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26-06-2016, 07:00 PM
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Nick Clegg: what you will wake up to if we vote to Leave…

Who'd have thought he could see into the future!

This article (written the day before the referendum) is eerily close to what's happening now

Are you still undecided? Are you someone who – pummelled by weeks of claim and counter-claim – has been left exhausted and annoyed? Have you been looking for answers, yet all you’ve encountered are insults and exaggeration?

Maybe you’re so fed up you think to hell with it, let’s throw caution to the wind and vote Brexit. Imagine, however, what happens next. Imagine how you will feel on 24 June?

Having woken on Friday to the news we’re quitting the EU, you will assume that those who persuaded you to take that leap of faith have a plan about what to do next.

So imagine how dismayed you will feel when you discover, instead, that Nigel Farage, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson can’t agree among themselves what life outside the EU looks like? They may be united by a ferocious loathing of the EU, but they have no shared plan for the future.

Gridlock

So you will look towards our leaders in Westminster to sort out the mess. Instead, they argue among themselves: the Conservatives descend into a bloody leadership election; Parliament enters years of constitutional gridlock trying to extricate itself from the intricate legal stitching which binds us to the EU and gives us access to world markets.

Then you discover just how unprepared the Government is – that there simply aren’t enough trade negotiators in Whitehall, for instance, with the expertise to renegotiate 50 or so international trade accords.

As politicians bicker, you become increasingly unnerved by what’s happening in the economy, too: overseas investors take fright; money flows out of the country; our credit rating is slashed; the interest on our borrowing goes up; unemployment rises; sterling tanks; prices in the shops go up.

Nicola Sturgeon soon announces that preparations have started for a second independence referendum, claiming it is the only way to keep Scotland in the EU. And this time most commentators think that she will win.

Still, at least they will finally sort out our borders, right? After all, ending mass immigration was the Brexiteers biggest claim of all.

So imagine how you’ll feel when you discover that they don’t have a plan for that either? Some argue for a new land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to stop EU immigrants coming in through the “back door”. Others that a new border would harm the peace in Northern Ireland. The Australian points system which they advocate is no solution either – it has led to immigration levels twice as high as in the UK.

Panic

Panic starts to spread among the 1.3 million Brits who live, study and retire elsewhere in the EU. Spanish politicians start to complain about paying for public services used by British pensioners. If we start excluding Spanish doctors and nurses, why should they keep paying for our pensioners?...
Read the rest here: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/...ake-vote-leave
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26-06-2016, 07:18 PM
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If it wasn't all so tragic it would make the funniest sit com ever.
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Spooky!
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26-06-2016, 07:23 PM
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Very spooky ...someone send him an e-mail asking for the next instalment out of his crystal balls.
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26-06-2016, 08:04 PM
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Nick who?
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26-06-2016, 09:16 PM
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Lib Dem loser with an axe to grind. More drivel from the loosing side.
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27-06-2016, 11:31 PM
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Owen Jones was pretty spot on as well!

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28-06-2016, 04:45 AM
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Re: Nick Clegg: what you will wake up to if we vote to Leave…

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What this entire fiasco has shown is the utter incompetence of those who we elect to run the UK on our behalf.

There was always going to be an economic cost to leaving, but it should have been short term and manageable.

We have been let down badly, outmanoeuvred by an alcoholic ageing incompetent. and a French President who his own people despise and who will be gone within a year.

Our Politicians have proved as effective as our football team.

Unless our Politicians can pull a rabbit out of the hat very quickly we are faced with a fait accompli.

Associate membership, which means we are still paying in, no control over our Borders,no voting rights and no Veto over the Ukraine or Turkey joining.

The International Money Markets have downgraded us two notches, with a negative outlook.

This means that our borrowing costs, which dwarf what we pay into the EU are going up.

The Butchers Bill for this has yet to be presented.

It was all totally preventable but we have been let down badly by our Politicians.
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28-06-2016, 08:01 AM
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All this doom and gloom isn't helping at this rate we will talk ourselves into a very bad situation. The remainers need to stop and actually think what they are doing to add to the trouble because it's not going to get better without people putting a bit of effort in. Massive flounce from Cameron not helpful, traitors in the Labour Party not helpful, articles like this from failed politicians not helpful.
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28-06-2016, 08:18 AM
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Sorry Julie agendas are being pushed by those that lost.
 
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