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UK voters should make final Brexit decision if talks with EU collapse: poll


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46 minutes ago, rixalex said:

A solution would be found. It's marvellous the things that can be achieved when people put their minds to it.

Sure, in cloud cuckoo land there’s a solution for everything, and cloud cuckoo land people can do everything. They can invent border technology that doesn’t exist yet,  they can negotiate the best deals in history, they don’t even need medicine or supplies when they can have some pills of sovereignty and a dose of take-back-control. Fortunately, no ones buys into phantasy products anymore; people get back to reality. 

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7 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

Maybe other countries are not so warlike. Who says that 2% has to be delivered?
The UK should stop being the poodle of the United States. 
If Europe unites its defense budget, huge amounts of money could be saved. Generally only as much as necessary to defend yourself well.

The US. Why is it fair that countries like the US pay over 3% of GDP and yet Germany, with good growth only pay 1.2%.

Being warlike has nothing to do with it. In fact most of the spending is used outside Europe.

What Trump has said is that there was an agreement that each NATO nation would pay 2% of their GDP. Only 5 countries actually honour this agreement.

NATO is the near equivalent of EU uniting their defense budget - Whether the money is being used effectively is a different matter.

 

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1 hour ago, vogie said:

A nice perspective from David Davis.

 

 

He's a lazy idiot but I actually sort of agree with him here.

 

But then one of the benefits of brexit is trashing the economy.

 

But the deal seems to encapsulate the worst aspect of EU membership and   EU non-membership - all to retain a few  benefits and end FOM - assuming we ever leave transition. 

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1 minute ago, billd766 said:

Since the end of the war in 1945, long before the EU was conceived, peace in Europe was upheld by the countries in NATO, and in case you had not noticed NATO is still around.

 

IF it is decided to form a European Military, not just an Army, does that mean that the EU will abandon NATO?

That probably rather depends if the US abandons Nato or not 

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15 minutes ago, billd766 said:

How so? The Brexit campaign is led by Teresa May who is a remainer, the majority of the cabinet ministers who have resigned were on the side of Brexit leaving the Brexit negotiations to the Remainers who are actually the ones who are screwing things up. 

So there we have it. Now add the Tory Cabinet to the High Courts, the Supreme Court, the House of Lords. All Enemies Of The People.

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22 minutes ago, Chelseafan said:

The US. Why is it fair that countries like the US pay over 3% of GDP and yet Germany, with good growth only pay 1.2%.

Being warlike has nothing to do with it. In fact most of the spending is used outside Europe.

What Trump has said is that there was an agreement that each NATO nation would pay 2% of their GDP. Only 5 countries actually honour this agreement.

NATO is the near equivalent of EU uniting their defense budget - Whether the money is being used effectively is a different matter.

 

What is included to the 2%? Buying expensive fighters and other equipment from USA, making a nice profit for the US military contractors?

 

How about aftermath of the wars. Refugee management, rebuilding? Should those be included with the 2% defence budgets as well?

 

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2 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

So there we have it. Now add the Tory Cabinet to the High Courts, the Supreme Court, the House of Lords. All Enemies Of The People.

It's great that there are fair, strong and honest leaders who fight for the people! Farage, Mogg and Johnsson. They are the true backbone of British society currently. 

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1 minute ago, transam said:

Gawd....The UK got nothing back from you know who after 1945 helping folk out...Well did they.?

UK got to be part of the EU, which made UK prosperous, didn't it?

 

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17 minutes ago, rixalex said:

The EU isn't wrong to fight for the best deal it can. So should it.

The problem is, we aren't doing the same, thanks to this weak, capitulation-type mentality droned out on a daily basis by all those on the remain side.

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The problem is the brexit that was promised in the referendum and the brexit that the leavers were trying to negotiate does not exist.

 

The only leverage we have over the EU is the collateral damage that will be caused to their industries if we crash out. They can pretty much dictate the terms they want, the " they need us more than we need them" narrative  was a colossal miscalculation.

 

Bad faith has been shown by so many actors on the UK side - Raub being the latest - that they have dictated a deal that ties us down - losing trust has it's price.

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