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orfc wrote: Griff, would this be the same economists that didn't predict the crash 10 years ago?
They're like weathermen, they can predict trends ok, but the extreme events that cause the damage always take them by surprise
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thesilentone wrote: Agree on MP's salary's, you pay peanuts and you get monkeys.
We need about half the MP's, earning twice the current salary who have been involved in a business prior.
However, there is about as much chance of that happening as Marko voting Tory..........
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yoonited wrote: Hungarian PM says he'll veto any request for extension of Article 50.
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DeckchairBlue wrote: Still not sure when or where I have said I hate this country or democracy Munch.
We simply have different ideas about what democracy is and what would be best for this country.
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chedderbob247 wrote: Let’s just say that we do leave on the 29th March under Mays deal (we won’t, and it certainly won’t be no deal). The great thing about this is that everyone that voted leave has actually lost!
The Brexit available under the deal proposed by May is nothing like the Brexit that even the most casual brexiteer would have wanted, never mind the hardcore branch of brexiteers.
It is at the point now that if Mays deal goes through (it wont) that actually brexiteers will be claiming victory when actually it is a huge, huge failure from what they wanted.
#BrexitNotBrexit could not be a more relevant hashtag in this case. Change in relationship? Yes. Brexit? Not in a million years.
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Dancingbear wrote: Wonder which way this Queensland senator would have voted had he been a MP here.
After the devastating attacks on mosques in Christchurch today, this is Queensland Senator Fraser Anning's response… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Vogel wrote: I get what you are saying but since the referendum eu immigration has fallen but at the same time migration from the rest of the world, of which we have ‘control’ has risen. Presumably because the demand for migrant workers in the economy still exists. My worry is whatever outcome we get at the end of this fiasco the majority of us will be unhappy with it. Any version of leave most remainers won’t like and there were so many interpretations of leave most brexiteers will be unhappy also.
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Taffy-P wrote: We’re not leaving as the days go by I’m more sure of it thank goodness
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griff wrote: Thanks for that Laffy. Like a lot of business folk you seem to be saying that Brexit isn’t the road to hell that many are prophesying, and that ‘no deal’ may only give short-term pain. That’s what I thought too. I’ve been watching what many economists have been saying and although they’re split on the short-term effects, the large majority think that our future is very bright in the medium to long-term.
The problem is that we’re not led by businessmen or economists, we have politicians with vested interests to contend with. Exactly the wrong people to be handling brexit. Politics in this country needs a complete shake-up and a fresh start. Anyone who sets up a serious, moderate, centrist party now could clean up because of the increasing number of voters who are fed up with the way that both sides of the House have handled all this. And I mean a proper political party that would appeal to current MPs as well as those who might stand if they though that they could change things. Those that jumped ship recently are independents now which is a different thing and are currently helping to cement the status quo by continuing this impasse.
We need to learn from all this, and quickly.
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chedderbob247 wrote: Let’s just say that we do leave on the 29th March under Mays deal (we won’t, and it certainly won’t be no deal). The great thing about this is that everyone that voted leave has actually lost!
The Brexit available under the deal proposed by May is nothing like the Brexit that even the most casual brexiteer would have wanted, never mind the hardcore branch of brexiteers.
It is at the point now that if Mays deal goes through (it wont) that actually brexiteers will be claiming victory when actually it is a huge, huge failure from what they wanted.
#BrexitNotBrexit could not be a more relevant hashtag in this case. Change in relationship? Yes. Brexit? Not in a million years.
Ha Ha, what a load of bollocks the only way they win the vote will be for the Torys to agree to May resigning the morning after and then you.ll get a Boris led government being backed and egged on by Big Nige and i.ll give it 6 months before they start booking the ferries.
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griff wrote: Barry - I agree that getting out is the right thing, even without a deal, but you can’t get rid of the immigrants. The Health Service and our agricultural and catering/hospitality sectors would simply fall apart. Get rid of the convicted criminals - agreed. I had a hand in doing that myself when I worked in the Immigration Appeals Courts. But getting rid of the rest would reduce our tax take - we’d actually be worse off. Some of those immigrants are paying the taxes that pay the benefits of our own home-grown workshy layabouts, and also those who genuinely need benefits, for whatever reason.
If you synchronise our own employment needs through new, smarter and targeted education policies then we might be able to reduce immigration in, say, 20 years or so. But that relies on politicians making sensible decisions so I won’t hold my breath.
Barry, what happened in New Zealand shows that it’s not immigrants or people of other racial/faith backgrounds that are the problem. It’s extremists of whatever colour or creed. 99.9% of people whether immigrant or indigenous just want to live quietly and in peace, earn a living and get on with their own lives. What’s wrong with that?
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griff wrote: Thanks for that Laffy. Like a lot of business folk you seem to be saying that Brexit isn’t the road to hell that many are prophesying, and that ‘no deal’ may only give short-term pain. That’s what I thought too. I’ve been watching what many economists have been saying and although they’re split on the short-term effects, the large majority think that our future is very bright in the medium to long-term.
The problem is that we’re not led by businessmen or economists, we have politicians with vested interests to contend with. Exactly the wrong people to be handling brexit. Politics in this country needs a complete shake-up and a fresh start. Anyone who sets up a serious, moderate, centrist party now could clean up because of the increasing number of voters who are fed up with the way that both sides of the House have handled all this. And I mean a proper political party that would appeal to current MPs as well as those who might stand if they though that they could change things. Those that jumped ship recently are independents now which is a different thing and are currently helping to cement the status quo by continuing this impasse.
We need to learn from all this, and quickly.
Yes just imagine where we could have been now if we.d just given them 48 hours notice of leaving after the vote.
All the things Laffy talks about would have been two years down the line and the effects of the no deal would be long forgotten as the country started to thrive.
But no the remainers had to drag it out and out again in the hope of stopping it instead of getting on board and starting to make Britain great again. So let's just hope that if they don't like the brave new world for Britain when it comes when we leave they have the balls to stick to their principles and [censored] off and live in the desert with their refugee mates and leave the rest of us to get on with it.
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chedderbob247 wrote:
NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
chedderbob247 wrote: Let’s just say that we do leave on the 29th March under Mays deal (we won’t, and it certainly won’t be no deal). The great thing about this is that everyone that voted leave has actually lost!
The Brexit available under the deal proposed by May is nothing like the Brexit that even the most casual brexiteer would have wanted, never mind the hardcore branch of brexiteers.
It is at the point now that if Mays deal goes through (it wont) that actually brexiteers will be claiming victory when actually it is a huge, huge failure from what they wanted.
#BrexitNotBrexit could not be a more relevant hashtag in this case. Change in relationship? Yes. Brexit? Not in a million years.
Ha Ha, what a load of bollocks the only way they win the vote will be for the Torys to agree to May resigning the morning after and then you.ll get a Boris led government being backed and egged on by Big Nige and i.ll give it 6 months before they start booking the ferries.
How many times do I need to tell you that there will be no ferries whatsoever.
Now, I know you think you are never wrong, and that even if there are no ferries you will still claim you were right every time a new ferry company is registered in the British isles, but let me just remind you. You are wrong almost exclusively!!!
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griff wrote: Barry - I agree that getting out is the right thing, even without a deal, but you can’t get rid of the immigrants. The Health Service and our agricultural and catering/hospitality sectors would simply fall apart. Get rid of the convicted criminals - agreed. I had a hand in doing that myself when I worked in the Immigration Appeals Courts. But getting rid of the rest would reduce our tax take - we’d actually be worse off. Some of those immigrants are paying the taxes that pay the benefits of our own home-grown workshy layabouts, and also those who genuinely need benefits, for whatever reason.
If you synchronise our own employment needs through new, smarter and targeted education policies then we might be able to reduce immigration in, say, 20 years or so. But that relies on politicians making sensible decisions so I won’t hold my breath.
Barry, what happened in New Zealand shows that it’s not immigrants or people of other racial/faith backgrounds that are the problem. It’s extremists of whatever colour or creed. 99.9% of people whether immigrant or indigenous just want to live quietly and in peace, earn a living and get on with their own lives. What’s wrong with that?
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DeckchairBlue wrote: Barry you might need to reassess your adoration of "Big Nige". The man couldn't even attract more than 100 people for his "March for leave".
I thought you said people would be out in their droves to show their dissatisfaction ?
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cufcmike wrote:
NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
griff wrote: Thanks for that Laffy. Like a lot of business folk you seem to be saying that Brexit isn’t the road to hell that many are prophesying, and that ‘no deal’ may only give short-term pain. That’s what I thought too. I’ve been watching what many economists have been saying and although they’re split on the short-term effects, the large majority think that our future is very bright in the medium to long-term.
The problem is that we’re not led by businessmen or economists, we have politicians with vested interests to contend with. Exactly the wrong people to be handling brexit. Politics in this country needs a complete shake-up and a fresh start. Anyone who sets up a serious, moderate, centrist party now could clean up because of the increasing number of voters who are fed up with the way that both sides of the House have handled all this. And I mean a proper political party that would appeal to current MPs as well as those who might stand if they though that they could change things. Those that jumped ship recently are independents now which is a different thing and are currently helping to cement the status quo by continuing this impasse.
We need to learn from all this, and quickly.
Yes just imagine where we could have been now if we.d just given them 48 hours notice of leaving after the vote.
All the things Laffy talks about would have been two years down the line and the effects of the no deal would be long forgotten as the country started to thrive.
But no the remainers had to drag it out and out again in the hope of stopping it instead of getting on board and starting to make Britain great again. So let's just hope that if they don't like the brave new world for Britain when it comes when we leave they have the balls to stick to their principles and [censored] off and live in the desert with their refugee mates and leave the rest of us to get on with it.
You've mentioned making Britain Great Again for awhile now. When exactly is it in history that you define us as great?
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NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
cufcmike wrote:
NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
griff wrote: Thanks for that Laffy. Like a lot of business folk you seem to be saying that Brexit isn’t the road to hell that many are prophesying, and that ‘no deal’ may only give short-term pain. That’s what I thought too. I’ve been watching what many economists have been saying and although they’re split on the short-term effects, the large majority think that our future is very bright in the medium to long-term.
The problem is that we’re not led by businessmen or economists, we have politicians with vested interests to contend with. Exactly the wrong people to be handling brexit. Politics in this country needs a complete shake-up and a fresh start. Anyone who sets up a serious, moderate, centrist party now could clean up because of the increasing number of voters who are fed up with the way that both sides of the House have handled all this. And I mean a proper political party that would appeal to current MPs as well as those who might stand if they though that they could change things. Those that jumped ship recently are independents now which is a different thing and are currently helping to cement the status quo by continuing this impasse.
We need to learn from all this, and quickly.
Yes just imagine where we could have been now if we.d just given them 48 hours notice of leaving after the vote.
All the things Laffy talks about would have been two years down the line and the effects of the no deal would be long forgotten as the country started to thrive.
But no the remainers had to drag it out and out again in the hope of stopping it instead of getting on board and starting to make Britain great again. So let's just hope that if they don't like the brave new world for Britain when it comes when we leave they have the balls to stick to their principles and [censored] off and live in the desert with their refugee mates and leave the rest of us to get on with it.
You've mentioned making Britain Great Again for awhile now. When exactly is it in history that you define us as great?
When we had an Empire and ruled over a quarter of the world of course and if we needed workers to get a job done cheaply we just sent a few ships down to Africa and rounded a few up.
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DeckchairBlue wrote: Barry you might need to reassess your adoration of "Big Nige". The man couldn't even attract more than 100 people for his "March for leave".
I thought you said people would be out in their droves to show their dissatisfaction ?
But they got massive press coverage [ except of course from the Corbyn Broadcasting Corporation ] and got their point across by smacking a few remainers along the way and as we.re on security duties for three days next week look out for more of the same but please feel free to come along and protest to your hearts content if you like.
Do you not understand the whole point of that sort of march is to start small and get bigger the nearer it gets to parliament so no point in getting 10k to turn up on the first day
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Laffy wrote: Interviewer in Sky today with Corbyn
‘Do you want to leave the EU or not?’
Corbyn-‘That depends on the question’
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NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
cufcmike wrote:
NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
griff wrote: Thanks for that Laffy. Like a lot of business folk you seem to be saying that Brexit isn’t the road to hell that many are prophesying, and that ‘no deal’ may only give short-term pain. That’s what I thought too. I’ve been watching what many economists have been saying and although they’re split on the short-term effects, the large majority think that our future is very bright in the medium to long-term.
The problem is that we’re not led by businessmen or economists, we have politicians with vested interests to contend with. Exactly the wrong people to be handling brexit. Politics in this country needs a complete shake-up and a fresh start. Anyone who sets up a serious, moderate, centrist party now could clean up because of the increasing number of voters who are fed up with the way that both sides of the House have handled all this. And I mean a proper political party that would appeal to current MPs as well as those who might stand if they though that they could change things. Those that jumped ship recently are independents now which is a different thing and are currently helping to cement the status quo by continuing this impasse.
We need to learn from all this, and quickly.
Yes just imagine where we could have been now if we.d just given them 48 hours notice of leaving after the vote.
All the things Laffy talks about would have been two years down the line and the effects of the no deal would be long forgotten as the country started to thrive.
But no the remainers had to drag it out and out again in the hope of stopping it instead of getting on board and starting to make Britain great again. So let's just hope that if they don't like the brave new world for Britain when it comes when we leave they have the balls to stick to their principles and [censored] off and live in the desert with their refugee mates and leave the rest of us to get on with it.
You've mentioned making Britain Great Again for awhile now. When exactly is it in history that you define us as great?
When we had an Empire and ruled over a quarter of the world of course and if we needed workers to get a job done cheaply we just sent a few ships down to Africa and rounded a few up.
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cufcmike wrote:
NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
cufcmike wrote:
NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
griff wrote: Thanks for that Laffy. Like a lot of business folk you seem to be saying that Brexit isn’t the road to hell that many are prophesying, and that ‘no deal’ may only give short-term pain. That’s what I thought too. I’ve been watching what many economists have been saying and although they’re split on the short-term effects, the large majority think that our future is very bright in the medium to long-term.
The problem is that we’re not led by businessmen or economists, we have politicians with vested interests to contend with. Exactly the wrong people to be handling brexit. Politics in this country needs a complete shake-up and a fresh start. Anyone who sets up a serious, moderate, centrist party now could clean up because of the increasing number of voters who are fed up with the way that both sides of the House have handled all this. And I mean a proper political party that would appeal to current MPs as well as those who might stand if they though that they could change things. Those that jumped ship recently are independents now which is a different thing and are currently helping to cement the status quo by continuing this impasse.
We need to learn from all this, and quickly.
Yes just imagine where we could have been now if we.d just given them 48 hours notice of leaving after the vote.
All the things Laffy talks about would have been two years down the line and the effects of the no deal would be long forgotten as the country started to thrive.
But no the remainers had to drag it out and out again in the hope of stopping it instead of getting on board and starting to make Britain great again. So let's just hope that if they don't like the brave new world for Britain when it comes when we leave they have the balls to stick to their principles and [censored] off and live in the desert with their refugee mates and leave the rest of us to get on with it.
You've mentioned making Britain Great Again for awhile now. When exactly is it in history that you define us as great?
When we had an Empire and ruled over a quarter of the world of course and if we needed workers to get a job done cheaply we just sent a few ships down to Africa and rounded a few up.
Make your mind up eh. I thought you didn't like cheap foreign labour?
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NORTHERNSOUL wrote:
DeckchairBlue wrote: Barry you might need to reassess your adoration of "Big Nige". The man couldn't even attract more than 100 people for his "March for leave".
I thought you said people would be out in their droves to show their dissatisfaction ?
But they got massive press coverage [ except of course from the Corbyn Broadcasting Corporation ] and got their point across by smacking a few remainers along the way and as we.re on security duties for three days next week look out for more of the same but please feel free to come along and protest to your hearts content if you like.
Do you not understand the whole point of that sort of march is to start small and get bigger the nearer it gets to parliament so no point in getting 10k to turn up on the first day
All I've seen is a load of old blokes walking in the rain, Is that supposed to put pressure on the government?
Ah so it'll get bigger once Nigel helicopters in to walk the last mile of it then ? Such a man of the people.
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Laffy wrote: No pony in having a vote unless you think you can win-that’s why Cameron should be sent to a salt mine for hard labour
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Sammy Taylor wrote: Put to the voters ! You have got to be joking ..Most of the voters didn`t have a clue what they were voting for and probably still don`t..If we`re given a second vote there is no way they would put as an option " Leave without a deal" because we`re daft enough to vote for it.........Why do you think they do`nt have a referendum on hanging ?? ..because they think the public might vote it in.
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Sammy Taylor wrote: Put to the voters ! You have got to be joking ..Most of the voters didn`t have a clue what they were voting for and probably still don`t..If we`re given a second vote there is no way they would put as an option " Leave without a deal" because we`re daft enough to vote for it.........Why do you think they do`nt have a referendum on hanging ?? ..because they think the public might vote it in.
I.m quite happy with another referendum so long as the two options are
1] Leave with NO DEAL
2] Leave with Mays Deal
The last referendum established the fact that we.re leaving so staying is history just let it go for god's sake anything but a simple vote on the method is a threat to democracy.
And given that I would be confident that NO DEAL would win as millions of people would vote that way just to piss off our arsehole MP.S who have done everything they can to frustrate the will of the majority of the people.
If I had my way those who voted to stay wouldn't even get a vote once your side has lost you're out and have no further say in what happens a bit like the FA Cup.
But whats for sure any future referendum should either be the end of the story no chance for MP.S to hijack it with their own agendas or at least in a vote in which MP.S would be forced to vote in the way their constituents did.
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munchymagic wrote: Corbyn up to his normal tricks - the bloke is a total shan.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/corbyn-s...r-BBUSs6l?li=BBoPWjQ
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Laffy wrote: Here’s another one for all your Corbynites today-not withstanding his admiration of terrorists the IRA and Hamas, who blow people to bits in cold blood,the army should be prosecuted over the Bloody Sunday shootings.It was Blair of course who allowed side letters to be issued to IRA gunmen on the run but he obviously forgot the British Army
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