PM Boris
#691
Re: PM Boris
But the bar is so low these days it will probably take something more. Perhaps he'll criticise the queen mum or Vera Lynn.
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For example going back to the small manufacturing company I worked for as an example,.....if smaller companies are forced to adopt new European design regulations, they may not be able to afford the cost of doing so, before hand, they had a choice weather they wanted to build a pressure vessel to another design code. . I think some of the EU rules and regulations are not in interests of some EU countries, especially the smaller less wealthy countries, but are forced to adopt them anyway....it kind of goes back to my point about culture and economic differences between the EU counties, whats suits one country may not suit another.
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Changing UK standards post-Brexit would potentially be expensive for UK companies. But if those standards aren't likely to change, what was the reason for leaving?
#696
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There was a referendum and people, normal people, voted to leave.
It had nothing to do with manufacturing standards, visas, the pound etc but everything to do with whether they felt the EU and politics in general was doing anything to make their life better. Those in power, the establishment, the bankers in fact anyone doing well put the case that being in the EU was a good thing and ignored anyone who thought differently.
Well, I've got news for them, people not only didn't believe them they knew that staying in wouldn't change anything and as usual they were being told what to do and reacted against it. Any student of human nature would have understood this, but politicians etc were so absorbed with themselves that they simply couldn't conceive of the unimaginable.
In the years that have passed without any action whatsoever, feelings will have hardened and anyone promising to leave will do well. This is the real reason an election is being delayed.
Johnson might be an idiot, but I strongly suspect he understands this basic truth.
#697
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I keep hammering the same nail into the EU coffin, but many posters still don't get it.
There was a referendum and people, normal people, voted to leave.
It had nothing to do with manufacturing standards, visas, the pound etc but everything to do with whether they felt the EU and politics in general was doing anything to make their life better. Those in power, the establishment, the bankers in fact anyone doing well put the case that being in the EU was a good thing and ignored anyone who thought differently.
Well, I've got news for them, people not only didn't believe them they knew that staying in wouldn't change anything and as usual they were being told what to do and reacted against it. Any student of human nature would have understood this, but politicians etc were so absorbed with themselves that they simply couldn't conceive of the unimaginable.
In the years that have passed without any action whatsoever, feelings will have hardened and anyone promising to leave will do well. This is the real reason an election is being delayed.
Johnson might be an idiot, but I strongly suspect he understands this basic truth.
There was a referendum and people, normal people, voted to leave.
It had nothing to do with manufacturing standards, visas, the pound etc but everything to do with whether they felt the EU and politics in general was doing anything to make their life better. Those in power, the establishment, the bankers in fact anyone doing well put the case that being in the EU was a good thing and ignored anyone who thought differently.
Well, I've got news for them, people not only didn't believe them they knew that staying in wouldn't change anything and as usual they were being told what to do and reacted against it. Any student of human nature would have understood this, but politicians etc were so absorbed with themselves that they simply couldn't conceive of the unimaginable.
In the years that have passed without any action whatsoever, feelings will have hardened and anyone promising to leave will do well. This is the real reason an election is being delayed.
Johnson might be an idiot, but I strongly suspect he understands this basic truth.
#698
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Thank you for summarising Dave's waffle. I spend enough time on BE as it is. Very curious argument, "we want to shoot ourselves in the foot, we've heard it's going hurt, we just don't care, let us do it...and pleased look after us when the economy tanks".
#699
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Passport, yes.
Visa, no.
Pre-entry clearance (ETIAS), most definitely from 2021. And they won't be boarding the plane or ferry to France without one.
Visa, no.
Pre-entry clearance (ETIAS), most definitely from 2021. And they won't be boarding the plane or ferry to France without one.
#700
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To your first point,l as Canada is a metric country, its would be mo different than a Canadian manufacturing company exporting to the US... machines we built had to be in imperial....whereas other machines were metric, we had to work in both metric and imperial, its something i have done ever since working in Canada.
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#701
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Are you talking about states and provinces being able to restrict citizens of the country/PRs from being able to move around within the country or non citizens/PRs being able to live and work there?
#702
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I've seen it suggested, how seriously I don't know, I would believe pretty much anything of the Brexiteers, including a return to LSD and/or wide lapels.
I do understand that free movement of goods and of people are not tied to each other but they do relate; if, for example, you manufacture a product in the UK and want to sell it in the EU, there might be a need to provide supporting expertise, long or short term, for that product. That's much easier if there are no constraints on the movement of workers. Perhaps if one did not have ideal trading conditions today one might not introduce them. That's quite different from having such good conditions and choosing to give them up.
I do understand that free movement of goods and of people are not tied to each other but they do relate; if, for example, you manufacture a product in the UK and want to sell it in the EU, there might be a need to provide supporting expertise, long or short term, for that product. That's much easier if there are no constraints on the movement of workers. Perhaps if one did not have ideal trading conditions today one might not introduce them. That's quite different from having such good conditions and choosing to give them up.
#704
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Making logical arguments for staying, eg things will get worse, will make little impact and whether you like it or not the next election will be all about brexit and political parties who ignore this don't deserve to do well. For example if Labour think that party will trump leave then they're in for a shock.
You might argue that voting leave was stupid and you imply that those who voted leave are stupid. It's attitudes like this, expressed by politicians and pundits in general, that'll ensure the leave vote will harden.
#705
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I agree that many reasons for the leave vote were more emotional than otherwise, but burying your head in the sand won't change the fact that it happened, ask yourself why rather than simply arguing that it was wrong or dismissing possible explanations as waffle.
Making logical arguments for staying, eg things will get worse, will make little impact and whether you like it or not the next election will be all about brexit and political parties who ignore this don't deserve to do well. For example if Labour think that party will trump leave then they're in for a shock.
You might argue that voting leave was stupid and you imply that those who voted leave are stupid. It's attitudes like this, expressed by politicians and pundits in general, that'll ensure the leave vote will harden.
Making logical arguments for staying, eg things will get worse, will make little impact and whether you like it or not the next election will be all about brexit and political parties who ignore this don't deserve to do well. For example if Labour think that party will trump leave then they're in for a shock.
You might argue that voting leave was stupid and you imply that those who voted leave are stupid. It's attitudes like this, expressed by politicians and pundits in general, that'll ensure the leave vote will harden.