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@MajorRage said in Brexit:
From the BBC:
Theresa May is writing to the EU to ask for Brexit to be postponed until 30 June with the option of a longer delay, cabinet sources say.
I mean seriously?? Yet another half arsed solution, with proper fence sitting on the idea that she can get her deal through parliament. I'm starting to get angry now. If your deal sucked yesterday, then it sucks today. Just because times getting close, MP's shouldn't be changing their mind. If they are, it's not in the best interests of the country.
If this happens and the EU don't tell her to fuck off, I'll be seriously surprised.
It's brinkmanship. Even Rees-Mogg has succumbed and said he'd rather have May's deal than remain.
Basically UK can't stay in Europe now anyway. They have made themselves look so silly and incompetent in trying to leave that they will take decades to re-establish any sort of high ground or credibility.
One of the biggest fuck ups in political history.
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@Catogrande It's ironic that we're now in a position where whether or not we leave with no deal is probably going to be decided by the EU.
How? You just leave. Rip the band-aid off and deal with the consequences. Humans are remarkably adaptable.
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@antipodean said in Brexit:
@Catogrande It's ironic that we're now in a position where whether or not we leave with no deal is probably going to be decided by the EU.
How? You just leave. Rip the band-aid off and deal with the consequences. Humans are remarkably adaptable.
I hear this comment from a lot of people.
Surely a task of a govt is to protect the people from hardships as much as possible. There is no doubt that a no deal, walk away brexit will cause disruption on a huge scale as everything tries to adjust at once. The UK is so entwined with Europe in so many ways that aren’t even always obvious.
Even if exiting Europe was deemed so critically important that plunging the country into chaos was the way to go it then places the uk in exactly the same poor negotiating position that has caused the mess of an exit agreement. Making yourself weak then going to the market to do deals is pretty damn dumb. -
@antipodean said in Brexit:
@Catogrande It's ironic that we're now in a position where whether or not we leave with no deal is probably going to be decided by the EU.
How? You just leave. Rip the band-aid off and deal with the consequences. Humans are remarkably adaptable.
For sure. One way or another we'll muddle through, like we always do. My point though wasn't that we couldn't make our own decision but that we likely wouldn't. Not by March 29th anyway and that means it will be the EU's decision. Things might change in the seven working days we have left but I doubt it. Extension is at the mercy of the EU, Parliament has said no to a no deal exit. Whose decision do you think it will be?
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@Rembrandt said in Brexit:
So can Italy reject an extension request from the UK?
Surely they aren't exactly on happy terms with the EU.
My understanding is that it needs a unanimous vote to allow the extension, therefore, yes, Italy could veto it.
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I am wondering if anyone on here thinks a 2nd referendum would be a good idea. And if so, why?
As you may have sussed, I voted remain, but I really cannot see the benefit of a further referendum. No way it could again be on a simple leave/stay option. We've done that, so end of. A suggestion has been going around that it should be along the lines of go with X deal/stay. That to me is almost impossible. Firstly the fucking MPs cannot find an acceptable deal. Secondly any deal will be chock full of complexity and to expect the majority of the electorate to actually read the full details of the deal let alone understand all the ramifications would be fanciful. Dealing with that shit is what we vote the politicians in for.
So no, for me we just have to deal with what we've got ourselves in to. Trouble is, we're not dealing with it.
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I just came across this and thought I'd post it here as an illustration to those that think immigration and racism were not part of the dynamics of Brexit.
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@Catogrande said in Brexit:
I just came across this and thought I'd post it here as an illustration to those that think immigration and racism were not part of the dynamics of Brexit.
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I don't think anyone believes immigration wasn't part of the decision process for many. The big bug bear is people automatically being branded as racists for pointing out there are significant issues with mass immigration.
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@Rembrandt Yeah I agree with you there and in truth I feel it is just the opposite side of the same coin, bigoted and lazy.
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@Catogrande said in Brexit:
I am wondering if anyone on here thinks a 2nd referendum would be a good idea. And if so, why?
As you may have sussed, I voted remain, but I really cannot see the benefit of a further referendum. No way it could again be on a simple leave/stay option. We've done that, so end of. A suggestion has been going around that it should be along the lines of go with X deal/stay. That to me is almost impossible. Firstly the fucking MPs cannot find an acceptable deal. Secondly any deal will be chock full of complexity and to expect the majority of the electorate to actually read the full details of the deal let alone understand all the ramifications would be fanciful. Dealing with that shit is what we vote the politicians in for.
So no, for me we just have to deal with what we've got ourselves in to. Trouble is, we're not dealing with it.
I agree with all of that. I think at one point ages ago there was potential to use a further referendum to gain mandate for an approach (or register a change of mind) but that point has well passed.
As has been experienced the biggest problem is that referendums fix a position which then take away negotiating power. May's biggest fuck up was doubling down on this by fixing a date.
She has done the right thing by trying hard to get through a deal that causes the least pain, it's just that the deal that was negotiated was shite because UK couldn't stand very firm.The Irish border problem was also waived away for years as a 'we'll muddle through' until they realised that muddling through wasn't a viable option.
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Another vote would be ridiculous, but I suspect EU isn't going to agree to an extension without one. I'm just so sick of May's deal. It's clearly a piece of shit, which gives the EU the upper hand over the UK. Yet, she continues to try and peddle it through, as she has zero other option.
It won't surprise me if we end up leaving without a deal. The clusterfuck won't be as large as many are predicting, but it will be significant for a lot of people. If my personal circumstances didn't dictate that it's better for me personally for the UK to stay in, I'd be all for leaving without a deal. There is too much money in the UK for it fail. A lot of people talk about the negatives, but a lot of the pointers are suggesting otherwise. UK employment is the highest it's been in a long time, the economy isn't doing so bad.
House prices are on everybody's lips (especially around London), but our flat in London got into a bidding war when we rented it out. We literally got offered asking within 3 hours of listing it. And that story isn't uncommon, plenty of our friends/family are saying the same thing. So buyers are keeping quiet at the moment, but the real drivers (population increase, supply/demand) are still there.
The reality for me though is that I need an orderly brexit for my current job & a business idea I have been working on won't succeed with the GBP at 1.33. I still speak to a lot of economists who all say the fair value is around 1.50-1.55, so I've not lost hope as yet.
Side note. In talk with economists Sydney/Melbourne house prices and starting a GFC 2 is something being talked about more and more.
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@MajorRage The theoretical benefit of another vote would be to get an actual mandate to do something. The politicians have failed miserably so they need to find a way through.
The problem is that the politicians now won't be able to agree on what question to ask. May's deal vs no deal? Deal vs remain? No deal vs fantasy managed no deal. Labour will also want their fantasy deal on the table. So I think this will also get bogged down.
A general election would, in theory, also work, but in all likelihood, no party will run with a coherent manifesto on Brexit so nothing will really change.
I agree that May's deal is rubbish. Which is what you get when you chuck all leverage away at the beginning of the process.
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@Catogrande The more I think about things the more I'm starting to put a lot of the blame of how things are now on our media. They are very lazy, they lie, misrepresent, breakdown complex issues into a dangerous binary argument and throw fuel on fires just so they can report on the blaze.
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I'd throw it in the bin and start again. The EU is (and I would do the same if I was them) saying f-off, this is what we agreed, thats that.
Basically, it's not Brexit. For the transition period, we stay bound by all the customs unions, and we can't leave without the EU agreeing. And if this deadlock can't be broken, then Northern Ireland remains in the custom union, whilst Great Britain doesn't. Which breaks up the UK.
In my view, the UK went into the negotiations extremely fearful of a no-deal Brexit and agreed to all sorts of things which the public was never going to like. The DUP holding the ruling majority also gave them far too much say in the whole thing. The UK let the EU know they held all the cards, and then tried to negotiate with them. By voting out the no-no-deal Brexit, they gave them even more power.
Ultimately, what everybody needs to understand, is that there is no solution which can please more than about 40% of the UK, let alone everybody. I'm more bored of the whole thing than anything else, if I'm honest.
I know what I'd do if I was May. And fuck all people will agree with this. I'd go to the EU, stand in front of them (behind closed doors) and say if you agree to open discussions around free movement of people, I'll withdraw article 50 and we can start again. If the UK is able to gain some restriction on free movement of people, a re-vote would see Remain win conclusively and we could all move on. The EU know this too .. but refuse to budge. All my working life has taught me that when one of your biggest players (GB, Fra, Ger) wants to discuss something, you take it on board, otherwise they could do something which puts your whole proposal at risk. They didn't. Hence, Brexit.
Won't happen, and I stated previously, I benefit more by us staying in, so I ain't impartial.
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@Calf It doesn't matter what happens. May is just going to continue to try and get her deal through parliament. Again, and again, and again.
She's writing to the EU today for a short extension. So a short extension means one of two options. No deal or the turd-of-a-deal.
Seriously, FFS doesn't even begin to start covering where it's at.
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@Catogrande said in Brexit:
I am wondering if anyone on here thinks a 2nd referendum would be a good idea. And if so, why?
As you may have sussed, I voted remain, but I really cannot see the benefit of a further referendum. No way it could again be on a simple leave/stay option. We've done that, so end of. A suggestion has been going around that it should be along the lines of go with X deal/stay. That to me is almost impossible. Firstly the fucking MPs cannot find an acceptable deal. Secondly any deal will be chock full of complexity and to expect the majority of the electorate to actually read the full details of the deal let alone understand all the ramifications would be fanciful. Dealing with that shit is what we vote the politicians in for.
So no, for me we just have to deal with what we've got ourselves in to. Trouble is, we're not dealing with it.
A second referendum forced on the citizens because their MPs fucked around would be a terrible blow on democracy.
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