
Walking away is far removed from the withdrawal of ever doing so.
We should have given impression we were willing to walk away whatever the reality was.
You dont walk in a car show room and say I, m buying that car, whatever the price and whatever it comes with, or doesnt. Unless, you are showing off ofcourse, in which case salesman will bend you over nearest desk... Metaphorically ofcourse.
The problem with that notion is that you can't apply it to Brexit.

Effectively the EU are the only "Dealer" in the game worth approaching and you have to convince the other side that you are stupid enough to walk away when they know your history and how desperate we were to join the EEC.

It just shows that the EU were not stupid enough to fall for it, nor would they ever be, even though some of us managed to convince themselves we are.
It appears that even "we" are not as utterly stupid as you thought to imagine it would work
It's the equivalent of the defeated boxer shouting "Hit me again and I'll bleed all over you"

We never stood a chance. It couldn't turn out any other way than it did.
 

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Just received the first Election communication for the EU elections, from the Brexit party no less, very low key , hand delivered with the name and address obviously done on an inkjet printer as it got wet in the rain and has run!
It talks about wanting to change politics but offers no where or how the only clear statement is
We must leave the EU, an it doesn't even say how .
What a shoddy effort where is Aaron Banks when Lord Nigel needs him?
 

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Been a fair bit of talk on here recently about conspiracy theories. Interesting article here about how Farage uses them, he is a very clever politician. Shame he wouldn't put that cleverness into trying to improving the EU and not getting us out of it.
 
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Think you, ll find Guardian has been slated plenty of times by many over last three years. Because a couple insist on quoting it doesnt mean the rest of us believe it, or any other publication. They all have some axe to grind. All of them.
Don't worry, I wasn't in any way inferring that you might think the Guardian prints news. It's those that quote from it that I was referring to. When they do that, you know that they're wrong. It's too easy.
 
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Tommy Robinson doesn’t even qualify as an imitation. He’s like one of those giant inflatable tubular men you get on second hand car lots. The ones which wave around in the breeze, desperately trying to attract attention. Instead of being kept aloft by a fan blowing air, Robinson is inflated by Nigel Farage’s farts. Pretty soon, when Farage hitches his waggon to the next fad, Robinson will just become a crumpled heap of fabric.
Wishful thinking. Nobody can take your dreams away. The trouble is that you have to wake up afterwards.
 
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