The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[Woodsey]

33,000 per year? Way more than I thought. I think snowflakes should offer to put them up and take on their cost of living if they care so much....

Prompted me to find out how much asylum seekers support costs each taxpayer, appears to be ten pence a week. Good to sweat the big stuff.

Evidence please?

[Pokerpops]

PokerPops, you might be right about a stronger economy, but I also very much think you are going to be wrong.

The response since we voted to leave has pretty much shown we are going to be worse off. The pound dropped from 1.28 and now hangs around about 1.1 most of the time. Results from years since the vote shows us doing less off. Companies are moving. Forecasts for years after leaving show we will be worse off under a deal. It also shows there will be even worse under a no-deal.

All this after the years before we was showing huge growth and was the 5th biggest economy, now 6th.

And whilst, some people probably didn't know what they voted for, remain definitely was more right than the leave group. The remain campaign was run on the economic downturn, we have had economic downturn. The leave campaign, whether people like it or not, was run on ifs and buts. Not just ifs and buts, but also lies. But we know this has been said over and over again.

There are some Brexit voters who voted for things that are genuine, but will not directly impact them, themselves.

The whole vote was a joke, the whole process now is a joke. The whole country is divided. Then this whole asylum seeker argument is pathetic, it simplifies SOME brexit voters, mainly the voters who are racist and believe in Great Britain should rule the world. 

Some things we can agree on.

The rest of your post, meh, not so much.

[Longines]

Evidence please?

http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/refugeesservices/2015/04/asylum-in-the-uk-adding-up-the-true-costs/

[booder]

I live in a small village, no immigrants, no refugees, seemingly nothing has changed here for the last 50 years. We still can't get a Doctors appointment.

I live in a medium sized market town , quite a large Portugese community,seemingly nothing much has changed here for the last 50 years.I am a full time carer so i use the Doctors quite regularly.
I have never had a problem getting a Doctor's appointment.

[BigAdz]

Evidence please?

http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/refugeesservices/2015/04/asylum-in-the-uk-adding-up-the-true-costs/

The most interesting point I read in the article was the woman in the comments box trying to justify their expensive offices in London and the top earner making £173k per annum, whilst other have fancy company cars.

Apparently because other charities pay similar ridiculous amounts that makes it ok......

How much more could be going to, not only, asylum seekers, if these charities didn't milk the system?

FFS, the PM get paid less for fucking up Brexit.

[tikay]

Away from Brexit momentarily, but as this is a Politics thread....


Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond arrested


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46984747

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[Longines]

Paying the CEO of a £300m organisation with 4000 employees similar to what they'd earn as middle ranking managers in, for example, IT consultancies doesn't seem massively out of line IMO.

The fact we pay our politicians peanuts is irrelevant, does seem to be a favourite trope for some.

[BigAdz]

Paying the CEO of a £300m organisation with 4000 employees similar to what they'd earn as middle ranking managers in, for example, IT consultancies doesn't seem massively out of line IMO.

The fact we pay our politicians peanuts is irrelevant, does seem to be a favourite trope for some.

I must have been quite naive for many years, but when I heard of people going off to work as head of charity this/that, I thought that it was a selfless type of a move, and that they were being just that, charitable(expenses etc , as they had made their money elsewhere). I really didn't realise what a gravy train it was.

It's all well and good citing these noble words from them about how little we give from our pay packets, but then again, so do they.......

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Away from Brexit momentarily, but as this is a Politics thread....


Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond arrested


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46984747

Click to see full-size image.

I always knew there was something fishy about him.

[MANTIS01]

I’m sure somebody will leap to his defence

[RED-DOG]

If not he'll just have to go with the flow.

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It's parr for the course.

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Ah, the scales of justice....

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I bet they lox him up.

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He could fry for this.