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 Brexit: In or Out? 

Would you like the UK to leave/remain in the EU?
Leave 15%  15%  [ 2 ]
Remain 69%  69%  [ 9 ]
Who cares 15%  15%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 13

 Brexit: In or Out? 
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Spain now demands joint control over Gibraltar as they voted 96% for Remain.

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LOL, what a fail. A sad day for UK and Europe, but Cameron has no one to blame but himself and his political gamble.

This is why you don't leave decisions like this to regular people who are dumb as fuck. As if some coal miner from Nurthumberland has any fucking idea what it means to leave the EU.

In 10-15 years time, the country will be called United Kingdom of England and Wales and the once great nation will be crippled once more. Way to go.


Enough of fear politics. If Scotland and Northern Ireland want to leave, let them be. Bigger is not always better.

Brexit was poised to happen anyway if not now. The EU looks like a sinking ship: too much regulation and overstepping jurisdiction. A Brexit vote may do some good to pressure the Eurocrats to reduce interference and bureaucracy.


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Dr. Lecter wrote:
LOL, what a fail. A sad day for UK and Europe, but Cameron has no one to blame but himself and his political gamble.

This is why you don't leave decisions like this to regular people who are dumb as fuck. As if some coal miner from Nurthumberland has any fucking idea what it means to leave the EU.

In 10-15 years time, the country will be called United Kingdom of England and Wales and the once great nation will be crippled once more. Way to go.


Enough of fear politics. If Scotland and Northern Ireland want to leave, let them be. Bigger is not always better.

Brexit was poised to happen anyway if not now. The EU looks like a sinking ship: too much regulation and overstepping jurisdiction. A Brexit vote may do some good to pressure the Eurocrats to reduce interference and bureaucracy.


Bullshit

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i.hope wrote:
Dr. Lecter wrote:
LOL, what a fail. A sad day for UK and Europe, but Cameron has no one to blame but himself and his political gamble.

This is why you don't leave decisions like this to regular people who are dumb as fuck. As if some coal miner from Nurthumberland has any fucking idea what it means to leave the EU.

In 10-15 years time, the country will be called United Kingdom of England and Wales and the once great nation will be crippled once more. Way to go.


Enough of fear politics. If Scotland and Northern Ireland want to leave, let them be. Bigger is not always better.

Brexit was poised to happen anyway if not now. The EU looks like a sinking ship: too much regulation and overstepping jurisdiction. A Brexit vote may do some good to pressure the Eurocrats to reduce interference and bureaucracy.


I agree with Lectar. When Scotland and Northern Ireland leave UK. will be at it is small territorial size since William I conquered England. It is sad day in English history and the country will be much worse off. Scotland also has oil and all the mineral rights. England has none of those and is just a bunch of cities, farms, and suburbs. The people who voted to leave are just morons.


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This guy. :funny:

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Wasn't expecting the next celebrity death to be the United Kingdom

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This guy. :funny:

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It's just a logistical problem, it doesn't interfere with the fundamentals that drive economic growth.


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Are any KJers still in Britain now?

What the fuck happened exactly? It seems like just a clusterfuck from all the UK leaders. Corbyn seems too thoughtful or too circumspect to be leading a party. I totally get his Euro-skepticism, but some things are binary choices and nuances must be shelved for a later day. Lead, follow or get out of the way. He dragged his feet. He needed to fight for remain now to be able to tackle other problems down the line. The extra million unemployed by this fiasco will not make any of his goals any easier.

From a Labor perspective, staying in the Union might be the wrong thing for England in some fantasy ideal world of worker solidarity, but in the current arrangement the UK gets most of the benefits with little of the downsides. For two important examples, they got to keep their currency and can opt out of certain legal rulings. Johnson and Cameron did nothing to dispel their reputation as twits. Farange spewed his usual toxic spew of lies with no repercussions.

This seems to be the end of history in terms of media, politics, and Great Britain. We are in some pain right now, let's just jump off a cliff and see if that helps, maybe we will land in a marshmallow lake and feel better.

Back in the late 1980's I worked in an ICU. One Friday I came to work and this kid 18 or 19 was in a bed. His girlfriend dumped him, so he got drunk and wrecked his car. He was pretty banged up and was facing a DUI charge. His life must have seemed pretty messed up compared to a few days earlier, but overall in the long run he could be fine. He had no long term damage or disability. His crash only involved himself and DUI charges were pretty lenient in those days. He was released from ICU at the end of the weekend and was suppose to be released from the hospital during the week.

The following Friday, I return to the ICU and the same kid is back in the same room. He got discharged and tried to kill himself, except he failed. He shot off part of his head over his right ear and was now a paraplegic with severe brain issues. Currently instead of analyzing a problem even a severe or serious one, we seem to be making these rash types of decisions where we just collectively say "fuck it, it can't get any worse" without ever playing out all the scenerios where it can indeed get much worse.

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It's just a logistical problem, it doesn't interfere with the fundamentals that drive economic growth.


It may have very little impact if they drag their feet with article 50. Even with an exit, it looks like 2% drag on GDP according to most credible analysis I have read. They basically voted for a recession if the economists are to be believed.

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Next up: Texit.


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He shot off part of his head over his right ear and was now a paraplegic with severe brain issues.


What kind of gun did he use?


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Jiffy wrote:
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He shot off part of his head over his right ear and was now a paraplegic with severe brain issues.


What kind of gun did he use?


It was so long ago,and I might have many of the details completely wrong. However, I remember it was a rifle. He tried to center his shot on his forehead and somehow took off part of the right side between his forehead and right ear.

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mdana wrote:
Jiffy wrote:
mdana wrote:
He shot off part of his head over his right ear and was now a paraplegic with severe brain issues.


What kind of gun did he use?


It was so long ago,and I might have many of the details completely wrong. However, I remember it was a rifle. He tried to center his shot on his forehead and somehow took off part of the right side between his forehead and right ear.


Eek. :grrr:


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mdana wrote:
DP07 wrote:
It's just a logistical problem, it doesn't interfere with the fundamentals that drive economic growth.


It may have very little impact if they drag their feet with article 50. Even with an exit, it looks like 2% drag on GDP according to most credible analysis I have read. They basically voted for a recession if the economists are to be believed.


In the short term based on GDP it may be something like that, but what matters economically in the modern era increasingly depends on information, not resources. The rest will be sorted out by the market in time.


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A good 2 years later, and we've ended up with an interesting article like this one:
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17648198/brexit-food-shortage-stockpile-theresa-may-european-union-united-kingdom?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter


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