sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a given

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  1. Cam

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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    I don't understand why we're already being excluded from meetings by the other 27 members. Strictly speaking the referendum is only advisory and doesn't mean we've actually decided to leave. Things should carry on as normal until we give notice with Article 50.
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    Until article 50 is invoked we are still a fully fledged member.

    So we are entitled to all the benefits and required to pay until official notice is given.

    I don't think we should be excluded but we ought to make a fuss just to be an arse
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    The bbc.. its on a par with the mail for bias.

    You do know the Eu stumps a large wad of cash to 'fund' the beeb...
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    It was always the way. I still half expect the referendum to be overuled.
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    I didn't think we got anything back from the EU
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    Oh they'll still be sending us stuff. A huge refugee camp in Dover probably.
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    About half the money we send comes back - that was well documented in the lead up to the referendum.

    What's funny is that some areas such as Cornwall voted leave, and as a result will lose millions of pounds of money from the EU. The day after the vote they realised and people wanted to change their mind!
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    there was an article in the guardian that pretty much summed it up. Guy in ebbw vale asking what the EU had ever done for the area, whilst stood next to a sign declaring 1bn pounds worth of investment in the area over the last 20 years! [probably the very same for areas such as ours and the north east, both euro zone priority 1. still, they've got there country back.
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    I can absolutely assure you they don't.


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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    I fully expect the referendum to somehow be over ruled.

    Leaving the EU will finish the UK as a country as we know it. Is any PM gonna take that chance?
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    The sensible option of a EEA based deal will be reached, allowing us to leave the EU (what we voted for) and to then give us time to establish better trading relations globally, whilst accessing the single market and taking the wind out of any nationalist tendencies in Scotland, Ireland etc. This is a process imho not a cut off point.
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    According to the BBC's 2013/14 Annual Report, its total income was £5 billion (£5.066 billion),[1] which can be broken down as follows:

    £3.726 billion in licence fees collected from householders;
    £1.023 billion from the BBC's Commercial Businesses;
    £244.6 million from government grants, of which £238.5 million is from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the BBC World Service;
    £72.1 million from other income, such as rental collections and royalties from overseas broadcasts of programming.[1]
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    We'll turn a blind eye then to the 2m it received over the last three years or the 9m plus to an 'arms length' bbc charity..
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    Whats funny is the fact we send millions to brussels for them to divvy it up supporting tje gravy train, piss poor failing economies and then when they are feeling generous sending some back to the uk for Eu funded projects...

    How about you just cut the middle man out?
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    Even if that were true, and feel free to post the source, your comment that it provides "a large wad of cash"..."to fund the BBC" is clearly ridiculous.
    If 11 million over three years against an annual budget of 5 billion constitutes in your eyes anything other than a miniscule percentage then I can't be bothered to argue. Your original comment was designed to make those who couldn't be bothered to check think that the BBC was significantly funded by the EU. Clearly that's incorrect.
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    Your evidence of this? I've worked for the BBC for the best part of 30 years and am reasonably sure we get no funding from the EU.


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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    You make me laugh. In spite of all the exaggerations from Brexit you have selected a bad example here. Even if 10 zones got zone priority 1 funding over 20 years that is 20 x £1b £20b. In the same period Britain - ignoring daft claims of £350m per week will still have made (after rebates farming subsidies etc.) net contribution to the amount of 20 x £8b -(and rising) £160b. That is £140bn that could have been spent in Britain but provided, among other things, infrastructure project funding for Spain Italy etc .

    What part of net contributor do you not understand? £1b doesnt look so attractive from that perspective then.
     
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    Re: sorry to bring it up again, ignore this t ... but maybe leaving the EU is not a g

    MF . Before we moved here, many people used to buy large Satellite ( some ridiculous -4.5m dia??) dishes to catch the overspill signal from the Astra Satellite. After the launch of the latest Astra last year the UK beam was much tighter preventing all but the French Channel coast towns receiving BBC/ FreeSat. I know many people use various means- VPN etc to illegally access BBC but I can't really be ar*eds so use Netflix to catch up on big series when they become available or buy Blu Ray Disks for other stuff and films. However recent event made me think...

    The new Astra broadcasts two beams one UK domestic to the UK and the other for European channels which also transmits the BBC World service channels with much greater limited content.

    My question is, you may have the answer, why the BBC don't use the available bandwidth and port the UK multiplex stream (possibly) or just the BBC content domestic stuff onto the Europe side, encrypt it and charge European mainland viewers a monthly fee?
    Is it a technical obstacle, the Charter or product programme licencing issues that prevent BBC/FreeSat accessing this potentially lucrative revenue? You are not just talking expats as far away as Greece and Crete but many Europeans who would like to have access to the BBC/British TV ) often to improve their English.
     
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    Should this be moved to the referendum Forum??

    >> No idea how
     
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