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As well as the cries that the polls got EURef wrong there’s been something of a backlash against the betting industry which more than at any previous election had sought to promote itself in the manner that Ladbrokes did in the graphic above.
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On a far more serious note fellow PBers may recall that several months ago I advised that a small company my family had personal but not financial associations with for decades was struggling with retaining and bidding for contracts from European firms because of uncertainty caused by the referendum. Investment and job security was at stake including two new apprenticeships and the possibility of an exit from the UK was being researched.
I regret to say that uncertainty and the BREXIT vote will result in all bar four staff of the firm losing their jobs. The company is executing its plan to move within the EU.
Real people with mortgages and families to support and now with real redundancies to contend with.
There is no way of predicting where things will end up, and if we do go through with Brexit, there is no telling which forces will end up in power in whatever is left of the UK. The genie has been let out of the bottle.
I dont for a minute believe that she was any more a remainer than Corbyn. Like him she just towed that line and kept a very low profile
While I am always sympathetic to those that lose their jobs may I just point out that 120,000 jobs have disappeared from the oil industry and no one appeared to give a shit. Then there are the steel jobs that went, not least because of EU energy directives, and again no one cared a jot.
People could stand to toughen up, to be firmer, but it's a godsdamned political blog not a war, people are not shaming themselves or their generation by reacting pseudonymously in a less than admirable fashion.
This EU campaign is getting to me, that's twice I've snapped at people. But would a 1940s man have done do more than twice? That's the question, apparently.
Honestly, I like you mikeK, but that remark was utter nonsense.
#Bridiot
Looks completely destroyed...
It is very sad when anyone loses their job and has financial worries - but this is happening all the time with or without Brexit. Emotional concerns like that cannot stop us sticking with the decision that will have the best outcome for Britian - as long we grasp the opportunities it provides.
I'll take that.
https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/746214367583100930
One thing the result has done is deliver a blow to the city of London
6-1 was silly though, not that I am complaining.Clearly the amount of money being piled on remain meant they had to make brexit an irresistible investment to fund the remain bets.
Mr. Smithson, not sure I agree. A referendum is a matter of assessing people's opinions. If the market's assessment makes one a strong favourite and the other side wins, the punters are plain wrong. Not only that, a Grand National doesn't have two horses in it. If it did, and one was 33/1 and won, then people would say the bookies got it wrong.
Mr. P, too early to say that, depends on whether Corbyn goes.
Also, Lib Dems may bounce back (especially if Labour are sunk).
Only one winner out of that. Nigel Farage.
It had no indigenious source of coal or of iron ore nor any meaningful local customers. When the price of steel fell two-thirds, closure was inevitable.
As an aside, Port Talbot doesn't use an Arc Furnace (which would be affected by EU energy directives as they use electricity), but burned coal directly.
Of course it will be a very British revolution, so I don't expect to find politicians hanging from lampposts. There may be some sharp notes to the Times and a lot of guff on the Internet, but it will work itself out. Who knows you and I might both like the end result.
FearRealityhttps://twitter.com/kiranstacey/status/747468502500515842
In the long-term, this is good news. But there's a reason why Lloyds and RBS have been so hammered.
To me it smacks of everything the Remain campaign was all along - smug, patronising and arrogant.
What's the Brexiteer phrase? Oh, yes,
Suck it up, whiner...
If you think a 33/1 horse has come in, you probably priced it wrong.
https://twitter.com/TehmoorKhalid/status/747468635883593729
Although even that doesn't matter, since even if its ideas are good, which is a reasonable debate, it's too late now.
You were perfectly entitled to your position that you robustly defended, despite the odd wobble and have no reason whatsoever to rebuke yourself. My point was simply that at times we forget that in the heat of battle normal folk and their lives are often forgotten amid the welter of claim and counter claim.
The head of this family firm, who I have known since he was a new born, was in tears as he recounted to me the scenes as he explained to his long serving staff their desperate situation. It was traumatic.
I wonder how many of the 17 million brexiteers would see keeping free movement as the ultimate betrayal of what they voted for.
5 million? 8? 10?
"March of the makers", "Rebalance the economy", remember those?
Lol, no need for experts showing off their fancy learning.
You could see this as a game of poker, now. Maybe it always was.
What time is the People's Front of Judea meeting?
However that is to miss the point of my original post. Jobs are lost all the time and no one gives a shit. JackW knows some people who have lost out on EU trade, very sorry for the people concerned but I didn't see JackW talking about the jobs that have been lost the other way, or globalization generally.
And so it begins. The PM of Australia announces that he has spoken with the PM of New Zealand to be the1st with a trade deal with the UK
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-27/turnbull-orders-orders-urgent-review-of-brexit-implications/7546890
In Sunderland, for instance, 62-38, the Tories would tactically vote in their droves.
Does this mean we'll have to play the AB's even more often (Hides behind sofa).
Also Ghana.
We're getting killed in the rush!!
I'm not trying to make a debating point simply to note that knowing people who are so significantly and negatively hit by the BREXIT gives one pause for thought.
The decision is made and for good or ill the nation and individuals will have to come to terms with it.
Caroline Lucas rubbishes idea she could be joining Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet #jexit https://t.co/uG7ekl52Qo
We need a "we've always been at war with eastasia" approach here - tories, labour europhiles, and remainers generally need to forget the fact that the campaign was immigration led. Going on about the backtracking helps no-one but Farage who can cry betrayal.
Mr. W, that's sad news. I hope your own (health) situation is on the up, though.
Labour leavers vote ukip
Tory leavers vote tory or ukip
Tory UKIP coalition with Farage DPM more than a 33-1 chance!
Of the deaths that occured after the country voted give a landslide to a power mad neocon in 2001...
Do you think anyone will actually invoke Article 50 in the end? The way it's being talked up as almost akin to pushing the "red button" I've got my doubts anyone will actually do it in the end...