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We all make a lot of our decisions in life emotionally, it requires less effort. The trick is trying to recognise that when someone is trying to get an emotional decision from you, it's often because they have a weak rational proposition.

Tony Blairs Government passed an act which meant the UK could not agree to any further EU treaty amendments, without a referendum. That has been repealed now as part of leaving, so we didn't have to have a referendum on the treaty change that involved us leaving. When we rejoin, and we will...

It's thinking like this on the issues of the EU that led to a bad decision. It isn't that there are no cons to membership of the EU, its that there were far more pros. On the question of returning, as much as I would like it, I think it would be wise to see what a normal relationship with the...

No, there will be checks, the DUP have caved in essentially, it's thought to be largely just a reworded agreement so they can claim it isn't the original deal.

Stop talking the country down, believe in Britain, farmers and fishermen will make up the losses in the city, or maybe steelworkers, or, maybe we will just have a f***ing war with Russia.

There was cross party support for a plan that used public funds to clean up parcels of that land, lease it and use the money from leasing and selling scrap to clean up the next parcel. The Tory Mayor then made a decision, seemingly alone, to change that and give these two characters the land...

Unfortunately, tonnes of illegal meat imports with potential to bring African Swine Fever to the UK are being found, even with the limited checks that are currently in place. If we don't start checking properly, there is a huge risk to UK Pig farmers. I guess some of the Farmers in Eastern EU...

I find those people that hate asylum seekers, also hate Foreign aid, but there is this weird benefit of having asylum seekers for those people, in that we take the cash used to support people on asylum claims from the foreign aid budget, so a chunk of the money marked as foreign aid actually...

Just reading the Insurance industry justifying the massive hikes in premiums of late, apparently the average cost of a claim has shot up, because parts are more expensive and take longer to arrive, so courtesy cars, garage storage fees etc. are higher. Thanks Brexit.

I can go with 60% required for a change, as long as you are willing to keep having referendums annually until you get a 60% majority either way, at that point a further referendum only if a new treaty is to be signed or a Government that offers one in their manifesto is elected. I also think a...

What you still don't get, is that those you are arguing with are team UK.

"The latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) information shows that the UK is one of the first countries in the world to estimate the 2020 and 2021 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic period through the SUT framework. The United States has also published SUTs for 2021...

There are no grown ups left on the front bench of the Government, last 3 PM's all children, the current one is even child size.

Seems it is time to post this again.

She is a lovely person, just upset that her roofers had to use safety gear and hence cost her more money. The reason that safety rules are enforced better in UK construction is that the HSE started going after individual directors for gross negligence and not just have a company fined. Until...

And you can't go and live and work anywhere in Europe anymore either, or even just spend more than 3 months in 6 there as a tourist. You have no more sovereignty than you had before. Did you vote for any of the shit we have now, or the last 2 PM's we have had? I have never had an MP that I voted...

That will be of interest to the several hundred Brits in sports cars travelling to Le Mans soon.

It is being reported, pro Brexit press claiming it a victory for post Brexit Britain, and the end of the argument to rejoin the EU, anti Brexit press pointing out that it is expected to boost our economy less than 0.1%. The problem for us is that we just don't output much stuff that the rest of...

It is actually more like ten or so threads that have been merged over time, as they were all related to Brexit.