• Boris Johnson vows UK ties with EU will be strengthened after referendum result
    117 replies, posted
[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36637037"]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36637037[/URL] [QUOTE]Boris Johnson says the UK will continue to "intensify" cooperation with the EU following the country's vote to leave. The leading pro-Leave campaigner said exit supporters must accept the 52-48 result was "not entirely overwhelming". ... His column said: "I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe, and always will be. "There will still be intense and intensifying European cooperation and partnership in a huge number of fields: the arts, the sciences, the universities, and on improving the environment. "EU citizens living in this country will have their rights fully protected, and the same goes for British citizens living in the EU. "British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down. As the German equivalent of the CBI - the BDI - has very sensibly reminded us, there will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market. "The only change - and it will not come in any great rush - is that the UK will extricate itself from the EU's extraordinary and opaque system of legislation: the vast and growing corpus of law enacted by a European Court of Justice from which there can be no appeal." [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/i-cannot-stress-too-much-that-britain-is-part-of-europe--and-alw/"]The actual article in question.[/URL]
Sounds strangely like he's trying to downplay the whole thing. Bizarre.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50601311]The UK deserve the worst political event award of the year at this point. What is the actual point of leaving the EU if you're still going to co-operate.[/QUOTE] FREEDOM! or liberty or something. Has anyone actually managed to explain how the UK will be more free without the EU? Last time I checked the UK was doing fine screwing over liberty without the EU's help.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50601402]It gives the UK grounds to negotiate with the EU to change some of their terrible policies and hopefully kick off Merkel[/QUOTE] what makes you think that the UK will have more power to influence EU policies as an outsider rather than as a member lol
Going to be very interesting if there's now a split amongst Brexiters over freedom of movement, as some now seem to be suggesting that that can continue (because, as I understand it, it will have to if we want to join the EFTA)
Boris Johnson kinda did admitted this was a PR stunt, they were never supposed to leave, and it Backfired on him horribly.
The threat to leave was the leverage the UK would use against the EU. It's gone now. Who knows maybe these guys just wanted to keep that threat up and didn't actually expect to leave, hence this whole downplay he's doing. [editline]27th June 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=OmniConsUme;50601474]Boris Johnson kinda did admitted this was a PR stunt, they were never supposed to leave, and it Backfired on him horribly.[/QUOTE] Well there we go then.
[QUOTE=ksenior;50601337]FREEDOM! or liberty or something. Has anyone actually managed to explain how the UK will be more free without the EU? Last time I checked the UK was doing fine screwing over liberty without the EU's help.[/QUOTE] Mainly end the Primacy of EU law and revoking the jurisdiction European Court of Human Rights which if I recall correctly the whole thing that kicked off this bullshit three or four years ago was the ECHR overruling British courts in several cases.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;50601474]Boris Johnson kinda did admitted this was a PR stunt, they were never supposed to leave, and it Backfired on him horribly.[/QUOTE] EU REFERENDUM PRANK (gone wrong) (gone sexual)
Yeah can't have the European Court of Human Rights protect the rights of UK criminals.
What a great way for a campaign that claims they received nothing from the EU to say they will still receive their free stuff from the EU without admitting it
[QUOTE=Broseph_;50601498]Mainly end the Primacy of EU law and revoking the jurisdiction European Court of Human Rights which if I recall correctly the whole thing that kicked off this bullshit three or four years ago was the ECHR overruling British courts in several cases.[/QUOTE] the ECHR isnt even a part of the EU for fucks sake it's a completely separate institution and organisation that we're still a part of, even if we left the EU and broke literally every single tie with them
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50601311]The UK deserve the worst political event award of the year at this point. What is the actual point of leaving the EU if you're still going to co-operate.[/QUOTE] Of the year? Brexit is possibly the stupidest decision in modern British history. Hopefully we can steer this into being just a brief moment of confusion instead of a massive mistake fueled solely by the anomalously simultaneous incompetence of politicians.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;50601474]Boris Johnson kinda did admitted this was a PR stunt, they were never supposed to leave, and it Backfired on him horribly.[/QUOTE] Getting serious deja vu
And now the EU wants the UK to get out as quick possible
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;50601750]the ECHR isnt even a part of the EU for fucks sake it's a completely separate institution and organisation that we're still a part of, even if we left the EU and broke literally every single tie with them[/QUOTE] Shut up will you! Do not even attempt to convince us with your willy nilly non sense remain propaganda!
How the fuck are ties with the EU going to be stronger if you're not even going to be in the EU anymore?
We were too busy looking towards America, Trump and their political negligence and got stabbed in the back by our own political negligence.
This is simply a market stabilization attempt, people wondered why his speech was lack luster, he was just jawboning the speculators.
[QUOTE=Boilrig;50602439]This is simply a market stabilization attempt, people wondered why his speech was lack luster, he was just jawboning the speculators.[/QUOTE] i wonder how much you're going to use that excuse to explain "well Boris said all that for the market speculators, it wasn't [I]sincere[/I]"
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;50603343]i wonder how much you're going to use that excuse to explain "well Boris said all that for the market speculators, it wasn't [I]sincere[/I]"[/QUOTE] Once you got past the two major speeches, Nigel's Independance Day speech, and Cameron's 3 Month time resignation, it was just press conference after press conference of important people jawboning the market speculators. It was just damage control.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50603894]Because they won't quit? But with the results of the referendum puts them on a nice position of negotiation[/QUOTE] It's actually the other way around. They lost the only leverage they had.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50603894]Because they won't quit? But with the results of the referendum puts them on a nice position of negotiation[/QUOTE] Oh god, this must be what the average UK voter actually thinks.
[QUOTE=Boilrig;50603378]Once you got past the two major speeches, Nigel's Independance Day speech, and Cameron's 3 Month time resignation, it was just press conference after press conference of important people jawboning the market speculators. It was just damage control.[/QUOTE] so they needed to control the damage caused by the decision they've been promoting for months? kinda suggests that maybe that decision wasn't a good one in the first place.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50603894]Because they won't quit? But with the results of the referendum puts them on a nice position of negotiation[/QUOTE] Hahahaha I'll do it mom, I'm gonna hold my breath uless you let me watch more TV
[QUOTE=Killuah;50604495]Hahahaha I'll do it mom, I'm gonna hold my breath uless you let me watch more TV[/QUOTE] it's more like getting a membership for a golf course as a professional golfer, and then you say that you're thinking about cancelling your membership, the golf course is like "well that's a shame because you're one of our better golfers, we'd like it if you stayed", then you go "NUH I'M LEAVING BUT I STILL WANT TO PLAY GOLF HERE" then you hold your breath and slowly choke to death on the floor, and the golf club is like "wtf is this idiot doing, can we get him out any faster before he starts vomiting on the carpet"
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;50604510]it's more like getting a membership for a golf course as a professional golfer, and then you say that you're thinking about cancelling your membership, the golf course is like "well that's a shame because you're one of our better golfers, we'd like it if you stayed", then you go "NUH I'M LEAVING BUT I STILL WANT TO PLAY GOLF HERE" then you hold your breath and slowly choke to death on the floor, and the golf club is like "wtf is this idiot doing, can we get him out any faster before he starts vomiting on the carpet"[/QUOTE] And all of that because of the fucking shower rules in the clubhouse imposed by the club
[QUOTE=Killuah;50604520]And all of that because of the fucking shower rules in the clubhouse imposed by the club[/QUOTE] you leave over the state of the showers, which you still have to use when you play golf there but now you don't have any say in how the club is run, and so the showers are still shit
Tbh. I just don't want any outsiders or freshmen learning how to golf using our showers. They don't know how to behave, they often don't even shower naked, they don't pay the full club fee and they'll soon have replaced the established golf club members since more and more of them somehow enjoy golfing on our finely kempt grass instead of kicking around rusty cans in the dusty dirt at the other side of the fence where we pump the water for our resort from.
EU have told Boris to fuck right off. [url]http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/27/brussels-rejects-boris-johnson-pipe-dream-over-single-market-access[/url]
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.