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Originally Posted by Damien
Maybe. I think though, in the end, the politicians will rather upset those concerned over immigration rather than the middle-classes or bankers who are more likely to be hit by trading away banking. Especially the Tories, if we're being ultra-cynical a angry vote from declining industrial towns hit by immigration is far more likely to harm Labour than the Conservatives.
If there is one thing that seems to hold true across politics is that these people are constantly overlooked by the left and right.
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Not if Boris is PM. No way will he accept freedom of movement. He'd probably tell them to get stuffed first.
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Originally Posted by RBMark
YouGov poll (yes polls get it wrong) shows Britain against second referendum 2 to 1. Also I've been reading country's outside the EU including Australia, New Zeleand, India,Mexico and many others "queuing" up for trade deals witb the UK. Good news for Britian as the EU is 16% of worldwide trade, even less once Britian leaves. We're now free to do our own trade deals with other 86%.
An as for the back of the queue statement from the USA, it's expected our trade with the US to become more valuable as the "like minded" countries deal direct.
Expect lots of doom and gloom over the coming months before article 50 is started. Project fear stage 2 is in full swing. But again it will be all words.
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Indeed. Tell them to go to Hell if we don't get a deal without freedom of movement. Ghana said yesterday they wanted to trade with us. Who needs the single market anyway. If the Germans still want to sell cars to us then they better play ball.
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Originally Posted by ntluser
Might that suggest we all have a common problem that we all need to discuss and address.
Countries do need breathing space to allocate resources and make provision for immigrants but at present they are arriving in many EU countries in overwhelming numbers and probably in locations where the locals feels oppressed and resentful.
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For the life of me, I 'l never understand how the EU couldn't see this coming. Some of us did as far back as the 70s. The main reason I and others voters voted against the Common Market is because we said it wouldn't end there. It would eventually turn into a USE with a lot of poorer countries joining and that would lead to mass migration. We were laughed at then. Ha they ain't laughing now as our good friend Nigel Ferage would say.