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How about turning the UK into Venezuela?

It would have been utter chaos under this bloke...

Clueless. Most people agree that when the UK leaves the EU next March, it will also leave the EEA. For a year? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/norwegian-mp-britain-eea-norway-eu-brexiters

Do you actually understand the meaning of ever closer union? No didn’t think so.

Were you there pal?

Have they reduced your maximum stake limit yet pal? Mine was reduced last year. Bet 3.65.

Are we going to get ruined pal?

I hope Goa’s stuffing a bit more money into his suitcase than usual so we can buy a player or two in January.

Didn't realise such a big gap was opening between 13th and the rest. The s**t teams are getting stranded.

We need pace to play the new manager’s preferred system. We were lacking it before; it’s an even bigger need now.

Hoj and Stephens again sloppy on the ball.

Junior Toilet scoring would be the icing on the cake.

You deserve a formal apology from the mods pal.

Disgusting.

Les, still won’t answer my points on consumer savings from lower tariffs or UK export performance since the referendum? And let’s be clear: only one side is advocating violence against the other in which you’ve participated and failed to condone.

Afternoon Les. Did you take a look at chapter 9 of the Pink Book and see that your brexitcentral friend was talking garbage? No need to thank me pal.

Welcome back pal. I remember you make Les look like Einstein.

I actually disagree strongly with this - it’s too rambling and even counterproductive given his politics. It blames May for the mess but in doing so it risks letting the real culprits off the hook. The implication is that someone else could have handled things better - music to the headbangers ears. May’s principal failing is her adherence to the headbangers red lines -her deal was the logical and inevitable consequence of this position. In other words, she was too much of a Brexiteer (minus the death wish for a no deal). Dunt also claims this -indeed I would say it’s his main argument- but in focussing so much on May and adding a bunch of lesser claims to the charge sheet, he robs this argument of its potency and arguably misses the woods for the trees.

AKK Get used to the name Jihadists #fourthreich

No Les. Don't take my opinion, consult chapter 9 of the ONS Pink Book and the official Balance of Payments. It shows that during the period under discussion, UK exports to the EU grew (14%) more rapidly than exports to the non-EU (8%). As for the author's other numbers, they are beyond dubious. Echoing Whitey, when somebody mixes $ and £, it should start to ring alarm bells - not for the reasons you claim but because it suggests the author is using several, likely inconsistent data sources. This may be done innocently, if mistakenly or for less benign purposes. Thus the $ export figures he cites for Austria and Kazakhstan are directly refuted by the official £ numbers in the Pink Book. They show that exports to Austria are much larger than the author claims (£3.1bn vs $2.43bn) as is the difference in exports between Austria and Kazakhstan (£0.8bn vs $0.43bn). Who to believe the ONS and the official balance of payments or some random bloke on brexitcentral citing unreferenced figures in $ Do you ever question your sources when they are so obviously wrong in matters of fact? Or is the faith that strong pal?

Worst atmosphere I can remember in years on Wednesday night. Hardly a peep from them.

No rest for the wicked after yesterday's mauling, right pal? Needless to say this is an amateurish piece, even by your undistinguished standards. It's simply dressing up what it alleges to be new data and insights in the old clothes and cliches of Global Britain and Empire 2.0. A couple of quickies: First its a fib that the numbers are from November, as if the author has his finger on the economic pulse (service trade figures are published much less regularly than goods figures, an immediate giveaway). The figures are from the Government's Pink Book published in July and widely discussed at the time. Apart from sloppily mixing $/£ and percentages and levels, the author is ultimately trying to claim that the referendum has been a great boost to non-EU trade vis-a-vis a flagging EU. In fact, exports to the EU have actually grown as a share of total UK exports since the referendum. That is, exports to EU have grown faster than non-EU exports. In other words, the numbers directly contradict the author's central claim. Whoops... What we have have left is the same hoary bluster about flogging sand to Saudi Arabia and Turkish Delight to Turkey (of course we can already do all that in the EU and a trade bloc has more leverage than any one county as Switzerland can attest). Les, while I have visions of you in your Phileas Fogg finest selling PG Tips to the grateful citizens of Anxi or Puer, in reality, I suspect that you find taking the local bus a struggle. You certainly seem pretty clueless about global markets.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

Don't worry there are Muslims in Christmas adverts to rage about instead.