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The Brexit Thread

In fairness he doesn't operate the rail companies, they were meant to comply with these new regulations and have failed to do so.
 
A very poor headline...again.
As I understand it, about three quarters of people considered disabled are fully ambulant, and the train companies have all agreed that they will comply, they have just asked for additional time.
Nothing has been "ripped up"
If we are just pasting articles, can they be based on intelligent facts this year.
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Edit...and you do know that the Independant is now owned by the Mail don't you?
 
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rob666 said:
A very poor headline...again.
As I understand it, about three quarters of people considered disabled are fully ambulant, and the train companies have all agreed that they will comply, they have just asked for additional time.
Nothing has been "ripped up"
If we are just pasting articles, can they be based on intelligent facts this year.
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Edit...and you do know that the Independant is now owned by the Mail don't you?
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About three quarters of disabled people are considered fully ambulant - so what?

There was a target. Thanks to a combination of the last government and rail companies incompetence, not enough trains were ready for 2020. Now there's no hard deadline, so disabled folks are screwed over. Very poor show
 
rob666 said:
Edit...and you do know that the Independant is now owned by the Mail don't you?
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The Independent is still owned by a consortium led by the Lebedev family. The Daily Mail parent bought 'i', which was started by the Independent group and went through a number of owners before ending up with the Rothermeres.

@speedy There is a will to get the new trains on the track, but it's a balance between taking drivers out for training and having enough drivers to run the services that they are already committed too. My train to work was often a 142, but is almost never one now - progress definitely being made.
 
Dar said:
I lost my job yesterday because of brexit, so I hope it turns out to be everything everybody's hoping for
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My brother has a uncertain future with his job in die making/maintenance in the car industry.
You don't need to answer this Dar, what industry are was your job in?

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delta79 said:
My brother has a uncertain future with his job in die making/maintenance in the car industry.
You don't need to answer this Dar, what industry are was your job in?

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e-commerce warehouse that does a lot of European business, but not amazon, pretty much bottom rung but it was still a rung on a ladder somewhere. I feel this is going to happen a lot more the longer we go without certainty about what the future relationship will look like, and it's going to hit the bottom rungs the hardest.
 
Sorry to hear that Dar.

Clarity will come relatively quickly if Johnson sticks to his strategy that whatever is agreed (if anything) by 2020 will come into force in 2021 without further delay. If he does - and what isn't widely understood - then we could end up with a much closer alignment to the EU than the Conservative Party has said so far. Perhaps something more akin to May's vision for a future relationship, maybe. This would certainly be easier and quicker to agree with the EU than any sort of Canada-style agreement. The threat of a cliff-edge 'no deal' will continue to be talked about as a negotiation tactic, but there is no evidence they would be prepared to do that - rhetoric doesn't count.
 
"Figures from the House of Commons library put the UK's total projected contribution towards the EU budget between 1973 and 2020 at £215 billion after adjusting for inflation."

"According to research by Bloomberg Economics, the cost of the UK's vote to leave has already reached £130 billion, with a further £70 billion likely to be added by the end of 2020."

These are quotes from the article, which seem to contradict the headline? Or is it that the non-adjusted for inflation figure is lower than the £200b we plan to spend by 2021?

Seems disingenuous.

This doesn't change that the cost is ludicrous.
 
RoyJess said:
The true cost of Brexit

"Brexit will soon have cost the UK more than all of its payments to the EU over the last 47 years put together"

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brex...gether/ar-BBYWF39?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=mailsignout
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Yet they want to throw a party, have a festival AND spend a fortune bonging Big Ben to celebrate.

Stop this country - I need to get off.

speedy said:
Any TowersStreet members planning to contribute to the Big Ben bong?
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Not me.

Going by the earlier pages on this thread, there's one or two that will probably be there striking the bell personally though :)
 
If everyone in the country just donates as little as £3000 we could pay for not only big bens bongs but also all of brexit, then we could spend taxpayer money on something useful.

Hang on, that seems unfair.

If each Brexit voter pays £11,500 we could do the same, and only the people who voted for it would be responsible for its enormous costs.
 
Lurker said:
If everyone in the country just donates as little as £3000 we could pay for not only big bens bongs but also all of brexit, then we could spend taxpayer money on something useful.

Hang on, that seems unfair.

If each Brexit voter pays £11,500 we could do the same, and only the people who voted for it would be responsible for its enormous costs.
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And everyone who didn’t vote for it we deport them
 
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