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@Lynne And what has changed in your life apart from getting a little bit older?

Lynne
Lynne
23 Mar 2019

Brexit costing UK £500M a week , study says. Brexit vote causes £26B annual loss to the UK economy, according to Centre for European Reform. The British economy is 2.5 percent smaller today than if the U.K. had voted to remain in the European Union, according to the Centre for European Reform, a think tank.30 Sep 2018 Brexit costing UK £500M a week, study says – POLITICO ...

Paul
Paul
23 Mar 2019

Some of the EU's finest achievements Browser cookie law, but browsers already had the functionality to disable cookies. Weights and measures, tried to ban us from using pounds and ounces. Fish discards, throwing away perfectly good fish when we have food banks. Our fishermen going out of business while foreigners can fish in our waters. Each month, move between ...

Lynne
Lynne
23 Mar 2019

At the end of the day May has put the interests of the Conservative Party above the interests of the UK. Just as Cameron did. Which is why we are in this mess. Revoke Article 50 petition just shy of 4 million as I type this. click on this link to sign https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584 TAKE BACK CONTROL - REVOKE ARTICLE 50

Paul
Paul
23 Mar 2019

May's treachery will cause riots. At the end of the day she puts the EU above the UK. I doubt she has ever said anything truthful.

Scapegoat
Scapegoat
22 Mar 2019

Face the facts... It turns out that no scenario puts the UK in a better standing than our current situation and any Brexit scenario leads to sh*t. You had your chance.... peoples vote so the sane can restore sanity

22 Mar 2019

"so naive"   Ooh burnside, pot, kettle black!

burneside
burneside
22 Mar 2019

@Lynne Do you seriously think MPs pay any attention to petitions, online or otherwise.  I didn't realise you were so naive.

22 Mar 2019

@S I'm glad you have acknowledged that the EU will have control over aspects of member states' taxation affairs, even if not all states agree with that.  You would be foolish to think there wouldn't be mission creep, and eventually income tax rates would come under the control of Brussels.  As it stands, the EU has to approve the national budget of states who are in that folly called the ...

HappyMooseDrinker
HappyMooseDrinker
22 Mar 2019

They seem more competent than the people we have put in charge.