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And none of that has anything to do with the point made. The UK got the wings through EADS, other countries got other parts. It's a different story for aircraft engines, the UK excels in it and it has nothing to do with a political decision.

The point made by John was that many other companies would gladly take on Airbus wing production.
I was supporting that with reasons why Airbus UK wing production is so important.
 
The point made by John was that many other companies would gladly take on Airbus wing production.
I was supporting that with reasons why Airbus UK wing production is so important.

And I specifically mentioned the jealous part of the post, I made it very clear and John offered a different term that was more fitting.
 
I have honestly had enough of this now. It gives me migraine.

It's a 4D Chess match and I can't see a route through.

Bemoaning Cameron, Farage, the ERG, the lies and the 15.4 million people is not going to solve anything.

Cancelling A50 sounds simple but it isn't. We'd have a problem that would make the gilets jaunes pale into insignificance.

Plus despite the lies I am not sure whether binning the referendum result is good for democracy. I do think we have to leave the EU in some fashion.

2nd Ref/peoples vote? Fraught will all manner of problems. What would the questions be and how can they not be biased? What if the result was the same or narrowly the other way?

WTO/hard Brexit? Total disaster, not to be even contemplated.

Labour's ideas? A customs union? Maybe. Close alignment to the SM? Don't know what that means. Climate/environment/workers rights/participation in funding progs/security and EU arrest Warrant? Non-issues just poilitcal points these will happen in any case.


I think it's May's deal in some form that can get through the house as a WA then eventually an FTA that would pretty much need to be A customs union in all but name. Ireland will be a fudge of regulatory alignment and tech. There will be issues but that's about as good as it gets if the UK wants to have other trade deals.

Failing that I'd take Norway. We will have left the EU which was all that was on the ballot paper. There will be trouble but more manageable then if the the whole vote was overturned.

Because there is no answer.

A FTA is not a Customs Union and NI requires a Customs Union, not Corbyn's though but this stops the UK doing other trade deals.

Norway is not an answer either because there's no CU and the Uk probably won't be accepted in EFTA.

Whichever path is chosen there will be a lot of unhappy people. Question that is left is which faction will be the unhappy ones.
 
Because there is no answer.

A FTA is not a Customs Union and NI requires a Customs Union, not Corbyn's though but this stops the UK doing other trade deals.

Norway is not an answer either because there's no CU and the Uk probably won't be accepted in EFTA.

Whichever path is chosen there will be a lot of unhappy people. Question that is left is which faction will be the unhappy ones.
Thanks for pointing that out Paul :(

But I would wager the end of this will be something that your or I have never heard of. Why? Because everything we have heard of won't work.
 
My cousin works at the Swindon Branch. It’s madness they literally sent everyone home today and said in the coming days they will let them know if they have a job or not. Brexit is really already hurting people’s lives and this is just the beginning.
 
This is a classic 9/11 moment according to one MP when that happened. 'A good time to bury bad news'.

Expect a lot more 'commercial' decisions that may have only been options on the boardroom table but were set against the political repercussions. Brexit is the perfect opportunity to act on these.

That is what lays behind Airbus's comments. I work predominantly on Airbus projects and I can tell you the the wing-building business that this country has made it's own, is jealously coveted by the Germans, the French and even the Chinese. There are 14,000 people directly employed by Airbus in the UK with a further 114,000 in the UK-based supply chain of which my company employs 44. If Airbus has any notion of eventually moving this business to Europe or to low-cost China Brexit provides the ideal excuse.

The key will be what happens to the purpose-built facility at Broughton for making the A380 wings. The A380 programme is now going to cease in 2021 due to lack of orders. But that is not a downturn - Airbus have a 10,000 plane backlog. Customers are ordering the A350 instead.

What should happen is that the A380 facility is reconfigured to allow for a ramp-up in production of the A350. If this does not happen and Airbus decide to close that section then that will be an indicator that they have long-term plans to make wings elsewhere.

None of this will happen quickly - it will be like a slow puncture for our manufacturing industry and thus the headbangers will always be able to claim it was all down to a changing global landscape which in their view Brexit is not a part of.

So you are saying that businesses are dying to leave the UK regardless of Brexit and they only need an excuse?

Hard to believe, frankly

Could be that you are putting the bandage before the wound?

If what you say would be true, is that UK is a joke of a country in or out of the UE
 
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Bemoaning Cameron, Farage, the ERG, the lies and the 15.4 million people is not going to solve anything.

Possibly not but no way should they be given a free pass for leading the country down this path to disaster.

Cancelling A50 sounds simple but it isn't. We'd have a problem that would make the gilets jaunes pale into insignificance.

We really wouldn't. And even if we did it would be worth it.

Plus despite the lies I am not sure whether binning the referendum result is good for democracy.

A second referendum with specific options is democratic. You can revisit decisions just as the last referendum was revisiting an issue.
 
My cousin works at the Swindon Branch. It’s madness they literally sent everyone home today and said in the coming days they will let them know if they have a job or not. Brexit is really already hurting people’s lives and this is just the beginning.
This is what happens when british communities are built around a single source of industry, its been happening for decades, centuries maybe. Look at thatch and the miners, everything closed so we could import cheaper coal from Australia.
 
So you are saying that businesses are dying to leave the UK regardless of Brexit and they only need an excuse?

Hard to believe, frankly

Could be that you are putting the bandage before the wound?

If what you say would be true, is that UK is a joke of a country in or out of the UE

Ah, but you're forgetting that countries will be queuing up to make trade deals with the UK once we leave the EU. Deals which will be brokered by our crack team of politicans who, up until now, have been kept secret from the public and the world at large.
 
With so many companies pulling their trade from Brian you've got to imagine they've been told there is no chance of A50 being extended.

Fasten down the hatches boys we're heading off the cliffs
 
Ah, but you're forgetting that countries will be queuing up to make trade deals with the UK once we leave the EU. Deals which will be brokered by our crack team of politicans who, up until now, have been kept secret from the public and the world at large.

I don't think that politicans in UK are better or worse than most of the countries (you should see in Spain). they are corrupt, dumb, entitled and usually they come as a friend as a friend on circles of power when you are too stupid to be in the private sector (when they finish their careers, they go private due to past favours). Who would go to the public sector when you can get much more on the private. Of course that if you are honest and politics are vocational for you...But of course you don't go far being honest in politics

Saying that, UK will be fine after Brexit, like any other european country outside EU, but they will pay a toll in the beginning. IN the end, who will save the economy will be the private sector as it will be swim or drawn, and of course, who will pay will be the average Joe.

Private sector will dictate the future exterior relationships for the UK, as the UK government will be in desperation to save the short term blow. That means, get ready for losing rights to save the economy. UK will thrive eventually, you are strong, but you will have to fight again for your rights
 
With so many companies pulling their trade from Brian you've got to imagine they've been told there is no chance of A50 being extended.

Fasten down the hatches boys we're heading off the cliffs

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I don't think that politicans in UK are better or worse than most of the countries (you should see in Spain). they are corrupt, dumb, entitled and usually they come as a friend as a friend on circles of power when you are too stupid to be in the private sector (when they finish their careers, they go private due to past favours). Who would go to the public sector when you can get much more on the private. Of course that if you are honest and politics are vocational for you...But of course you don't go far being honest in politics

Saying that, UK will be fine after Brexit, like any other european country outside EU, but they will pay a toll in the beginning. IN the end, who will save the economy will be the private sector as it will be swim or drawn, and of course, who will pay will be the average Joe.

Private sector will dictate the future exterior relationships for the UK, as the UK government will be in desperation to save the short term blow. That means, get ready for losing rights to save the economy. UK will thrive eventually, you are strong, but you will have to fight again for your rights
Yep, totally agree. Across Europe there are rancid politicians.
 


Got to feel sorry for all the people whose lives are being wrecked by this lunacy.


How true. Idiocy of epic proportions. Because of the lies of Farage and co, and the cowardice of Cameron. If there was any real justice these guys should end in prison for wrecking the lives of so many people for no reason at all, but of course this will never happen. 350 million per week...
 
Met police spending on plastic bullets triples in a year
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/19/met-police-spending-on-plastic-bullets-triples-in-a-year

The figures have emerged amid growing fears about the potential for a no-deal Brexit to result in civil disorder. Last month, the Guardian learned that almost 1,000 police officers from England and Scotland were due to begin training for deployment in Northern Ireland in case of trouble in the event of no deal.


Article is saying Police are essentially stockpiling rubber bullets. Let's hope they're not needed.
 
Met police spending on plastic bullets triples in a year
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/19/met-police-spending-on-plastic-bullets-triples-in-a-year

The figures have emerged amid growing fears about the potential for a no-deal Brexit to result in civil disorder. Last month, the Guardian learned that almost 1,000 police officers from England and Scotland were due to begin training for deployment in Northern Ireland in case of trouble in the event of no deal.


Article is saying Police are essentially stockpiling rubber bullets. Let's hope they're not needed.

Yeah but think of all those jobs created at the rubber bullet factories.
 
So you are saying that businesses are dying to leave the UK regardless of Brexit and they only need an excuse?

Hard to believe, frankly

Could be that you are putting the bandage before the wound?

If what you say would be true, is that UK is a joke of a country in or out of the UE
Sometime decisions are made for pragmatic reasons. Without Brexit, Honda - who are loss-making and only running at 65% capacity - may have survived because because of goodwill and Anglo/Japanese relations. The UK as a whole has a productivity problem due to lack of investment in manufacturing technology and a failure to address the skill shortage problem. We have full employment but we aren't very efficient. It is difficult to see how any multi-national can consider the UK dropping out of the EU as a business opportunity in any form at the moment.

We can deal with this in one of two ways in my opinion.

The City is strong, as is the service sector so we could attract inward investment by becoming a tax haven. This would not be my choice because I don't believe that is real wealth.

If any success is to be made of this then a different approach will be needed. The intention the government has expressed regarding the Galileo project for the UK to launch it's own program (if the EU shuts us out) is the better tack. Investment in technology and manufacturing. Massive up-skilling of the workforce. Revisit industries we lost to the Japanese and others. Is there any reason why we can't design and build our own cars again? Renewable energies. Pharmaceuticals, EV's, AI. There are lots of areas that we could look to invest in if the will is truly there to be a global player. That sort of activity will in time attract inward investment from around the world.

But I expect the first option to be the one relied upon. :(
 
"Why are you blaming me for being right?" :lol:

Arguing with Brexiteers is so hard. They are all emotion and no logic.

To be fair though, that was O'Brien at his most annoying. The caller had just admitted he had been wrong about something and was trying to lay out his thoughts based on what he'd just learned, and O'Brien just kept talking over him after every 5 words, and insisting that the guy was making untrue statements when he hadn't even had time to complete a sentence. That felt like an opportunity to change someone's mind, and instead he just made the guy feel stupid and angry. Counterproductive.
 
Met police spending on plastic bullets triples in a year
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/19/met-police-spending-on-plastic-bullets-triples-in-a-year

The figures have emerged amid growing fears about the potential for a no-deal Brexit to result in civil disorder. Last month, the Guardian learned that almost 1,000 police officers from England and Scotland were due to begin training for deployment in Northern Ireland in case of trouble in the event of no deal.


Article is saying Police are essentially stockpiling rubber bullets. Let's hope they're not needed.

Crazy that they still have plans to use these things, lets hope rubber bullets are never needed over here again. But if they have to be then i hope this time around they train those shooting them that they are supposed to bounce off the ground from a distance and not be aimed at people's heads from close range.
 
To be fair though, that was O'Brien at his most annoying. The caller had just admitted he had been wrong about something and was trying to lay out his thoughts based on what he'd just learned, and O'Brien just kept talking over him after every 5 words, and insisting that the guy was making untrue statements when he hadn't even had time to complete a sentence. That felt like an opportunity to change someone's mind, and instead he just made the guy feel stupid and angry. Counterproductive.

He tried to change his mind. His mind was not for changing.
 
I have honestly had enough of this now. It gives me migraine.

It's a 4D Chess match and I can't see a route through.

Bemoaning Cameron, Farage, the ERG, the lies and the 15.4 million people is not going to solve anything.

Cancelling A50 sounds simple but it isn't. We'd have a problem that would make the gilets jaunes pale into insignificance.

Plus despite the lies I am not sure whether binning the referendum result is good for democracy. I do think we have to leave the EU in some fashion.

2nd Ref/peoples vote? Fraught will all manner of problems. What would the questions be and how can they not be biased? What if the result was the same or narrowly the other way?

WTO/hard Brexit? Total disaster, not to be even contemplated.

Labour's ideas? A customs union? Maybe. Close alignment to the SM? Don't know what that means. Climate/environment/workers rights/participation in funding progs/security and EU arrest Warrant? Non-issues just poilitcal points these will happen in any case.


I think it's May's deal in some form that can get through the house as a WA then eventually an FTA that would pretty much need to be A customs union in all but name. Ireland will be a fudge of regulatory alignment and tech. There will be issues but that's about as good as it gets if the UK wants to have other trade deals.

Failing that I'd take Norway. We will have left the EU which was all that was on the ballot paper. There will be trouble but more manageable then if the the whole vote was overturned.

Actually I doubt this would be the case, its becoming clearer everyday, we remain in the EU as we are, or we leave with No Deal.

The majority voted to leave, but since most of our politicians know best and seem to want to remain, then that's how they should vote, i.e. to repeal art 50, not delay it, that just leads to further uncertainty.

There will be some trouble on the streets, but the powers that be in this country have never been adverse to controlling its 'marching malcontents' with enough force as necessary, as Maggie demonstrated, plus there would be lots of overtime for the Police!

Since the popular belief is that most leavers are in fact 'oldies' mostly pensioners, then its unlikely this group will take to the streets, more likely they will cause havoc with our political system, especially the forthcoming EU parliamentary elections, that's why Farage is focusing his attentions there, he knows now there will be no Brexit!

Plus the Remain ideology has had maximum propaganda effect at least in conventional media outlets; "its raining today...blame Brexit, the sun wont shine for six weeks after we leave... blame Brexit, we're are all going to hell in a hand cart (specially reserved places for some according to Tusk)...blame Brexit!"

As a country we have to move on, there is no compromise, its still a binary choice Remain or Leave pure and simple. Remain has all the money and the hands on the levers of power, so that's it!
 
There will be some trouble on the streets, but the powers that be in this country have never been adverse to controlling its 'marching malcontents' with enough force as necessary, as Maggie demonstrated, plus there would be lots of overtime for the Police!
Is that what you meant by new jobs created?
 
British politics is wild. Not paid attention since the no confidence votes but now I see that May is likely to lose her majority with these defections.

What's the latest on Brexit?