Nah let them replace EU Doctors and Nurses with Ted "didn't bother to pick up the Language" Pensioner and his arthritic hip from the Costa del Sol.
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The UK votes to leave the European Union |OUT2| Mayday, Mayday, I've lost an ARM
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Nah let them replace EU Doctors and Nurses with Ted "didn't bother to pick up the Language" Pensioner and his arthritic hip from the Costa del Sol.
Royal_Phalanx
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EU countries should just poach the junior doctors as a big fuck you to the UK.
I see this is going swimmingly then. I thought I had become immune to the festering excrement eliminating from the vermin that infest half this country but even I am somewhat surprised, and I have always expected the worst in people. The clown car is fully engaged and we are going over the cliff and May was in fact a swivel eyed loon all along.
I guess this is what it must feel like for someone to realise they live in what is effectively deep Red State USA. I mean they must of gotten the same racist haterade from somewhere, turns out it was from the homeland of the colonials in the first place. Quelle surprise. I have nothing in common with these people and I never will. It is not a demographic I have any interest in catering for since it is impossible to cater to racists.
So ashamed of this country and so ashamed to be British, we're all tarred by the same brush. Well at least there's one positive, this whole affair finally removed the last vestiges of nationalism from me.
I guess this is what it must feel like for someone to realise they live in what is effectively deep Red State USA. I mean they must of gotten the same racist haterade from somewhere, turns out it was from the homeland of the colonials in the first place. Quelle surprise. I have nothing in common with these people and I never will. It is not a demographic I have any interest in catering for since it is impossible to cater to racists.
So ashamed of this country and so ashamed to be British, we're all tarred by the same brush. Well at least there's one positive, this whole affair finally removed the last vestiges of nationalism from me.
This is the crazy shit our politicians, I thought they were a tiny bit smart but they are the proving to be the dumbest shit heads, it makes me sick. They really do think if Tereasa acts tough and that if they hold people hostage they'll win. I hope the shit they get back is as bad as I think it will be, and these politicians will be vilified forever.
So Europe gets workers with all skill levels. England gets fewer workers who don't want to leave, lots of pensioners and hopefully all the criminals who escaped England to hide in Spain etc.
I give a fuck because our main economic driver since the 80s have been financial services and we've done nothing since to diversify away from it.
Them individually? Fuck em, collectively? Then I'm fucking myself.
How does that justify kicking everyone who saved your life out of your country?
Old people are senile and often say dumb things.
If you vote for me, we'll pass a law to get them killed at birth.
Starwolf_UK
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The thing about the home grown NHS staff is it is a lot like the budget defect. Remember how that was meant to be 0 about a year ago? While now it is a maybe by 2022 if Brexit doesn't completely fuck things up.
Even today on Radio 4 they were talking immigration and the presenter kept pressing when exactly this target of tens of thousands (that apparently is still too many for some communities because that is how immigration works 100% of them all descend on one village and also I thought they scrapped it because it was you know, impossible and it was Dave's idea) was being achieved and they were like "I dunno" to which the presenter said "then it is an aspiration; not a target".
Some would say the Tories are playing tough seeing that UKIP is falling apart (their leader has resigned and Farage refuses to come back) and want to get their far right vote back. Though maybe that is me hoping that is what happens so the real negotiations are handled a bit better or just left to you know, experts
Even today on Radio 4 they were talking immigration and the presenter kept pressing when exactly this target of tens of thousands (that apparently is still too many for some communities because that is how immigration works 100% of them all descend on one village and also I thought they scrapped it because it was you know, impossible and it was Dave's idea) was being achieved and they were like "I dunno" to which the presenter said "then it is an aspiration; not a target".
Some would say the Tories are playing tough seeing that UKIP is falling apart (their leader has resigned and Farage refuses to come back) and want to get their far right vote back. Though maybe that is me hoping that is what happens so the real negotiations are handled a bit better or just left to you know, experts
mad how the only brexit goal is reducing immgration as much as possible
i really did not think they'd risk losing passporting for banks, gutting the finances of our universities by hitting foreign students, strangling the nhs' access to staff and alienating business at a time when everyone is re-assessing their uk investments. how does this all add up, it will be chaos.
and the thing is there's not even a majority for the immigration drive. if you take the 48% of remainers and add the leavers who were free market brexiteers & ppl who just wanted less money spent on bureaucrats and more on the nhs, you have a majority for remaining in the single market with single market rules.
i really did not think they'd risk losing passporting for banks, gutting the finances of our universities by hitting foreign students, strangling the nhs' access to staff and alienating business at a time when everyone is re-assessing their uk investments. how does this all add up, it will be chaos.
and the thing is there's not even a majority for the immigration drive. if you take the 48% of remainers and add the leavers who were free market brexiteers & ppl who just wanted less money spent on bureaucrats and more on the nhs, you have a majority for remaining in the single market with single market rules.
FlammableD
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fuck it all, i'm done
What planet am I on? I just took my ambien tablet hopefully this is imaginary in the morning.
lol.
FFS. The nasty party indeed.
I think I am going to be genuinely furious about the referendum for the rest of my life lol
I think thats a bit simplistic.
If we had PR, there would be much less tactical (and to a lesser extent, protest) voting, so the vote shares would be entirely different. I also think Cameron would have been much less inclined to make the gamble of the referendum in the first place had he known he was certainly going to be in a coalition government with UKIP
Plus given that it seems the Tories have decided to absorb a lot of the UKIP rubbish over the last couple of days, it doesn't seem like what we are getting now is exactly hugely different to a Tory-UKIP coalition anyway! At least with PR, there might be a chance of Labour/Lib Dem/SNP unifying to provide decent opposition too
CadetMahoney
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fuck it all, i'm done
That's royal coming from someone who wasn't nearly as outspoken under Cameron. Now it just looks like full pandering and scapegoating when the time is right for something to pass.
fuck it all, i'm done
That's something the German far-right party AfD would say.
You had a good run UK.
RedSparrows
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I am so angry again. So, so angry.
Shopping on Amazon.co.uk these holidays will be great.
RedSparrows
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We're not ordinary people. That's the message now. And any Brexiters who weren't anti-immigration (despite some Remain shtick, they did exist!) are also essentially being ignored. As is anyone who thinks throwing the baby out with the bath water is actually, y'know, dumb. A terribly blunt referendum question, treated as a mandate when advisory, treated as a referendum on immigration more than anything else. Possibly no recourse to parliament. Democracy roolz.
I really hope this is just rhetoric...
PJV3
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They all go like that with a bit of ultimate power. Where there is discord may we increase it.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Norwegian_Imposter
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Marvellous, puts my position in a awkward place in Norway
Watch this end up having almost all EU nationals kicked out while British nationals are allowed to stay in the EU
PJV3
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Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Spain's foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, ever the bastard, is willing to take the UK's invitation to play hardball with expats:
Margallo has also proposed joint sovereignty over Gibraltar, whatever that means.
For the record, most Spaniards don't give the most minute of the fucks about Gibraltar, but the rock seems to be something deeply buried in the conservative psyche.
Margallo has also proposed joint sovereignty over Gibraltar, whatever that means.
For the record, most Spaniards don't give the most minute of the fucks about Gibraltar, but the rock seems to be something deeply buried in the conservative psyche.
Its October... Thats what happens to a political class when it has 211 years of salty feel behind it.
RedSparrows
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Farage returning would make a mockery of UKIP's supposed democracy and its status as a party of any real strength. Oh the small ironies, they're all I have.
lol.
WTF is this? What year is it?
1941? :-(
Fare Godmace
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lol.
Okay, I thought I had gotten over this Brexit stuff, but this is legit terrifying.
Starting to feel really unsafe as an EU national in the UK now, even though I reckon that I should be safe as a programmer...
PJV3
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I'm all for control on migration but kicking out foreign doctors, what the hell is going on? I thought they just wanted to control the amount of low skilled workers coming in and keep a healthy flow of skilled migrants coming in?.
Maybe your conservatives just don't like border gore.
Although I suppose if that was the case, they should probably give Ceuta and Melilla to Morocco.
How am I not surprised?
lol.
May I be the first to welcome you to Brexit Britain.
Starwolf_UK
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Last 5 minutes of the today program are quite interesting listening (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z39tn#play). Conservative party members feel they got their party back from Cameron who was erm...too posh, too liberal and...didn't really like them? Brexit divisions still plague the conservative party on the inside and remainers feel a tad intimidated and the fringes have been toned down as the party wants a clear message in the media.
That is an unusually long term policy for a politician.
There is also the training costs which they're planning to get by charging foreign students more...while giving them shittier visa options. My sister in law (who is now a British citizen) would have never bothered with this country under the visas of basically kicking you out the minute your studies end.
I think this will backfire spectacularly when the NHS tops that list.
lol.
There are 37.5k foreign doctors in the NHS. The Government plans to train 1500 more doctors a year from 2018. So starting 2024 the effect will be seen. Assuming 100% pass rate, no additional foreign doctors, NHS requires no additional jobs (and also loses none) and these extra positions are solely to remove foreigners then by 2049 the NHS will be foreigner free...
That is an unusually long term policy for a politician.
There is also the training costs which they're planning to get by charging foreign students more...while giving them shittier visa options. My sister in law (who is now a British citizen) would have never bothered with this country under the visas of basically kicking you out the minute your studies end.
Jezbollah
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Lets put it this way, this probably wont happen but it'll pander to those Labour Leave voters who are thinking about voting UKIP. They'll lap this up.
It seems to be part of the masterplan to turn Red votes Blue.
RedSparrows
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Probably: they know Corbyn's weakness(es), and a major one is presenting a Labour that appeals (because it could, I believe) to more than what is a minority of voters, that is, social democrats and anyone to the left barring the most radical hardcore.
31GhostsIV
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Well, this is terrifying. And to make it worse, where's the opposition?
I feel ashamed to be part of a first world western nation that elected this bunch of right wing assholes into power. I'm so sick of the insular racist flag-waving bullshit.
I feel ashamed to be part of a first world western nation that elected this bunch of right wing assholes into power. I'm so sick of the insular racist flag-waving bullshit.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Hadn't realised the BNP won the general election.
A 1.9% majority in a non-binding referendum had their say. There's no room for opposition, debate, or consideration for varying contexts. Brexit Means Brexit, And We're Going To Make A Success Of It.
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