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This was about to fall off the front page and would maybe have gone forever - erm lets not allow that to happen!
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This was about to fall off the front page and would maybe have gone forever - erm lets not allow that to happen!
I suspect it will be resurrected many times over the coming weeks, months and years, by both sides proving they were 'right' all along.
But, at the moment, there are more important discussions about what's going wrong at Pride Park.
So there'll be no 'give aways' in the forthcoming budget, according to Philip Hammond, because we'll be saving up to pay the Brexit bill.
Such a good idea wasn't it? Still at least, unlike Farage and Nuttall, the country apparently won't be 'slinking off like a wounded animal' either. All so bloody avoidable.
Don't have to pay a penny for Brexit:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwors.../#6267687d3597
Brexit or no Brexit, with the tories in power cuts are always inevitable and there'll always be an excuse for them. Shame there's no strength in opposition.
Very short term thinking Anag. Anyone starting a new business venture knows they need to put a bit aside for 'start up' costs, believing that in the long run that the business will bring rewards. Do you not think that James Dyson put some money aside to invest in his vacuum cleaner?
Of course it will cost money in the short term and only a fool of a chancellor would not put money aside, unlike Brown in the prosperous early noughties who kept borrowing, believing that there would never be a bust while he was in control, even if the blame for the bust lay elsewhere.
I'm not actually blaming Hammond for putting 'money aside' Ram. I'm saying that, at a time when there's an alleged relative budget surfeit and when the NHS and various other agencies are seriously struggling, it's an enormous pity we have to put so much aside to pay for the self inflicted cost of Brexit. What with that and the effective 'devaluation' of our currency since last June I still can't for the life of me see how Brexit is going to do us anything but harm...but then that's probably just my unpatriotic, anti-British, extremist self showing through, at least that's what the 'right' would have you believe.
Agree absolutely about your 'opposition' point Adi...hope you're right about it costing us nothing too, but I doubt it.
I doubt we'd walk away without paying a sweetener of sorts either, but it shows we shouldn't be scared that we have to fork out a large sum of cash for nothing, it's in the EU's favour to deal sensibly with us in the short and long term.