Just move on, its not worth the hassle data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
There's a song by The Smiths (best band EVER!) called "Shakespeare's Sister" and features the following cracking lines:
"Oh, I can smile about it now
But at the time it was terrible"
Morrissey foresaw Brexit! data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
When he posted that I immediately thought of white ants and their protozoan hosts, but realised there might be a deeper meaning to all of this and left it hanging while moving on to other posts to read.
As an Irish resident, I don't think many voters in the UK thought about the Irish border and/or the Good Friday Agreement at the time of voting.
Having said that, I followed all the campaigning, and it was rarely spoken about.
They haven't, and it's become clear to me over recent months many still need educating on the history of the border. Those that dismiss it as nothing major do so in error. And perhaps don't understand the impact a No Deal would potentially have on dealing with the US.
Interesting second point too. At some point in this section I was arguing with someone that I didn't think it was mentioned much. They assured me it was.
Nice to get a resident Irish perspective on it. Having friends in Ireland, they have echoed the same.
It might have been mentioned in passing, but there was no lengthy debate about how they would resolve the border issue and how it would impact free travel zone and customs controls.
Voted out, and become more convinced with each passing day that I was right to vote out.
At this very moment plans are finalised within the EU hierachy to impose a massivepercentage increase in contributions from member countries because they're in the mire.
How do I know this?
It's the EU, innit?
They are only delaying the implimentation of this because if they announced it before October 31st, a high proportion theof "remainers" would want to leave too.
Voted Leave, but was surprised to wake up the next day to find out Leave had won.
Heard many convincing arguments since from Remain, but would still vote out tomorrow.
I can't say I like their stereotypical view of us as low intelligence, knuckle dragging pensionable racists, but bitterness does that to people, I guess.
Not feeling confident about Tory plans for the Union if we ever did leave,I very much doubt a single penny of the £39B will go towards the NHS, schools, roads et al.
More likely it'll fund tax breaks for the corporations.
It's going to come down to 31/10, either we leave one way or the other, or we don't leave at all.
Much has been said about the incoming EU tax laws in effect 1/1/20, some are very desperate to be out by then.
Dark forces want us to leave the EU, dark forces want us to stay.
Who said politics was dull?
Have you got a source for that?The only references I can find to an increase is in article like this;
Britain's EU contribution rises by 20 per cent in year, as UK's booming economy props up Brussels' budget
Which appear to miss out the fact that member state contributions are calculated as a percentage of their GNI.Hence, in a very basic way, if the UK 'earns' more, it will therefore pay more as it remains a percentage.