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Welcome back Camkite.
Sorry if you find that you are talking to yourself, but anybody who has read this board from the start will see Doze and I talking to what appears to be an imaginary friend; as all of your earlier posts have been removed. And if that was not bad enough Fingertips then had all of his posts deleted as well. I can only assume that you two remoaners are both embarrassed by what you had previously written.
I am quite happy for people to read or discuss my earlier posts, but will not waste my time talking to posters who are not equally open.
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Keji thanks.
I came off the forum for a few years & with that my posts got deleted. As far as comments on brexit go I wish they were there & certainly still think the same now as I did then.
Point taken... I’m equally not overly keen on repeating history as I sense our views probably haven’t really changed.
Your favoured no deal is looking ever more likely & maybe we’ll end up repeating history.
Best wishes for the festive season.
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Camkite,
Your last deleted post on this board was around 15th Jan 2019, as I replied to you the following day. Your profile though, shows that you have been a member since 29th June 2015. Very clever, getting posts removed while keeping your profile open.
As for No Deal, the only reason that I have sided with this option is that the EU are never going to give us a fair deal. We have been negotiating with them for over 1600 days and are as far apart on major issues as when we started. Boris keeps extending the deadline for talks to complete. He does not appear to have the balls to say enough is enough, we are leaving without a deal. Not much of an improvement on the supine Teresa May imo.
Best Christmas wishes to you too.
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Kenj
Everything was removed, posts and account, I was thinking about setting up a new profile but as I know this is against the rules emailed LSE and they turned it back on. Apologies if you were offended but I can assure you that the reason it was removed and I needed a long term break was external to both investing and this forum.
As i'm pretty sure you'll everyone will realise, the UK will have to accept the deal it is given after leaving, the EU of course holds FAR more cards than the UK, it is a bloo dy massive trading block & the bottom line, if you want to do business with anyone in life, that comes with rules and agreements.
The fishermen might get back the waters but they won't be able to sell the fish to Europe.. No deal will cause the UK far far more harm than it will Europe hence we will be accepting whatever we can get, post walking away, to many lives, businesses and livelihoods on the line.
Deal or no deal the fish were always a read herring tho - excuse the pun.
Borris has to top up admitting he has lied to the vast majority and stay in or play ball OR leave with no deal and tear the country apart... he is screwed either way, the lying to sser deserves everything he gets tho.
Personally, if we cannot stay a member long term I think no deal is the best as I think it is likely we will end up re joining. It is and was the most foolish move & there are not loads of markets lined up for British goods, markets just don't work like that.
No country will be buying british fish & dealing with countries on the other side of the globe comes with its own costs & hassles, why this would ever be a good argument for leaving is beyond me.
But we are where we are and it will be what it is. Lots of arguing in parliament and the Tories denying the truth as James Cleverly and others are already starting to do.
They will blame anyone but themselves.
Anyways D day is almost upon us.
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What a surprise, Boris has bottled it and kicked the can down the road yet again!
I recall him declaring that Oct 15th would be the final date for a deal to be announced, as companies needed time to plan and adapt to us leaving the EU on Jan 1st 2021. That would have given us 10 weeks to prepare. Businesses now have two and a half weeks to prepare, and a decision still looks far away. The once mighty Britain has become an international laughing stock. Our politicians have for so long done little more than rubber stamp decisions made in Brussels, that they have forgotten how to govern and rule a country. Now faced with the twin problems of Covid and Brexit, their inertia, incompetence and indecisiveness are ruining this country.
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Brexit my be largely over but the joke continues, and as usual its on us!
Spotted, tucked away in Fridays' Daily Mail.
"Britain will pay £11billion into the EU budget this year; despite Brexit.
Treasury documents reveal the sum is part of the estimated £50billion "divorce bill" negotiated by Theresa May and signed off by Boris Johnson.
Britain gave £10.9billion in the last year of full membership.
During Brexit talks Brussels said that the UK had to contribute to the EU's seven-year budget even after leaving. Payments are due to fall to £8.7billion next year."
We had originally agreed to the EU's proposed £18billion leaving fee, which was then recalculated by the EU to £39billion. After some huffing and puffing we meekly agreed to pay the higher demand.
I do not recall seeing any news articles saying that the leaving ransom had been increased again, by another £11billion to £50billion. Not sure if Boris was too embarrassed to tell us of this minor concession, or if the newspapers just did not have the space to print it, with all the hysteria and excitement of Meghan's forthcoming interview on the Oprah Winfrey show.
On the up side though, I don't suppose printing another £11billion of funny money will make much difference to the economy when you consider how much has been thrown at Covid.
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How's Brexit working out for you Kenji is it the long anticipated march to righteous liberty and freedom you dreamed of ?