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11 hours ago, retep said:

"Sturgeon said she would first request permission from the UK government to hold the vote via a so-called Section 30 order, though Prime Minister Boris Johnson has consistently refused. The next step, she said, is that “the lawfulness must be established by fact and not opinion.” 

Highlighted the salient words for your benefit.
 

Do you need help with what “established by fact and not opinion” actually means, in the context of the highlighted sequence?

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27 minutes ago, West 77 said:

You should stop writing nonsense.

 

Nonsense.  It was made perfectly clear before the EU referendum vote that leaving the EU also meant leaving the single market. Those voting to leave the EU who were the majority of the electorate voted to completely leave the EU which has been implemented thanks to the leadership of Boris.

I should stop writing nonsense?

But what is more concerning is the number of people who believe in an imaginary mandate to leave the single market, or rather to withdraw from the EEA Agreement. No such mandate exists. Vote Leave did not ever present to the electorate a plan for Brexit, and did not advocate leaving the single market. Don’t believe me? Our website is still online at voteleavetakecontrol.org. Take a look at our campaign messages and our claims. We argue for things which are utterly achievable in the EEA and make no mention at all of leaving the single market
From an ex-Vote Leave staffer.


https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2017/08/take-it-vote-leave-staffer-there-no-mandate-quit-single-market

 

How about you take a leaf out of your own book 🤪

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58 minutes ago, West 77 said:

It was made perfectly clear before the EU referendum vote that leaving the EU also meant leaving the single market.

Daniel Hannan : "Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market"

 

this isn't an opinion, it's recorded fact.

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I seem to remember there was talk of various types of "hard" or "soft" Brexit during the campaign, and any such talk of a hard Brexit was quickly dismissed, especially by the official campaign.

 

 

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7 hours ago, West 77 said:

I remember what was said and discussed at the time.  Unlike some of the anti Brexit / anti democratic mob I don't try to re write history.

 

 

 

 

Both videos dated after the referendum.

 

But you “don’t rewrite history” 😏

5 hours ago, West 77 said:

I believe your memory is playing tricks. The terms hard and soft Brexit only became widely used after the democratic British people voted to leave the EU on 23rd June 2016.  A hard Brexit never materialised because the UK didn't leave the EU without a withdrawal agreement and a trade deal was negotiated between the UK and EU.

A hard Brexit materialised as the TCA, which is why the UK’s trade performance is currently the worst ever (since records began, per today’s FT).

 

You are mistaking a ‘hard Brexit’ for a ‘no deal Brexit’ never materialising. That would have been still worse for the UK (‘told you at the time aplenty, and what were your replies then? Ah yes…”nonsense” 🙄)

 

But well, there’s hope for you yet: if the UK goes ahead with the TCA-breaching NIP Bill, there is a distinct possibility of the EU27 pulling the TCA altogether to put some manners on ye. Now that would be a ‘no deal Brexit’ 👍🏻

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24 minutes ago, West 77 said:

Nonsense. If English was your first language you would know the politicians were talking about a future event (EU referendum vote) and not a past event which had already happen (EU referendum vote)  The David Cameron comments should have helped you to date the videos.

 

Even more nonsense.

Here's some more for you to "nonsense" at, since that is all which you are capable of contributing in here:

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The UK’s trade performance fell to its worst level since records began in the first quarter of 2022, heaping more pressure on sterling in international currency markets.


Although the Office for National Statistics warned that the figures it published were “subject to higher levels of uncertainty than normal”, the new system it used to collect the trade data based on customs records was chosen because it was thought to be more accurate.

 The weak performance of UK exports and a surge in imports will add to pressure on the government over the damaging economic effects of Brexit as the official figures corroborate academic studies showing a rupture in UK exports since the new border controls were imposed in 2021.

The data showed that the UK’s current account deficit was 8.3 per cent of gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2022, a deterioration from an average of 2.6 per cent across all the quarters of 2021.

That was the worst figure on record since quarterly balance of payments data was first published in 1955.

 

https://www.ft.com/content/a31b4b8e-f9fc-4f1e-84c1-3632f194

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14 hours ago, L00b said:

Here's some more for you to "nonsense" at, since that is all which you are capable of contributing in here:

https://www.ft.com/content/a31b4b8e-f9fc-4f1e-84c1-3632f194

Bad link, looks like it got truncated...

 

UK trade performance falls to worst level on record in first quarter:

https://www.ft.com/content/a31b4b8e-f9fc-4f1e-84c1-3632f194d05a

 

 

Exports to the EU down 13.6% this year, but 25% since 2019!

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Looks like the EU is in for a bad time, just wait till they fully stop Ukraine gas and oil and see that affect bite harder as well.

 

As we keep being reminded by someone on here, the UK has high Oil prices £/$ exchange rate and the EU are also going down the same. 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/euro-slumps-to-20-year-low-against-dollar-in-fresh-blow-for-brussels-live-updates/ar-AAZcRBT

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Dromedary said:

Looks like the EU is in for a bad time, just wait till they fully stop Ukraine gas and oil and see that affect bite harder as well.

 

As we keep being reminded by someone on here, the UK has high Oil prices £/$ exchange rate and the EU are also going down the same. 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/euro-slumps-to-20-year-low-against-dollar-in-fresh-blow-for-brussels-live-updates/ar-AAZcRBT

...but as yet hasn't dropped as far as the UK's has as a result of Brexit... a salient point, well made! :thumbsup:

 

 

Meanwhile...

 

UK economic outlook has deteriorated, Bank of England warns:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62049990

"International forecasters such as the IMF and OECD have said Britain is more susceptible to recession and persistently high inflation than other Western countries, all of which are grappling with energy and commodity market shocks."

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29 June deadline came and went, UK still hasn’t implemented TCA-NIP provisions, whereby Horizon 2020 grants finally pulled from UK projects/applicants.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/05/eu-scraps-115-grants-uk-scientists-academics-brexit-row?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Dark day for British science.

 

100% of the blame to be shared between the ERG,  Johnson, Leave voters and assorted other Brexit cheerleaders.

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'Levelling Up' ... by massively defunding scientific and industrial research...

 

hooray for less science and manufacturing!

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2 minutes ago, ads36 said:

'Levelling Up' ... by massively defunding scientific and industrial research...

 

hooray for less science and manufacturing!

UK's Brexit woes threaten another flagship policy: levelling-up:

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-brexit-woes-threaten-another-flagship-policy-levelling-up-2022-06-23/

 

Leveling down however... :roll:

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