Watch the glory of Brexit unfold here!
09-08-2020 04:33 AM
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09-08-2020 04:35 AM
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Hey Oskar, I bet all you liberal Eurotards are shitting your pants about not having a deal with the UK yet. Right? Right? | |
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09-08-2020 04:37 AM
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If anyone wants 7 hours of various people being unable to provide a single good reason to Brexit, check this out. (and it's only part 1!!) | |
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09-08-2020 06:59 AM
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I would follow Brexit more closely, and by that I mean closer than not at all, if I thought it would lead to any significant changes that impact me. I am eying London a little bit... the UK is the most convenient english speaking country for me to move to work atm. But that's more like a 2025 plan, and I'm really not worried that Brexit will be more than a slight inconvenience there. | |
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09-08-2020 07:06 AM
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09-08-2020 02:25 PM
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Last edited by Poopadoop; 09-08-2020 at 02:31 PM.
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09-09-2020 07:09 AM
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What I don't really get is that it seems that for most people brexit is about stopping immigration somehow, but that to me - based on no information at all I should reiterate, seems like the least likely thing to happen after brexit. Do they want a hermit kingdom? It wasn't that before the EU, so they basically want to get back to something that never was, and on top of that, nobody's going back with you. | |
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09-09-2020 10:17 AM
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The problem with the EU for me is that it is no longer just a trade bloc, like it was when we joined. It's a political and economic union and not under the democratic control of the British people. Just like Scotland don't approve of effectively being under the democratic control of the English, I don't want to be under the faux-democratic control of German and French people. | |
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09-09-2020 11:55 AM
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Maybe you should call in to James O'Brien. | |
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09-09-2020 01:29 PM
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09-09-2020 01:43 PM
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So VAT on tampons is the first thing that comes to mind as a valid reason to leave the world's largest trading bloc. Good to see you have things in clear perspective. | |
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09-09-2020 01:44 PM
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09-09-2020 01:45 PM
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09-09-2020 03:32 PM
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09-09-2020 03:47 PM
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Had to look that up 'cause no-one thought to mention that vital point before. Turns out we could have ended the VAT on tampons without leaving the EU. Oh snap! | |
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09-10-2020 01:38 PM
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Ong calls in at to complain about the tampon tax at 12 min. Surprising such a critical issue was one that O'Brien had to go and look up. | |
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09-10-2020 01:45 PM
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09-10-2020 01:45 PM
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09-10-2020 01:55 PM
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Ok, that's fine, I'll accept that maybe it's worth risking the lives of you and your family to live in a safe English-speaking country rather than a safe French-speaking country. So the Nigerians, Ethiopians and Kenyans. So why are Somalians coming here? They speak French. How about Iranians? Syrians? I can understand if it's legal migration, where you have a viable choice, but when you're risking your life on a dinghy, why take that risk when it's between France and the UK? | |
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09-10-2020 02:16 PM
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If no one wants to come here, why are graffiti artists sending boats out to pick up migrants? They seem pretty desperate to come here, regardless of the EU. | |
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09-10-2020 02:38 PM
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Even by your own narrow reasoning for why certain people shouldn't have freedom of movement, your argument stops holding up once you look at the bottom line of how much immigrants pay into the system vs how much they take out. | |
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09-10-2020 03:13 PM
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They probably know it's their last chance before we are free from the shackles of the liberal Eurotards and we can start treating refugees like dirt. #MEGA | |
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09-10-2020 03:25 PM
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09-10-2020 04:02 PM
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Q: What could be even better than Brexit? | |
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09-11-2020 02:08 AM
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So you're arguing that because immigrant #1 comes here, works, pays taxes and contributes to society, that immigrants #2 and #3 can come here and do nothing. | |
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09-11-2020 02:10 AM
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09-11-2020 02:20 AM
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09-11-2020 03:33 AM
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I just think if you're going to give "regulations bad!" as a valid reason for leaving you should have a basic (not intricate, just basic) understanding of how those regulations affect us. | |
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09-11-2020 03:49 AM
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Also worth pointing out here that Canada is a long ways away, and it costs more money to ship things further, and there's more spoilage. | |
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09-11-2020 04:43 AM
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Also I don't know where you get this idea that people are lining up to emigrate to the UK just so they can live off of £500 a month or whatever you get and do nothing. As if that's someone's life ambition lol. I mean, I know that appeals to you, but it really doesn't appeal to most people. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 09-11-2020 at 04:53 AM.
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09-11-2020 04:49 AM
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You're right I don't. We're already treating refugees like dirt and we're still in the EU. | |
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09-11-2020 08:03 AM
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Sometimes you pay into a system, sometimes you take out of it. Unless you can figure out some kind of Minority Report Precog system, you're not going to know who's going to be profitable and who's not, but the bottom line is: immigrants are a net positive to the economy. The bureaucracy required to sort the maximally profitable is likely completely uneconomical even if you ignore the ethical problems. | |
Last edited by oskar; 09-11-2020 at 08:07 AM.
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09-11-2020 08:05 AM
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/racist-pe...copy_link_more | |
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09-11-2020 08:15 AM
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09-11-2020 08:20 AM
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09-11-2020 08:25 AM
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A further irony is that I'm a contributing taxpayer who is happy to share his wealth with down and outters, whereas he doesn't pay taxes and doesn't want MY taxes going to down and outters if it happens they were born somewhere else. Fuck me. | |
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09-11-2020 10:28 AM
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I love the idea that people with the initiative to upend their entire lives and face the terrifying unknowns of moving countries with no money against the threat to their life and their families' lives... those people are lazy moochers who just want to live off the state. | |
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09-11-2020 11:02 AM
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A lot of such arguments strike me as thinly-disguised racism and/or nativism. These same people would have no problem at all using taxpayer money to bail their countrymen out after a natural disaster. But God forbid someone who wasn't born here fleeing an equally intolerable situation asks for help. | |
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09-11-2020 11:28 AM
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I get that. I appreciate the quote, "Never ascribe to malice what can be explained with ignorance." or however it went that I'm butchering. It's not necessarily the case that others are racist when they could just be uninformed about any number of things. | |
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09-11-2020 12:29 PM
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09-11-2020 12:38 PM
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As for EU citizens coming here to mooch off the UK's benefit system: | |
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09-11-2020 01:49 PM
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09-11-2020 02:16 PM
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09-11-2020 02:37 PM
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09-11-2020 02:54 PM
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09-11-2020 03:02 PM
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Well, no shit we're bound by their rules. Let's not pretend it's some kind of revelation where I'm gonna smack my forehead and say 'zomg I had no idea!' | |
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09-11-2020 03:10 PM
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So, rather than accept the purely logical conclusion that farmers want to be able to sell their goods to the EU, you argue the Farmer's Union is corrupt. Ok. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 09-11-2020 at 03:24 PM.
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09-11-2020 03:16 PM
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In a democracy; if everyone votes in accordance with what is best for them and those that directly depend on them, would the results of said election not be the absolute best outcome for most? Literally. I think this is the most correct use of "Literally" possible. | |
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09-11-2020 03:19 PM
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Also in a democracy: isn't what is best for most in a country also literally what is best for said country? | |
Last edited by Jack Sawyer; 09-11-2020 at 03:22 PM.
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09-11-2020 03:21 PM
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I'm sure the US is keen to sell us all their unhealthy products that they can't sell to other countries because of "regulations". And we're desperate for trade partners, so there you go, problem solved. | |
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09-11-2020 03:38 PM
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And about what people were voting for: It's not true that everyone who voted Leave knew it would be an economic kick in the balls. Fact is, no-one campaigning on the Leave side was saying "it'll be an economic kick in the balls, but at least we won't have to deal with a lot of regulations." No-one. | |
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09-11-2020 03:58 PM
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09-11-2020 04:09 PM
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09-11-2020 04:20 PM
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09-11-2020 04:36 PM
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Did you get to vote on the rules for the trading agreement we just signed with Japan? And since you didn't, how are they subject to the will of the British people? | |
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09-11-2020 05:00 PM
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Apart from that, do you find it plausible at least that farmers would like to sell their produce in the EU, and that a no deal makes that harder? Yes or no. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 09-11-2020 at 05:05 PM.
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09-11-2020 05:15 PM
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09-11-2020 05:16 PM
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Some more rosy quotes by Leave campaigners: | |
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09-11-2020 05:24 PM
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09-11-2020 05:36 PM
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How often are the EU elections held? | |
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09-11-2020 05:51 PM
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Here's the main NAFTA agreement between the US/Canada/Mexico. It's 309 pages long, and makes reference to numerous other documents, and a bunch of annexes that would probably crash your PC if you tried to load them all at once. | |
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09-11-2020 06:14 PM
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09-11-2020 07:36 PM
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I reckon the negotiations will start before that, probably the day after Starmer becomes PM. But I'll add a margin of error 'cause it'll take time to for it to sink in to people that Brexit fucked them over. | |
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09-11-2020 07:41 PM
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Do you know anything about the Good Friday Agreement and the Irish Border question? 'Cause that's another one the Leave campaign said would be a piece of cake and is the reason why Boris made his expert troll move to break the Withdrawal Agreement. | |
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09-14-2020 02:31 PM
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While parliament debates over the Brexit bill to break intn'l law today, there are no CV tests available in any of the top 10 hotspots in the UK. | |
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09-15-2020 11:02 AM
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The world is laughing at us. | |
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09-15-2020 12:21 PM
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I mean.... the world has been laughing for a good, long while now. | |
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09-16-2020 05:59 AM
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https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1306148903855755264 | |
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09-16-2020 06:57 PM
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Bazinga! | |
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09-19-2020 06:29 PM
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The British media is starting to ask if Boris is playing 3D chess with the EU over Brexit, of if he's just a fucking idiot. | |
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09-23-2020 05:04 PM
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Good thing no-one believed his lies and we voted Leave anyways. | |
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09-23-2020 07:52 PM
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To move this over to the appropriate thread: | |
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10-02-2020 08:23 AM
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Turns out asylum seekers coming from FRA to the UK aren't breaking the law after all, at least according to this immigration lawyer. | |
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10-02-2020 11:20 AM
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I find it very hard to believe that crossing a maritime border on a boat without proper authorisation is not illegal. I can't swim the channel without permission from France. | |
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10-02-2020 12:35 PM
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I find it hard not to be amused by brits being annoyed at people coming to their country uninvited. | |
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