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Carth 01-06-2026 11:51

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Exactly Seph.

This (and past governments) are/were quite happy to be 'told' what to do and have no ideas of their own on how to proceed . . or maybe they do have ideas but daren't mention them out loud in case it upsets someone

Hugh 01-06-2026 12:39

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36216444)
Government incompetence is the reason for non-accomplishment.

Rejoining the EU would not make any improvement on that.

Your riposte does nothing to justify rejoining.

You keep trotting in that line out, even though you had the arch-Brexiteer Tories in charge for nearly five years (Johnson et al), who binned anyone who wasn't as fervent as them...


It doesn't matter what shade of lipstick you try to use, it's still a pig at the end of the day...

1andrew1 01-06-2026 12:47

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216442)
When the question/topic of rejoining crops up I ask myself a few questions:

Would it improve the NHS/general health system.
Would it improve the education system.
Would it reduce unemployment by a significant amount.
Would it lower my energy bills.
Would it create more new build affordable homes.
Would it reduce waste and pollution by water companies.
Would it greatly reduce the amount of potholes in the road network.
Would it reduce 'grass roots' crime - (burglary, theft, assaults, mindless vandalism etc).

I believe the answer would be no, so what's the point.

Of course other people have a list of their own 'needs and desires' :D

It would make the country richer so we can spend more money on the police, NHS, councils and other areas without increasing taxes. We could spend money on potholes and not on red tape for exports, for example.

By joininng the electricity single market, energy bills would be cheaper too.

And since we left the EU, regulation of the water companies has been demonstrably weakened.

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36216446)
It doesn't matter what shade of lipstick you try to use, it's still a pig at the end of the day...

Agreed, it's denial of the purest form.

Just how many more prime ministers do you need Seph before you acknowledge that Brexit has not brought the benefits you dreamed of? :confused:

In a way Brexit has made us more European - frequent changes of PM, high taxation and end to stable government! :D

papa smurf 01-06-2026 12:56

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
if the eu is so good why do you live here, why not clear off and be happy

Carth 01-06-2026 13:03

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
I'd like Andrew to explain why and how rejoining the EU will make the UK richer.

The EU aren't really in a position to be throwing money around . . unless it's to buy up the very few profitable businesses we still have, close them down, and rebuild them over there using (probably) cheaper labour :D

1andrew1 01-06-2026 13:20

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216450)
I'd like Andrew to explain why and how rejoining the EU will make the UK richer.

The EU aren't really in a position to be throwing money around . . unless it's to buy up the very few profitable businesses we still have, close them down, and rebuild them over there using (probably) cheaper labour :D

It makes us richer by reducing the red tape when trading with the EU. It also increases the chances that future investents in Europe include the UK on the shortlist.

OLD BOY 01-06-2026 13:34

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216451)
It makes us richer by reducing the red tape when trading with the EU. It also increases the chances that future investents in Europe include the UK on the shortlist.

It’s because of the EU that we have the red tape and bureaucracy.

I agree that the Conservative government failed to move us forward as they should have done. Without the bonfire of regulations, we were not giving the businesses the freedoms that Brexit was meant to deliver. It’s the EU regulations that are a barrier to business, so this was a prerequisite.

Brexit hasn’t failed, but our politicians have done.

Sephiroth 01-06-2026 13:59

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36216446)
You keep trotting in that line out, even though you had the arch-Brexiteer Tories in charge for nearly five years (Johnson et al), who binned anyone who wasn't as fervent as them...


It doesn't matter what shade of lipstick you try to use, it's still a pig at the end of the day...

You’re only saying what I’m saying. You have not justified rejoining - you have only bemoaned the governments’ failures.


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Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216447)
It would make the country richer so we can spend more money on the police, NHS, councils and other areas without increasing taxes. We could spend money on potholes and not on red tape for exports, for example.

By joininng the electricity single market, energy bills would be cheaper too.

And since we left the EU, regulation of the water companies has been demonstrably weakened.

---------- Post added at 13:47 ---------- Previous post was at 13:40 ----------

Agreed, it's denial of the purest form.

Just how many more prime ministers do you need Seph before you acknowledge that Brexit has not brought the benefits you dreamed of? :confused:

In a way Brexit has made us more European - frequent changes of PM, high taxation and end to stable government! :D



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It would make the country richer so we can spend more money on the police, NHS, councils and other areas without increasing taxes.
The Remainers trot out this line without justification. Quoting GDP changes withoput specifics and actions to make GDP increase happen is lazy remainerism. As for red tape on exports, all that can be automated.

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By joininng the electricity single market, energy bills would be cheaper too.
How so? Our Net Zero policies are the problem here. Also, if we drill, we can assure gas supply for homes and power by buying all the output up (at market prices). Even I could negotiate such a deal with licencees. Critical to all this is rebuilding our gas storage facilities.

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And since we left the EU, regulation of the water companies has been demonstrably weakened.
Oh please. A willing governmnet can regulate the ewater industry as much and as properly as it wants, including use of criminal law. For this industry, Thatcher has much to answer for and all governments since have not regulated this runaway profit taking industry properly.

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Just how many more prime ministers do you need Seph before you acknowledge that Brexit has not brought the benefits you dreamed of?
That’s a totally vacuous question. What’s need is a PM that grasps the issue properly, defining what needs to be done to grow the econonomy and stepped benefits that will follow as tghe plan is achieved. This will be very difficult given the years that have passed. But rejoining the EU dows not solve the problem of economic growtrh; rather the opposite - it’ll be easier for them to sell to us.

Actually, this country is well effed due to shot government. It has to be id elections are gonna be won on issues such as the boat people; mind you, that’s terrorism on a plate for you.




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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216451)
It makes us richer by reducing the red tape when trading with the EU. It also increases the chances that future investents in Europe include the UK on the shortlist.

By how much (in annual GBP)? Please back up your argument so that the voter can take that to the referendum booth.

Hugh 01-06-2026 14:11

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36216455)
You’re only saying what I’m saying. You have not justified rejoining - you have only bemoaned the governments’ failures.



You misunderstood my statement - Brexit is the pig, successive Governments were just make-up artists and marketing executives trying to convince the Country that Sus scrofa domesticus was, in fact, very attractive, and we simply weren't wearing the appropriate rose-tinted lenses that would show it in it's full splendour...

Sephiroth 01-06-2026 14:26

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36216463)
You misunderstood my statement - Brexit is the pig, successive Governments were just make-up artists and marketing executives trying to convince the Country that Sus scrofa domesticus was, in fact, very attractive, and we simply weren't wearing the appropriate rose-tinted lenses that would show it in it's full splendour...

That seems to me to be just another form of “polishing the turd” argument. It doesn’t destroy the arguments for leaving the EU, it merely supports what we’ve both been saying: Poor government implemtation of Brexit.

Indeed if the present government could focus on and axchieve an economic growth path, rthen, were we to rejoin the EU and we had a plan to exploit membership, all would be well (Macron willl be gone and Ifreland would go quiet).


Carth 01-06-2026 14:53

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
No matter which Government comes up with even a half workable plan, there are too many rules and too many fools that will scupper it.

We're all in the (sinking) boat together aren't we :dig:

TheDaddy 01-06-2026 23:07

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36216449)
if the eu is so good why do you live here, why not clear off and be happy

Probably because there's no freedom of movement anymore...

1andrew1 01-06-2026 23:20

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36216491)
Probably because there's no freedom of movement anymore...

Exactly. Either having an off day or forgotten what he'd voted for. ;)

Carth 02-06-2026 00:31

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
We voted for Brexit, little realising that the Remain camp were going to use every dirty trick in the book to make sure it all went wrong afterwards . . . :Yes:

papa smurf 02-06-2026 06:36

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216492)
Exactly. Either having an off day or forgotten what he'd voted for. ;)

i voted for the side that won, and like every brexiteer that i know i'm still happy with winning,but dissapointed with the political treachery that followed,any hoo you losers can still watch your beloved eurovision pong contest:) at least you can watch them even if they don't want you.

1andrew1 02-06-2026 06:58

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216493)
We voted for Brexit, little realising that the Remain camp were going to use every dirty trick in the book to make sure it all went wrong afterwards . . . :Yes:

How did they do that? Forge BoJo's signature to allow the Boriswave of over 4 million immigrants in? :D

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36216454)
Brexit hasn’t failed, but our politicians have done.

Do you think BoJo failed us with his Boriswave of 4.2m migrants?

Hugh 02-06-2026 07:05

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216493)
We voted for Brexit, little realising that the Remain camp were going to use every dirty trick in the book to make sure it all went wrong afterwards . . . :Yes:

The Remain camp that wasn't in power?


It's always someone else's fault, isn't it?

1andrew1 02-06-2026 07:26

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36216497)
The Remain camp that wasn't in power?

It's always someone else's fault, isn't it?

Seems to be the fashion these days to blame someone else. Back in the day, people would say they called it wrong, we all make mistakes and we'd move on. Their honesty was seen as a strength. These days it's a case of never admit you're wrong, that's seen a sign of weakness. I think the country is poorer with this approach.

papa smurf 02-06-2026 07:36

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216498)
Seems to be the fashion these days to blame someone else. Back in the day, people would say they called it wrong, we all make mistakes and we'd move on. Their honesty was seen as a strength. These days it's a case of never admit you're wrong, that's seen a sign of weakness. I think the country is poorer with this approach.

you seem to blame everything on brexit

1andrew1 02-06-2026 07:50

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36216499)
you seem to blame everything on brexit

Can you give me an example of this?

papa smurf 02-06-2026 08:02

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
i'm not trawling through all that remoaner drivel

Sephiroth 02-06-2026 08:03

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36216494)
i voted for the side that won, and like every brexiteer that i know i'm still happy with winning,but dissapointed with the political treachery that followed,any hoo you losers can still watch your beloved eurovision pong contest:) at least you can watch them even if they don't want you.

Ah - the Brexit Barometer. The UK's shittest entry ever exactly mirrored the competence of our governments in delivering the benefits of Brexit.

Labour is the worst; in difficult economic circumstances, those fools plunged the UK into even deeper doldrums by spending what could have been invested on growth, on welfare.

So, you Remainers - put the blame for a botched Brexit where it belongs: with government, particularly Labour. Rejoining the EU while we still have dumb governments will solve nothing.

Carth 02-06-2026 08:58

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216493)
We voted for Brexit, little realising that the Remain camp were going to use every dirty trick in the book to make sure it all went wrong afterwards . . . :Yes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216495)
How did they do that? Forge BoJo's signature to allow the Boriswave of over 4 million immigrants in? :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36216497)
The Remain camp that wasn't in power?


It's always someone else's fault, isn't it?

Oh how you soon forget all the legal roadblocks and dead end delaying tactics that the 'Remain Camp' (and their perfect EU) threw at everything put forward to make Brexit work . . . after you'd lost.
Such petty childish behavior, usually seen from spoilt brats throwing tantrums. Maybe, just maybe, some of the crap deals we ended up with are your fault too :D

oh, late edit: Actually the 'Remain' camp were in power, the Gov. didn't want to leave the EU. The Brexit referendum only went ahead because they 'knew' (as supported by expert evidence and polling LOL) that not many would vote for Brexit. . . . this Gov. still aren't listening to the people either.

Sephiroth 02-06-2026 10:20

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216498)
Seems to be the fashion these days to blame someone else. Back in the day, people would say they called it wrong, we all make mistakes and we'd move on. Their honesty was seen as a strength. These days it's a case of never admit you're wrong, that's seen a sign of weakness. I think the country is poorer with this approach.

You seem to be asking 17 million people to admit they were wrong.

They weren’t wrong. Incompetent governments let us all down.

There has been no explanation in tangible terms, real terms as distinct from generalities, as to how much better households would be if we remained or rejoined.

1andrew1 02-06-2026 10:55

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36216508)
You seem to be asking 17 million people to admit they were wrong.

They weren’t wrong. Incompetent governments let us all down.

There has been no explanation in tangible terms, real terms as distinct from generalities, as to how much better households would be if we remained or rejoined.

Just read the reports. Here's a starting point. https://obr.uk/box/how-are-our-brexi...ns-performing/

But if you're seeking a report specifically explaining how Mr Sephiroth of Wokingham, England will be better off each month then you have set your expectations too high; one might suggest intentionally so.

Carth 02-06-2026 11:09

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Do you know what the first thing I read in that link was?

Quote:

Since the June 2016 EU referendum, our forecasts have incorporated a set of assumptions about the economic impact of Brexit on trade, productivity, investment, and migration
I stopped reading after that, we can all make assumptions based on our own circumstances :PP:

1andrew1 02-06-2026 11:30

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216512)
Do you know what the first thing I read in that link was?

I stopped reading after that, we can all make assumptions based on our own circumstances :PP:

You need to continue reading and see if the assumptions are reasonable. :tu:

Sephiroth 02-06-2026 12:25

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216511)
Just read the reports. Here's a starting point. https://obr.uk/box/how-are-our-brexi...ns-performing/

But if you're seeking a report specifically explaining how Mr Sephiroth of Wokingham, England will be better off each month then you have set your expectations too high; one might suggest intentionally so.


This is the paragraph that matters:
Quote:

Overall, our assumptions about the impact of Brexit appear to be broadly on track and recently published studies are also broadly consistent with these estimates. However, it remains hard to draw firm conclusions given the challenges of disentangling the simultaneous impacts of Brexit, the pandemic, and other geopolitical developments affecting UK and global trade. Trade data are also volatile and prone to revision, particularly trade in services. Moreover, the full implementation of the TCA will further increase barriers to trade in goods with the EU. We expect the total impact of Brexit to be realised several years after full implementation of these barriers. In the meantime, we will keep our Brexit assumptions under review.

Carth 02-06-2026 13:50

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216513)
You need to continue reading and see if the assumptions are reasonable. :tu:

No, because an 'assumption' is just a clever word for a 'guess'.

Remember all the experts making 'assumptions' that the Brexit referendum would be a sure thing . . until it wasn't? ;)

papa smurf 02-06-2026 14:06

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
when you assume you make an ass out of u and me.

1andrew1 02-06-2026 15:08

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216522)
No, because an 'assumption' is just a clever word for a 'guess'.

Remember all the experts making 'assumptions' that the Brexit referendum would be a sure thing . . until it wasn't? ;)

I think the polls said a tie? A few million overseas £ got it over the line in the end though.

thenry 02-06-2026 15:20

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36216524)
when you assume you make an ass out of u and me.

Oh that brings back memories



:rofl:

I can't rep you but haha :LOL:

RIP Paul, John Ritter :)

Carth 02-06-2026 18:59

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36216529)
I think the polls said a tie? A few million overseas £ got it over the line in the end though.

are you insinuating we paid the French to vote Leave? ;)

Sephiroth 02-06-2026 19:03

Re: Britain outside the EU
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36216544)
are you insinuating we paid the French to vote Leave? ;)

Whatever Andrew might say, we paid the French to send us military age potential terrorists.


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