Brexit Arms special - the fingers on the trigger!

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Well here we are, almost 9 months on from the referendum & A50 is finally set to be triggered this month.
We've had petitions, marches, tantrums & tears, from the hardcore remainers desperately trying to stop the will of the people, but they can't.

So let's get the champagne out of the cellar ready & waiting - this is the last Brexit Arms thread so let's celebrate!
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We are bargaining chips every time their is an election, trade deal, financial transaction... It is a governments duty to protect its citizens, whether they live here or elsewhere. Why is that irrational?

I do not recall previous elections were millions of people in the UK with jobs and families feared being kicked out. But then previous governments didn't pander to the xenophobic hard right.

Figment
Ok if the EU is not a club, what is it? A dictatorship?
I never voted to join it!

GhostGrimes
Who is threatening to kick out millions of people, no government I know!

Bear - there is a bear emoji on the mobile version of MN, otherwise just type the word bear enclosed in square brackets.

Or on an iPhone use the standard emojis:

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Oooh look, one specially for Brexiteers:

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Who knew there were that many emojis! I never use them!

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I have my own in-house tech wizard to explain all these things to me (also known as a 12 year old boy). I am a Luddite at heart.

Happy Bear!! 😊

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Hmm my kindle ones change between preview and posting

Morning All.
Whats the opinion on Gordon Browns latest intervention?

Morning

GB knows if Scotland gets independence ( & I hope they do ) it's the end of the Labour Party.

Anon

Don't be obtuse.

People's Constitutional Convention is the way forward. [whisky]

TM answered GB's power grab point yesterday - SNP proposing to take back powers from Westminster and then give them straight back to Brussels. So for GB to have any credibility he has to haul himself aboard the Brexit bus.

Is it any mark of (at last) the beginning of an opposition to the one party state that Scotland has become?

I hope so, but the jury is out.

I think it's more of a sign that 'parties' are starting to lose their relevance - when I heard GB, I didn't think 'oh it's Labour -they haven't even got enough votes to order a pizza'. I just thought 'that's interesting. Someone with some expertise and experience and a sensible sounding perspective'.

I think that's one thing the 'leave' vote has done - ie divided the country, but not along traditional party lines. Exacerbated of course by the absence of a credible opposition.

It's quite a worrying time in many ways, from the perspective of representative democracy - people reaching out to individuals who they perceive have 'influence' and 'experience' - rather than to political parties, who they perceive to be especially untrustworthy or ineffective.

worrying indeed if that 'influence' and 'experience' comes in the shape of Brown, Blair, Mandelson and Osborne

Could be an awful lot worse though - (although I tend to agree about Osborne - and probably mandelson too).

One interesting thing is the notion of the 'centre'. Scary that in this new world, Osborne is supposed to represent the 'centre' on some level. Not so much as moving the overden window as moving the whole house to a new country.

With Brexit, we can celebrate the jolly great:

Collapsed Sterling
Decimated Trade
Higher Prices
Zero Hour Contracts
Reduced Employment Rights
Starved NHS
3/4 Day Secondary Moderns

With the gun to our head, what's not to cheer?

Osborne is nor centre to me. Maybe im not a proton and electron repulsion is at play.

Ahem user, we haven't left yet.

exactly bored, we've got the above just at the thought of leaving

It ain't going to get better.

Yep, track the value of sterling since last June. There is a thread on aibu about rising food prices. The penny has dropped. For most.

At least it's a penny...

Oh dear - 92% drop in number of EU nurses registering to work in the UK since brexit.

Since Brexit vote obviously. Maybe they will change their minds when we actually leave the EU (not).