Comments by "" (@Iain1962) on "LBC" channel.

You can't leave the EU and stay in the Single Market and Customs Union. Inside the EU makes all the trade arrangements so we could not make our own, we would have to continue applying the same tariffs that they would decided and sending them most of the import duties, and also having free movement, so it wouldn't be leaving, it would be turning us into a vassal state. Trade by the way is way up both with the EU and the rest of the World, and there are loads of jobs available so our livelihoods have improved considerably.
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Ukrainians have visa free travel to the EU. That's why they don't need a visa. The Dutch had a referendum about whether to allow Ukraine visa free travel in 2016, and they voted no by 61% to 39%. So the EU did what it usually does, ignored the referendum result and introduced visa free travel. A big bureaucracy ignoring the will of the people and doing what they want. That's what being in the EU means.
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Hahaha, that's pretty funny, almost nothing he said here is factually true.
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@adampeckham8541 I suggest you google the phrase "Among G7 countries, the United Kingdom recorded the highest annual growth in 2022".
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@cosmos237 We should be charging them for access to our market. 15bn a year will cover it.
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@ArrowfieldMan How do you mean?
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@ArrowfieldMan Oh I see. well you have that the wrong way round, Let's see what remain said that didn't come true : Immediate collapse of the economy, 800,000 job losses, all factories closing, JIT supply chains decimated, nobody would want to do a trade deal, super Gonorrhoea outbreak, all planes grounded, no medicines, no nuclear materials, all EU citizens would leave (instead twice as many as we thought were here asked to stay, etc etc. It's quite impressive, nothing that Remain predicted came to pass.
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@ArrowfieldMan And that maybe explains the pathetic turnout for their march, nobody believes them any more, more people went to watch Burton play Fleetwood Town at football than showed up for this pantomime.
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@adampeckham8541 The LSE? I prefer official trade figures from the Government collated by the ONS. Google "Uk Trade in numbers" Highest exports both to the EU and the rest of the World, and highest imports too. So trade is going superbly well. We were also by the way the fastest growing economy in the G7 in 2022. The antiBrexit LSE is hardly going to present the reality, that would mean admitting they were wrong, and they will never do that ! Hahaha.
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@adampeckham8541 Well click on the link to the OECD page. You are looking at the facts and then trying to make some sort of excuse as to why the facts are wrong to fit your imagined scenario. With that approach you can claim anything you like. This is the kind of madness that infects remainers. A willingness to ignore reality and invent their own. How you can look at the results where we are top and claim we are actually second bottom is startling !!!
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@EliasBac Mr Verhofstadt's ego is full to bursting point !!
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@commonsense31 Is it pantomime season? Oh yes it has !!
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@williampatrickfagan7590 "Blessed are the ignorant For will never see their own faults." Blessed are the ignorant For they will never see their own faults. Fixed that for you as you obviously didn't see it.
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@michelemijat8260 Of course we did. Inside the Customs Union the EU sets our trade policy, decides our trade deals and takes 75% of the tariffs that THEY charge. That would be just resigning from the decision making process and taking the rules they decide, it would be even worse than being a member.
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@FlatToRentUK Hahaha Well yes it is. Why do you think the Russians rig everything? If the Russians could rig all the elections and referendums why are they invading with tanks? The Dutch voted no to the constitution, they got the Lisbon Treaty anyway. Then they voted no to visa free travel for Ukraine and they got Visa Free travel. The EU don't care what the people vote for. they do what they want. It is completely accurate to state that the Dutch voted No.
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@FlatToRentUK So The Danish Voted no to Masstricht and were forced to vote again The Irish vote No on the Nice Treaty and were forced to vote again The French vote no, the Dutch vote No the Irish vote no to the constitution but get it anyway with the Lisbon Treaty. The Greeks vote No to the Euro Bail-out but get it anyway The Dutch vote No on Ukraine, but get it anyway the UK voted Leave and faced 5 years of pressure to overturn the vote or vote again... The people however made clear in 2019 that they wanted the vote respected. how you can even begin to think the EU listens to the people and that the EU is "the member states" is a joke. The people who run it are hand picked, if you play along you can expect generous rewards if you resist in any way you will be out very fast, only the sycophants are allowed in the inner circle and the more obsequious to "the project" the better. Why is von der Leyen President? Why is Charles Michel head of the Council? Nobody voted for them hardly anybody even knew who they were before they ascended to such heights.
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@FlatToRentUK Hahaha. oh dear. You've read the brochure and swallowed the sales patter. You need to look into how von der Leyen got the job, and why they picked somebody so useless. Honestly all the people in Europe and they picked her? They had a procedure that was in the Lisbon Treaty the Spitzenkandidat system, but that would have meant Manfred Weber was President and they didn't like that (who's they you ask....well yes that is the question...who is they and why do they have such power). Their choices were rubberstamped by the EU parliament which is also a sham, the MEPs essentially choose themselves they put all the "right" people at the top of the list in each region and hey presto. Verhofstadt's Party only has 2 seats, but he always gets one because he is top of the list. Same for Farage, he made sure he was in the right area to get a seat. So the EU parliament is a joke too. Even then with this hand picked mob, she only got 383 votes (she needed 374) so she only just scraped it. By the way how many other elections do you know of where there is only one candidate and your options are Yes or No in an "election"? Finally if the EU is the member states and the member states hold a referendum and say no, then that should be the end of the matter whatever it is, instead they have to vote again and say yes or they are ignored, so clearly the EU is not the member states because they are not listened to, they are told what to do. Anyway we are out of their clutches now thanks goodness, now we can watch the pantomime from the side-lines as they stumble from one meeting to the next shuffling papers and taxing people and achieving nothing but drowning everyone in a sea of paperwork.
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@FlatToRentUK Repeating things does not make them true. You obviously paid no attention to anything I said. Continue to believe the story rather than investigating what happened Von der Leyen was selected by Macron, Merkel, Tusk and Juncker. So only two heads of state and the two outgoing "leaders", what do you call it when the outgoing leader choses their successor? If you think the EU is democratic you are wilfully blind. They put in place a system and then ignored it, just like they made it illegal to bail out the Euro and then bailed out the Euro, and it is illegal for the EU to be indebt but they are now trillions in debt, and the EU army was a dangerous Fantasy and now here we are everyone is calling for an EU army, not in the member states though...in the EU corridors of power. PR is a disaster, you always end up with coalitions where the smallest party holds the balance of power like in Scotland where the Greens have the SNP over a barrel with only 7 seats or even a situation where no government can be formed in the horse trading that follows an election, which is why there was no government in Belgium for a year and a half, the last Dutch election remains unresolved and a compromise has been reached., same in Sweden, and in NZ where Adern became Pm even though she didn't win the lection. It's a disaster. Basically you have it all upside down. Have a nice evening.
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