BREXIT

[YamFazFan]

"Side? I am on nobody's side, because no one is on my side."

I was reccomending it to others who most definately are on one side or the other.
I wasn't suggesting that you were on a particular side.

[YamFazFan]

To coin a phrase, "Brexit means dogsh*t".

'To coin a phrase' usually means it's a really well known one, in common usage.
I can honestly say I've never heard that specific one before :rolleyes

[mtread]

But the customs union and the Irish border are not 'only details', they are the most important content of any deal. One affects our economic future, the other peace in Ireland.


The comments so far just appear to confirm that the Brexit vote was a negative protest vote.

[nick crisp]

I was told on Thursday I am being made redundant as a direct result of the economic contraction anticipated as a result of Brexit.

That is shit, and you have my sincere sympathy. Being laid off due to "anticipation" is indeed a nasty way to treat your employees, especially when no exit deal has yet been struck, so no one actually knows what things will be like. I presume they will immediately invite you back and compensate you if things go better than anticipated?

[nick crisp]

The comments so far just appear to confirm that the Brexit vote was a negative protest vote.

Your use of the word "just" seems rather flippant to me. If nothing changes, here in the UK, in the EU countries, around the world, expect more of the same.

[YamFazFan]

But that doesn't mean I don't get a vote, or the right to cast it however I wish.

Quite right.
Although I've heard it said more than just a few times since the referendum, and on several occasions during the run up to it, by Remain enthusiasts, that certain groups of voters shouldn't have been allowed to paticipate.
It's mostly the younger student voters voicing the opinion that older voters should be disqualified from taking part.
Their basis for this is that the older generation tended to vote Leave in higher numbers and that it was their future that was being stymied, as they see it, by the more mature voter.
If that ain't a classic case of age discrimination I don't know what is! :lol

[YamFazFan]

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I was told on Thursday I am being made redundant as a direct result of the economic contraction anticipated as a result of Brexit.

That is shit, and you have my sincere sympathy. Being laid off due to "anticipation" is indeed a nasty way to treat your employees, especially when no exit deal has yet been struck, so no one actually knows what things will be like. I presume they will immediately invite you back and compensate you if things go better than anticipated?
[/quote]

Does it actually say.... "Anticipation Of Brexit"?.

[Bretty]

Not officially..


My company are a multi-national. I have seen the forecasted figures for next year (which take into account currency changes and economic contraction).


Also there is the consideration that my company manufacture all across Europe and sell all across Europe.. ANY tariffs or logistical delays will have a direct impact.


Plus all of my whole industry anticipates a reduction in spend. Conclusion next year will be harder than this year, yet profits must be maintained. Result company wide austerity. :-(

[mtread]

I'm by no means being flippant. I fear the worst. If the world is voting against rather than for things all the time, we're in for a very bad time.


My sincere sympathies with you Bretty. Hopefully the government will do a good deal which will limit the damage.

[Oldgit]

Can't wait to be out of the EU, I did not vote for another government in Brussels, I voted for free trade only in1974

[Bretty]

I appreciate the sympathies, but I'll be ok..  Alot of people won't be though.


I don't know many business looking forward to brexit. Maybe betting shops, loan sharks and alcohol retailers?! :-P

[nick crisp]

I don't know many business looking forward to brexit. Maybe betting shops, loan sharks and alcohol retailers?! :-P

You've just given me an idea of what I might be able to do for work!  :thumbup  :lol


Alas, 3 years unemployed thus far here, getting in to debt with my bank now, and health problems making it difficult to know what I could do    Brexit is the least of my worries!

[nick crisp]

yet profits must be maintained. Result company wide austerity. :-(

Something about that quote ^ bothers me  :\  If profits are maintained, someone in the company isn't being hit by the austerity, surely? At your expense by the sound of it.

[tommyardin]

Don't want the village I live in twinned with foreigners, because we will have very little in 'Common' with them. lol! 
Now there is a thought will we as a nation remove all the twinned with signs and replace them with new ones? might cost the country a couple of quid.

[YamFazFan]

If the world is voting against rather than for things all the time, we're in for a very bad time

They voted for DonaldTrump in America, so it's not all against. Well it was against Clinton I grant you :lol

[YamFazFan]

I don't know many business looking forward to brexit. Maybe betting shops, loan sharks and alcohol retailers?! :-P

Or maybe the small businesses that can't cope with or afford the overwhelming amounts of business regulations that Brussels implements upon them?.

[nick crisp]

[quote author=mtread link=topic=24678.msg286321#msg286321 date=1541256083]
If the world is voting against rather than for things all the time, we're in for a very bad time

They voted for DonaldTrump in America, so it's not all against. Well it was against Clinton I grant you :lol
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Yes, it was a bit of a dumb thing to say really. If you're voting, presumably you have been given a choice of things to vote for. So if you're voting for one thing, you must be voting against another!
Those damn Remainers are all so negative, voting against Brexit!  :lol

[mtread]

They voted [/size]for [/size]DonaldTrump in America, so it's not all against. Well it was against Clinton I grant you [/size]

Actually, Clinton won more votes than Trump. It was the peculiarities of their electoral college system that got Trump in. If they'd used the same system as our referendum, she'd be in 

[nick crisp]

They voted for DonaldTrump in America, so it's not all against. Well it was against Clinton I grant you

Actually, Clinton won more votes than Trump. It was the peculiarities of their electoral college system that got Trump in. If they'd used the same system as our referendum, she'd be in 

I'm sure there's a practical point to that argument. Damned if I can figure out what it is though  :lol

[YamFazFan]

Those damn Remainers are all so negative, voting against Brexit!  :lol

:lol