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The EU referendum thread 

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We get to keep pie, right? 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
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If the Remainers could have resisted ther own BS the likes of Fox could have been laughed out before he got to peddle this crap.

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Wed Jul 27, 2016 11:43 am
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http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/art ... id=DELLDHP

Cheers, chum lol.

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A new day, and I wonder how the tech industry is being affected by the Brexit vote. After all, we’re not actually out of the EU yet, are we? We have at least two year’s worth of membership to go. So I would expect that funding from the EU for various projects will remain in place for the time being.

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Groups that rely on European funding for tech projects have been told the money is "on pause" in the wake of the Brexit vote.

An email warning about the funding freeze was sent to a large group of stakeholders by Coast to Capital, a group that allocates European funding around the south-east of England.

It blamed the recent Brexit referendum and the change of government.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36903214

Ah. I see. Hmm. Oh, well. If we take the blind optimism of the Brexiteers as the default position on such news, then everything will be OK.

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Meanwhile, Alastair Campbell has written a screen on why Leavers aren”t piping down and accepting the Leave vote. He’s probbaly right.

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Having been to Latin America last week, may I say much of the rest of the world sees us today at best as a country which has opted voluntarily for decline, at worst a global laughing stock.

http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/article ... _1_4626810

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We build cars. OK, the majority of cars we build are for foreign owned companies, but nevertheless, we do the donkey work. Or, rather, we watch the robots doing the money work. You know what I mean.

So, how’s the car making doing post Brexit vote?

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Ford has raised the prospect of closing its British factories after predicting Brexit will deliver a $1bn hit to business.

Bob Shanks, chief financial officer, also said the company will hike the prices of its cars within the year to help “claw back” the money it will lose from foreign exchange movements following the EU vote.

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Earlier this week, Britain’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders warned of the potential harm that Brexit could cause to the UK’s £71.6bn-a-year car industry. It said that some global manufacturers may relocate to Europe in order to avoid the introduction of trade tariffs.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... wake-of-b/

I see. That’s going well too, then.

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So, I was thinking, how will the film and possibly the entertainment industry here in the UK be affected by Brexit?

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Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie 2 has been delayed due to Brexit, according to the show’s creator, Brendan O’Carroll.

O’Carroll, who writes and stars as Agnes “Mammy” Brown, told the Sun that the sequel’s funding has become insecure thanks to the volatile post-Brexit market. “We were planning to do it this year, but the numbers weren’t right,” said O’Carroll. “The Brexit drop in sterling makes it a lot more expensive for the studio than it would have been previously.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/a ... rexit-vote

OK, so the demise of a Mrs Brown’s Boys movie isn’t one that will send me into paroxysms of anger at Leave voters, but it does seem that if a highly successful franchise is finding that funding isn’t as good as as it was before the vote, then what genius new things will we be missing out on because the funding has collapsed? Both the BBC and Channel 4 use EU funding to make movies, and they take risks. Clearly this will cause a contraction in the arts.

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A game the two actors are no longer with us. I would like to think the Guardian would have happily paid them to reprise their roles for that.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37060430

Hell of a cost, and you can expect funding to dip significantly after 2020.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37060430

Hell of a cost, and you can expect funding to dip significantly after 2020.

Right, so this whole 'austerity' thing.. we can find 4.5 BILLION pounds a year extra to pay for Brexit can we? So why couldn't we find that when Brexit wasn't an issue?


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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37060430

Hell of a cost, and you can expect funding to dip significantly after 2020.

Right, so this whole 'austerity' thing.. we can find 4.5 BILLION pounds a year extra to pay for Brexit can we? So why couldn't we find that when Brexit wasn't an issue?


You aren't suggesting Gideon was playing games, are you? Not the man who curiously give £3m to China on the basis of, er, football?

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they need to stop the messing about.
slap WTO on the table and walk away and offer no other deal or negotiations.

let the UK Govt. play their games it will show at the next GE seeing as Labour are about dead in the water ...

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Looks like a good chunk of that £350 million a week destined for the NHS will be going elsewhere.

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they need to stop the messing about.
slap WTO on the table and walk away and offer no other deal or negotiations..

You know the WTO terms for trading with the EU are utterly horrendous right? I mean properly bad? Saying the the EU negotiators "Give us what we want or we'll go with the WTO regulations!" is rather like saying to the EU negotiators "If you don't give what I want, I'm going to repeatedly hit myself in the nut sack with this hammer!"

So yeah, let's do that and see how far it gets us.


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Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie 2 has been delayed due to Brexit, according to the show’s creator, Brendan O’Carroll.
That can only be a good thing. The first film was terrible. It didn't transfer from TV to film at all well.

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