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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Newcastle's remain winning margin lower than expected, but a low turnout there. Hopefully the higher turnout elsewhere will mean this is just a blip.
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Took nearly 50 years for folks to understand what Enoch Powell tried to tell us of the dangers of unification in 1968.
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Those economic experts, what do they know?
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  • dav1d1
    dav1d1 Posts: 653
    48.2% remain 51.8% leave at 0520
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    What do cyclists know?
    There are going to be a lot off pee'd off posters this morning.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    PBlakeney wrote:
    What do cyclists know?
    There are going to be a lot off pee'd off posters this morning.

    Do you have young kids too?

    Just thought I would pop in to say I told you so - just wish I could spell pyrrhic
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    PBlakeney wrote:
    What do cyclists know?
    There are going to be a lot off pee'd off posters this morning.
    Not a lot it seems. Although it is very close.

    Devastated this morning.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    What do cyclists know?
    There are going to be a lot off pee'd off posters this morning.
    Not a lot it seems. Although it is very close.

    Devastated this morning.

    I am trying to look on the bright side
    My employer has over half it's earnings in $ so profits will go up
    Less foreigners will make my job a tiny bit safer
    Massive govt recruitment drive is good for me
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    edited June 2016
    Pound and banks through the floor already.

    This next 2+ years of recession is going to be fun isn't it.
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Yeah, I'm hoping that the Welsh Government need more lawyers to sort the mess out. Might be a good opp for me
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    I don't see any upside for us. Most of our work is with manufacturers or industry (such as car makers) and relies on new investment in those areas, and I don't think they are going to do very well our of it.

    Although with the pound through the floor we'll be much more competitive for the next couple of years while we're still in the EU...
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    I don't see any upside for us. Most of our work is with manufacturers or industry (such as car makers) and relies on new investment in those areas, and I don't think they are going to do very well our of it.

    Although with the pound through the floor we'll be much more competitive for the next couple of years while we're still in the EU...

    Last time the pound went down it had no impact on exports.

    The renovation costs on my house may go down if the construction industry goes into recession
    There will be less people commuting into London
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    June 24.
    England's Independence Day?
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Although with the pound through the floor we'll be much more competitive for the next couple of years while we're still in the EU...

    But if we have to export a load of components and raw materials (which is often the case), it won't make our products much cheaper at all.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    finchy wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Although with the pound through the floor we'll be much more competitive for the next couple of years while we're still in the EU...

    But if we have to export a load of components and raw materials (which is often the case), it won't make our products much cheaper at all.
    Shush, I'm looking for ways in which I don't lose my job here...
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,407
    I'm going to be very busy for the next few years, but also today as I'm in charge of our groups BREXIT contingency planning.

    In the meantime lets hear all these tin foil hat conspiracy theories...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,407
    finchy wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Although with the pound through the floor we'll be much more competitive for the next couple of years while we're still in the EU...

    But if we have to export a load of components and raw materials (which is often the case), it won't make our products much cheaper at all.
    Our exports are mostly services finchy. As people.point out on here, we don't have a large manufacturing sector.

    But who knows what will happen in the FX markets over the next year or two. We've been down to around 1.10 to the Euro before in 20009 so its not completely new territory.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    PBlakeney wrote:
    June 24.
    England's Independence Day?

    England & Wales. I'm embarrassed that so many of my fellow countrymen and too stupid to realise the EU has provided them with an economic stimulus for 30 years since heavy industry collapsed. They now have their wish to be governed fully by a UK government that tends to be Tory led more often than not and fought against the EU to stop tariffs on Chinese steel as well as ending the mining industry here. As there must now surely be a risk of Scotland leaving the Union that means that Tory governments are likely to be even more prevalent.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Well, I guess we just need to hope that the wildest fantasies of all the "sunny outgoing optimist" Brexiters come true. Mrs Bomp and I are in the public sector (doctor, teacher) - at least our jobs are safe for now. Until the recession starts to bite and the really big cuts come. I really hope that I'm wrong but it doesn't look very likely to me.

    Not made a lot better by the fact that Scotland voted In by a big margin, which means that the Nats are going to start up all over again... but the thing that astonishes me more than anything is that all of a sudden it doesn't look quite so ridiculous: never have the Little Englanders looked so unattractive.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Farage said in his victory speech that we'd taken back control '..without a shot being fired.' Ugly military language and did he forget an MP was murdered the other week?
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,407
    Pross wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    June 24.
    England's Independence Day?

    England & Wales. I'm embarrassed that so many of my fellow countrymen and too stupid to realise the EU has provided them with an economic stimulus for 30 years since heavy industry collapsed. They now have their wish to be governed fully by a UK government that tends to be Tory led more often than not and fought against the EU to stop tariffs on Chinese steel as well as ending the mining industry here. As there must now surely be a risk of Scotland leaving the Union that means that Tory governments are likely to be even more prevalent.
    I voted in, but many will see your last sentence as a double win.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Pross wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    June 24.
    England's Independence Day?

    England & Wales. I'm embarrassed that so many of my fellow countrymen and too stupid to realise the EU has provided them with an economic stimulus for 30 years since heavy industry collapsed. They now have their wish to be governed fully by a UK government that tends to be Tory led more often than not and fought against the EU to stop tariffs on Chinese steel as well as ending the mining industry here. As there must now surely be a risk of Scotland leaving the Union that means that Tory governments are likely to be even more prevalent.

    Tata look to be saying Tata as well again now. And I doubt any buyer would be stupid enough to buy now.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    The real irony in Wales is that those few areas that voted remain are generally those that offer the Tories a rare chance of a seat whilst the industrial Labour heartland, which gains the most from EU aid, voted out. It suggests voting wasn't based on either logic or political allegiance!
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    In two hours the UK economy has lost $350 BILLION. That’s equivalent to 40 years of EU contributions.

    Sterling crashed already.

    AAA rating likely to be lost immediately.

    Tax rises inevitable.

    Well done to everyone who voted to leave.

    Now we'll all pay the price for your utter stupidity.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Turkeys have voted for Christmas
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    Pross wrote:
    ....... As there must now surely be a risk of Scotland leaving the Union that means that Tory governments are likely to be even more prevalent.
    And Northern Ireland.
    They must see the appeal of an open border to the south.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Lookyhere
    Lookyhere Posts: 987
    Cameron has, by giving the vote for his own short term gain, taken a terrible gamble with the country.

    of course he wont be effected but anyone who thought that we had to save our country from Corbyn/Labour, got that very wrong.

    we seem to be a country of backward, inbreed racists.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Not in my effing name. Scots born, resident in England. Time to be looking for a repatriation...
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    I wonder who all those disgruntled northerners will blame in a few years time when the £15ph jobs they thought they'd be getting by leaving don't materialise.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    June 24.
    England's Independence Day?

    England & Wales. I'm embarrassed that so many of my fellow countrymen and too stupid to realise the EU has provided them with an economic stimulus for 30 years since heavy industry collapsed. They now have their wish to be governed fully by a UK government that tends to be Tory led more often than not and fought against the EU to stop tariffs on Chinese steel as well as ending the mining industry here. As there must now surely be a risk of Scotland leaving the Union that means that Tory governments are likely to be even more prevalent.
    I voted in, but many will see your last sentence as a double win.

    Given that the Tory party will likely go in to meltdown now, is there not a part of that think perhaps you should actually have voted for someone half way competent..?

    I suspect this now puts me back in the parents spare room for a considerable amount of time rather than the minor blip I was hoping for...

    Mind you my final salary check now buys me 300 odd more pounds...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver

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