Soldato
life goes on..
Brexit thread - what happens next
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So.... As title says... Life will go on!!
Seriously, get a grip people, it's the best thing ever for this country. Yes, Scotland will vote to leave, and I'm very sure a decade after that vote , they'll regret it, if not before!
Staggering how all of a sudden the EU is all ears.
About to turn 44 next week and us leaving the EU is one of the best things that has happened in my life to date, period!
Seriously, get a grip people, it's the best thing ever for this country. Yes, Scotland will vote to leave, and I'm very sure a decade after that vote , they'll regret it, if not before!
Staggering how all of a sudden the EU is all ears.
About to turn 44 next week and us leaving the EU is one of the best things that has happened in my life to date, period!
I'm still waiting for someone to bring out the positive outlook on leaving.
Who is celebrating this win and what exactly are they celebrating?
I would rather hear that this was a galactic farce of protest votes and bluffing which went too far than ACTUALLY see the UK get screwed.
Please elaborate on why it makes you feel better.
Caporegime
Just lots of reports of people shouting "go home" in various ways and to various extremes, as well as lots of idiotic misinformed hate speech all over the internet... People being cornered and verbally abused, people posting hate speech through Polish peoples letterboxes, etc...
Ergh 
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I can't even get to the page it just whinges about shared logins being disabled
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.Care to elaborate for those of us who don't like clicking Facebook links on forums?
I can't even get to the page it just whinges about shared logins being disabled
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Soldato
I'm amazed a colleague of mine hasn't been sacked yet for similar behaviour. He was rather jovial yesterday, and proceeded (with much glee and excitement) to tell various foreign-born employees that it was nearly time for them to '**** off home'. He seems to genuinely believe this is going to happen, and all through the campaign this belief has formed a core part of his argument (the main other bit being a dislike for every person and nation in Europe).
I swear he only gets away with it because he's a bit mentally unstable. TBH it's only now that I'm writing it down that I realise how completely unacceptable it was.
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Care to elaborate for those of us who don't like clicking Facebook links on forums?
It's a bunch of random tweets detailing xenophobic events from around the country since the vote to leave was cast.
Caporegime
Err, I'm figuring out how to get you to see it all...
e; oh OK it seems to be working for at least some of you...
e; oh OK it seems to be working for at least some of you...
Still waiting for a list of the positives out of this vote. I haven't seen any from anyone yet. What's the good news from this? I can only see the bad, let's have something upbeat that I can cling to 
Caporegime
Still waiting for a list of the positives out of this vote. I haven't seen any from anyone yet. What's the good news from this? I can only see the bad, let's have something upbeat that I can cling to
Thats the problem... :/
Apart from "yay independance" I don't think there are any positives... And I don't even count "yay independance" as a positive myself...
I'd also be happy to hear some positives...
I haven't spoken to or seen my parents for two days now, despite living in the same house as them... I'm not sure if its because they feel guilty or ashamed for voting out now they've seen whats happened, and after I told them exactly what was going to happen and they ignored me, or if its just a weird coincidence...
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Racism, shouts of 'go back home' etc.Care to elaborate for those of us who don't like clicking Facebook links on forums?
Though it is only a very small vocal minority being abusive I have no doubt it is worrying for those affected, and I can only hope people realise that isn't how Britain in general feels about them (though I have no doubt that will be of little consolation).
As for the free movement question, the basis is that for trade to fully flourish there should be free movement of capital both of goods and services and of workers. The reason the EEA also has free movement is because if you allowed access without it most countries would opt to manage migration themselves (allowing a more balanced and easily managed approach toward growth vs infrastructure) and leave the EU proper. Freedom of movement is similar to the movement of workers in the US, except in the EU the disparity between economies (resulting in a generally one direction flow of labor), and cultural differences, are far far larger.
The US doesn't have freedom of movement as the EU doesn't have a free trade deal with them as of the moment, something that takes a long time as there has to be consensus between all member states for any deal to be accepted (one country disagrees, then back to the drawing board etc). The US does still trade with the EU though just not with any trade deals in place from the EU.
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Soldato
What is going to be so great about it, what is going to be better and how?
As someone of similar age, running a company in the construction industry I feel more like I need to be preparing for redundancies than hiring people.
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The good news is we have are country back to take control of it the way we want to and maybe turn in back to what is was 10 years ago ! I don't like my town being a mini Europe ! because that is the problem , Britain has lost its identity , I don't know about you but I don't even go in to my shopping centre anymore because I don't understand anyone. that is never a good thing, its wrong and its sad that this has happened.
Still waiting for a list of the positives out of this vote. I haven't seen any from anyone yet. What's the good news from this? I can only see the bad, let's have something upbeat that I can cling to
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-in-a-few-years-says-Jose-Manuel-Barroso.html
Posted this a few pages back. As I said then, I'm not particularly happy about being out, but neither would I want to be a part of this.
Still waiting for a list of the positives out of this vote. I haven't seen any from anyone yet. What's the good news from this? I can only see the bad, let's have something upbeat that I can cling to
We have our country back!
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At the rate its going we will be back to what the UK was since 1985 - except without Scotland and Ireland
Still waiting for a list of the positives out of this vote. I haven't seen any from anyone yet. What's the good news from this? I can only see the bad, let's have something upbeat that I can cling to
Rule Britannia, taking our country back, independence day, sticking it Brussels bureaucrats and all that noise.
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