British Indy: What Happens Now?

Currency down the pan, big business threatening to locate elsewhere, import prices increasing at 10% or more...but hey there are a few hundred children being rehomed in the UK and some might not actually be under 18.

With this lot in charge we are fucked.

Child migrant 'looks older than me', says David Davies - BBC News

Banks poised to relocate out of UK over Brexit, BBA warns - BBC News

 

just going to leave this here, for no other reason other than i found it a funny wee quip.
This is the nightmare that Britain has become, where the Tooth Fairy has morphed into Nigel Farage and will deport you if your teeth seem foreign, and where the only apparent strategy for the British economy post-Brexit is to rely on jam and biscuit exports. Stuff that’s really bad for your teeth. The British Empire biscuit will conquer the world, and we’ll build a future where the currency will be the jam jar. The jam jar is already pretty much on a par with the pound as it is.

 

Does that mean bourbon biscuits will be banned for sounding a bit french and being to dark?

 

It would seem the Remoaners on here are still putting up straw men to justify their position, has the recent experience of Canada taught them nothing ? The EU is protectionist to the core.

From here the EU has three possibilities.
1. Revert to a Common Market.
2. Move on to the United States of Europe
3. Implode.

1 will never happen, there is no will amongst the people of the EU for 2, so we are left with 3, the only question is how long it will take.

I wonder how the (very) small problem of Wallonia will be resolved, 3.5 million French speaking Belgians using the rules of the EU to protect their farming interests, what chance is there of a soft Brexit ?

 

i guess we the "remoaners " the 48% will be here for as long as it takes to remind May and the three amateurs elected with 37% (actually the where not elected ) that she and they have a duty to everyone. the more people you can get to agree on the settlement the better.. the "remoaners" seem to have a better grasp on reality.
a wee podcast brexit related.
Podcast: Strange days, odd alliances and missing mandates - Newsnet.scot

 

The problem though is that "we" cannot agree a settlement, "we" have to negotiate the best possible deal, for everyone, with the rest of the EU. But the chances of satisfying everyone, including Wallonia, seems unlikely so let's say "we are leaving, we want a good deal, which is in everyone's interest, but if we can't get a good deal we are leaving anyway, the ball is in your court".

 

yes it is, and no, yer no getting it. :smileys:
i believe we have the stronger hand jv, there's nothing the BBC, Murdoch, Barcly Brothers, May or the wee gobshite Ruth will be able to do/say to tell me and the other 50% otherwise. there seems to be more of us every day. you really should of seen and heard what was said two years ago. one more conservative autumn conference should do it. as scary as it was, that was deffo the gift that kept giving.
i would like to think the Cabinet are not as amateurish/incompetent as they come across, i get it that most story's around at the mo are nothing more than click bait. but the picture their painting aint a pretty one. (the Express story on the Bain Family at Conference in my mind should of been enough to put the reporter and editor behind bars, i know how they gathered and put the story together).
people just aint listening anymore, i know sales are slumping everywhere but they have fallen through the floor here, people are genuinely sick of hearing it. they have heard it all before, Fishing, Farming, Immigration (all the big ones up here) will all be devolved they said, fluffy and Davis seem to be doing a bit of Backtracking of late. time will tell, but the longer they leave it, the uglier the uk looks. despite the best of efforts to rewrite history, nobody thought there was gonna be an EU reff back in 2014. despite the broken promises of the better together campaign it was settled. cammoron f.ckd it.

 

God I hope not as they're in my top 5 of biscuits......couldn't say what the other 4 are but Bourbons are definitely up there

 

I like the way this thread is going. Biscuits should be firmly on the negotiation agenda

Btw...McVities is now Turkish owned and Burton's is Canadian. Go figure :confuse:

 

you know what stuff i read loz i dont hide behind unconfirmed reports from unnamed experts (usually a lab/con advisor). i know some of the contributors, although no less likely to put on their own bit of spin. they dont tolerate bullshit. heres our brexit minister laying out his position from about 8.05am
BBC Radio Scotland - Good Morning Scotland, 24/10/2016

 

That really fails to take into account that in a global trading world there has to be rules, regulations and standards to adhere to otherwise anyone can sell any old shite. I can tell you that child labour is still used in this country by unscrupulous firms even in your own locales. The idea that Britain is a paragon of virtue and freedom is no more true than it is in the rest of the western world.

Whatever the outcome of Brexit, the British people will not tolerate high inflation and interest rates, nor losing their jobs and workers rights. The right of the Tory party is walking along a very thin tightrope that could break at any moment.

 

loz, pauls (wee ginger) a commentator Wings is a debunker the commentators provide countless other sites including spice, commons library and hansard there is no shortage of unreported verifiable story's in there. thats where most of the accusations of biased reporting come from. not so much what they do report but what they omit to report. big big storys not a peep. but saying all that, i know you know already. but being in that awkward position where you know but cant do nowt about it must be quite frustrating for yah.

 

only the special considerations the banking,car manufacturing and English uni's are asking for. seems fair.