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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Well, I've already bought my replacement car license plates WITHOUT that freakin' halo of stars denoting membership of the EU.

Congratulations, tac, and to your countrymen (and women).

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Originally posted by BansheeOne:
British Parliament had to approve the 1783 Treaty of Paris which ... blah, blah, blah....

Does anyone have some Preparation H that we can rub on this poster? He's flared up again.



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ALEXANDER VON SCHOENBURG: Germany fears Britain after Brexit

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This week, your Government's Brexit Bill finally completed its passage through Westminster, despite some last-ditch and futile skirmishing by Remainers in the House of Lords.

After all the long years of Parliamentary stalemate, Britain's withdrawal from the EU will become a reality next week.

The alarmists of Project Fear predicted that this moment would be the cue for economic meltdown, yet just the opposite is happening. Britain seems ready to prosper.

Only on Thursday, an authoritative study by the Confederation of British Industry reported the biggest surge in confidence on record among manufacturers, with companies planning to ramp- up investment.

The CBI's report followed news earlier in the week of yet another fall in unemployment as the British jobs miracle continues.

The jobless rate in the UK is at its lowest since 1974, while employment, at 33 million, is at its highest-ever level.

Particularly striking is the dramatic growth in self-employment to more than five million, a sure indicator of an enterprising economy.

The welcome jobs news comes against a backdrop of a rising pound, widely available affordable credit, a resurgence in the property market and a significant fall in Government borrowing.

Britain looks like it can manage well without the EU. But can the EU manage without Britain?

Your economy is bigger than the 18 smallest EU countries combined. This means in economic terms that the EU will lose not just one member state — but shrink from 28 members to ten.

On a purely fiscal level, the loss of Britain's contribution will have huge implications for the EU's budget.

And, on much a deeper level, Europe will also badly feel the loss of the Anglo-Saxon, pro-market business model, when so many EU governments are addicted to a quasi-socialist, big-state, heavily interventionist approach.
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The truth is that Brexit — so often sneered at by the federalists — has shone a harsh spotlight on Europe's deep-seated structural problems.

Here in Germany, our economy has long hovered on the brink of recession, with growth at its most anaemic for a decade.
Manufacturing is looking increasingly outdated as exports and capital investments suffer.

Our car industry — the backbone of our economy — now faces perhaps its biggest crisis since Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invented the automobile in the 1880s.
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Meanwhile, the difficulties of other European countries are even worse.

Next door in France, President Emmanuel Macron is fighting a losing war in his attempt to reform the vast and creaking French state, especially its array of unaffordable pension schemes.
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Spain is no better and has no chance of economic renewal now that, after eight months of bickering and paralysis, the country has a socialist government propped up by the radical Left.

It is a similar story in Italy, which is stuck in perma-recession and where the state machine is hopelessly inefficient. There, as in France, attempts at reform have floundered.
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European politicians used to push around Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May. Now they are confronted with a leader who really is too 'strong and stable' to be bullied.

The eminent historian Niall Ferguson recently said: 'I think Brussels has not really adjusted to the new situation, but they will adjust when they realise that Britain isn't about to be rolled over the way it was because of the way May was negotiating.

'We will see a very different tone to these negotiations.' …”

https://mol.im/a/7927123

So, the Germans are 0 for 3 when trying to conquer England.

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Originally posted by p.d.:
So, the Germans are 0 for 3 when trying to conquer England.

My heartfelt Congratulations to our British brothers.

The EU= Misery loves company.

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Originally posted by p.d.:
So, the Germans are 0 for 3 when trying to conquer England.

“The Hun is always either at your throat or your feet.” Winston Churchill.

As long as GB has goods to sell, and money to buy, they will be able to prosper. They can set up new trade deals in days if they want, and most likely have been writing legislation which they can implement quickly as needed.

The propaganda Brussels and the Remainers have been pushing is just that, propaganda. I read above that the EU governmental body will have substantially less income. I am sure income and power is all they really wanted all along.

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Originally posted by p.d.:
So, the Germans are 0 for 3 when trying to conquer England.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Well, I've already bought my replacement car license plates WITHOUT that freakin' halo of stars denoting membership of the EU.

Congratulations, tac, and to your countrymen (and women).

I would like to heartily second this. Enjoy the victory!

Nigel Farage, in his last speech to the European Parliament, basically a fuck off goodbye . The start of the clip briefly shows the end, but fades into the beginning of his speech.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBMvZRf9Scs

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Originally posted by oddball:
Nigel Farage, in his last speech to the European Parliament, basically a fuck off goodbye

Good for Nigel and Britain, I am very happy for them. That EU whore sure had her panties in a wad, very funny. Wave your flags high Britain.

It was awfully petty of her to cut Farage off when he obviously had no more than four or five words to go. Where was she from, Ireland?

“Dominic Raab raised eyebrows today as he insisted that the UK could get a post-Brexit US free trade deal done by the start of November.

The Foreign Secretary said he was 'confident' that an agreement was possible in just nine months before Donald Trump stands for re-election, as he hosted Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo in London.

The US politician said he agreed that such a deal was possible as he said that Washington would put Britain 'at the front of the line'. …”

https://mol.im/a/7947413

Zippy said that a free UK would be at the back of the line.

Gotta love Farage. Common man, common words.

Brexit – Signed, sealed, and delivered. The bumbling Mrs. May is an ancient relic – I thank God that she’s outa there. Nigel Farage doesn’t get all of the credit, but he gets a lot of it.

“Nigel Farage is at his desk in his Brexit Party office in London, surrounded by broken blinds, empty fag packets, cans of sugar-free tonic water ('only 15 calories a go!'), scattered memos, a china bulldog sporting a Union Jack vest and a couple of badly framed pictures of him beaming next to his great pal President Donald Trump.
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On the stroke of 11pm tonight, Britain will leave the European Union. Nigel is the man who made it happen and who has changed the political landscape of Britain for ever…”

https://mol.im/a/7949347

ETA: This is a very interesting article about Nigel.

PARTY TIME!!!!!!

I look forward to the coming years when all the hysteria of DOOM and GLOOM that was predicted to come with BREXIT are proven wrong!!!!!!

And can we just, as a new policy, when the departure proves to be beneficial for Britain, the US, Europe and the rest of the world - as it will - haul out all the pundits, prognosticators, raving antis-, hateful souls who remotely suggested it would be the end of civilization as we know it, and - gently - hang them up by their heels so passers-by can pelt them with rotten fruit for a time? Leaving room, of course, for present and future climate-change activists when climate change proves to be common, ordinary weather. It might peripherally create a whole new generation of non-idiots when consequences are on public display.

So for us across the pond the happy hour begins at 1900 EST and 1800 CST?

I will hoist a pint of red to your re-found Freedom!

Great day....

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Originally posted by dewhorse:
So for us across the pond the happy hour begins at 1900 EST and 1800 CST?

I will hoist a pint of red to your re-found Freedom!

Great day....

This goes out to Tac and all the other Brits for their happy day of freedom! Very apt words today:

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God Save The Queen

1. God save our gracious Queen!

Long live our noble Queen!

God save the Queen!

Send her victorious,

Happy and glorious,

Long to reign over us,

God save the Queen.

2. O Lord our God arise,

Scatter her enemies

And make them fall;

Confound their politics,

Frustrate their knavish tricks,

On Thee our hopes we fix,

God save us all! .