Consequences Of Brexit [Part 8] Read First Post Before Posting

[Longcol]

15 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

A large number of the 16 million who voted Remain were not wealthy, but they were frightened into supporting the EU by fear of the supposed terrible consequences if we left - ranging from mass unemployment to a Third World War.

 

 I don't want to belong to any organisation that has to use scare tactics to try to frighten me about what might happen if I don't join. Obviously the supposed benefits of EU membership were not considered to be a major selling point to the majority of voters.

Lol - if using the completely discredited "EU Army" isn't a scare tactic then I don't know what is.

 

And of course blaming the EU for all the faults of the Tories.........................

[RJRB]

16 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

I find it really sad that the best the EU could do to try and convince people to support membership is to terrify them about what might happen if the UK wasn't a member.

 

Says it all really.

And I was saddened by the lies that Farage and the Brexit camp propagated to create an anti immigrant movement.Deliberate confusion regarding free movement of EU citizens,illegal immigration,refugees and the possibility of Turkey joining theEU.

Does your concern for the poor and downtrodden extend no further than our borders.

Edited November 21, 2019 by RJRB

[Dardandec]

30 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

A large number of the 16 million who voted Remain were not wealthy, but they were frightened into supporting the EU by fear of the supposed terrible consequences if we left - ranging from mass unemployment to a Third World War.

Can you post me a link to where the EU warned of these consequences please. Thanks. 

[Car Boot]

5 minutes ago, Dardandec said:

Can you post me a link to where the EU warned of these consequences please. Thanks. 

It was agents of the EU who warned of these terrible consequences if we didn't do as the EU instructed.

[Dardandec]

7 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

It was agents of the EU who warned of these terrible consequences if we didn't do as the EU instructed.

Link please. Thanks.

[Longcol]

8 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

It was agents of the EU who warned of these terrible consequences if we didn't do as the EU instructed.

A link was asked for - not a Car Boot slogan.

Edited November 21, 2019 by Longcol

[Car Boot]

1 hour ago, Dardandec said:

Link please. Thanks.

EU referendum: War and peace

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36246146https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36246146

 

"For the many, many voters who haven't yet paid much attention to the EU referendum campaign all of a sudden, along comes the prime minister warning leaving the EU might, in theory, lead us to war."

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brexit-could-trigger-world-war-7928607

 

'Brexit' could trigger World War Three, warns David Cameron

 

"David Cameron has pleaded for Britain to stay in the EU to help prevent the Continent being ripped apart by another conflict."

 

A report from the Remain supporting newspaper, Daily Mirror.

[Longcol]

4 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

EU referendum: War and peace

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36246146https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36246146

 

"For the many, many voters who haven't yet paid much attention to the EU referendum campaign all of a sudden, along comes the prime minister warning leaving the EU might, in theory, lead us to war."

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brexit-could-trigger-world-war-7928607

 

'Brexit' could trigger World War Three, warns David Cameron

 

"David Cameron has pleaded for Britain to stay in the EU to help prevent the Continent being ripped apart by another conflict."

 

A report from the Remain supporting newspaper, Daily Mirror.

So in both cases it was Boris Johnson who used the term World War III, not Cameron.

 

Thank you.

[L00b]

14 hours ago, Car Boot said:

Applying a tax to women's sanitary products, a 'tampon tax', was a sovereign matter in the UK until 1973. After the UK joined the Common Market in 1973, a 17.5% Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced on sanitary products, and EU law still forces women to pay a tax on this essential product in the UK while we have EU membership.

 

Sovereign UK matters have a habit of becoming EU powers. There is only one direction of travel, the EU needs all the powers it can get so it can transform into an empire.

 

...right, so, err...if I may briefly recap our exchange of the last few posts:

 

Car Boot "UK should not remain an EU member, because some of its contributions could end up funding a (hypothetical) EU military R&D budget"

 

L00b "when is the UK leaving NATO?" (since, you know, NATO=club with decades-long membership AND big military spending, with most of the NATO members countries being EU member countries as it happens)

 

Car Boot "when EU tells UK to leave NATO"

 

L00b "eh? NATO membership has nowt to do with EU membership, and even if it did, the UK is dropping its EU membership in two months anyway?"

 

Car Boot "VAT on tampons"

 

Debating with you is like trying to play chess with blancmange 

Edited November 22, 2019 by L00b

[L00b]

Just seen the Tories' manifesto about Brexit.

 

First it was "sunlit uplands"

 

Then a bit later, "there might be some bumps"

 

Now it's "we are really ambitious, we aim to rescue 80% of UK trade through FTAs in the next 3 years"

 

Looking good, lads, looking real good