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hang the bankers
I am not throwing racist remarks around about Greece -- I am paraphrasing the Remainer attitude towards Greece and what the EU has done to it over the last 12 years. Which you know very well.
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I am not throwing racist remarks around about Greece -- I am paraphrasing the Remainer attitude towards Greece and what the EU has done to it over the last 12 years. Which you know very well.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Who is 'their own' that the EU looks after.?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
A cursory look through some of the German press over the years would reveal the same sentiment tbh
Supine
Newt Member
Making stuff up isn't the same as paraphrasing
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hiraethified
That's purely by accident rather than design though, because I certainly don't recall any Brexit campaigners taking a stand against live exports as a central tenet for leaving the EU.
And, of course:
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Of course, there will be people who disingenuously say that this was by accident rather than design. This is of course, nonsense, and a result of people sticking their fingers in their ears and only paying attention to what suited their agendas. Brexit was long touted as an opportunity for the UK to improve animal welfare and farming standards and this seems to be the first manifestation of that.
Post-Brexit farming: Animal welfare standards high on list of new priorities
The government’s plans for the future of farming cover an ambitious collection of aims and promises but the look of many of the regulations and schemes has yet to be finalised.Included in the 66-page report are a number of plans which will alter the way we grow and rear our food for decades to come
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
71 pages of paperwork, hours of admin, for each lorryload of fish exported to Europe. Unsustainable, really, in the longer term.
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hiraethified
mauvais
on reddit or something
How is the lack of capacity for inspection at European border control posts a manifestation of a UK drive to improve standards?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I'm sure many here will rejoice at this news... Forget Frankfurt and Paris, says Barclays boss
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
No, no. That was by accident rather than design! The point is that some people don't accept that animal welfare standards were a consideration regarding leaving the EU. They were. Often.How is the lack of capacity for inspection at European border control posts a manifestation of a UK drive to improve standards?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
ska invita
back on the other side
its proportionate - you are obsessed.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Quote from the article Creating new products out of pools of sub-prime mortgages almost destroyed the world's financial system. Why have these people not been strung up?
I can't imagine that this is a forum where the difficulties facing bankers and hedge fund managers is going to get a particularly sympathetic hearing but for the sake of playing devils advocate.
This guy's optimism is admirable however if I were a banker/venture capitalist in SE Asia where most of the world's population live why would I choose to look to some cold miserable island thousands of miles away when Singapore a major financial centre is smack in the middle of Asia?
The same for New York. the US has an economy roughly the size of the EU why should they look to the UK anymore than the people using Frankfurt or Paris do?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Time zone, language, regulatory regime, and history. This isn't a very good question.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
The fishing communities universally voted to leave. Be very careful what you wish for, you might get it.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
IIRC the farming industry was not happy with the level of EU regulation. No way does the industry want to raise 'standards', that cuts into profit.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The answer to your question is in the article. This guy is one of the leading figures in an industry that provides 11% of the UK's tax receipts, as much as bankers are scumbags, if he thinks Brexit will have a positive outcome for his industry he is probably worth listening to.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I don't think any group of people you could name 'universally' voted for brexit.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Industry never leads on improving standards unless they are pushed.
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hiraethified
I could be wrong here but I'm guessing that this 'positive outcome' he refers to entirely relates to his industry's profits and his pay packet, and not the general population. Or are we supposed to be cheerleading what bankers come up with now and hope for some of that elusive trickle down wealth?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
You seem to have missed this bit: an industry that provides 11% of the UK's tax receipts
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
One should judge the humanity of a nation by how well it looks after its oysters.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
This
Straight from the tank to my belly.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Not everyone who works in the finance industry or whose livelihood depends on it is a rich banker.
There's a danger here of unintentionally creating a simplistic binary of good and bad industries, and suggesting that what's good for a particular industry is necessarily good or bad for people in general, depending which side of the line we think the industry is positioned.
bimble
floofy
Deep fried in batter, it’s what they would have wanted.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
An abomination. Shallots, lemon and Chablis.
bimble
floofy
What? Foreign nonsense.
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