If none of us can even comprehend something, that sounds like a good reason for not being in that thing to me. I'm a big fan of keeping things as simple as they can be.
Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (June Poll)
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If none of us can even comprehend something, that sounds like a good reason for not being in that thing to me. I'm a big fan of keeping things as simple as they can be.
I don't fully understand everything in a commercial airliner but I'm happy to fly in one.
Sometimes a certain amount of complexity is necessary because simplicity isn't the solution.
You possibly can't even understand how the keyboard that you used to type your post works. However you are happy for it to be big part of your personal (based on your post count) and professional life. Unfortunately we live in a world where most things are beyond everyone's comprehension.
If you want things simple then go live somewhere in wilderness living only on things you grow or hunt. Then you won't need to worry about politics.
The way it should be but for so long the people fear Westminster so the politicians can do whatever they want.
The country stood back with the I'm all right jack mentality.
I trust that Boeing and Airbus will put planes in the sky that are going to work because they gain nothing and lose a lot if they break down. I don't trust the EU because they gain a lot of power with little accountability.
could? i thought it most certainly would remove the automatic right to live and work in the EU kinda a major point for most people. so hardly a "may"
but its not like Spain is gonna ban the British, i think you could probbaly take them to the european court for such a discriminatory measure.
I wasn't comparing the accountability of the EU with that of a plane manufacturer. I was, as quoted, referring to the fact that the poster said they preferred to keep things simple. This isn't always possible with respect to an extremely complex situation and that often demands a complex solution - one that not everyone (myself included) will fully understand or appreciate.
Is there not accountability in the EU?
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WTF?! No proven record? You do realise we managed perfectly well without the EU before? We used to own the World before the US...
The world has changed...
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That was a colonial empire, in part by using resources outside the country and now we trade with just what UK can produce. Its worth mentioning the commonwealth, I think some labour and trade benefit is there, UK wont be alone even leaving EU.
The USA ruling now is tied to the reserve currency trade done globally, they benefit not by force exaclty but in a similar way gain from trade outside their borders by countries not even related to them. The giant failure in their fiscal budget balance and trade balance seems to suggest in USA also change will occur to the status quo.
Im surprised by this poll, I thought people would be scared or apprehensive of change. The main point is the EU will change no matter what, its moving not static.
However the vote goes I think we'd leave the EU for reasons related to us leaving the ERM, that we could not ignore the gap in differences between countries then or now
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/new...-brexit-polls-favour-leave-campaign.aspx?ut=2
The USA ruling now is tied to the reserve currency trade done globally, they benefit not by force exaclty but in a similar way gain from trade outside their borders by countries not even related to them. The giant failure in their fiscal budget balance and trade balance seems to suggest in USA also change will occur to the status quo.
Im surprised by this poll, I thought people would be scared or apprehensive of change. The main point is the EU will change no matter what, its moving not static.
However the vote goes I think we'd leave the EU for reasons related to us leaving the ERM, that we could not ignore the gap in differences between countries then or now
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/new...-brexit-polls-favour-leave-campaign.aspx?ut=2
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Sorry if this has been posted already. Hard to keep up when browsing on a phone.
"MP's may push to keep UK in European single market despite Brexit vote"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ngle-market-despite-brexit-vote-a7067056.html
"MP's may push to keep UK in European single market despite Brexit vote"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ngle-market-despite-brexit-vote-a7067056.html
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Isn't that obvious and indeed one of the arguments the Brexit side makes? That we could leave the EU but remain in the single market.
Quite what the point would be I've no idea, but it's something quite a lot of the leave side advocate.
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LOL, how well do you believe gunboat diplomacy would work in China now?
The world is a different place, we can forge our own way in the world, as if we could, we would have done so already.
British manufacturing won't become any more viable after a Brexit, as if there were mass savings to make, they would have done it already.
One thing that might help exports, in the short term, is the absolute trouncing the pound will take should be vote for Brexit. The pound would lose 20%, and recover to 10% over six months perhaps. How well we could capitalise upon this is open to interpretation.
When we crashed, we lost a mass amount from the currency value, an amount which only recovered about 6 months ago (against non-US and euro currencies). About 7 years.
Certainly would be an interesting world for Britain after Brexit.
In those times the middle east was just a barren desert with nobody really interested in it. They are still a very poor countries that nobody is interested in... oh wait.
And in those times there was abundance of cheap labour from rest of the empire unlike now. .. oh wait that isn't true either
Times have changed a bit since then..
I think remain will win, however I don't know which way to vote myself.
I dislike the EUROCRATS but because of our debt and economic state we would have a huge recession if we leave. We may have one anyway.
What I really dislike is all these politicians and organisations telling me to vote remain but not why.
I dislike the EUROCRATS but because of our debt and economic state we would have a huge recession if we leave. We may have one anyway.
What I really dislike is all these politicians and organisations telling me to vote remain but not why.
Remain will win if you do not vote out because you are told to vote remain.
I think a system of government that no-one understands is a really bad thing. No UK Prime Minister since Mrs Thatcher seems to be able to get a grip on Brussels, which suggest they don't understand it either.
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