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    Nor if you vote Tory. Nor if you vote for anyone sane.

    EU citizens will be subject to UK law however it evolves with maybe a legacy grandfathering for existing rights and obligations. Future evolutions in EU law will no more affect rights in the UK than future evolution of British law affected American or Australian or Irish laws post-independence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    Nor if you vote Tory. Nor if you vote for anyone sane.

    EU citizens will be subject to UK law however it evolves with maybe a legacy grandfathering for existing rights and obligations. Future evolutions in EU law will no more affect rights in the UK than future evolution of British law affected American or Australian or Irish laws post-independence.
    You're convincing yourself like the little engine that could aren't you? I'm afraid that our Brexit is going to be much more fun than yours.
    Congratulations America

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    Yes your imperial majesty, of course it will.
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    Oops, and now you're not first in line for the US after all.
    Congratulations America

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    And if you believe that you'll believe anything.

    In case you've forgotten my concern with the EU was not that it was not worth making a deal with, but it was unable to make one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
    You're convincing yourself like the little engine that could aren't you? I'm afraid that our Brexit is going to be much more fun than yours.
    It's going to be a streaming pile of shit for everyone except Putin and ISIS. Not even comedians and satirists will have a good time.

    Also:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...officials.html

    Mrs Merkel is said to have told senior colleagues that Mr Trump misunderstood the basic facts about the EU and trade, asking her 10 times if he could work out a trade deal with Germany before finally getting the message he could negotiate only with the EU.
    Sounds familiar
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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    And if you believe that you'll believe anything.

    In case you've forgotten my concern with the EU was not that it was not worth making a deal with, but it was unable to make one.
    Inconvenient truths you prefer to ignore I see.

    Your opinion or that of your PM is hardly of any interest.
    Congratulations America

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    Inconvenience truths matter a lot. We are leaving because too many inconvenient truths were brushes under the carpet for too long afterall.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    Inconvenience truths matter a lot. We are leaving because too many inconvenient truths were brushes under the carpet for too long afterall.
    The irony is strong with this one.
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    It's not like we weren't alive and well to the inconvenient truths as to what was wrong with the EU for a long time before the referendum, as much as others want to shrug and pretend everything is hunkydory and insult those who possess a healthy scepticism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    Inconvenience truths matter a lot. We are leaving because too many inconvenient truths were brushes under the carpet for too long afterall.
    Inconvenient truths like that how most of your 'problems with the EU' were simply home made?
    Congratulations America

  12. #162
    That's not true.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    It's not like we weren't alive and well to the inconvenient truths as to what was wrong with the EU for a long time before the referendum, as much as others want to shrug and pretend everything is hunkydory and insult those who possess a healthy scepticism.
    And now you even doubled down on the irony!
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    I've not pretended everything is hunkydory or been the one flinging out insults.
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    Must've been someone else then who thinks that Brexit is the best thing since sliced bread.
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    with tea and jam
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
    with tea and jam
    But no Prosecco, mind!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro View Post
    Must've been someone else then who thinks that Brexit is the best thing since sliced bread.
    Must've been. I was the one who decided it was on balance the right thing to vote for but was torn and only swung that way quite late. Had I felt it was the best thing since sliced bread I'd have not been torn - and it would have been an easy decision.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    Must've been. I was the one who decided it was on balance the right thing to vote for but was torn and only swung that way quite late. Had I felt it was the best thing since sliced bread I'd have not been torn - and it would have been an easy decision.
    Brexitanian logic; when in doubt, break glass and jump off the cliff.
    Congratulations America

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    Rand has been an all in type for as long as I can remember. Once he thinks he finally has something figured out he doesn't waver or second guess. Its a final all-in decision. He's displayed this in both his political opinions and in snippets of his life stories.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    Rand has been an all in type for as long as I can remember. Once he thinks he finally has something figured out he doesn't waver or second guess. Its a final all-in decision. He's displayed this in both his political opinions and in snippets of his life stories.
    That's quite insightful.

    It's why when I play poker I often end up chip leader and then losing.
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  22. #172
    *shrug* It's a popular way to run a business or a political campaign.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
    Brexitanian logic; when in doubt, break glass and jump off the cliff.
    Ramoanier logic: when in doubt do nothing and stand still on the road/train tracks/in the burning building.
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    You are mistaking me for someone I presume.
    Congratulations America

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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    That's quite insightful.

    It's why when I play poker I often end up chip leader and then losing.
    Well, currently you're playing poker with your country's economy. Your experience in that game should give you pause.
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  26. #176
    We've already pushed our chips in, too late to fold now.
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    Chips in indeed, let's see how those cards play out.

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    A new Brexit project kicks off in earnest tomorrow at my bank which I'll have a little involvement with; Euro-clearings shifting over from London to Paris.

    As things stand today, this is the only material change at the bank that has resulted from the vote to leave.

    The card game unfolding will decide what else, if anything, the banks eventually do.
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    It's actually the original French billion, which is bi-million, which is a million to the power of 2. We adopted the word, and then they changed it, presumably as revenge for Crecy and Agincourt, and then the treasonous Americans adopted the new French usage and spread it all over the world. And now we have to use it.

    And that's Why I'm Voting Leave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post
    Chips in indeed, let's see how those cards play out.

    ~

    A new Brexit project kicks off in earnest tomorrow at my bank which I'll have a little involvement with; Euro-clearings shifting over from London to Paris.

    As things stand today, this is the only material change at the bank that has resulted from the vote to leave.

    The card game unfolding will decide what else, if anything, the banks eventually do.
    If there is any room for common sense on the side of the British government there will be an agreement to end EU membership and the start of a transitional period which lasts till the end of the current budget cycle. The UK will withdraw from the organization once the two years are up (or earlier if possible) but otherwise the Treaties will be appliccable untill at least the end of the transitional period.

    This approach will mean that indeed Brexit is Brexit. It will avoid presenting the UK with something that resembles an exit bill. Also it will enable the UK starting up talks with the wider world and it will give the UK a decent number of years to come to a new type of accomodation with the EU without a huge risk of falling off the cliff. Advantage for businesses is that they will know from the beginning what will be on the table and what will not.

    What is an absolute condition for this to happen is a settlement for the rights of EU27 citizens living in the UK up untill at least Brexit and probably the end of the transitional period that from the British point of view is gold plated. The reason why it needs to be gold plated is that for the vast majority of Brits living in the EU27 that will be what they will get on the basis of present legislation. Any hint that British citizens get the better deal would mean political suicide for the EU side. And that is something thats not going to happen.
    Congratulations America

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    Interesting; seems the EU is going to instruct the UK Home office on how not to treat EU citizens. That aggressive attitude, sending people with absolute right to be in the UK letters telling them to prepare to leave, really has paid off.
    Congratulations America

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    There was no aggression. Bureaucratic incompetence strikes again, you are aware that those who got those pro forma letters have already been told they don't need to leave right?

    The template for if someone's request for right to remain gets rejected is to advise them to leave or appeal the decision because people who already have right to remain rarely apply for it redundantly. A surge of people who already had right to remain seeking it but not filling in the ridiculously bureaucratic papers correctly has caused this "computer says no" nonsense.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    ℬeing upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

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