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The EU: In, out, shake it all about.... (8 Viewers)

  • Thread starter jimmyhillsfanclub
  • Start date Jun 8, 2016
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As of right now, how are thinking of voting? In or out

  • Remain

    Votes: 23 37.1%
  • Leave

    Votes: 35 56.5%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 3 4.8%
  • Not registered or not intention to vote

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Total voters
    62
  • Poll closed Jun 15, 2016.
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skybluetony176

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,036
Astute said:
You are unreal.

Are you saying that we don't do major trade with China already? Most of the world does. But let's twist some more words.
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No that’s not what I’m saying, clearly. No matter how much you twist it.

You’ve spent hundreds of pages complaining about European people from within the EU dictating what happens in the EU and now you want to wet your pants with excitement at the prospect of joining another trading block where the people with the biggest influence is likely to be people who aren’t even members. I think that qualifies you as the unreal one.
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,037
skybluetony176 said:
Just reading some of the reasons Trump pulled out and it seems mainly due to US manufacturing being able under TTP terms to outsource US jobs to places like Vietnam where labour rates are considerably lower without any penalties for doing so as it’s allowed under the rules of TTP membership.
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Which is what the EU is also all about. Lots of our jobs have gone to EU countries. And the EU lent money to Turkey to take jobs from the UK.

But let's forget about the truth I suppose.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,038
Grendel said:
They are stopping all duties on imported cars? Wow
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Are they? You tell me, I haven’t said that.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,039
Gouda cheese is free of duty to Japan I see as one of the headlines of this deal

I’m changing my vote
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,040
Astute said:
Not us?

Can't you see that your untruths are easy to see? You are moaning about our trade deal with Japan. Now you are saying that we won't get one
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We’re leaving the EU so yes, not us. What’s untrue about that exactly.

What trade deal with Japan? The TTP is currently being renegotiated following the US pulling out. What we’ve been invited to join doesn’t yet exist in real terms. It’s also unlikely that we’ll be involved in negotiations either so it’s likely to be a take it or leave it offer. You’re wetting you’re pants about something that in all likelihood is further away from completion than Brexit and just because we’ve been invited doesn’t mean we’ll accept.
 
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Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,041
skybluetony176 said:
No that’s not what I’m saying, clearly. No matter how much you twist it.

You’ve spent hundreds of pages complaining about European people from within the EU dictating what happens in the EU and now you want to wet your pants with excitement at the prospect of joining another trading block where the people with the biggest influence is likely to be people who aren’t even members. I think that qualifies you as the unreal one.
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So what were you saying?

They have major trade with China. We have major trade with China. Most of the world has major trade with China. Do you agree with this?

So one major trade with China is different to another major trade with China?

Joining a trade block?

It is a trade agreement between countries. It isn't an EU that costs billions to be a part of. It isn't an EU that stops you from making trade deals elsewhere. It isn't an EU that makes you keep to rules and regulations with the largest country constantly let off with not keeping to them. It isn't an EU that makes you take everyone who has a passport for the trade area.

I can't believe how many are pissed off that trade deals are being made for the UK for when we have left the EU. It just shows that some on here don't have the UK's best interests at heart.
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,042
skybluetony176 said:
We’re leaving the EU so yes, not us. What’s untrue about that exactly.

What trade deal with Japan? The TTP is currently being renegotiated following the US pulling out. What we’ve been invited to join doesn’t yet exist in real terms. It’s also unlikely that we’ll be involved in negotiations either so it’s likely to be a take it or leave it offer. You’re wetting you’re pants about something that in all likelihood is further away from completion than Brexit and just because we’ve been invited doesn’t mean we’ll accept.
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We are not allowed to join yet because of EU rules and regulations. But the EU break them themselves.

UK welcome to join Pacific trade pact after Brexit, says Japanese PM
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,043
skybluetony176 said:
Just reading some of the reasons Trump pulled out and it seems mainly due to US manufacturing being able under TTP terms to outsource US jobs to places like Vietnam where labour rates are considerably lower without any penalties for doing so as it’s allowed under the rules of TTP membership.
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You can do that anyway Tony. It’s why countries build production plants in cheap places to reduce material cost
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,044
Grendel said:
Gouda cheese is free of duty to Japan I see as one of the headlines of this deal

I’m changing my vote
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94% of EU goods into Japan will be tariff free. I’m sure that covers more than Gouda cheese. Scotch whiskey would have been one benefactor. The deal as a whole equates to something like one third of global trade. It’s a significant trade deal whichever way you look at it.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,045
skybluetony176 said:
94% of EU goods into Japan will be tariff free. I’m sure that covers more than Gouda cheese. Scotch whiskey would have been one benefactor. The deal as a whole equates to something like one third of global trade. It’s a significant trade deal whichever way you look at it.
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Goods or value Tony?
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,046
skybluetony176 said:
94% of EU goods into Japan will be tariff free. I’m sure that covers more than Gouda cheese. Scotch whiskey would have been one benefactor. The deal as a whole equates to something like one third of global trade. It’s a significant trade deal whichever way you look at it.
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Yet you seem pissed off that the UK is in advanced talks with making a deal that we were supposed to take years to make if at all.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,047
Astute said:
So what were you saying?

They have major trade with China. We have major trade with China. Most of the world has major trade with China. Do you agree with this?

So one major trade with China is different to another major trade with China?

Joining a trade block?

It is a trade agreement between countries. It isn't an EU that costs billions to be a part of. It isn't an EU that stops you from making trade deals elsewhere. It isn't an EU that makes you keep to rules and regulations with the largest country constantly let off with not keeping to them. It isn't an EU that makes you take everyone who has a passport for the trade area.

I can't believe how many are pissed off that trade deals are being made for the UK for when we have left the EU. It just shows that some on here don't have the UK's best interests at heart.
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Look into the reasoning that Obama felt the need to join/create the TPP in the first place. It was about influence and curtailing China’s influence in the Pacific region by the US increasing theirs. Now they’ve pulled out China is once again the dominant market within the region and therefore the major influence on any trading block in the region. I don’t understand how you can acknowledge that the region has major trade with China but then think China won’t be a major influence on how that block goes about it’s business. If we’re “taking back control” joining the TPP is contrary to that. Especially as the major influence won’t even be a member.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,048
Astute said:
Yet you seem pissed off that the UK is in advanced talks with making a deal that we were supposed to take years to make if at all.
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We’re not in talks, advanced or otherwise. We’ve had an invitation. Nothing else.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,049
Astute said:
We are not allowed to join yet because of EU rules and regulations. But the EU break them themselves.

UK welcome to join Pacific trade pact after Brexit, says Japanese PM
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We might not ever join. Our serving government might agree with Trump and think it’s a bad deal.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,050
Grendel said:
Goods or value Tony?
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The details aren’t in the public domain but from the articles I’ve read about it it’s believed to be goods.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,051
skybluetony176 said:
The details aren’t in the public domain but from the articles I’ve read about it it’s goods.
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Ah.....
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,052
skybluetony176 said:
Look into the reasoning that Obama felt the need to join/create the TPP in the first place. It was about influence and curtailing China’s influence in the Pacific region by the US increasing theirs. Now they’ve pulled out China is once again the dominant market within the region and therefore the major influence on any trading block in the region. I don’t understand how you can acknowledge that the region has major trade with China but then think China won’t be a major influence on how that block goes about it’s business. If we’re “taking back control” joining the TPP is contrary to that. Especially as the major influence won’t even be a member.
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China are not a part of the trade bloc.

And all countries do major trade with China.

Yet it.is good for the EU to have a trade deal with Japan and all is good?
 

Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,053
skybluetony176 said:
We’re not in talks, advanced or otherwise. We’ve had an invitation. Nothing else.
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It looks more than an invite. But we have to be quiet because of the EU.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,054
Grendel said:
You can do that anyway Tony. It’s why countries build production plants in cheap places to reduce material cost
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You best tell Trump he has it wrong then. Although it’s pretty clear what he means if you think about it.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,055
Astute said:
China are not a part of the trade bloc.

And all countries do major trade with China.

Yet it.is good for the EU to have a trade deal with Japan and all is good?
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God you’re stupid.
 

Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,056
skybluetony176 said:
We might not ever join. Our serving government might agree with Trump and think it’s a bad deal.
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Yet it is a catastrophe that we are joining but we might not join?

We need to work out terms. We are.not going to be forced into anything like we are as a member of the EU.
 

Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,057
skybluetony176 said:
God you’re stupid.
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I'm not god and I'm not stupid. Bet you wished I was though.

How about explaining what you mean without making insults. Because you are not making sense.

So it is bad for us to make a deal but good for the EU to make a deal?
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,058
skybluetony176 said:
You best tell Trump he has it wrong then. Although it’s pretty clear what he means if you think about it.
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I never knew you held Mr Trumps economic strategy in such high regard Tony
 
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Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,059
skybluetony176 said:
You best tell Trump he has it wrong then. Although it’s pretty clear what he means if you think about it.
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So you spend so long saying how bad Trump is. Now you put him up as being right?

The bloke is a twat. Could be your next hero though.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,060
Astute said:
It looks more than an invite. But we have to be quiet because of the EU.
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Says who? It was was said in an interview with the FT. Are the FT responsible for post brexit trade deals?
 

Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,061
skybluetony176 said:
Says who? It was was said in an interview with the FT. Are the FT responsible for post brexit trade deals?
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So if it is just an invite why have you come out with so much diatribe on the subject?
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,062
Grendel said:
I never knew you held Mr Trumps economic strategy in such high regard Tony
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I don’t but it was a popular move across the US political spectrum and even a broken clock is right twice a day. Have you worked out how he can stop/discourage US companies from outsourcing to Vietnam now they’ve left the TPP?
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,063
Astute said:
I'm not god and I'm not stupid. Bet you wished I was though.

How about explaining what you mean without making insults. Because you are not making sense.

So it is bad for us to make a deal but good for the EU to make a deal?
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No, you really are.

The EU aren’t making a deal with the TPP they’re making a deal specifically with Japan. Not nearly the same thing and you’re inability to understand the difference is why you’re stupid.
 

skybluetony176

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,064
Astute said:
So if it is just an invite why have you come out with so much diatribe on the subject?
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Because it pays to be prudent and not just piss your pants on the premise that it’s automatically a good deal for the U.K. because somehow it might mean brexit is awesome.
 

Grendel

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,065
skybluetony176 said:
I don’t but it was a popular move across the US political spectrum and even a broken clock is right twice a day. Have you worked out how he can stop/discourage US companies from outsourcing to Vietnam now they’ve left the TPP?
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Tony his main issue on this was actually the fact he wanted to stuff huge tariffs on steel to protect construction jobs
 

Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,066
skybluetony176 said:
No, you really are.

The EU aren’t making a deal with the TPP they’re making a deal specifically with Japan. Not nearly the same thing and you’re inability to understand the difference is why you’re stupid.
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Me stupid?

OK.

So what is the problem with making a deal with Japan and others when there is no problem making deals with Japan and others like you celebrate the EU doing?
 

skybluetony176

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,067
Astute said:
So you spend so long saying how bad Trump is. Now you put him up as being right?

The bloke is a twat. Could be your next hero though.
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The bloke is a twat, he’ll never be my hero. Doesn’t mean him or Bernie Sanders for matter are wrong on this. The US is as polarised as the U.K. so when you get a consensus across the political divide it’s probably prudent to consider why.
 

Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,068
skybluetony176 said:
Because it pays to be prudent and not just piss your pants on the premise that it’s automatically a good deal for the U.K. because somehow it might mean brexit is awesome.
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So being 100% biased on the side of the EU is being prudent?

And more twisting of words. So who will Brexit be brilliant for?
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,069
Astute said:
Me stupid?

OK.

So what is the problem with making a deal with Japan and others when there is no problem making deals with Japan and others like you celebrate the EU doing?
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DUH! Again. The EU isn’t making a deal with Japan and others it’s making a deal with Japan only.
 

Astute

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  • Oct 8, 2018
  • #21,070
Grendel said:
Tony his main issue on this was actually the fact he wanted to stuff huge tariffs on steel to protect construction jobs
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Can you leave the truth out for a bit. Tony is digging a hole that his lack of intelligence doesn't allow him to see.
 
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