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Thread #162855   Message #3883504
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Oct-17 - 09:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Ah yes, Nigel. As soon as the going gets tough, have a bash at the good old Beeb. I'm sure that Barnier and Juncker hang on Laura K's every word. Perhaps you would like her replaced by a Tory sycophant. Pity you can't have Jezza Paxo back. All those years at the helm, then we find out that he was a Tory all along. Tsk. Or you could try Andrew Neil, who worked for the Conservatives in his youth and was once the chairman of the Federation of Conservative students, not to speak of his dalliances with those raving Marxists, Murdoch and the Barclay brothers - or how about Nick Robinson, once chairman of the Young Conservatives, or even his former editor Robbie Gibb who used to work for Francis Maude as his chief of staff. Or how about that nice Tory Chris Patten, former chairman of the BBC trust. Or the charming Kamal Ahmed, filched from his post as executive business editor of those rabid leftie papers the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Flippin' reds under the beds everywhere at the Beeb, eh!

And we are getting some very simplistic talk from the likes of Teribus. We are not suddenly going to stop selling to and buying from the EU when we leave. After 2019 we will still be driving around in beamers and quaffing Prosecco and eating lots of EU-produced food. Of course, it'll all cost more, and we buy more than we sell. Not only that, with the pound at rock bottom (any bets on a pound buying just 80 cents and one bare US dollar by 2020?), well, I reckon that takes care of your 11 billion a year. Cor, those WTO trade deals had better be good! Anyway, what were you thinking you were going to be doing with it? Give it to the NHS by any chance? Ha bloody ha. Heard it before, I'm afraid.

Then there's the biggest part of our economy, the service sector. Runs like a fairly well-oiled machine right now. But once the barricades go up after brexit, just watch the bureaucratic nightmare unfold. Note how HM Govt is pretty quiet about that. The truth will out, as ever, sooner or later.

So, we won't be leaving, will we?