EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

I would suggest people check out Twitter if they want to see some angry Leavers. Some of it's fucking disgusting. This is pretty good:

"Boris born in USA, came here at 5, his grandfather is Turkish you really think he want us to leave."

Remember the Kenya comment?

we'd get less inflation from the price rises of all those European imports (!),

I can imagine, but I don't really want to get sucked into reading it.

thanks!

There are rumours at work already of bonus restructuring as we have a quarterly Chinese manufacturers bill to pay. Bonus makes up about 15% of my pay, so I'm hoping it's just rumour.

Perhaps a return of apprenticeships can help, but skilled job apprenticeships still take time. And if the undereducation is so bad people can barely spell, those also won't be accessible to the ones that are really stuck.

The gap is public sector jobs surely?

Sod austerity, frankly I'd like to be taxed much more and have people cleaning streets, enforcing planning standards, running play schemes, staffing libraries, performing operations and a million other jobs that make our day to day life pleasant.

There isn't a person alive that "if they could afford it" wouldn't choose to not pay the tax they owe.

Triple A satus bye bye. that has a massive effect on the IoM. Your choice (per se) not ours.

In!

Unregulated in what way?
if I had a couple of million in cash and I wanted to deposit it in a bank I'd be on the red eye to London. Off shore = more hoops to jump through than non off shore.

If you're not already following @emilysheffield on Twitter, I highly recommend her.

She's Sam Cam's sister, and she's begun to really put the boot in.

The gap is public sector jobs surely?

It doesn't seem to be:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/publicsectoremployment/march2016

What has changed is reduced access to health services, education, benefits, full-time work, local work, hours of work that are social, rent that isn't half your income, legal aid, transport, culture ... all the things the tories would rather someone sells to us.

good piece

http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/thoughts-on-the-sociology-of-brexit

i know someone who's set up a bike business in Ireland if you're really interested.

Thats great thank you.. (Message sent)

I found myself using 'Brexiter' as an insult whilst riding to work this morning. It just slipped off the tongue. I wonder if it will make it into the Dictionary.

Was the offender at the wheel of a Hackney carriage?

Nick Clegg, October 2014.

Source: https://twitter.com/phil_reilly/status/747037336899321858

LOL. You know me too well

Mind boggling, from Boris' Telegraph piece.

"Yes, the Government will be able to take back democratic control of immigration policy, with a balanced and humane points-based system to suit the needs of business and industry."

I'd take Nick Clegg a lot more seriously if he hadn't enabled half of that.

Do you really believe that? Clegg had little option but coalition with the Conservatives, and it is clear the Lib Dems were a moderating influence. It is easy and cheap to blame the Lib Dems - what was the alternative?

There was no alternative.

Fuck knows what the Tories would've got away with had the teaboy not been around to keep them in check.

Just a curiosity:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/27/david-and-samantha-cameron-took-out-new-mortgage-eight-days-befo/

Chin up England!

Johnson now piping up and saying he wants free movement and the single market. If only there was some sort of Union that could provide that sort of thing...