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Are you still pro-Brexit?

451 replies

Fatasfooook · 26/02/2020 15:02

Brexit will have soon cost the UK more than all its payments to the EU over the past 47 years put together

www.businessinsider.com/brexit-will-cost-uk-more-than-total-payments-to-eu-2020-1?fbclid=IwAR3E3Xc8p0bgNF06hCJZzr61Ak-6VetNbFv5vrfsV041nPvDZeFSCnjHcdg&r=US&IR=T

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wherearemychickens · 26/02/2020 22:57

Never mind the EMA leaving then, hey.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 26/02/2020 22:59

Seems highly unlikely he meant farming - what would we eat?

He did mean farming. Along with manufacturing and fishing. The food supply would be from cheap imports.

KC225 · 26/02/2020 23:26

100% yes

Haha at the all the drama - house burning analogies and 'cult' callers - hilarious.

dustibooks · 26/02/2020 23:27

Why is it that Remainers never seem to mention all those people who didn't vote in the referendum?

I can't help wondering which way it would have gone if they had all voted.

Clavinova · 26/02/2020 23:37

He did mean farming.Along with manufacturing and fishing.

I can only find a reference to manufacturing - more specifically car manufacturing.

Never mind the EMA leaving then, hey

The EMA are often criticised for being too slow to approve innovative cancer drugs - perhaps our own MHRA will be quicker.

Pinkandbluemcdonald5 · 26/02/2020 23:44

Why is it that Remainers never seem to mention all those people who didn't vote in the referendum?
I can't help wondering which way it would have gone if they had all voted

Are you implying that those who don’t turn out to vote, tend to be less politically informed/educated? So more likely to vote leave, and then increase the leave majority?

I don’t think everyone who chose not to vote is a secret leaver.

Clavinova · 26/02/2020 23:45

Here's some Brexity good news I missed last week-

"£500 million boost for UK film industry from US firm."

"Atlanta-based movie studios firm, Blackhall Studios, announced their intention to build a £150 million state-of-the-art film studio in Reading, their first outside of the US. Once built, the site would become one of the largest film studios in the UK, boosting the UK’s film capacity substantially.Once operational, the studio is expected be worth £500 million to the UK economy per year."

"The new studio is expected to be built at the Thames Valley Science Park, which is owned by the University of Reading."

"Following the completion of the transaction, the investment is expected to create up to 3,000 jobs in the local area, including 1,500 employed at the studio site, from set-building trades and advanced digital skills to physical film production."

www.gov.uk/government/news/500-million-boost-for-uk-film-industry-from-us-firm

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 27/02/2020 00:33

I love the fact that EU immigrants living in the UK and dual EU nationals will have more rights, more useful passports, and more opportunities than British passport holders. Proper own goal.

LellyMcKelly · 27/02/2020 00:51

Nope.Was a shit show then and it’s a shit show now.

Buttercup54321 · 27/02/2020 00:51

Boring

ilovesooty · 27/02/2020 00:59

@Buttercup54321 no one forced you to read it or contribute.

NameChangeNugget · 27/02/2020 01:02

I’m a remainder and enjoyed campaigning as well but, we lost.

NameChangeNugget · 27/02/2020 01:03

Remainer even

TinklyLittleLaugh · 27/02/2020 01:23

I’m a remainer and honestly, financially we’re comfortable; we aren’t going to struggle whatever happens and our kids will likely be fine too.

It’s the poor working classes who largely voted for Brexit who are going to struggle. It’s going to be really tough for them. Not good.

Finerumpus · 27/02/2020 06:41

If only there was some way to protect those poor working classes from the consequences of their own mistakes.

ProgrammableMagneticStorm · 27/02/2020 06:58

If only there was some way to protect those poor working classes from the consequences of their own mistakes.

Indeed. If I could, I'd wrap my arms around them and help them to read CBI reports and suchlike.

jasjas1973 · 27/02/2020 07:26

London Cancer Hub is a collaboration between uk institutions (ICR, hospitals, councils and universities) that have been around for a 100 years plus.....primarily funded by charities.

This welcome investment is not as a result of Brexit,

There would something very odd if they set up in Berlin.

LaurieMarlow · 27/02/2020 07:27

"£500 million boost for UK film industry from US firm."

Why would that have not happened without Brexit?

Thenextstorm · 27/02/2020 07:49

Ask the same question in a year OP when we really are feeling the effects.

I want the leavers to own it. Some hope...

SantaClauss · 27/02/2020 08:01

I want the leavers to own it. Some hope

Not going to happen. Leave voters will blame any negative consequences firmly on remainers, regardless of the facts.

ssd · 27/02/2020 08:08

Maybe the leavers think sovereignty will make it all right?

And if any of them could explain sovereignty I'd be grateful. It's all I heard in the referendum.

ssd · 27/02/2020 08:11

Don't blame Brexit on the poor working class. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain. And most of it is working class.

Clavinova · 27/02/2020 08:18

"£500 million boost for UK film industry from US firm."
Why would that have not happened without Brexit?

From the Guardian;

"There has been a rush by commercial companies to build more studio space in recent years but this one is unusual in that the British government has been working with Blackhall Studios over the last year to help secure a site."

“The UK and the US are each other’s largest investors and this announcement demonstrates the strength of our trading relationship,” said Liz Truss, the international trade secretary.

London Cancer Hub is a collaboration between uk institutions (ICR, hospitals, councils and universities) that have been around for a 100 years plus.....primarily funded by charities.This welcome investment is not as a result of Brexit

PP posted;
"My husbands work is in medical research, an industry that will not exist in the U.K. within a very short amount of time."

Clearly not the case at all. New Global Talent Visa;
www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-announcement-about-a-new-global-talent-visa-scheme/

LaurieMarlow · 27/02/2020 08:20

So not dependent on Brexit then. Confused

Clavinova · 27/02/2020 08:24

So not dependent on Brexit then

It sounds to me as though the government had an active role in the film studio negotiations because of Brexit and the new Global Talent Visa has been introduced because of Brexit.