General Election 8th June

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If you want to pick out 3 words from a whole post and quote them out of context then that's up to you but when read all together anyone can see what I was pointing out, let me remind you

I didn't quote them out of context.  But hey, instead of just saying - whoops sorry what I really mean't to say was.... - if you wanna blame me for what you said, well fire away  :rollin

You know others are hoping that the whole EU will fall apart now.  I think a good few on this forum have expressed pleasure at the very thought of this.


  But what that would actually mean is 28 countries.  28 bureaucracies, 28 passport borders and customs, 28 sets of rules and regulations, 28 sets of safety standards, 28 sets of employment relations, 28 sets of tariffs or perhaps trade deals.  28 countries bitching and fighting with each other.  And lest not forget the history of Europe.


So basically, small to medium, if not large companies as well, in the UK would have to choose which of those 28 former members of the EU that they wished to trade with.  Cos frankly the costs of trying to trade with them all would sink or destory many sizeable companies.  All the european economies would shrink.



Meanwhile guaranteed rights to holiday pay, maternity and paternal leave, equal treatment for part time and agency workers, along with EU consumer protection, travel protections, the working time directive and many other benefits written into EU law will be torn up by the Tories.


You want me to tell you what I think, well if it isn’t bloody stupid, it’s at least fucking selfish.  Basically we need the EU but we are refusing to pay ball.


And of course my country Scotland voted to stay in.  Yet people in English bought into a xenophobic campaign built on false news and alternative facts that dismissed all expert opinion.  Further it looks like the stupid people in England whom have voted to leave the EU, ie they have voted to become poorer, have now going to vote for a total shafting at the hands of - make it up as I go along - Theresa May.


Yup I’m somewhat pissed off with the whole stupid thing. 



Stupid.  Yes, you better believe it.