Brexit

[Hymie]

Private Eye Number Crunching

£20bn – amount that, as a keen Brexiteer in 2016, Rishi Sunak said ‘we will immediately save’ on leaving the EU

£80bn – Long run annual cost to the UK economy from leaving the EU as assessed by the Office for Budget Responsibility

[Spicerack]

I'm quoting directly from the OBR. If you don't believe me, see p7 in Private Eye.

Ho ho ho, God help us and save us.

[emmie]

as someone on here says "You couldn't make it up"

[gulliver1]

Meaghan 27,Spot on... You are so so correct .,
Brexit was all about IMMIGATION ! But Naomi just doesn't get and she never will, just leave her on her own little Planet.

[naomi24]

^ :o)

[davebro]

I cancelled my subscription to PE. Although entertaining in parts most of its content harps on about awful stuff that has already happened & about which we can absolutely nothing - overall it's depressing.

[davebro]

DO absolutely nothing

[youngmafbog]

Hahaha, obviously the weekly consignment of sour grapes from the EU hasnt reached Hymie yet.

I voted leave and I would do it again. And I didnt vote leave for any of the reasons the leavers above keep harping on about.

Funny how they seem to think they know my mind better than I do.

[Hymie]

Must be a different Naomi24 posting on this site advising the person not to read the bad news in Private Eye – see thread below for full details (précis included below).

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1808126.html

//Here is an interesting letter from the current issue of Private Eye:-

‘Sir,

I am a fairly new subscriber to the Eye. Each edition makes me upset and angry. The amount of corruption at both national and local level is appalling. Ignorance really was bliss.

Sheila Kerr-Smith, Worthing’//

Post from a Naomi24 in response to the above thread:-

//Each edition makes me upset and angry.//

She should give it up before it becomes a bad habit.

[Hymie]

Ah, once information from the Office for Budget Responsibility is published in Private Eye it must be wrong.

[naomi24]

Hymie, //Must be a different Naomi24 posting on this site advising the person not to read the bad news in Private Eye //

Must be because I didn't say that either. I haven't mentioned bad news - only bad habits. Your confusion doesn't abate.

[Spicerack]

There's one sure way to find out, clown.

[New Judge]

//...the Breixteers pooh pooh my numbers claiming there are inflated losses from fifth column organisations//

I didn't do that. I simply asked what the source was. I did that because, quite honestly, I've generally no interest at all in any such figures and I don't go scouring newspapers and magazines for them. So thanks for the info. My Private Eye is overdue (probably because of delays caused by postal strikes) so I'll see it then when it arrives.

It may seem incredible to you but many people - me included - are not interested in the minor inconveniences and possible temporary hits to the economy that Brexit has caused. They were expected and in some respects have been less onerous than were expected. The important thing is that we have left that pernicious organisation.

When the USSR broke up many people living in Soviet states were happy and relieved even if it caused them problems - some far more serious than the trivia some people in the UK are moaning about. I am not saying for one minute that the EU resembles the USSR. I'm simply using the analogy to explain (and hopefully help you understand) my earlier point - that you don't sell your soul for a few pieces of silver. Even when those pieces of silver add up to £80bn (assuming the OBR is correct).

We're out of the EU now and neither of the parties likely to be in government in the foreseeable future has any intention of making rejoining part of their manifesto (not that you should particularly pay any heed to what politicians tell you). It really is quite pointless to keep harping on about it but if you do you will always receive similar responses from me.

[gulliver1]

Love this one.................
The pound is on life support against the USD.
Long Queues at Dover. Immigrants coming in by the boatload .NHS still struggling after £350m PW extra since Brexit..... Still no promised Sunny Uplands.
But the UK has got it's Sovereignty back ,it is said.

[Peter Pedant]

depends on what you count innit

that is if you dont want to declare a profit of £10m you bung in a few proportionate expenses against it..... so long as they are not double counted.
I thought everyone did that.

[DTCwordfan]

Good God, no mention of a general election from G.

[Peter Pedant]

gully I love the navy blue passports - which arent like the old one as passports are standardised for machine reading

They (downside catastrophes) were expected and in some respects have been less onerous than were expected.

No by such as TTT we were promised sunny uplands at midday the next day. so.

[gulliver1]

11.44 You on the RKs again. DC

[New Judge]

//No by such as TTT we were promised sunny uplands at midday the next day. so.//

The only "Sunny Upland" I was interested in was seeing the UK's membership of the EU cease. That has been achieved (not entirely to my liking, but you can't have everything) and that's all that matters.

[ToraToraTora]

judge, gallant effort as usual but people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing can never comprehend why people like us wanted out of the EUSSR.