JonnyF

2 hours ago, david555 said:

Jeremy Corbyn plans to block a no-deal Brexit by appealing to Conservative MPs to install him as "temporary" prime minister.

???????????? Wow, Remainers must be getting desperate if this is their latest master plan.

Tories voting for the likes of Corbyn, Abbott, McDonnell to replace them in power. 

Please, please tell me this is the best plan they've got. ????????

24 minutes ago, Becker said:

Asking if someone is European isn't asking about one's identity. Just like asking if someone is Asian, African etc.

Believing that makes you come across as very insecure.

 

I believe if you met someone who identified as being Thai (as opposed to Asian), Irish (as opposed to European) or Mexican (as opposed to South American) then you wouldn't have an issue.

But you appear to have an issue with someone identifying as being English.

I suspect it is you that has the problem here.

37 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Leaving is not necessarily leaving with no deal.

If the choices were Remain or Leave with a deal then you would have a point.

However the choices were Remain or Leave so you look like someone desperately clutching at straws in an attempt to subvert the result of the (democratic) referendum that you lost.

Hammond is a disgrace. A Remainer who will campaign against his own government, in cohorts with the EU to stop any real Brexit from happening despite the electorate voting for it.

With him and May running things for 2 years it's no wonder we got nowhere in negotiations.

14 hours ago, stevenl said:

No. Voted for was 'leave', which was not specified.

Leaving with no deal is Leaving. In fact it is the purest form of Leaving since we leave everything (customs union, single market etc.). We did not vote for BRINO, we voted to leave. The video earlier in the thread shows that WTO terms were discussed many times in 2016 in an attempt to scare people into voting Remain and it failed, the public were aware of this potential outcome and still voted to Leave.

You may not like it. But leaving with or without a deal is what the people voted for. You just cannot accept losing the vote and you are prepared to sideline democracy to get your own way.

No "despite Brexit" in there? I'm shocked.

Luckily The Guardian didn't disappoint.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/uk-wages-rise-at-fastest-rate-for-a-decade-despite-brexit-risks

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/29/uk-employment-rate-resilient-despite-brexit-uncertainty

Remainers won't like this at all. More positive news from the UK. Tsk Tsk.

7 minutes ago, smedly said:

I think that depends on a couple of things

 

- if the EU tries to make things difficult (punish the UK for leaving)

- if there is no sensible trade deal reached

 

long term the UK has many options

Agree. If the EU is seen to be punishing the UK I think they'll be shocked at the British consumers reaction. It wont be tariffs stopping them buying it will be sentiment. 

Much like Koreans are shunning Japan's products you could see a similar thing in the UK and that 68 billion surplus could shrink massively.

The EU need to grow up and offer something sensible. 

In sporting news, England have suffered a pre-brexit shock defeat to Australia in the first test. God knows what Steve Smith will score after we've left!

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Italy, which has Europe's second-largest sovereign debt burden after Greece, has already angered the European Union with an expansionary 2019 budget and Salvini wants to make major tax cuts next year, setting up the prospect of another EU clash.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a referendum on Italy leaving the EU. They are not at all impressed with the austerity that is being pushed onto them from Brussels. 

I'm just glad we'll be out before the house of cards starts to tumble. ????????

26 minutes ago, recom273 said:

Because in this case, I wanted to buy her a 125, over a 110.

 

Oh OK, because you said "I want to get her into a routine of selling things before they depreciate too much".

From a financial point of view that doesn't really make sense. The depreciation curve starts to flatten off after a couple of years but as soon as it starts to flatten off you want to trade it on a new bike and hop straight back onto a steep depreciation curve. 

27 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

The podcast expert.

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Yes, much easier to deride the source of the information than to address the point being made. Nice deflection.

25 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

The truth is that the Brexiteers are just neither interested nor have the necessary marbles to deal with any of the economic issues. Nationalism and immigration are what rocks their boat. Anything said about trade etc is just sport.

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I was listening to a podcast the other day in which the interviewee stated that anyone claiming Brexit was all about immigration is almost certainly a Remainer.

How right he was. Much easier to portray Leavers as racist bigots than to actually accept that there is something wrong with the EU model.

1 hour ago, candide said:

Did you notice that the main problem evoked in the OP was the delay resulting from custom operations in the UK. Imports from outside the EU will be subject to the same problem.

The UK will be responsible for checks on goods from outside the EU, just as we are now. We can do as many or as few checks as we like.

In the case of people starving on the streets, gonorrhea outbreaks and all the other ridiculous Project Fear predictions I suspect the checks will be minimal for a few weeks to speed things up. You guys make out it's going to be like the opening scene from the movie 28 Days Later. ????

I don't see how chopping it in every couple of years will save you money.

Let's say a Honda Wave at 50k (Approximately, I don't know exactly what they cost). Best case scenario you'll lose about 15K if you trade in every couple of years. So after 10 years you've lost 75k (15k x 5 trade ins). You could have just kept the bike 10 years, give it away to a friend and you'd still be 25k up.

Trading in bikes costs money so why do it more often than you need to? Especially on something like a Honda Wave which doesn't change much year on year.