Article 50/Brexit Negotiations

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It's just obvious isn't it? If poorer nations improve their economy (with EU help) there will be fewer people emigrating.

As for the £5/6 bn annual net contributions, that's less than the taxes paid here by EU immigrants. So Poles here are paying for Britain's contributions to Poland.
Great.
What we need to do then, is follow this logic up with utmost rigour, and start contributing far more in taxes to help
poor countries across the globe, but make sure we import umpteen millions from these countries beforehand to help pay
for those very same contributions.
I don't know why we haven't thought of this before.
 
But nothing to do with joking about mental illness which is what you assumed.

I don't think we wrinklies should stop using imperial-era phrases just because younger viewers can't be arsed googling to find out what they mean.

Gosh, I'd have to stop referring to Brexit as the upas tree of British society.

(And isn't "old man" rather ageist?)
Yes it is. Not nice to be ridiculed, is it. That's the point. Using insults to demean your opponent in debate contributes nothing to it.

And yes you should stop using outdated phrases, especially if they can be interpreted to mean something else that has negative connotations, ('N***** in the woodpile' as an example: Another phrase i'd never heard off until recently and was probably common and accepted once, not so much these days) or haven't you been keeping up with the cultural changes in society recently that we young'uns are trying to eradicate?
 
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Great.
What we need to do then, is follow this logic up with utmost rigour, and start contributing far more in taxes to help
poor countries across the globe, but make sure we import umpteen millions from these countries beforehand to help pay
for those very same contributions.
I don't know why we haven't thought of this before.
Is what Vic saying, about Poles contributing towards Britain's contributions to Poland, kind of wreck the notion that EU migrants boost our economy? You know, one of the key arguments on both sides of the debate and influenced many leavers voting intentions?
 
Is what Vic saying, about Poles contributing towards Britain's contributions to Poland, kind of wreck the notion that EU migrants boost our economy? You know, one of the key arguments on both sides of the debate and influenced many leavers voting intentions?
Yes, it would appear so, when we've actually left this organisation, and the world is our lobster, to quote Del
Boy, we can solve many problems here and worldwide, using this new and exciting economic principle.
The Sudan is plagued by dire poverty? Simples, advertise for 5 million Sudanese to settle here, the tax they then
pay, not only supports themselves, but contributes to lifting out of poverty the poor saps back home who didn't
manage to get here.
 
Is what Vic saying, about Poles contributing towards Britain's contributions to Poland, kind of wreck the notion that EU migrants boost our economy? You know, one of the key arguments on both sides of the debate and influenced many leavers voting intentions?

Of course it boosts our economy as well. They're employed to make things or move things or sell things so unless their employers are doing it out of charity of course it boosts our economy.

Yes, letting in millions would boost the economy - it worked for the USA - but you have to weigh that against the known problems of pressure on housing etc (and more Poles needed to build the houses) and that so many people hate foreigners.

And it's lovely to see people "calling bullshit" on statistics with no alternative source for their alternative facts.
 
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