EU referendum

[smudgedj]

I wonder what the hidden costs to the public will be on an exit vote, for example, passports, all uk passports are eu passports and will likely have to be renewed. Which is £80 odd a pop each. And x million in tax payers money for the re design.

Passports are the property of the Crown and are issued under the Royal Prerogative.

 

[hilts]

Yup, and it really is that bad for you, that i am 70 years ahead of you.

I don't subscribe to an ideology that never worked in the first place and no one thinks is relevant anymore, you're part of a socialist cult of ever dwindling numbers

 

[EalingBlue2]

Hell hath no fury like a former European ally and friend scorned. The debate must be going badly for project fear,

I would suggest Blueishswede is going to be ok when the UK goes to the dogs so doesn't need fury, possibly benevolent sadness. Ultimately when people are headstrong and blind to doing something foolish and ultimately against their interests then the emotion get is sympathy and in some ways pity.

Fury perhaps comes when years later they whinge at you and try and blame you for their errors.

The fury will come from the north, Wales, Scotland when they suffer hugely and the U.K. Fractures into an England run for and by the south east and ultimately a one party state that is against the NHS, workers rights and is run in the interest of a very small group of the population. i am sure the destruction of socialised medicine they despise will be a triumph the destruction of the Union maybe not?

 

[grunge]

Not being able to afford it and being irellevant will take them away

I think it's safe to say that if we exit the one industry we will expand will be the military. For our use and for exporting.

The only way we lose our nukes is by using them and not being able to replace the uranium, but if we fired the hundreds of nukes we have it's safe to say we won't be needing to replace that as we will a wasteland in a nuclear winter.

 

[EalingBlue2]

I've seen some very weird claims in this debate but that one has to be the weirdest one ever!. We independently developed our nuclear program, were the 3rd country to test one and have the 4th largest stockpile of warheads in the world.

What makes you think we would have to give them up?

They will soon enough though be gone , Britain long term can't afford them

 

[hilts]

What's Swedish for "she's got a right strop on"?
Who's going to force the UK to disarm, Sweden?

In fairness the swedes can be quite bolshy, some think they are generally fence sitting non entities but no, cross a swede and he will show you a flow chart or enter into meaningful dialogue

Mad scary bastards

Watch your backs or a focus group will be on your arse

 

[KenTheLandlord]

I've seen some very weird claims in this debate but that one has to be the weirdest one ever!. We independently developed our nuclear program, were the 3rd country to test one and have the 4th largest stockpile of warheads in the world.

What makes you think we would have to give them up?

well apart from agreeing that we would would never need to give them up, as everyone knows we would never use them, rather like having a car so expensive stored in the garage that you could neither afford to run it correctly nor have the resources to repair it, if an uninsured clown hit it. However, hey ho, it is there if we ever need it. Kids need new shoes? Dont worry love we have a fucking mega expensive car in the garage and all the neighbours know it, so they will be really really impressed with us.

Or as tory boy and EU outer Phillip Hammond said recently
"North Korea seem to think possessing a nuclear weapon makes them safe, in fact it's the opposite. Having a nuclear weapon makes them a target."
I wish he would make his mind up.... does nuclear weapons make you safe? or a target?

 

[KenTheLandlord]

I don't subscribe to an ideology that never worked in the first place and no one thinks is relevant anymore, you're part of a socialist cult of ever dwindling numbers

lol, you are worse than a blind man in the dark.

 

[KenTheLandlord]

In fairness the swedes can be quite bolshy, some think they are generally fence sitting non entities but no, cross a swede and he will show you a flow chart or enter into meaningful dialogue

Mad scary bastards

Watch your backs or a focus group will be on your arse

Those recent Viking invasions have really haunted you haven't they.

 

[KenTheLandlord]

What's Swedish for "she's got a right strop on"?
Who's going to force the UK to disarm, Sweden?

Apparently when translated it is called a Gelson.

 

[KenTheLandlord]

Not being able to afford it and being irellevant will take them away

It's the thing about this vote , yes there is fear mongering by I need yes there is a lot needed to improve Europe but.......

The outters have no concept at all about WHT Britains future is, what industries we can compete in long term, how we will replace immigration needed or the money coming from growth it brings. I have not heard once any argument about what we offer long term to China to NAFTA to India or anyone other than a market that they can flood with their cheap goods.

I think the inners do lack a strategy and ideas but it is fairly obvious now that the outters are quite happy jumping out of a plane with a rucksack on because everything will be ok. The ground loves us, the clouds will help cushion our fall and a couple of pheasants we were shooting yesterday will sacrifice their lives to save us.

You are right, the EU is far from perfect but it is better than what the outers are proposing.
At time when the world is beginning to form blocks of Trade such as FTAA, US-MEFTA, T-PP and TTIP countries such as those in the G20, barring China and Russia will be in one of the various blocks.
There is no doubt deals would be done but with the tariffs etc etc and the individual countries having to make sure they stay within the framework of the block they are in, how many years of fucking about will be lost?
I am no fan of TTIP whatsoever but if we are at the table, we have a voice. I would much rather that than the English Donald Trump-lites stomping about that we have at the moment.

 

[crazyadi]

Everyone should visit the war graves, a sober sober reminder of what a divided competing Europe did to humanity for many many centuries.

Yes everyone should visit the war graves its a sober reminder of all the people who were sacrificed so the countries of Europe could remain free and have self governance. What a waste of life it turned out to be when the same people who tried to take over Europe, and were defeated, effectively have control now. The European council is no better than the Nazi party on many levels.

 

[EalingBlue2]

Yes everyone should visit the war graves its a sober reminder of all the people who were sacrificed so the countries of Europe could remain free and have self governance. What a waste of life it turned out to be when the same people who tried to take over Europe, and were defeated, effectively have control now. The European council is no better than the Nazi party on many levels.

That is a pretty pathetic comment and whilst covered up there is an extremely ignorant and xenophobic comment and deeply insulting to Britain and all the people of Europe.

The reality of the outters is showing through tonight hate the swedes , think the Germans are all Nazi's etc

It is this veneer coming off that will win the vote for in I suspect .

That comment is so deeply offensive to so many races and religions it is beyond belief and it is an insult to everyone who fought and died fighting the murdering, genocidal nazi party

It is interesting it is late on a Saturday night after drinks some of the outters start showing their true colours

 

[Helmet Cole]

You can't deny though that the EU has achieved many of Hitlers aims with a regard to the governance of the continent - aside from the genocide and stuff.

 

[blueinsa]

That is a pretty pathetic comment and whilst covered up there is an extremely ignorant and xenophobic comment and deeply insulting to Britain and all the people of Europe.

The reality of the outters is showing through tonight hate the swedes , think the Germans are all Nazi's etc

It is this veneer coming off that will win the vote for in I suspect .

That comment is so deeply offensive to so many races and religions it is beyond belief and it is an insult to everyone who fought and died fighting the murdering, genocidal nazi party

It is interesting it is late on a Saturday night after drinks some of the outters start showing their true colours

Stop being so offended.

You tell us to visit the war graves but then get all uppity when you get reminded that many are there due to Germany and the 2 world wars and that Germany is now basically in charge of a federal Europe, the very thing it wanted in 1914 and again, in 1939.

You might fancy Merkel being in charge, i dont.

 

[EalingBlue2]

Stop being so offended.

You tell us to visit the war graves but then get all uppity when you get reminded that many are there due to Germany and the 2 world wars and that Germany is now basically in charge of a federal Europe, the very thing it wanted in 1914 and again, in 1939.

You might fancy Merkel being in charge, i dont.

I find likening the European council to nazi Germany's deeply offensive! the idea that a group of bueracrats who are accused of such grave things as straightening bananas should be likened to a fascist party who murdered the best part of ten million people and caused the deaths of many many millions more is pathetic.

If you want to defend such things by all means do, in many ways is good to see the xenophobia coming to the surface it makes the argument easier.

People complain about the inners being the fear mongers then this......

 

[EalingBlue2]

You can't deny though that the EU has achieved many of Hitlers aims with a regard to the governance of the continent - aside from the genocide and stuff.

The aims of most of the popes, Monarchs etc in Europe for most of the last millenia . It's like saying Hitler is like Gandhi because they were both vegetarians

 

[blueinsa]

I find likening the European council to nazi Germany's deeply offensive! the idea that a group of bueracrats who are accused of such grave things as straightening bananas should be likened to a fascist party who murdered the best part of ten million people and caused the deaths of many many millions more is pathetic.

If you want to defend such things by all means do, in many ways is good to see the xenophobia coming to the surface it makes the argument easier.

Typical left wing argument and about your only one.

Accuse them of either being xenophobic, racist or preferably both.

Just thinking about my grandfather now who fought in North Africa, Italy and Europe because he was amongst millions that did so for our freedom and sovereignty.

 

[Helmet Cole]

The aims of most of the popes, Monarchs etc in Europe for most of the last millenia . It's like saying Hitler is like Gandhi because they were both vegetarians

I'll take your comparison with popes and monarchs, but not sure about the Hitler / Gandhi one tbh. Perhaps the fact that the EU has grown out of a trading association to become something with aims similar to popes, monarchs, and dictators throughout European history is in itself a good reason to be sceptical about the EU?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

In or out, with every passing day, it seems that the EU is as merchantable as a packet of half a dozen muffins bearing a sell-by-date containing the phrase June 2015! The 'Big Project' is stuttering, spluttering and gasping for air. Twenty odd disparate nations were never gonna make anything of any value unless you develop the most incredible bureaucracy and throw countless billions at it in order to give it a semblance of being a working, valuable model.

Half the countries are in it for what they can get out of it, another different half proceed as though they weren't in it but for the financial benefits, and there's an altruistic rump who are fast becoming very sceptical that it's worth the candle.