EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37262780

Some money might be guaranteed, but not the eu peace money. Thats £500 million... Points for letting an economist make a comment on something that also involves charities.. O_o

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/05/no-10-theresa-may-rules-out-points-based-immigration-system-for-britain-brexit

Any Leave promises still standing?

so in effect we are leaving all the benefits the eu provides, but keeping immigration unchanged, as we need thousands of people coming here and filling jobs and paying taxes to keep our economy afloat

so the remainers don't get what they want and the brexiters don't get what they want

most fucked up bit of referenduming EVER, everyone loses

That's been pretty much obvious from day one tho', no?

https://www.jrf.org.uk/brexit-vote-explained-poverty-low-skills-and-lack-opportunities

A more indepth analysis.

Seems not, if it was obvious people would not have voted out so much, no? :)

"referenda are deceipt of the common people" as a Dutch scholar said. Harsh, but true for this one.

David Davis, wow, just wow.

The people really trust this man to get the UK the best possible deal from this farce? I've seen 8 year olds with more competencies.

More waffle than Belgium.

Peter Lilley says UK should go for a fast-track separation like India in 1947. Perhaps not the best lesson from history.

— Matthew Holehouse (@mattholehouse) September 5, 2016

Perhaps we should let the people with no GCSE's/employment/retired do it as they voted for it and they have time on their hands.

Maybe select them by firing tranquilizer darts into Farm Foods - after all, we've had enough of experts.

Let's give Barry and his common sense a shot at it, eh?

Barry Shitpeas!

Let's solve the immigration problem by making this country so dire that no one want's to come here. I bet that's Theresa May's plan, no need for a points system.

FFS Still the best to defend in RISK

Why would we want to go back to that Europe thing?

I don't honestly like cheese and wine anyway.

Spanish and Italian family won't stay here tho so I have to move.

north america needs only three strong holds to get 5 armies every turn
europe you are under attack from the middle east, russia and north africa and north america for only 5 reinforcements per go

This is interesting:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/06/swiss-eu-standoff-striking-similarities-uk-predicament

This is interesting

Said no-one about Switzerland, ever.

Steve Bell in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/sep/07/steve-bell-government-brexit-plans-theresa-may-cartoon

The draft legislation unveiled late last week would “severely reduce” the attractiveness of hiring people from abroad, the parliamentary committee said, by favouring people – including EU citizens – already living in Switzerland.

So their idea is to draft a bill to encourage swiss employers to employ swiss people. I wonder what form this would take? Surely many businesses are going to ignore it and take the cheaper/more available labour anyway. It would have to be a very real and pursuasive incentive.

Two issues here:
1-Employers are like consumers, they want best value
2-Sometimes the skills are not there

So how is the government going to solve 2? As I don't see how you can solve 1.
[this applies to the UK also btw...May can't possibly keep her promises if she doesn't fix 2, and it's highly unlikely 1 can be regulated much.
[unless the government starts to work with business and job agencies and education directly, which means big government which I don't think Tories want]

So how is the government going to solve 2?

Selective education apparently...

Selection on what? :)

If IT companies complain people aren't taught the skills they need, no selection is going to fix that, it's the teaching that's the issue.

A return of internships can obv. also help here.

And one for the denizens of the cat thread.