• This is not the Brexit we voted for!

    From Ottavio Caruso@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 6 09:23:00 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    https://nitter.net/SuellaBraverman/status/1727713562175381618

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    Ottavio Caruso

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Ottavio Caruso on Wed Dec 6 10:33:29 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 06/12/2023 in message <ukpehl$mjis$1@dont-email.me> Ottavio Caruso wrote:

    https://nitter.net/SuellaBraverman/status/1727713562175381618

    This is pointless. The only options on the ballot paper were stay or leave
    so nobody knows what Brexit people voted for.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Indecision is the key to flexibility

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  • From Ottavio Caruso@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 11 14:11:59 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    Am 11/12/2023 um 12:45 schrieb Pamela:
    Perhaps "Ottavio Caruso" will answer the substantive point

    Why do you put my name in quotation marks?

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    Ottavio Caruso

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  • From alan_m@21:1/5 to Tim Streater on Thu Dec 14 21:21:45 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 12/12/2023 13:10, Tim Streater wrote:

    ll because they are liars.

    Somw of that, shorn of the mouth-foam, is no more than a statement of the bleeding obvious. More people -> more income for the Govt.

    But also more expenditure by the Government if those younger immigrants
    have children that need schooling etc. It's also debatable if there is a
    any income to the government unless those immigrants are skilled and
    earning at least a wage/salary of £35k/annum.



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  • From Ian Jackson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 20 11:16:40 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    In message <ultakd$89ko$2@dont-email.me>, Fredxx <fredxx@spam.invalid>
    writes
    On 19/12/2023 20:56, Ian Jackson wrote:
    In message <ulsej5$3qse$1@dont-email.me>, Fredxx
    <fredxx@spam.invalid> writes
    On 19/12/2023 12:37, Ian Jackson wrote:
    In message <ulq95d$3ldm4$1@dont-email.me>, Vir Campestris >>>><vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> writes
    On 18/12/2023 17:11, Tim Jackson wrote:
    In any other election, you get a chance to vote differently five years >>>>>> later (or sooner), if things haven't worked out as you expected.
     On Brexit, for some time now the opinion polls have consistently
    demonstrated that a significant majority of the electorate now think >>>>>> things haven't worked out as expected, and they would have voted
    differently.

    Didn't the same opinion polls make the same forecasts before the vote? >>>>>
    It was only in the last few days before the vote that the
    predictions became wrong (to a fair extent because of Nigel
    Farage's alarmist and misleading poster).

    Which poster do you have in mind? And why do you associate the
    poster with Nigel Farage? Apart from being so desperate to assign
    any responsibility to Farage.
    https://shorturl.at/yYZ36

    I suppose you've conveniently forgotten the alarmism of economic >>>meltdown and the mentions of Armageddon. Were they from Nigel Farage >>>perchance?

    As usual, you insist on ignoring the fact that the UK economy started >>going over the cliff the moment the referendum result was announced.
    It was only some immediate clever juggling and trickery by the Bank
    if England that managed to drag it back.

    So your simply agreeing that the threat of economic meltdown and the
    mentions of Armageddon was a lie. Solved with a bit of "clever juggling
    and trickery by the Bank if England".

    No - it was a pessimistic prediction that immediately started to come
    true, but was prevented by the immediate action of BoE to halt the
    collapsing of value of the pound. Or are you going to argue that they
    already had a cunning plan up their sleeve to use in the event of a
    Leave vote, and were simply making a song and dance about the whole
    business?
    --
    Ian
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  • From RJH@21:1/5 to Rod Speed on Mon Dec 25 10:48:22 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 25 Dec 2023 at 08:56:09 GMT, "Rod Speed" wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:37:54 +1100, RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    On 24 Dec 2023 at 23:23:41 GMT, "Rod Speed" wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:59:05 +1100, Andrew <Andrew97d@btinternet.com>
    wrote:

    On 19/12/2023 22:36, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 19/12/2023 in message <op.2f7zjljmbyq249@pvr2.lan> Rod Speed wrote: >>>>>
    In any Rejoin campaign there will be no need to use the vastly
    over-optimistic speculation and prediction (the sort that was so >>>>>>> prevalent during the Leave campaign). The evidence is here and now, >>>>>>> and for all to see. All the Leave campaign can honestly rely on is >>>>>>> to
    claim that it is still early days, and given time the benefits of >>>>>>> Brexit really WILL start to become apparent.

    The benefits are already apparent with the UK
    being free to do whatever it likes policy wise now.

    Brexit was never about economic benefits except in the sense
    that the UK would no longer have to pay the EU billions a year.
    Absolutely spot on.


    Also spot on is the fact that any 'saving' from EU membership
    is hugely outweighed by the clearly stated permanent drop in
    GDP directly as a result of leaving.

    That is just another bare faced remoaner lie.

    Hardly bare-faced. Even the OBR estimates around 4% gross reduction in
    GDP . .

    But that isnt anything even remotely like PERMANENT. .

    Not entirely sure why I bother, but here goes:

    'The post-Brexit trading relationship between the UK and EU, as set out in the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ (TCA) that came into effect on 1 January 2021, will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU'

    https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/#assumptions
    (April 2023)

    Long-term and productivity as synonymous as you're going to get with permanent and GDP

    If you want anything more pessimistic look in the Guardian ;-)

    Anyway, merry xmas all :-)
    --
    Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

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  • From Tim Streater@21:1/5 to RJH on Mon Dec 25 11:02:54 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 25 Dec 2023 at 10:48:22 GMT, "RJH" <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    On 25 Dec 2023 at 08:56:09 GMT, "Rod Speed" wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:37:54 +1100, RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    On 24 Dec 2023 at 23:23:41 GMT, "Rod Speed" wrote:

    On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:59:05 +1100, Andrew <Andrew97d@btinternet.com>
    wrote:

    On 19/12/2023 22:36, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 19/12/2023 in message <op.2f7zjljmbyq249@pvr2.lan> Rod Speed wrote: >>>>>>
    In any Rejoin campaign there will be no need to use the vastly >>>>>>>> over-optimistic speculation and prediction (the sort that was so >>>>>>>> prevalent during the Leave campaign). The evidence is here and now, >>>>>>>> and for all to see. All the Leave campaign can honestly rely on is >>>>>>>> to
    claim that it is still early days, and given time the benefits of >>>>>>>> Brexit really WILL start to become apparent.

    The benefits are already apparent with the UK
    being free to do whatever it likes policy wise now.

    Brexit was never about economic benefits except in the sense
    that the UK would no longer have to pay the EU billions a year.
    Absolutely spot on.

    Also spot on is the fact that any 'saving' from EU membership
    is hugely outweighed by the clearly stated permanent drop in
    GDP directly as a result of leaving.

    That is just another bare faced remoaner lie.

    Hardly bare-faced. Even the OBR estimates around 4% gross reduction in
    GDP . .

    But that isnt anything even remotely like PERMANENT. .

    Not entirely sure why I bother, but here goes:

    It's not relevant, anyway. You're overlooking the comments upthread about Brexit never being economic aspects. I became opposed to our being in the EU
    in the early 2000s, once I became exposed to its internals and we saw how its officials behaved.

    If we wanted the economic benefits, why didn't we just stay in the EEC? See my sig.

    Anyway, merry xmas all :-)

    Snap.

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    When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

    Tony Benn

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to Tim Streater on Mon Dec 25 19:25:00 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 25 Dec 2023 11:02:54 GMT
    Tim Streater <tim@streater.me.uk> wrote:



    If we wanted the economic benefits, why didn't we just stay in the
    EEC? See my sig.


    Because we were not offered the option. 'Ever closer union' does not
    describe a trade agreement.

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    Joe

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  • From alan_m@21:1/5 to Rod Speed on Mon Jan 1 10:58:20 2024
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 01/01/2024 05:23, Rod Speed wrote:

    Its an example of where you stupid pig ignorant claim about
    why some houses are  cheap is just plain wrong.

    Very few maintenance free concrete bunkers with tin roofs for sale in
    the UK.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to charles on Thu Jan 4 11:23:03 2024
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 04/01/2024 11:15, charles wrote:
    In article <un61re$3kam8$7@dont-email.me>,
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 04/01/2024 10:12, alan_m wrote:
    On 03/01/2024 22:07, Ian Jackson wrote:
    In message <xn0oge80bj1tbu800x@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines
    <jgnewsid@outlook.com> writes
    On 03/01/2024 in message <un424a$38rmo$3@dont-email.me> Ottavio
    Caruso wrote:

    SO what was the point of leaving the EU if even a relatively mild
    pandemic affects the economy more?

    Let us know when you have interviewed the 17,410,742 people who voted >>>>> to leave.

    Well....
    Some wanted to leave "to give Cameron a bloody nose".
    Some wanted to leave "as a protest about the Tories' continuing policy >>>> of austerity".
    Some wanted to leave "simply to see what would happen if Leave won".
    Some wanted to leave "just to create a change".
    Some wanted to leave 'because of all the silly rules - such as those
    about bent/straight bananas" (honestly - they really did!).

    and some wanted to leave because for other reasons.

    I assume the remainers all voted for the same reason?

    They believed the lies they were told, or they had strong [corrupt]
    financial interests that were threatened by Brexit.

    The UK used to be a trading nation. I was (and still am) concerned that
    the UK's viability would be compromised.

    Whereas actually now we are able to trade freely with the rest of the
    world, trading is massively up.

    The EU was and is a protectionist cartel.

    I am glad we are part of a larger trading sphere.


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