Er, £600 million? we spent over £100 BILLION bailing out UK banks since 2007.
No UK governments have shown any willingness to reign the city in. We're better off in the EU on that front:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27036542
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Er, £600 million? we spent over £100 BILLION bailing out UK banks since 2007.
No UK governments have shown any willingness to reign the city in. We're better off in the EU on that front:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27036542
Don't you think it will? For all Osbournes talk about brexit only affecting the poor downtrodden masses that he cares so much about, I think a lot of them quite possibly do read the rag and will do what they are told...
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You know, I have a counter-argument to that:
Murdoch reports what is good for Murdoch. Nobody else.
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And uses the Sovereign Oil Fund it wisely set up to generate more income for the State unlike the UK.
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What the Romanians are saying about us and Brexit. Interesting reading!!
http://www.romania-insider.com/roma...9589&ct=t(RI_Newsletter_June_14_20166_13_2016)
http://www.romania-insider.com/roma...9589&ct=t(RI_Newsletter_June_14_20166_13_2016)
And that is one of the biggest crimes. We should have let them go under because at some point they would have realised that their survival would have meant sticking their own hands into their own pockets, yet now we're in a situation where they know they can act with the same recklessness and they'll be bailed out.
Uh, no. Due to their being a small population that discovered large oil deposits easily shipped to Eastern Europe.
Yea, I'm agreeing with screech and arguing against boredjord
Why do you think suddenly us leaving means we kick out all the cheap labour already available?
Why do you think we will have mass deportation of nationals who are already here?
Why do you think they would suddenly all leave and/or we would be unable to attract others?
Why do you fear London having a shock? Yes it will take a hit but everyone was saying back when we rejected the EU it would fail but it continue on.
Further import tariffs? You understand that the standard highest rate is 4%? It could be absorbed. Further if we adopted the New Zealand approach I would think you'd find that the EU doesn't place any up anyway... Not immediately as all 27 states need to agree... I mean come on America hasn't had a deal ever why do we need one?
People need to stop being so short sighted and look a head. Do you want to apart of an EU with:
- Further fiscal union
- Higher budget costs
- EU Army compromises
- Higher migration we do not control
- Less democrate say as more countries Join
- Eventually joining the Euro (It will happen... See point 1)
- Contributing funds to prop up less affluent states
On green policy if the country cares so much about it then we can vote it in. Isn't our 2008 legislation more progressive than the EU's anyway?
When did our MPs lose all their fire? If the conservatives balls us up that much with no paid holidays as Corby is throwing about then he said he'd bring it back in isn't that politics at work?
Further you are misunderstanding the point I was making, or not reading the article from Woodford, in that Norway's policies have structured it in a way that company profits have shrunk so lifestyle hasn't where as most EU states it is the other way round. The oil cash reserves they have isn't as dramatic an impact as you would like to believe.
We could possibly be better off in an eu certainly not the one we're in at the moment though.
Arguing against me what?
I said no one had stated in this thread that their mind had been changed to vote Leave because the Sun has said they support it.
I don't think you can really argue against that
They have got elections wrong before but not since the 70s. It's kind of ironic that an unelected foreigner has so much power in this referendum.
Because most of our cheap foreign labour prefers countries where they can easily come to work without too much paperwork and easily transfer money home as needed - either to support families back there or to take with them when they go. I read articles in foreign websites like that Romanian one that says most of the 160,000 Romanians working in the UK will simply pick other European countries to work in.
Never said such a thing. If we leave the EU then we become a lot less appealing to them.
Oh, I can't imagine why free travel and confidence in my right to work in a country would make it more preferable to another that doesn't have these things and has just voiced internationally that it doesn't want to be part of the European community that I belong to.
There are plenty of places that like to snap at London's financial heels. Dubai, Berlin and others. London brings in a lot of money as a financial centre which is why the UK government always bends over backwards to please The City. Leaving the EU is obviously going to be a shock. You don't even deny that.
We are not America. Nor are we New Zealand. The gross differences between us and either of these countries do not need spelling out.
As to the list you posted, most has been debated here ad nauseum so I'm just going to pick out the one I care to reply to:
Yes, I am okay with the rich helping out the poor to a reasonable extent. It's sometimes the right thing to do and it's usually good long term sense as they become trade partners. I know good people in Greece, for example - smart, educated hard-working, who have lost jobs as teachers or are expected to work on salaries that wont even cover a cheap rent because the government can't afford to pay them. Last time I took a taxi in Athens, the driver couldn't even afford to repair their car and we barely made it to the air port because the hand-brake kept slipping and sticking. So yes, I'm okay with a rich country helping out a poor country.
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Eh, these have been backing Brexit for a lot longer than we've known when the date of the referendum will be. I don't think their formal statement of a well known fact is fogged to make much difference.
Also, it rather puts the lie to Brexiters claim to be against the establishment doesn't it?
Looks like Juncker could intervene:
http://www.spiegel.de/international...-not-speaking-out-about-brexit-a-1094261.html
That should swing it for Leave, then.
http://www.spiegel.de/international...-not-speaking-out-about-brexit-a-1094261.html
That should swing it for Leave, then.
So in essence we interpret how the markets will react quite differently.
Your prime fear appears to be that many EU members will react emotively rather than pragmatically and will simply leave even if the work is still there. Interesting.
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Not sure what you mean about those wanting to leave the EU being "anti establishment"? It's not something I had considered, and upon doing so I can't see the link. I am very anti the EU, but consider myself very pro the establishment, in general.
Some interesting stuff there!
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