Not again!...damn you...damn you to hell.
I want my board back (sob)
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I want my board back (sob)
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Correct response to this is actually to form a minority group of individuals with malfunctioning ocular apparatus and campaign relentlessly for a board wide referendum on the issue.
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where's that tit who felt subjugated by the words 'European Union' on his passport?
Really we need his opinion to fully gauge the significance of this news
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Really we need his opinion to fully gauge the significance of this news
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"Under EU procurement rules, the Home Office had been required to throw open the bidding process to European firms."
So when it comes for renewal we can be all patriotic and source it here at a higher cost if we really really want.
But really meh, not fussed.
Shall we move on?
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So when it comes for renewal we can be all patriotic and source it here at a higher cost if we really really want.
But really meh, not fussed.
Shall we move on?
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This isn't some kind of metaphor, goddamn, this is real.
I'll be well chuffed if anyone gets this
( , Thu 22 Mar 2018, 13:14, Share, Reply)
50m saved is 50 less tax
It's part of the EU rules that we have to open it up, so blame the EU :-)
Seriously though, this will be another May u-turn and it'll be given to a UK company in the end.
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It's part of the EU rules that we have to open it up, so blame the EU :-)
Seriously though, this will be another May u-turn and it'll be given to a UK company in the end.
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The firm who currently produces UK passports does it in Gateshead
£500m will pay the wages for a lot of people in Gateshead for a long time and they will all pay income tax, they will buy luxuries and pay VAT. They will buy houses and pay stamp duty. They will drive cars and pay road tax. They will raise children who will go on to care for our old people and pay tax and NI themselves. I'm pretty sure all that tax will far exceed 10% of their income. I certainly pay more than 10% tax. £450m to France just disappears and those people in Gateshead who lose their jobs will stop paying tax and start claiming benefits.
Christ I'm beginning to sound like a leave voter now. Maybe Corbyn is right about brexit.
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£500m will pay the wages for a lot of people in Gateshead for a long time and they will all pay income tax, they will buy luxuries and pay VAT. They will buy houses and pay stamp duty. They will drive cars and pay road tax. They will raise children who will go on to care for our old people and pay tax and NI themselves. I'm pretty sure all that tax will far exceed 10% of their income. I certainly pay more than 10% tax. £450m to France just disappears and those people in Gateshead who lose their jobs will stop paying tax and start claiming benefits.
Christ I'm beginning to sound like a leave voter now. Maybe Corbyn is right about brexit.
( , Thu 22 Mar 2018, 17:43, Share, Reply)
But that £450m doesn't vanish
The French will buy some British roast beef with it.
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The French will buy some British roast beef with it.
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Why would we do that?
Rather buy a Lotus, a Rover or a Vauxhall.
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Rather buy a Lotus, a Rover or a Vauxhall.
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vauxhall are now frenchy owned, so not really endearing your self to us are you?
Lotus are Malaysian and Rover are owned by those damnable chinks. very little of our native car industry is actually Bitish any more
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Lotus are Malaysian and Rover are owned by those damnable chinks. very little of our native car industry is actually Bitish any more
( , Fri 23 Mar 2018, 11:26, Share, Reply)
That a bit the point.
You lot have nothing owed by you to sell us, NOTHING!
“Throws a passport a screen.”
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You lot have nothing owed by you to sell us, NOTHING!
“Throws a passport a screen.”
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The Liberal Democrats’ Brexit spokesman, Tom Brake, said: “The blue passport saga is turning into a farce. First it was established that we did not have to leave the EU to have blue passports. Now we learn that the passports will be printed by a foreign company. And to add insult to injury, we will pay over the odds for them because the value of the pound has fallen since Brexit and they will have to be imported.”
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Haha what did you expect?
Currency devaluation and capitalism.
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Currency devaluation and capitalism.
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David Schneider nailed this one.
"On passports, I still think the best idea is to let people choose their own colour:
Maroon passport = you can continue to travel freely, work and live across the EU.
Blue passport = you can’t do any of that but you have a blue passport.
Everyone’s happy!"
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"On passports, I still think the best idea is to let people choose their own colour:
Maroon passport = you can continue to travel freely, work and live across the EU.
Blue passport = you can’t do any of that but you have a blue passport.
Everyone’s happy!"
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But Benny and Dinny told us Brexit would mean we'd be isolated isolationists.
What's this? International free trade saving taxpayers money despite Brexit? Do your little brains hurt Benny & Dinny? Still, something to whinge about, eh?
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What's this? International free trade saving taxpayers money despite Brexit? Do your little brains hurt Benny & Dinny? Still, something to whinge about, eh?
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Last summer the pound was at its lowest level since...
2009.
Back in the halcyon days when Brexit was inconceivable, the pound was where it was last summer.
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2009.
Back in the halcyon days when Brexit was inconceivable, the pound was where it was last summer.
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A year after the banking fiasco.
Over 5 years later, it dropped in the first quarter 2016 and has been ever since.
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Over 5 years later, it dropped in the first quarter 2016 and has been ever since.
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We haven’t left yet.
These money savings were obtained by using our current rights as EU members to access to the common market.
Just to point out the bleeding obvious.
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These money savings were obtained by using our current rights as EU members to access to the common market.
Just to point out the bleeding obvious.
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This contract is set to run well after we leave.
Sent from my Chinese manufactured Korean phone I bought in the EU. It was very tough to get hold of, and super rare because it's prohibitively expensive. I'll never know how they accessed the Holy Grail that is the Single Market.
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Sent from my Chinese manufactured Korean phone I bought in the EU. It was very tough to get hold of, and super rare because it's prohibitively expensive. I'll never know how they accessed the Holy Grail that is the Single Market.
( , Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:23, Share, Reply)
£120 million saved and 70 uk jobs created.
Hard to argue against it.
This whole story is in the news because of the boss of De La Rue is throwing a massive hissy fit.
Either his firm is way less productive than the Franco-Dutch one or he thought the government would be forced to use his and bloated the bid. It's even worse given the devaluation of the pound against the euro.
Sounds like he was playing silly buggers and got burnt.
( , Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:05, Share, Reply)
Hard to argue against it.
This whole story is in the news because of the boss of De La Rue is throwing a massive hissy fit.
Either his firm is way less productive than the Franco-Dutch one or he thought the government would be forced to use his and bloated the bid. It's even worse given the devaluation of the pound against the euro.
Sounds like he was playing silly buggers and got burnt.
( , Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:05, Share, Reply)
People begun ditching De La Rue some time ago.
I forget the details, but I'm sure I read a piece (in the Investors' Chronicle?) saying bin the stock ages ago.
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I forget the details, but I'm sure I read a piece (in the Investors' Chronicle?) saying bin the stock ages ago.
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you must be the only simpleton left who thinks this whole shitstorm is saving us money
Taxpayers are billions down because of your ridiculous nostalgia
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Taxpayers are billions down because of your ridiculous nostalgia
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apologies, I've just read Cerebus's attempt
Clearly not the only simpleton
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Clearly not the only simpleton
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