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#Brexit

Bartek

Congrats to the Brits :P

I'm kinda surprised that Gavin disapproves :-/

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TheXRayFactor

Based Deak

They actually did it, the absolute madmen.

Applejack4life

I think it's pretty stupid

Parks

Ass To Ass

I haven't found any articles about this that aren't bonged down with irrelevant crap. Can someone link me to understand why this happened?

deadshadow

foking furry

praise kek

but seriously fuck the EU

deadshadow

foking furry

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Bartek

@Parks: British voted for leaving EU.

Deleted user

@Bartek:
So, what does this mean? People can't travel as easily?

Bartek

@BBurn0: They can. The more important thing is they don't have to obey every single idiotic EU Parliament decision.

Parks

Ass To Ass

@Bartek: That's the only thing I know of. I don't know why, or how it happened.

Mike

OVERLORD

It's ironic that the UK are the ones doing the separating.

KorporalKitty

PAM

My country is stupid and old people fucked our economy

KorporalKitty

PAM

@Bartek: Dude it's the EU, and also part of the EU is freedom of travel between the nations so he is right we cannot travel as easily.

absolutezilch

Hey Big Zam!

@Bartek: It is a bit damaging in the short term. Stocks and the GBP plunged downwards very sharply today, the Euro is also likely to depreciate due to lower investor confidence, new trading legislations have to be set up, investment is going to be affected in the UK etc. I don't know a lot about business but I think that's the word on the street.

Parks

Ass To Ass

This Journal had pretty much all the info I wanted to know about.

Bartek

@LouAPinto: You don't have to be in the EU to be in Schengen

Bartek

@absolutezilch: EU has been trying to transform into a socialistic Super-Country (with evident German domination) since the Treaty of Lisbon, so long-term pros are invaluable. I just hope for PolExit to happen one day...

TheXRayFactor

Based Deak

@Bartek:
Whether it was a good decision or not, the whole thing just reeks of a knee-jerk reaction to immigration, which is a shame, really.

Deleted user

All I know is Trump made a fool of himself, and people don't seem to care.

Neal

ROLF

@Bartek: Do you live in the EU? More specifically Britain? Because Louie seems pretty against it and I know he lives there.

Applejack4life

The EU makes everything in Europe easier, it's like we're one big community. If more countrys start to leave, Europe as a whole will get way less important in world politics, cause the single countrys are way too small and influenceless to really matter. The entire thing really is a shame.

Deleted user

They basically gave up their healthcare system, free travel, trade benefits and scientific research so they can keep a few Muslims out. Not to mention that if Scotland goes independent (they voted 70% Stay) then England is going to be missing out on millions of jobs from American companies since we only use the UK to access the EU.

Bartek

@Neal: Aye, I live in the EU (Poland) - we're all sick and tired of EU's pointless restrictions, clueless foreign policy and general interference in other countries internal affairs. I see our economy going to shit year by year due to their idiotic decisions.

Bartek

@Applejack4life: No one cares about the EU in the world politics. Literally no one. Here's what EU is capable of internationally:
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My_nama_Jeff

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Bartek

Regardless of our opinions - this is pretty fucking funny XD

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KorporalKitty

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@Bartek:
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Bartek

@LouAPinto: You still can join Schengen without EU membership - this pic proves nothing.

Bartek

@LouAPinto: In fact it proves my point - as you can see Switzerland is not in the EU and it's in Schengen.

Applejack4life

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TheXRayFactor

Based Deak

@Bartek:
Apparently, the solution is to nuke the EU instead of fixing it.

Eh, who cares. Soon we will all unite under the Trumpistan banner anyway.

KorporalKitty

PAM

@Bartek: Right but britain isn't and seeing as a majority of leave voters left because we are anti-immigration we arn't going to join Schengen we could only travel because we where in the EU.

Neal

ROLF

@Bartek: No offense. But the fact that all the UK's accountants and professionals said this would be bad, and most of the politics who backed it are backpedalling like crazy I don't think this was such a good or well informed decision.

Bartek

@LouAPinto: Closing the border doesn't mean building a wall along the coast, it's just giving the Brits more control over who's coming in. I remember Europe without Schengen - I could easily travel from Poland to Spain. Waiting on the border was just an inconvenience. You can still travel there, nobody's gonna shoot you o on the spot XD

Bartek

@Neal: ALL OF THEM???? :o Or those you saw on TV? Cause I remember similar "professionals" in Polish media trying to explain how enlarging the national dept is a good thing when Greece was going to shit. You don't have to be an economy genius to see your wallet empty.

KorporalKitty

PAM

@Bartek:so people wouldn't be able to travel as easily which is what BBurn0 said

Bartek

@LouAPinto: It's a mild inconvenience for the visitors. Brits just got back the control over their border.

deadshadow

foking furry

Im with Bartek on this the E.U was a good idea when it was just a trade union to help develop trade between european countries now its on it's way to be a super state where member countries have no power and a bunch of bureaucrats are in charge with only their self interest at heart


It needs to burn to the ground as a super state europe is very diverse and the countries are built on long histories of independence

the people complaining about not being able to travel it's a minor inconvenience to you you need to do some paperwork to go someplace so stop your bitching

draginator

Replying to OP:

How are you surprised he disapproves? There is no benefits.

Neal

ROLF

@Bartek: It doesn't have to be "ALL OF THEM????". It just has to be a few. Do you know how many people in America say we are fine or a bad decision is good? Also while things like Greece will happen that happens because the whole country's government was corrupt to the point of poisoning itself. All I'm saying is that the EU sounds like a good deal considering your continent's size and reliance on each other. Just because Britain is out of the EU doesn't mean they can make all the goods and money they were making in the EU. I know I'd prefer if I could just walk into Canada and back without a care, but I can't even do that in every state in my country.

P.S. You describing this to Lou as "the Brits" when he is a Brit living in the country we are discussing makes your argument sound way weaker. And I don't say that to be mean, but it makes it sound like you just don't care what "the brits" think and are telling him his country did a good thing for the other British people but not him or people that think like him.

Bartek

@Neal: I wasn't sure if he's a Brit, that's all ;) Like Deady said - the vision of the EU changed rapidly, from a free-market powerhouse to a bankrupt monster. Last couple decisions EU made hit Polish market REALLY bad - and for what?

We don't have to be one country to rely on each other.

deadshadow

foking furry

@Neal: having large trade deals is a good thing and its stuff everyone can prosper from the issue with the E.U as it is now is that it is trying to be a government over sovgerin nations

we have NAFTA here and all it's a trade agreement between countries in North America nothing more something the E.U should have stayed as

TheXRayFactor

Based Deak

@deadshadow:
Nevertheless, you have to admire the irony that is the UNITED KINGDOM being pissed off at the idea of a super state though.

deadshadow

foking furry

@TheXRayFactor: why because a lot of dystopian fiction came from there or that they had a world spanning empire

the thing about the empire was that it was more local with tax laws and language being the most common things

KorporalKitty

PAM

look the leave campainers had no plan for brexit and the goverment had no plan for brexit so we are fucked lol rip goddamn

Master_Hater

My oh my, so many vigorous opinions about the Brexit vote on here! A great deal more thought than most of the voters who turned out put into it, sad to say. I was pleased as punch, if not surprised to see the top 2 Goggle searches in the EU the next morning being "What does it mean to leave the EU?" and "What is the EU?"

The immigrant assaults in the wake of the vote are a somewhat less jovial matter, but anticipated just the same. Really, this whole campaign has largely consisted of a couple Torrie's bid for power playing on nationalist sympathies, little different than Trump or Cruz.

I do wonder what would happen if Northern Ireland and Scotland were to experience a trickle-down and ended up leaving the UK. Personally, I can't think of a more fitting end to the height of British power than watching Wales and England slowly rotting away!

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

The Brexit is going to have short term hardships for the EU and others who trade with the UK, but in the long term it will mostly be the UK that suffers. I don't think you've really considered how the weakened pound is going to affect inflation, how the lack of trade deals is going to reduce your GDP, and how the housing market will never actually recover. For all the talk of "stupid experts" everything they predicted has come to pass, and continues to come to pass, so maybe you SHOULD have listened to them.

Neal

ROLF

@cannonofdoom: I'm still baffled that people backed the term "stupid experts". That is the most backwards and obviously lying statement I've heard in awhile.

Bartek

@Neal: Just because someone is labeled expert by media doesn't mean he is one. There's so many "experts" on TV who humiliate themselves with every word they say it's baffling people still listen to them o.O

KorporalKitty

PAM

look since the brexit vote won, the league campaign have said they had no plan, the front runner for the conservative party who campaigned heavily for the leave side decided they didn't want to become prime minister. Our country is a fucking mess it's all bullshit fuck off.

Neal

ROLF

@Bartek: Stop trying to defend this. The whole UK economy just died so all the experts are proven right. It is time to stop and look around Bartek. Look at the trade market and the things that the UK could lose. THe fact that the EU is pushing the UK out as fast as they can there is no "UK won!" They didn't they had everything they wanted from the Brexit before the Brexit vote happened. When literal world renowned scientists and economists who have never got anything wrong are saying it is a bad idea and they are proven right you can't say "THEY AREN'T EXPERTS!" Just stop man.

P.S. Neither of us live there and the guy in CHAT that does says that it just fucked his country I believe him WAY more than any other person.

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Man, I'm sure glad I have my own personal problem, and I don't have to worry about these.

Bartek

@Neal: I live in the EU thou. I look around and see my own country's economy - UK's gonna be fine in the long run.

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

@Bartek:

I would like to see your degree in economics.

Bartek

@cannonofdoom: You don't need a degree to count your own money.

Bartek

Let's just continue this conversation next year, k? We'll see who was right with our own eyes.

KorporalKitty

PAM

@Bartek: we will still be in the EU in a year.

Bartek

@LouAPinto: Aye - I just wanna know if the "Brexit voting fallout" will send you guys back to the Stone Age as some articles claim XD Then we can come back after another year, then another... hopefully we'll still have CHAT o.O

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

@Bartek:

Great, but you're also counting the UK's money. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence.

Bartek

@cannonofdoom: I was referring to EU and Poland ;)

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

@Bartek:

I'm aware. Was I being unclear in my derision? I thought I was being pretty straightforward.

deadshadow

foking furry

@cannonofdoom: that you are against brexit for economic reasons

and yea they will suffer economically for a while but i doubt they won't come back from a minor depression

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

@deadshadow:

It's not only economic, but the current economic slide was fortold by experts, who also warned of worse things to come. A lot of the UK's future depends on trade partnerships, and now they will have to forge all new ones essentially from scratch. It will be interesting to see how that goes. Unless the EU decides to be SUPER generous, which they have every reason not to be, it'll be decades before they're back up inside the top 5 GDP, and that's assuming they keep Scotland and Northern Ireland from leaving.

deadshadow

foking furry

@cannonofdoom: the reason scotland want's to leave is because they get shit tons of money from the E.U and the individual countries leaders have said that they won't punish the U.K its just unelected E.U leaders that threw a shit fit

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

@deadshadow:

Not punishing and negotiating for their country's benefit are two different things. They will not punish the UK, but they won't give them any gifts either.

deadshadow

foking furry

@cannonofdoom: of course they won't bend over backwards for the U.K's benefit but they can act like adults and keep trade open just because they want to leave your "government" doesn't make them not a viable trading partner, most of the west doesn't like the policies that China makes but that doesn't mean you don't trade

Trade agreements will always help in the end for both parties

cannonofdoom

Superannuate

@deadshadow:

Again, they're obviously going to trade with them, just not as advantageously as they would if they were still a member of the EU. I am not a fool, stop trying to make me sound like one by putting words in my mouth.

deadshadow

foking furry

@cannonofdoom: sorry if i am its not my intention

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