DEATH
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Scotland's Exports (Source: http://www.gov.scot/)
2014:
Rest of UK: £48.5 billion
Rest of World: £15.2 billion
Rest of EU: £11.6 billion
2015:
Rest of UK: £49.8 billion
Rest of World £16.4 billion
Rest of EU: £12.3 billion
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And they want to leave the UK and join the EU, for trade purposes they say.
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Maybe re-brand it as "first member to leave before the collapse of the EU".
Not sure why Scotland are keen on a new referendum, the stay in the UK vote is at 52% and those are the people willing to admit it.
Maybe they will just hold a referendum every 2 years until they get the right decision then immediately stop holding them.
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Why are MPs allowed to do other jobs? They constantly moan how busy and hardworking they are.
Are we taxpayers paying expenses to run his constituency office whilst he is off working privately for a bank?
Someone should start a petition, no MP should be allowed to earn more than say £50k privately. If they want to do so they can sod off and stop being an MP!
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6 minutes ago, knock out johnny said:
What? You've go no problem with enemies of the people
The delay is up to a year - then the gov can force it through with the Parliament act
We could end up with another 500,000 showing up from Eastern Europe in that time though to get their foot in the door.
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I have no problem with an unelected house looking over the laws. I would fill it with retired judges High Court level and above who had no political party affiliation or at least quit any political party they were a member of before sitting in the house.
Having read the amendment, I can't see what difference the thing makes that is already available in the current law? Can someone point out what extra rights the amendment would give EU Citizens they don't already have?
The amendment in full:
"Within three months of exercising the power under section 1(1), Ministers of the Crown must bring forward proposals to ensure that citizens of another European Union or European Economic Area country and their family members, who are legally resident in the United Kingdom on the day on which this Act is passed, continue to be treated in the same way with regards to their EU derived-rights and, in the case of residency, their potential to acquire such rights in the future."
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None of these amendments are saving us from "mental things" though. They are just little tweeks in the law here and there.
Putting EU Citizens rights above British Citizens is more than a tweek and is a "mental thing" more than all the above examples you have provided added together.
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Just now, knock out johnny said:
We need an unelected house to stop idiot politicians and a power hungry executive from doing mental things.
Thank heavens for the Lords. They don't need to whore their @ss out hungry for people's votes with bs populist nonsense
So give me some examples then in say the past 20 years in which the Lords have saved us from mental things.
I look forward to your reply.
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May should accept the amendment. Trigger A50, then immediately create 100 Tory Lords and repeal it in 12 months time, along with introducing a new "Abolish the House of Lords" Bill. Maybe even call an election after A50 is triggered on this basis.
Labour will end up with 60 seats and the SNP will become the Opposition Party.
I don't see why we need the Lords or to replace it. Get rid of it completely and see how things go. The MPs should be doing any job the Lords does incase.
I don't see it as May suffering a "bloody nose" I see it as the turkeys in the HoL voting for the mother of all Christmases.
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Surely it's no surprise that most benefit claimants in Britain are British people?
I bet a good % of these are disabled and the over 60s, i.e. retired, something non-UK/EU citizens will be under-represented in.
I have no problem with us looking after all UK citizens, it's not like we can deport them anywhere is it?
Even if non-uk people claim benefits as a less % in like for like age group comparison, I don't see why that argument matters, why should we pay anyone who wasn't born here any benefit if they haven't worked? Their own country should look after them, save for the few odd cases of people who came here as children etc.
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Some reports about Carswell in secret negotiations to rejoin the Conservative Party.
How long can UKIP last now when their only MP buggers off?
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I am sure there are just as many British people in Pakistan claiming benefits there.
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Just watched the BBC documentary a few pages back. That ends with Brexit might not matter in the long run as there might not be an EU to leave in a couple of years.
It was an eye opener to see that 90% of Italians blame the EU/EURO for their problems. They have 50% youth unemployment in some of these Southern EU countries.
The parrot is DEAD. It is not sleeping or having a rest, it is DEAD.
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Maybe they are busy enacting the will of the people. The EU will die once it is de-funded and when the only counterweight to German rule (br)exits.
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So Brexit is off to the Lords now, until they return from their hols in the Caribbean on the 20th Feb.
I can't for the life of me see the EU surviving one of it's main funders (us) leave but most of all one the only counterweights to German rule of the EU.
90% of the EU countries fought or were against German rule. Once the UK leaves the EU, make no mistake about it, they will be under German rule.
Merkel wouldn't even give a grovelling Cameron immigration concessions, what hope do the remaining EU countries have?
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22 minutes ago, rollover said:
Politico.eu is reporting that:
Theresa May will trigger Brexit on March 9
The sooner the better. We are actually saving Europe, they just don't know it yet.
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20 minutes ago, long time lurking said:
FFS where are you from ?
I worked on a site recently where 75% + were EE with a smattering of SE thrown in for good measure
I guess they think the tesco has a Polish section because no Polish people live there.
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Been watching the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal Bill) debate all day on the Parliament channel.
Amazing some of the hysterical arguments put forward. One MP was talking about a Dutch woman who has been here for 20+ years crying about not knowing what her future is going to be, will she be deported, kept apart from her lover, etc?
She could have a British Passport in 5 working days if she wanted....
Those that have only been here a year or two, is it really that much horror to have to leave a country you have lived in for 5% of your life? Even that won't happen probably, I can see them letting everyone stay until we've actually brexited, EU law applies until then.
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Why didn't they introduce a law authorising the Government on June 24th or in the original Referendum Act? Cameron said he'd trigger A50 straight away.
Something fishy is going on, they are playing for time.
BBC now reports the Government is refusing to issue a white paper "at the moment" then adding "let's see how long that lasts!".
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The canned stuff just disintegrates. I think it is made for just Popeye.
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Freedom of movement if job is £50k+ and employer must buy £100k bond to cover first 2 years, plus health insurance cover.
Something like that with the US would be ok I think.
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An organisation that hasn't had it's accounts signed off for a decade should be in charge of the checks and balances.
Yikes!
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I would be surprised if we got less than another + 2 million EU migrants prior to us brexiting.
Until we actually leave the EU (2020) they have 100% rights to live here. Don't tell them that though.
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The banks will need to relocate some staff but I can't see them playing at another Casino.
They are safe from imprisonment here no matter what they do. They are a lot less likely to be mowed down by lorry or machine gunned whilst dining at the Ivy here.
I like how they use the argument of them contributing £31bn to the coffers p.a. but leaving out the little matter of the £1 trillion bail out.
Brexit What Happens Next Thread ---multiple merged threads.
in House prices and the economy
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I don't get why so many remainer Brits are obsessed with FOM. How many Brits are actually in the EU because of FOM?
I've seen a figure of 1.2M Brits in the EU. Half of these are retired people or self sufficient. So we are talking about 600,000 Brits living/working in the EU (bugger all!). Surely this number would be the same even if we weren't in the EU?
Have you seen the unemployment rates for young people in some of the main EU countries? Young people have 10x better chance of getting a job in the UK.
I think some people are living in a dream world in which they will be working in a bar on the med shagging Italian waitresses/waiters etc even though the reality is they will end up working in a Tesco Express in some sink estate in Hull.