Daniël Bos

Seems like we might be witness to it now.

Do you not think such moves create division to such a degree that it truly becomes about "us, against them" which can only serve to radicalise. You've become radicalised, and an american teenage muslim who'd been fine just being an american and also a person of religion is far more likely to believe the vileness of the likes of is-is when the president of his own country demands he registers as a muslim, or people that happen to follow a belief system are no longer welcome in his country for that. Now, he'll be a marked person, no longer an american first, but a registered muslim, singled out because of his faith. Would it not make sense that this person would rebel against such oppression, and may well follow the advice of those highly influential recruitment videos the muslim radicals awash the interwebs with. Subtly and specifically targeted to crawl into the mind of young people, plant the seed of unfairness and nurture that emotion into hatred. Trump is adding fertiliser and water to this hatred. As far as presidency candidates, it's more likely you and I become engaged in a romantic relationship than that Wilders becomes president of the Netherlands. Le Pen, not so sure.

That article is rationalisation of a pre-existing viewpoint, not reason. Yes, under the Obama administration those particular countries were marked as being of potential concern, and people travelling from them should come under stricter scrutiny before being allowed into the USA. But to ban all citizens from these countries does not do that, rather the opposite. It places no extra scrutiny on any individuals, it presumes that any person hailing from them is a high security threat. As pointed out by the OP, and by the fact the previous government did not act in such a divisive, contrary and discriminatory fashion, this ban makes no sense whatsoever. Nor does that article. It's well written, but chooses only those facts that support the pre-existing viewpoint of the author. It does not look at the full range of facts to form a reasonable argument thereafter.

That depends on the generator, does the OP want to use it with a genny?

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They could say that now...?

So those 4.8% are going to fill in the jobs vacated by foreign workers? There's simply not enough of them! That is, if those 4.8% would be willing, or could be forced to take these jobs in the first place, not something that seems very likely. Anyway, these are all speculation. How things will actually work (or not work) is dependent on so many variables (a lot of which haven't been decided) that we're all just shooting in the dark.

Or: it would create a massive labour shortage. Immigrants fill nearly a fifth of the UK's unskilled labour jobs. If there were natives willing to do the same job for the same money, they'd be welcome. "kicking out unskilled immigrants" would create big issues in food production, healthcare and hospitality to name a few. The only way to increase the appeal for UK born unskilled labour would be a massive increase in wages, which would impact on the cost of living in a significant way.

Or, in the words of Tom Paine: Arguing with those that have renounced the use of reason, is like administering medicine to the deceased.

http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/long-list-leave-lies/ Pot, kettle...

Wasn't meant to be aggressive, apologies if it comes across so. I think the problems are more likely to be with the goods, not the people. If/when the UK and EU are going tarriff mad.

To stop you acting like a dick in your car, there's a law. But more importantly, there is a police department specifically for road safety, there's infrastructure that's taken many years and many billions to build up. There is no such thing for the land border?

Ireland has free movement of people and trade with Europe. So, any you're-a-peein' person and or goods would have a free way in and out of the UK unless there were border controls?

Bad beer memory

"people like me"? Does that mean immigrants, foreigners that take British wives, people with dark skin, Muslims, feminists, greenies, leftists? Who am I? I never mentioned anything about exchange rates? I countered your opening statement with a solid fact, your further statements with more fact, and then ignored your counter-counter because I was bored of arguing with you. The fact you see your opinion as "pointing out how stupid my comments are" says a lot. Though nothing one wouldn't expect to hear from you I suppose. In what way was the UK "the top performing economy in 2016 "?

That wasn't an insult, just my opinion. My earlier comment was an insult, though the fact you missed it is rather poignant.

Apologies happily accepted. Jomoco-land has a trade deficit of some 40Bn, which makes that less per capita than the UK though...

1 yes, but for that to happen there would have to be a market (the EU may well impose import tariffs?) and globally, Britain is no longer a manufacturing country. 2. Maybe, but only if 1 works, and earlier discussion on here didn't give the impression of people willing to buy British unless the price was right. 3. Brexit, and the implications of visas, tighter borders and a nation where people like yourself live would surely mean the opposite. 4. Means nothing whilst financial markets are shying away from London in favour of EU bases. I've no desire to inspire you with anything. In my opinion you are a vile critter.

The Netherlands has a massive trade surplus? Not sure what you mean?

Matelot, once again, your debating skills and eloquence confirm you were educated far beyond your intelligence. Britain bought 12 Billion pounds worth of good more than Britain sold last year. A weak pound is not a good thing...

Trade deficit of some 12 Billion of y'r britbucks mean anything?

Scaffold poles are quite easy to bend, presumably because it's preferred to snapping? But it's definitely not a good idea to make a rops out of.

Excellent! Thanks Steve

I reckon fire damage too. Retaining as a pollard (if feasible) seems a good option

I've an (android) app question: When I use "quick reply" the app always adds the "sent from [device] using arbtalk mobile app" bit. When sing advance reply, I can untick the box to turn this off. Is there a way to permanently turn this off?