This Brexit divorce bill thing.

I'm pretty sure my pension fund is not avers to doing such things. Any recommendations as to how I can change this?

 

averse

 

What happens if Scotland vote for leaving the union and go join the eu .. England and wales'll be up the creek without a paddle

 

I know the OP was joking, but I've actually heard this mentioned seriously elsewhere(can't remember where though).

 

He can’t because he is talking absolute ********. And I’m no friend of the BBC anymore given it’s swerve to the extreme right.

 

I do remember some of the Brexit extremists on here saying that we would pay them nothing like the amounts that we will do. It was fantasy apparently.

 

"Cake and eat it". Needs to be a big cake Boris.

 

I'm no fan either but more for the ingrained acceptance of sex abuse

 

Aye a bit like the Conservatives in that respect.

 

Or indeed most institutions that abuse their power

 

Were we supposed to right our name and address on the voting slip... or are they expecting a voluntary contribution?

 

To be fair there are plenty of ethical investment companies Tridos for example.

 

But do we generally know the specific details of where our pensions are invested?

 

Youve had the EU stuff before.

Other you get an annual statement for.

Read it.

 

Youve had the EU stuff before.

Other you get an annual statement for.

Read it.

 

Again you can check that it is invested ethically.

 

I thought, like all election and referendum ballots in the UK it was secret so how would you propose to identify leavers? Just asking?

Given that the current net EU annual UK contribution is rising year on year and I read that it will be around 14bn p.a. that is 140bn in 10 years. Trading under WTO rules (given tariffs are a 'two way street' and UK are NET importers it is hard to see how we would be 100bn (allowing for a 40bn settlement) worse off through leaving. Surely enough to see us through the short to medium term problems pending agreement of negoted trade agreements world wide.
That is all a total guess though in the same way that remainers are saying the UK economy will collapse when we leave.

The simple fact is you , I , and all the 'experts' cannot predict the future of the world economy so far ahead. Only time will tell.

 

I do remember you saying that figures of 50bn to 100bn were definitely incorrect

Only Mauritania trades under WTO rules alone and even they have some bloc trade agreements.

The stuff we pay for via the EU will still need to be paid for. We won’t be saving that money to invest in other areas. I know you know that.

 

We must be living in parallel universes. Where do you get the idea that the BBC news on the website is Far right? Can you give examples of Right Wing bias? That is strange since at least one BBC journo used to work for the Guardian. and many feel the News department leans towards anti Brexit (mainly by omission of facts and events rather than making factual errors).
Putting that aside my own problem with the BBC is they seem to regurgitate tweets rather than write proper articles and people like Kuenssberg and Ahmed (particularly the latter who whilst being Economic editor actually has a degree in political science and not economics) write opinion pieces rather than reporting news.

 

I wonder how our chances of a free trade deal with Trump stand at the moment?