Baby Boomer Brexit

[Garaman]

I was reading an article which claimed that baby boomers, like myself, who vote to leave are giving the final two fingers to the younger generation, who apparently favour remaining in the EU. It went on to say how we hadn’t exactly left things in a good state for the next generation – making a tidy sum on housing at their expense etc. I must say it did make me think. The decision is likely to affect them much more than it does us. Do you think that we should be voting for what is best for us or for what we think will be best for the younger generation?

[jno]

cheaper roaming charges seems like a very strong point in favour of being in the EU. Britain alone wasn't strong enough to make it happen; the EU was. Likewise the EU is big enough to take on the likes of Google and Apple, whereas Britain on its own is running scared of the global corporations, who only pay tax here if they feel like it.

[Jackdaw33]

You're havin' a giraffe, ain't cha?

[waterboatman]

JNO I rest my case.

[Old_Geezer]

Any country has agree join action with others.
One need not be subsumed by a large group to achieve that.

[Old_Geezer]

joint

[jourdain2]

jno - I'm speechless!

[DTCwordfan]

the next generation, we risk effing it up for them and our past prejudices are not the basis for the vote - plus we ought to change from within and that means taking the EU seriously and appointing heavyweights to the Council and all the Commissions....

[jourdain2]

But DTC, we can appoint all the heavyweights we like - it won't make any difference - honestly.

[DTCwordfan]

we haven't even tried, jourdain....what the hell do the French, Dutch and Germans do? Exactly what we don't....though name dropping, Wim Kok was one of the most impressive Euros that I have met - where is our Merv the Swerv or Eddy the Steady - nowhere....and that is to our demise and it needs to change, pronto.

[Baldric]

Then we need to change it by leaving, pronto!

[DTCwordfan]

we agree to disagree on that, Balders. The one stat that for me counts is this so called contribution, a number that the Brexits conveniently forget the secondary services benefit and inward investment (and how the Frogs need the latter). Whatever, £380 mln is wiped out like a one pass of toilet paper with a 1/2% recession.......

Immigration is a non-issue - it's where you draw the lines on the map. However, DC has a serious question to answer when the net non EU was +180k out of the 330k gain and, interestingly so, most of the gain came from the original EU members and not the newbies - source the Times today.....interesting article over there!

[-Talbot-]

Before the cheaper roaming charges came in I paid £30 per month to talk to anyone in the UK for as long as I wanted to from anywhere in Europe.... yes cheaper roaming charges had me wavering, it must have saved me ooooh at least 7 quid a month.

[tonyav]

Financial Times Brexit Poll Tracker.

https://ig.ft.com/sites/brexit-polling/

[Dodger666]

I wonder if the FT has taken the AB Poll into account?

[katerich48]

How did the Common Market which we joined 50 odd years ago, and was all about trading with other countries turn into the EU. A non-elected body, that was less about trading and more about writing our laws for us, and basically telling us what we could and couldn't do in our own country?