O/T Brexit.

I think it's pretty obvious there will be extra costs. There will be inevitably barriers to trade between the UK and the rest of Europe both financially and in terms of red tape.
Add to that the complete uncertainty about the whole situation and you'd have to be bonkers to even contemplate setting up in the UK.

 

I agree about the uncertainty and I would certainly be waiting if I was in his position.
All I’m saying is everyone are jumping to conclusions about what will happen as predicted by ‘experts’ , however all the predictions so far haven’t panned out as predicted.
As an example it’s on the news today house prices were predicted to slow down dramatically if we voted to leave, yet they continue to grow.

 

Well we may disagree about the eventual outcome of brexit. The cold hard facts are that in the interim the UK is suffering in instances like this. In terms of attracting new business investment from overseas it has both hands tied behind its back.

 

There is only uncertainty because of the infighting and ridiculous stories that people on here perpetuate, eg the egg man above. The procrastination has caused the uncertainty, not brexit. Once it has happened he can choose to put his business where he wants knowing facts.

I put in about the “experts” and the millennium bug earlier. Nobody knows! If the experts were to be believed back then, power stations were exploding, planes and satellites falling from the sky, basically taking us back to the dark ages. A little bit like the predictions for this.

I actually wish this thing hadn’t been started. It’s a little bit like the gun debate in the US. Too many people entrenched in their own ideas and wanting the other side to fail if anything happens.

It always goes down to a slanging match our side is more intelligent than you, you are too young to understand, you are too old to understand, you’re a racist, you’re a looney lefty, etc... it won’t ever be resolved because it will never suit both sides of the argument. There will always be someone chucking a spanner in the works for their ultimate “I told you so!”

 

You’re going to be afraid ???
Why ???
Are you an ugly blacky ???

 

The people who are pushing hardest for Brexit are making it increasingly more likely that it will fail. Many of the politicians who were arguing for Norway status two years ago are now saying that is a betrayal of the vote...

 

I agree with parts of this, but in particular...”triggering Article 50 when even our politicians have no idea what they actually want was just mad”

Our Government have gone into this way too open and too disjointed. The constant squabbling between ministers has ensured that the whole thing is a shambles!

You can’t please everyone all of the time...

 

That’s twice you’ve mentioned the millennium bug, you were explained to quite clearly how many millions of businesses spent many millions of pounds ensuring and checking that the things you mentioned didn’t happen. It wasn’t pot luck!

The Brexit shambles is exactly that, poorly thought out and poorly executed. I wonder when the penny will drop.

 

What the actual ****?

You say some stupid things daily but that is plain ******* moronic.

I suggest you take it off, that isn’t acceptable.

Wow

 

I worked on the millennium bug, they spent millions waiting to see what would happen...and having experts waiting... it wasn’t pot luck, there was little threat.

as you can see... the twice you mentioned it doesn’t make you correct...

The parallels I have drawn are the “expert” furore on both sides of the argument...

And until the clock ticked to midnight 2000, no one knew what would happen...

Now tell me again how everyone had spent millions on it to ensure nothing would happen... and how everyone knew at the turn of the century that everything would be alright...

Wonder when the penny will drop that no one knows how this shambles will pan out.

 

Fancy. An American company expanding into Ireland... obviously because of Brexit.
Boeing just opened a factory in South Yorkshire. Idiots.

 

If your company sat around waiting then it was very different to the ones in defence. “No one knew” how it would pan out... but the leave campaign of which I gather you are a supporter quite clearly told everyone how it would pan out, they even labelled the remain campaign “prefect fear” for having the temerity to mention what will happen, intact what is happening as referenced by churton reds post above.

Brexit. People earning millions convincing people earning thousands it’s all the fault of people earning pennies. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

 

I worked for a large multi national bank at the time...

The remain are now telling us how it will pan out. There are lies on both sides... I suggest the reality will be somewhere between the two. And people from both sides will be lined up to say “I told you so”.

Both sides of this debate have been inept, have lied, and have exaggerated for their own gains. If you think that you hold the moral high ground on this, you’re very mistaken.

 

I'm suggesting some would think Boeing must be idiots for opening in the UK.

 

I and many of my peers also worked on the millennium bug however we didn't simply "wait to see what would happen", we created labs and actually modeled what would happen..... huge difference to this brexit approach ......

 

There’s no moral high ground because we all suffer. You obviously don’t think we will suffer and that’s fine, that’s for debate and it’s great we are a liberal free society and we can do that, the serious issue however is some don’t care. Some don’t care a jot what happens because it appears to benefit them or It backs up and confirms their bias. Either way morals went out of the window at parliament level a long time ago on this issue.