Revoke article 50 petition just needs a few more votes to pass 6 million !

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If you haven't signed yet, but would like to press pause on Brexit please add your name to the this petition. The numbers are large enough for it to really make a difference when MP's vote on different ways forward on Monday.

It's the Brexitannian moral high ground: doesn't matter how ghastly one's views about people with foreign surnames or those who work abroad, so long as one avoids using (ironically) some good old Anglo-Saxon words.

I was repeating shithole

@sonlypuppyfat any comment on those lovely young men who were arrested on Friday?

I would like to know how leaving the UK will turn sonlypuppyfat's area into less of a shithole. Do you mean that the non-British workers will leave? Or are you expecting lots more government investment, new businesses and jobs? Why?

Also, how do you feel about Jacob Rees Mogg transferring so much money to Dublin?

It all depends who you think your community is. I have friends and family who are European, immigrants, emigrants, people who've never moved.

GabrielleNelson Not that old chestnut again. Somerset Capital, of which JRM holds shares in, have recently opened a Dublin office to offer diversification for their investors. To suggest he has moved his money to Dublin is fake news.

of which JRM holds shares in, have recently opened a Dublin office to offer diversification for their investors.

Why do they need 'diversification'? Aren't they patriotic enough and confident enough in Britain and its economy to stick with British?

Peregrina it is a case of spreading risk. If you have £10 to invest you would look to invest £1 in eurozone, £1 in the US, £1 in China, £1 in Uk treasury bonds for security, maybe £1 in some start ups in Indonesia for some scope for serious growth, so on and so forth. Investing all ones wealth in the UK maybe commendable, but in practice it would be putting eggs in one basket and potentially missing out on opportunities elsewhere. That level of patriotism is normally associated with pretty far out there right wing views.

I'm not commenting on JRM's polirics, i just get annoyed with the same old lefty half truths and to be frank, lies, being traipsed out to discredit JRM when all it does is shows of a distinct lack of understanding of what they are talking about.

If JRM's arguments and Brexit stance is so abhorrent, then surely we can stick to arguing against him with facts rather than falsehoods?

Peregrina it is a case of spreading risk. If you have £10 to invest you would look to invest £1 in eurozone, £1 in the US, £1 in China, £1 in Uk treasury bonds for security, maybe £1 in some start ups in Indonesia for some scope for serious growth, so on and so forth.

This is just such utter financially illiterate bollocks (er - currency risk?)

Anyway, for a start, while the U.K. is inside the EU, there is no need for a Dublin office. Rees Mogg's outfit opened an Irish office to retain the benefits of being an EU-based financial services provider. It's a tacit admission that those benefits exist inside the EU but not outside.

Mistigri I was trying to illustrate why wealth is diversified in asset class and geography among other things to lay people. I understand invest risk to some degree, being a chartered financial planner and all. Don't insult me by calling it bollocks, a Dublin fund offers preferable tax positions for many investors. Nothing to do with Brexit, these arrangements have been around for years.