Brexit again...

[Erniemossrules]

I don't always understand precisely what you are trying to say and because you never concede a valid point to anyone...

Your magisterial analysis of British society (above) was over my head.

 

But be careful what you wish for.

If we do crash out and end up suffering another period of austerity and depression I suggest to you that Corbyn's Labour Party might conceivably do very well at the next Election when the Tories will almost certainly lose their supremacy.

If Ireland, Scotland and many cities continue to vote Remain and those young people of 15-17 who could not vote last time follow the overwhelming trend of their fellow youngsters then anyone who might be open to a further vote and/or talks about getting closer to the EU again could easily win.

 

No one really knows what will happen but most young people wanted to remain and they'll be on the electoral roll in their droves very soon.

 

Even if Teresa May offered Corbyn everything he wanted he would still say no.

He is only in it for his own political gain and isn’t bothered about the people or the country.

[TheSage]

More fake news today about what Brexit has already cost us -

 

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/04/britain-already-66000000000-poorer-brexit-9113538/

 

£66 billion. That's a staggering sum and an appalling waste of money.

[philpvfc]

£550 million a week, if true. That’s a lot less than we will be paying the EU if we stay in come a couple of years.

 

And correct it is almost definitely fake news.

[Jacko51]

Complete and utter rubbish Sage. The country was socially divided before the referendum. And I don't supose you are willing to even consider the two little hiccups riots that occured in 2011? Let's brush that one under the carpet

 

How many MPs were murdered before the referendum was on the agenda?

[Jacko51]

£550 million a week, if true. That’s a lot less than we will be paying the EU if we stay in come a couple of years.

 

And correct it is almost definitely fake news.

 

How much has it cost us then, phil?

[Regal Beagle]

How much has it cost us then, phil?

 

Brexit? Very little I would imagine seen as we haven't left yet.

 

Remaining despite the fact that we voted to leave has cost us an enormous amount though.

[Jacko51]

Brexit? Very little I would imagine seen as we haven't left yet.

 

Remaining despite the fact that we voted to leave has cost us an enormous amount though.

 

Planning for Brexit has cost a bob or two though. I see the M20 now only has one carriageway as the other side is a car park!

[philpvfc]

How much has it cost us then, phil?

 

Wouldn’t have a scoobie just like the Metro wouldn’t have a scoobie. Brexit won’t have cost us much at all, the uncertainty of what is happening will have cost a lot more.

[TheSage]

£550 million a week, if true. That’s a lot less than we will be paying the EU if we stay in come a couple of years.

 

One. Do you realise that the cost of our membership of the EU is about £8.9 billion a year?

Two. that amounts to just over 1% of our annual GDP spending or, in other words, a tiny drop in the ocean.

 

And for that relatively small sum of money we get full free access to the world's biggest market for goods, capital, labour and investments. Almost 500 million people and the envy of all our trading partners around the world.

 

Footnote. Last year alone our banking and financial industries made a profit of £28 billion in their dealings with the EU.

 

So let's put to bed this daft myth that we pay loads in and get nothing back.

[TheSage]

Wouldn’t have a scoobie just like the Metro wouldn’t have a scoobie. Brexit won’t have cost us much at all, the uncertainty of what is happening will have cost a lot more.

 

Read the article.

 

It's not the Metro saying that. The paper is reporting what the renowned Credit Agency Standard & Poor is saying. All this bickering over Brexit has cost us £66 billion in the last three years and continues every day.

 

Goldman Sachs and the Bank of England largely agree with this figure.

 

Put simply - had we not embarked on this shambles we'd be £66 billion better off.

 

What happened to all the talk about it wouldn't cost us a penny and it would be the easiest thing in the world to leave?

[mr.hobblesworth]

Wouldn’t have a scoobie just like the Metro wouldn’t have a scoobie. Brexit won’t have cost us much at all, the uncertainty of what is happening will have cost a lot more.

 

Chris Grayling's ferry ****-ups have cost us umpteen million and that's down to Brexit (and his own staggering ineptitude).

[Fosse69]

Bill to stop no-deal passed 390 - 81, just needs her Maj to sign it.

[tommytunstall]

What a load of rubbish. It's already cost certain industries a lot of jobs. Very little you say, how can you be so blind to what is going on.

Brexit? Very little I would imagine seen as we haven't left yet.

 

Remaining despite the fact that we voted to leave has cost us an enormous amount though.

[Warren]

[geosname]

Bill to stop no-deal passed 390 - 81, just needs her Maj to sign it.

 

That will cause some problems.