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We're the sixth biggest economy in the world, we're doing a lot better than 'surviving'. There's a huge amount more to the UK economy than just service and financial / banking. Ever flown ? chances are that you had Rolls Royce aero engines under the wings. Our Pharmaceuticals industry is...

You're not following this thread very well. The decline of heavy manufacturing as the country ran out of cheap resources has already been discussed. Not relevant either as our industrial heyday was before the EU. Yes, the EU has been a great support and opportunity for the UK, which is why it...

You really don't understand this at all. Of course it's brexit that caused the problems, we've left the EU. How many times does it have to be said that if you leave the EU you get treated as a third country until you negotiate a replacement deal. that's why we have to stand in 'rest of the...

The Green party also want much closer links with the EU with a view towards rejoining. Not a major party, but hopefully they'll have more MPs than reform after the election. I'd also suggest that if FPTP was ever changed to a more representative voting system, the Greens would have a very much...

One of the more worrying things brexit has revealed is that so many people keep repeating the same old lies they were duped with, despite being repeatedly proved wrong.

Nonsense. Leave EU said it would all be easy; "easiest deal in history" "sunlit uplands" "we hold all the cards" etc etc. https://www.indy100.com/news/brexit-no-deal-quotes-boris-johnson-david-davis-dominic-raab-8463121 Similarly the idea the EU are 'punishing us' is ridiculous too. The...

Peltor are the gold standard for noise protection. Not worth economising.

Every credible opinion poll since the vote has had a majority wishing it hadn't happened. Closer links and easier trading will be welcomed by the VAST majority in the UK.

Not entirely. Much of Britain's past success has been due to having the raw materials needed for the technology of the day; Timber in Tudor times, Iron, Copper, Tin and coal for the industrial revolution. Now we don't have that proliferation of resources, we've used them all up. What's been...

I think there was a lot of complacency that people wouldn't be daft enough to vote to leave and the opinion polls indicated that. Less worldly youth can be naïve and trusting until they experience just how wrong polls can be. What wasn't clear was the amount of misinformation and lies being...

This was the absolute farce of the brexit campaign that so many failed to see. There was no 'manifesto' just a slogan from a bunch of people who had no ability to push through any sort of policy. They could, and did, make the most ridiculous claims and promises without any duty or ability to...

Similarly, UK businesses now find it harder to trade to/in the EU. Four companies I've worked for now won't quote for EU work because the bureaucracy adds too much to the overheads to make it profitable. One will only work in the EU IF it's an existing UK client they can't afford to loose.

I've never had problems with IT kit from Amazon, but other returns have always gone smoothly. On balance I'd say I'm in profit, as some Amazon marketplace sellers will refund without expecting goods to be returned. The only difficulty can be if you're buying from a part of Amazon offshore...

No they're not. They're elected for 5 year terms just like our MPs. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/faq/4/how-are-meps-elected

A global pandemic had been the top of lists of threats to the UK for decades before. Previous governments had kept stockpiles of emergency items to deal with it, but the tories austerity meant that preparedness had been dropped and many stocks used up and never replaced. Look up the Cygnus...

That had a LOT to do with the huge economic crash in 2008 which started in the USA and polluted most financial systems around the world. Little to do with Labour. Not much to do with coalitions per se, more that the Lib Dems promises to change the polling system and cancel student debt failed.

That's a common and perfect example of people who have been misinformed and have so little understanding of how the EU works and what it does, they believe the nonsense pushed at them. Did they not understand what voting for an MEP was all about for so many years ?

It was one of the great misunderstanding that we were "ruled by Brussels". The reality was very different, almost the opposite, and by being one of the 'Big Three' in the EU, we had huge influence over how the rest of the EU was "ruled". All now lost.

That's not possible and never was. A fallacy that politicians should have known and that anyone still peddles this nonsense demonstrates they don't understand what the EU is and how it works.

They were deselected and kicked out because they wanted a reasonable deal, not brexit at any price. Only the compliant were allowed to be put up for selection.