[Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
23-02-2016, 13:12
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Asda, BT, Marks & Spencer, Kingfisher and Vodafone chiefs are among those who have backed a letter warning of the risks to the economy of quitting the 28-member bloc.
But the total number falls short of the 80 or 50 that it had previously been suggested would sign.
Those who have refused to sign include the bosses of taxpayer-backed Lloyds and supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s.
And some of the execs on the Prime Minister’s own business advisory group have refused to sign the letter.
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23-02-2016, 13:18
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23-02-2016, 13:27
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
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Sounds like a totally irrational, racist, swivel eyed loon to me... 
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23-02-2016, 13:33
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
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An excellent, brief summary of a few of the big issues. Sadly, the vast majority of people who vote this June won't get to see it, or anything like it.
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23-02-2016, 13:55
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I really am undecided at the moment - one thing that might make me vote for "Out" is that it would make Nigel Farage unemployed... 
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23-02-2016, 14:21
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
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Exacty! I can understand why the leaders of the EU want us to stay in, that's obvious. What's a mystery to me is why so many of our politicians want us to stay in?! 
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I really am undecided at the moment - one thing that might make me vote for "Out" is that it would make Nigel Farage unemployed... |
When I went to listen to him speak last year he said that he'd be delighted to be out of a job for that reason.....
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23-02-2016, 14:29
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23-02-2016, 14:34
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
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Exacty! I can understand why the leaders of the EU want us to stay in, that's obvious. What's a mystery to me is why so many of our politicians want us to stay in?! |
Because it's a difficult question with many upsides/downsides?
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23-02-2016, 14:47
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Makes me laugh big firms warn over EU exit will cause job losses.....you mean it will put an end to cheap labour and migrant workers and stop these fat cats from making huge sums of money from everyone else's expense
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23-02-2016, 14:48
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
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I really am undecided at the moment - one thing that might make me vote for "Out" is that it would make Nigel Farage unemployed... |
The idea of making the EU Ambassador to Yorkshire and the Humber, Richard Corbett MEP, unemployed is one that makes me happy I must admit.
It'd be a pyrrhic victory for sure, for past services rendered he'd be rapidly employed by the EU or a think tank, but nonetheless pleasing.
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23-02-2016, 15:28
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The idea of making the EU Ambassador to Yorkshire and the Humber, Richard Corbett MEP, unemployed is one that makes me happy I must admit.
It'd be a pyrrhic victory for sure, for past services rendered he'd be rapidly employed by the EU or a think tank, but nonetheless pleasing.
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Yes, it will be nice to get back to the cheaper days when the Foreign Secretaries of countries would get together to develop trade links and trade deals without requiring a mass of MEPs to be involved in the process.
Imagine the savings of not having to pay the salaries, expenses, allowances and pensions of MEPs and their associated entourages.
We should also save by not having to pay VAT like America and others outside the EU.
Just hope that enough of the "don't knows" decide to vote to leave the EU if only to prove to David Cameron that he got it wrong.
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23-02-2016, 15:30
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We should also save by not having to pay VAT like America and others outside the EU.
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And from where will the Government replace all the income from VAT?
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23-02-2016, 15:35
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
Three major BBC EU referendum debates announced in the run up to the referendum..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...rendum-debates
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23-02-2016, 15:37
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
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And from where will the Government replace all the income from VAT?
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They will probably increase income tax but we will also have money from not having to pay our massive contribution to the EU.
Even if the government slapped on a purchase tax of 10% it would still be cheaper than VAT and would make our goods and services more competitive.
Might also give them an incentive to reduce the cost of government.
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23-02-2016, 15:48
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re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
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They will probably increase income tax but we will also have money from not having to pay our massive contribution to the EU.
Even if the government slapped on a purchase tax of 10% it would still be cheaper than VAT and would make our goods and services more competitive.
Might also give them an incentive to reduce the cost of government.
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VAT raised £105 billion in 2013/2014 - net contribution to the EU in that year was £11.3 billion.
Anyway, an "amusing" video from our UKIP friends - it's very amusing, but not in the way they meant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBi-KXc0CRk
It's the same woman twice, but once in a blonde wig... (I love the line "They’ve taken all our fish")
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