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We're a matter of weeks away from Brexit-Day, despite a new survey showing a 52-48 split in favour of Remain, we're on our way to chaos.

When / if we leave on the 31st January, apart from the main issue being whether Big Ben rings at 11pm or not, what do we expect to happen?

'No Deal' Brexit was lauded as a ****ing disaster and the revised 'BoJo Deal' Brexit hasn't been received as much better. Will bees die? Will Mummy still have to recycle? Who will stock the first straight banana? Will the Spaniards invade our waters to steal our fish? Will remainers riot? Will anyone non-white-Brit just disintegrate (like in Game of Thrones when the Night King is killed).

Will it just be a complete non-event?

Any currency predictions?
Any housing market predictions?
Any.....other predictions?

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I predict that there will be a massive investment in new power generation, renewable and otherwise, to meet the rising demand caused by the influx of high-powered hoovers. Loads of jobs all around.

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I predict that post Brexit, Scotland will head off into the arms of the EU, only to be spurned, then, the sporran empty, into the arms of the IMF, only to be asset stripped (water, fish, NHS, whisky and haggis), then cast onto the scrapheap of failed states, all by 2025...

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Primarily non-event. The biggest losers will be the legitimacy of the "expert" classes. Life will go on. Scotland will not leave.

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Government will be issuing new 50p pieces, also spending £167 million on a Brexit festival.

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A sharp increase in immigration from brown/Muslim countries to replace all of the white Christian Europeans who "f**k off back home" as instructed. Although that's already happening.

Almost daily newspaper front pages with sad gloomy middle-Englanders upset about ruined holidays, lost savings, consequential unemployment. Expect lots of "They nevva told us this could happen :( " and "we didn't vote for this :frown: "

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That's the kind of positive thinking that could keep Britain afloat.

Whilst it's probably the least mature attitude to have, I'm not bothered about admitting that this is partly why I'm waiting with just a minuscule amount of excitement instead of constant "what the **** is about to happen". I look forward to seeing some morons suffer.

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If we have to go to all the trouble and expense of an other f***ing referendum and SCEXIT might we not throw Wales in too, kind of a BOGOF and make it WASEXIT. Thinking on, the Cornish want out too. In fact, why not go the whole hog and break the whole lot up to pre-union times. It would be like a lot of little Monaco's. More likely it would be like one Monaco and a bunch of war ravaged states something akin to the former Yugoslavia. Lancashire would immediately revert to type a lay siege to Yorkshire and the Brumies would look on knowing themselves to be the next target. The Scots would go in search of a French King to overthrow the Scottish assembly and the whole place would revert to one dirty great big Klan war.

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and I thought I was being overly positive.

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Someone could tell me that Wales is the new Monaco until the day I die, I'm not living in ****ing Newport.

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I was referring to London, Due to global warming the outer London boroughs become sea front property with a shiny new marina in the middle. Accepted, It will be a pain in the arse moving everything about initially but in the long run I like it. Fortunately Newport becomes sea bed.

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So, Londoners would be surrounded by water?

Could we build a wall and just keep letting the water flow in?

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Can't wait for my Brexit Dividend...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...it-for-the-u-k

First person to shout "Fake News" gets a signed Donald Trump toilet brush (used).

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Nah.. the dividend is the Blue Passport, everyone knew that was all they would gain!!!! didn't they?

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Mind blowing isn't it.

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Hardly surprising as Bloomberg wants to be the next POTUS.

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Translation: "FAKE NEWS"

:rofl:

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Michael Bloomberg has never denied wanting to run for office one day. Isn't that why he ceded control of Bloomberg new a few years ago?

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Indeed. The number given is more than the UK's net total contribution to the EU over the 47 years of membership. Not sure how Bloomberg's political ambitions in the US invalidate this in any way, but there you go.

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I don't have any opinion on Bloomberg, other than I don't think what America really needs is another 400 year old man billionaire running the country.

Don't, the facts will be denied, the source claimed as untrustworthy, the author as too 'woke' or a snowflake and the march towards impending doom will continue.

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British economy now 3% smaller than it could have been had the relationship been maintained.

Economic speculation. Very highly reliable science, ain't it? Especially as the UK hasn't even left yet. From the same set of economists in all the usual sources spending the last five years predicting economic doom and gloom and sky is falling, when none of it actually happened. And the same graph shows the UK still grew. And apparently it has nothing to do with "global growth cooling recently". Where was that missing 170 billion going to go? Not your pocket, not my pocket either.

And who knows, just maybe, being outside the EU will see the UK grow a lot faster than previously estimated ;) And that 170 billion "loss" will turn out to be 1 trillion in gains by not being in the EU. Hey, it's prediction, just like their prediction.

Either way, people will want to believe what they want to believe. And the same is true for the economists. Their record in predicting recessions is so remarkable, isn't it?

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Nothing will happen because we will be in the official transition where all the old rules continue to apply. The cliff-edge is at 2020 year end when Boris, in his infinite wisdom, has said the transition will end regardless of how much or what has been negotiated. I know the new EU trade commissioner who will be leading the negotiations on behalf of the EU. He is from my home town. We always thought he would have been best suited as a nightclub bouncer (personality, physique and intellect) though he was afraid of my mother (which indicates he was capable of some rational thought).

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Yeah but no but. Almost anybody in international business can give you an anecdote about proposed investment in the UK which has been shelved or cancelled since the Brexit vote. I have literally more than a dozen examples that I know of directly and I don't even work any more.

Again, the post-Brexit "unleashing" will be based on what? Some credible examples please... trading what with whom?

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Whilst I hate the term, you'll just get sucked into the usual 'whataboutery' from the Brexit camp with questions like those.

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'Bouncer' we are talking about the short fat bald bloke with glasses right? what was he bouncing the brownies bake sale. I hope for all our sake that your assessment of his intellect is equally inaccurate to that of his physical prowess. Junker was a posturing prick who cared more for an experiment than the people it affected, are you telling us that this bloke is no better? I was under the impression that an Irish negotiator would be more focused on securing a deal, given Ireland has more to loss than any other nation including Britain. It's sad that we can not manage to elect responsible politicians.

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What's to worry about when Liz Truss is on the case