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Old 08-11-2018, 09:24   #2726
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Brexiters were quoting the Working Time Directive yesterday (not 2016) when the fines of Leave.EU and Arron Banks were making headlines. Strange that.
This from 2016 must be Scotch mist then! Interesting how history warps in the mind when you strain to believe things that aren't true.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a7103031.html

I will say again - I am a leaver, and my reasons for wanting to leave included the suffocating, unrelentless spread of EU legislation which is hampering business; uncontrolled immigration which was impacting on our jobs, housing and public services; the fake democracy of the EU in which bureacrats, not politicians, set the agenda; the economic drag the EU was causing and the growing pressure to bail out southern EU countries tied to the Euro; the pressure to participate in taking in hordes of people crashing into the EU from African and Middle Eastern countries; membership of the Customs Union which prevented us from trading freely and under our own terms; the huge amount of money going into the EU for little benefit; the abandonment of Commonwealth countries which we saw when we joined the EEC - all these things and more.

So please stop all this nonsense about what you believe in terms of leavers' motives. Although everyone had varying reasons for wanting to leave, just about everyone would have had one or more of the same reasons as I did to support Brexit. These 'wanting to get back to our days of Empire' are complete nonsense - I would be surprised if any sane person would have thought that this is what they would get from Brexit.

It's like me saying that all those who wanted to remain were of that view simply because they wanted to take their holidays in Europe, which of course, they still can after Brexit.

I guess you will continue to use these diversionary tactics to muddy the waters and try to whip up pressure from people to demand another referendum, but you are wasting your time. Theresa May has made the position clear. Brexit means Brexit; we leave in March 2019; there will be no customs union which prevents trade deals from being forged by the UK and there will be no second referendum.

So why not start concentrating on how we benefit from leaving the EU, the practical problems to be overcome and how to overcome them and how we can exploit our new found freedoms.

That would be a much more positive and realistic debate than feebly trying to overturn a decision that has already been made and that will not change.

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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
Yawn, more claptrap. No the EU is too busy drumming up a E.U. Defense Army, that Nick Clegg said would never happen.

Roll on 29/3/19 when we can rid ourselves of this con job joke of a union.
...And that's another reason!
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