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Thread #164605   Message #3963801
Posted By: Steve Shaw
28-Nov-18 - 06:54 PM
Thread Name: Brexit #2
Subject: RE: Brexit #2
Well, Nigel, you leavers absolutely can't see through the smoke and mirrors. Polish the mirror and blow away the smoke. No-one in a position to know is telling us that the country wouldn't be worse off if we leave the EU. Of course, by some miracle we just might be better off but forgive the one or two of us who doubt that just a little. And, of course, you and Iains may well know something that the rest of us don't know. But the omens are closing in on you. Of course, there are still people who think that Brussels dictates our laws (which it doesn't) and that we will get £350 million back every week (which we won't) and that we can stop nasty foreigners coming in (including doctors and nurses, etc., who are already being severely put off, the kind of people we don't train ourselves). You forgot to tell those people that the EU is tied up with just one percent of our GDP, that we wholeheartedly agree with almost all EU laws and regulations (all of which, without exception, are democratically arrived at) and that the EU is very likely to be, in future years, the only major democratic bulwark on the planet against increasing far-right populism (well, unless you think that Donald is a rabid socialist). Enjoy your ideology, Nigel. Some of us prefer pragmatism, principle, and, above all, reality.