View Poll Results: Brexit the aftermath, did the people of the UK vote correctly ?
Yes
43
40.95%
No
53
50.48%
Not more bloody navel gazing for gawd sakes !!!
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8.57%
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Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
Jan 19th 2017, 4:39 am
#826
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Jan 19th 2017, 7:00 am
#827
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Jan 19th 2017, 7:01 am
#828
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Jan 19th 2017, 9:47 am
#830
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Jan 19th 2017, 12:55 pm
#832
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
Economics 101
If a bar wants to raise its prices after a certain time then that's there right, but:
Jan 19th 2017, 1:04 pm
#833
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
Economics 101 - even a western-hating leftie can understand this
If a bar wants to raise its prices after a certain time then that's their right, but:
Other pubs didn't/don't undertake this practice
Each to their own - your money is your money
By your reaction to my post, I'm guessing that you're from Dublin
Stop being so precious
I've lived in many places over the years - Benoni, Johannesburg, Durban, London, LA, Croydon, Aylesbury, Woldingham, Perth, Sydney - among others. Feel free to critisise/slag off/dump on any of them. I won't get upset or frosty. Promise
Jan 19th 2017, 3:46 pm
#834
Dunroaming back in UK
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Location: Expat in Yorkshire now
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Jan 19th 2017, 6:33 pm
#835
BE Forum Addict
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
Nope - completely different things
Economics 101 - even a western-hating leftie can understand this
If a bar wants to raise its prices after a certain time then that's their right, but:
Other pubs didn't/don't undertake this practice
Each to their own - your money is your money
By your reaction to my post, I'm guessing that you're from Dublin
Stop being so precious
I've lived in many places over the years - Benoni, Johannesburg, Durban, London, LA, Croydon, Aylesbury, Woldingham, Perth, Sydney - among others. Feel free to critisise/slag off/dump on any of them. I won't get upset or frosty. Promise
Economics 101 - even a western-hating leftie can understand this
If a bar wants to raise its prices after a certain time then that's their right, but:
Other pubs didn't/don't undertake this practice
Each to their own - your money is your money
By your reaction to my post, I'm guessing that you're from Dublin
Stop being so precious
I've lived in many places over the years - Benoni, Johannesburg, Durban, London, LA, Croydon, Aylesbury, Woldingham, Perth, Sydney - among others. Feel free to critisise/slag off/dump on any of them. I won't get upset or frosty. Promise
I'm not from Dublin.
Jan 23rd 2017, 12:59 pm
#836
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
Here's the reality of that trip to Dublin - 2 pubs (close to each other). At 11pm, one of them starts charging more for drinks whilst the other keeps its prices the same. Both employee people at (I would imagine) about the same rate. Both were busy as. Both are therefore, probably, making good money. Which one is profiteering?
Nothing wrong with profiteering though - if they can get away with it then party on, that's capitalism and how you spend your money is your issue not mine. I'll only go there once though
You like Dublin. I think it's an okay-ish city that is expensive and somewhat overrated. Everyone's a winner
Jan 23rd 2017, 11:06 pm
#837
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
At least the pubs were open after 11 - had that been Sydney, they would have been kicking you out at 10:30...
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Mar 29th 2017, 11:36 am
#838
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
Well, that's it. The UK has bent over and is awaiting reaming ...
Brexit: Theresa May triggers Article 50 process of leaving EU - BBC News
Brexit: Theresa May triggers Article 50 process of leaving EU - BBC News
Mar 29th 2017, 3:22 pm
#839
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
The text of the letter and the full version:
Brexit: The UK's letter triggering Article 50 - BBC News
Brexit: The UK's letter triggering Article 50 - BBC News
Apr 2nd 2017, 4:26 pm
#840
Last resort... format c:/
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Re: Did the UK do the right thing in voting to leave the E.U.
My oh my has that coffin-dodging wraith messed things up from the very start. 
Mention of simultaneous exit conditions & free trade talks after "threatening to leave the restaurant without paying one's share of the bill?" EU says: ain't gonna happen.
The EU is calling the shots and that's how it's going to be, plain and simple. And what's 1000000x worse is something else: that's how negotiations will go with the US, China and everyone else with a stronger bargaining position than the UK. And the US will descend on the UK like vultures, ripping us apart for their corporations to do whatever they please in the UK, and we will have absolutely nothing to say about this.
There will be NO negotiations. The US will simply hand the UK the terms of the upcoming free trade agreement and simply give the UK gov't the chance to save face by spreading lies that "after long negotiations we have a great deal for the British people."
Threatening or even blackmailing fellow Europeans that security information might be withheld? Absolutely hideous. Who the f wrote that letter?
And what about Gibraltar, currently the only overseas territory that is part of the EU, which her letter FAILED to mention at all? DISASTER. Seriously people, start talking to Spain instead if you want any real representation. Or go it alone.
Mention of simultaneous exit conditions & free trade talks after "threatening to leave the restaurant without paying one's share of the bill?" EU says: ain't gonna happen.
The EU is calling the shots and that's how it's going to be, plain and simple. And what's 1000000x worse is something else: that's how negotiations will go with the US, China and everyone else with a stronger bargaining position than the UK. And the US will descend on the UK like vultures, ripping us apart for their corporations to do whatever they please in the UK, and we will have absolutely nothing to say about this.
There will be NO negotiations. The US will simply hand the UK the terms of the upcoming free trade agreement and simply give the UK gov't the chance to save face by spreading lies that "after long negotiations we have a great deal for the British people."
Threatening or even blackmailing fellow Europeans that security information might be withheld? Absolutely hideous. Who the f wrote that letter?
And what about Gibraltar, currently the only overseas territory that is part of the EU, which her letter FAILED to mention at all? DISASTER. Seriously people, start talking to Spain instead if you want any real representation. Or go it alone.