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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.14pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by tome

So, we can trade with the rest of the world while we are in the EU. Why are we leaving again?

There's a limit in price to what world buyers will go to with tariffs, limiting growth of smaller businesses, something this country will do well in growing.

 


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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.15pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by tome

Being in the EU but out of the Euro probably has something to do with that.

A devalued pound that's probably due to actually grow an economy with a foundation rather than spend on imports with credit, go bang, repeat over and over.

 


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Kermit8 Flag Hevon 02 Nov 17 12.15pm Send a Private Message to Kermit8 Add Kermit8 as a friend

Some posters moan that I never post good Brexit news...well now you can stop whingeing. .

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We are only 3,000 nurses down since the Referendum. Could have been 10,000.

 


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CambridgeEagle Flag Sydenham 02 Nov 17 12.16pm Send a Private Message to CambridgeEagle Add CambridgeEagle as a friend

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

Did they all predict Armageddon if we didn't join the euro?

I expect they all made bazillions trading the FTSE and bonds?


Not joining the Euro was widely regarded as the right course of action pre-decision. Brown had 5 tests which, if passed, the government would have supporting joining the Euro.

The loss of our own central bank and monetary policy, and never meeting these 5 tests meant that very few experts were ever interested. Some may have been for it for certain ease of use/integration/transaction charges/forex risk reasons, but not many serious economists were ever in favour.

 

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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.18pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by CambridgeEagle


Not joining the Euro was widely regarded as the right course of action pre-decision. Brown had 5 tests which, if passed, the government would have supporting joining the Euro.

The loss of our own central bank and monetary policy, and never meeting these 5 tests meant that very few experts were ever interested. Some may have been for it for certain ease of use/integration/transaction charges/forex risk reasons, but not many serious economists were ever in favour.

Are they all really rich from their prediction expertise?

 


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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 02 Nov 17 12.19pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Kermit8

Some posters moan that I never post good Brexit news...well now you can stop whingeing. .

Latest;

We are only 3,000 nurses down since the Referendum. Could have been 10,000.

Time to invest in the British young perhaps? Dropping tuition fees etc for nursing isn't that difficult administratively.

 


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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 02 Nov 17 3.05pm

Originally posted by CambridgeEagle

People will die. If winter is bad, given the kicking the Tories have given the NHS over the past 7 years, expect significant numbers of avoidable deaths.

Are there contingency plans in place to send carts round with drivers shouting 'bring out your dead' (or in East Anglia 'wydosta&#263; swoich zmar&#322;ych').

 


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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 02 Nov 17 3.07pm

Originally posted by CambridgeEagle

Given the failure of the government's economic strategy and flasgship benefits programme some people may well starve, or at least become seriously unwell from malnutrition, not to mention the lasting effects lack of good food will have on swathes of children up and down the country.

Don't forget that Grayling was saying we could just grow all the food we currently import to avoid tariffs post Brexit. Not sure how he thinks that will happen without more immigration. Unless he thinks the 75,000 bankers that will lose their jobs will go and plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land.

Do you think cannibalism will break out as it did in 1930's socialist Russia?

 


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nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 02 Nov 17 3.27pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Do you think cannibalism will break out as it did in 1930's socialist Russia?

Toto Coelo will be pleased.

 

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Hansy Flag 02 Nov 17 3.40pm Send a Private Message to Hansy Add Hansy as a friend

Why MPs don't take a paycut is beyond me. You don't want to be an MP to be come rich, you become an MP to represent your ideas.

 

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tome Flag Inner Tantalus Time. 03 Nov 17 10.33am Send a Private Message to tome Add tome as a friend

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

Time to invest in the British young perhaps? Dropping tuition fees etc for nursing isn't that difficult administratively.

Yes, but where is the money coming from? Given that the NHS is stretched thin already, plus both the effects of Brexit and the cost of sorting it out - 8,000 civil servants to be hired, I heard.

Or will the magic money tree which suddenly ripened into £1bn fruit for the DUP be tried again?

 


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steeleye20 Flag Croydon 03 Nov 17 11.20am Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Originally posted by tome

Yes, but where is the money coming from? Given that the NHS is stretched thin already, plus both the effects of Brexit and the cost of sorting it out - 8,000 civil servants to be hired, I heard.

Or will the magic money tree which suddenly ripened into £1bn fruit for the DUP be tried again?

Just put it on the slate like everything else?


 

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