Post EU Referendum
Nov 28th 2017, 6:21 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Shard
Are the differences greater than American/British English? I assumed it would be about the same shift?
Nov 28th 2017, 8:26 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Here you go, folks. The divorce bill : £89bn - bit steeper than I'd anticipated.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...uld-reach-57bn
Continuous behind-the-scenes negotiations have led to a broad agreement by the UK to a gross financial settlement of £89bn on leaving the bloc
Nov 28th 2017, 8:56 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Red Eric
Here you go, folks. The divorce bill : £89bn - bit steeper than I'd anticipated.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...uld-reach-57bn
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...uld-reach-57bn
Nov 28th 2017, 8:59 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Red Eric
Here you go, folks. The divorce bill : £89bn - bit steeper than I'd anticipated.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...uld-reach-57bn
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...uld-reach-57bn
Whatever the size of the divorce bill is (€1 - €89 Billion) how does it actually get paid to the EU - what are the mechanics ???
I mean, do they introduce;
- A Brexit-tax on all consumer purchases
- Cut benefits & old age pensions by say £15 a week to make sure the UK’s massive army of ‘economically inactive’ actually pay their share – I’d prefer that because I’d be able to buy a coffee mid-morning without tripping over a pile of walking frames
- Slap a levy of say £50 on all flights/ train/cruise/holidays
- Borrow on the euro bond markets
- Have a run of triple-roll-over lottery runs
or, do they just write a figure on one side of the national ledger with a side note saying ‘over to you next generation’?
HOW does it get paid please?
Nov 28th 2017, 9:09 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
After leaving the grip of EU strangulation, Britain will magically "flourish" and be flush with money. Nobody can really define *how* that will happen, but apparently, it will, despite Britain's declining economic position and global pecking order. Have faith, you traitor.
Last edited by amideislas; Nov 28th 2017 at 9:13 pm.
Nov 28th 2017, 9:13 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by 007Steve
….Please, can someone who’s good at accountancy tell me ….
Whatever the size of the divorce bill is (€1 - €89 Billion) how does it actually get paid to the EU - what are the mechanics ???
I mean, do they introduce;
- A Brexit-tax on all consumer purchases
- Cut benefits & old age pensions by say £15 a week to make sure the UK’s massive army of ‘economically inactive’ actually pay their share – I’d prefer that because I’d be able to buy a coffee mid-morning without tripping over a pile of walking frames
- Slap a levy of say £50 on all flights/ train/cruise/holidays
- Borrow on the euro bond markets
- Have a run of triple-roll-over lottery runs
or, do they just write a figure on one side of the national ledger with a side note saying ‘over to you next generation’?
HOW does it get paid please?
Whatever the size of the divorce bill is (€1 - €89 Billion) how does it actually get paid to the EU - what are the mechanics ???
I mean, do they introduce;
- A Brexit-tax on all consumer purchases
- Cut benefits & old age pensions by say £15 a week to make sure the UK’s massive army of ‘economically inactive’ actually pay their share – I’d prefer that because I’d be able to buy a coffee mid-morning without tripping over a pile of walking frames
- Slap a levy of say £50 on all flights/ train/cruise/holidays
- Borrow on the euro bond markets
- Have a run of triple-roll-over lottery runs
or, do they just write a figure on one side of the national ledger with a side note saying ‘over to you next generation’?
HOW does it get paid please?
Nov 28th 2017, 9:22 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Looks like we might get rid of DD after all ...
If Mr Davis were to be held in contempt it could mean he is suspended, or expelled from the Common. In times gone by, MPs held in contempt were also locked in the clock tower of Parliament carrying Big Ben.
Funny ...
Source the Independent
If Mr Davis were to be held in contempt it could mean he is suspended, or expelled from the Common. In times gone by, MPs held in contempt were also locked in the clock tower of Parliament carrying Big Ben.
Funny ...
Source the Independent
Nov 28th 2017, 9:22 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Garbatellamike
comes out of the magic money tree
Magic Money Tree false but Enchanted Brexit Fountain real
Nov 28th 2017, 9:29 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Red Eric
Nonsense - there's no such thing.
Magic Money Tree false but Enchanted Brexit Fountain real
Magic Money Tree false but Enchanted Brexit Fountain real
Nov 28th 2017, 9:31 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Annetje
Looks like we might get rid of DD after all ...
If Mr Davis were to be held in contempt it could mean he is suspended, or expelled from the Common. In times gone by, MPs held in contempt were also locked in the clock tower of Parliament carrying Big Ben.
Funny ...
Source the Independent
If Mr Davis were to be held in contempt it could mean he is suspended, or expelled from the Common. In times gone by, MPs held in contempt were also locked in the clock tower of Parliament carrying Big Ben.
Funny ...
Source the Independent
Nov 28th 2017, 9:34 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by jimenato
Thought you meant our Dick.
Nov 28th 2017, 9:39 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Shard
I'm not so optimistic. I think every last Tory would be willing in drive the country off a cliff rather than risk their ultimate horror of a Corbyn government. And many won't regard 'no deal' as a cliff, but rather as a good adventure. So I don't see how the next election is going to come about?
Many rational MPs in the Conservative party are also arrogant enough to think that they'd only be out of power for a short while, just long enough for the tabloid press to vilify the correct approach to this disaster.
Perhaps then we start this idiocy again, but likely not.
Last edited by Novocastrian; Nov 28th 2017 at 9:42 pm.
Nov 28th 2017, 9:56 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by 007Steve
….Please, can someone who’s good at accountancy tell me ….
Whatever the size of the divorce bill is (€1 - €89 Billion) how does it actually get paid to the EU - what are the mechanics ???
I mean, do they introduce;
- A Brexit-tax on all consumer purchases
- Cut benefits & old age pensions by say £15 a week to make sure the UK’s massive army of ‘economically inactive’ actually pay their share – I’d prefer that because I’d be able to buy a coffee mid-morning without tripping over a pile of walking frames
- Slap a levy of say £50 on all flights/ train/cruise/holidays
- Borrow on the euro bond markets
- Have a run of triple-roll-over lottery runs
or, do they just write a figure on one side of the national ledger with a side note saying ‘over to you next generation’?
HOW does it get paid please?
Whatever the size of the divorce bill is (€1 - €89 Billion) how does it actually get paid to the EU - what are the mechanics ???
I mean, do they introduce;
- A Brexit-tax on all consumer purchases
- Cut benefits & old age pensions by say £15 a week to make sure the UK’s massive army of ‘economically inactive’ actually pay their share – I’d prefer that because I’d be able to buy a coffee mid-morning without tripping over a pile of walking frames
- Slap a levy of say £50 on all flights/ train/cruise/holidays
- Borrow on the euro bond markets
- Have a run of triple-roll-over lottery runs
or, do they just write a figure on one side of the national ledger with a side note saying ‘over to you next generation’?
HOW does it get paid please?
Nov 28th 2017, 10:07 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Shard
Is this a serious question? It gets paid the same way as it does now, from general revenue. Much of the so called "bill" are existing funding obligations which are already being paid. What's being negotiated is the extent of future funding and the sum it will represent. It's the Brexit press which a portraying sound international agreements as some kind of bill/penalty.
Nov 28th 2017, 10:21 pm
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Re: Post EU Referendum
Originally Posted by Garbatellamike
not sure how reliable your source is Eric
