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[Wandering Yellow]

How did the Beatles become so big without the EU?

 

[Big Ron]

How did the Beatles become so big without the EU?

I appreciate your're just attempting to stir the pot here. Even you wouldn't be stupid enough to ask such a dumb question.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

I appreciate your're just attempting to stir the pot here. Even you wouldn't be stupid enough to ask such a dumb question.

I thought we were friends now Ron

Don't accuse someone of being stupid and go on to misspell you're

 

[Essexyellows]

There is so much in those two sentences that just makes me sad.

Modern music is mostly shite.

 

[chuckbert]

How did the Beatles become so big without the EU?

I'm not an expert, and wasn't born then, but it seems that they focussed on a single country - Germany - playing 281 times in Hamburg alone in 2 years (five separate trips). That seemed to do the trick in the early 1960s. Not sure it's quite the formula for success now, though.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

I'm not an expert, and wasn't born then, but it seems that they focussed on a single country - Germany - playing 281 times in Hamburg alone in 2 years (five separate trips). That seemed to do the trick in the early 1960s. Not sure it's quite the formula for success now, though.

How did they manage to go to Germany so many times when the UK wasn't in the EU?

You need to be in a political union for easy travel right?

 

[chuckbert]

How did they manage to go to Germany so many times when the UK wasn't in the EU?

You need to be in a political union for easy travel right?

(1) How do you know it was easy for them?
(2) Not to go to one country, no.
(3) If you are of the opinion we are finally now back in the glory days of the 1960s and everything it has to offer Britain in terms of trade and travel opportunity, then please respond on a postcard.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

(1) How do you know it was easy for them?
(2) Not to go to one country, no.
(3) If you are of the opinion we are finally now back in the glory days of the 1960s and everything it has to offer Britain in terms of trade and travel opportunity, then please respond on a postcard.

The truth is the EU is neither as bad as I imagine nor as good as you imagine, and Brexit is neither as damaging as you think it is or as good as I think it is.

I think there is a little sense of anger from Remainers that they lost, so as a coping mechanism they find any articles for "look, I told you so!" Points, which is easy to do when there's just been a devastating worldwide pandemic.

You find my obsession with identity politics and worries about socialism weird, I find your obsession with Brexit weird. We're all different.

To those of you who can tolerate people having a different opinion but are nonetheless a huge remainer, fair play.

To those of you who like to try and exert their moral superiority and talk down to people who voted to leave, get f*cked.

 

[Marked Ox]

There is so much in those two sentences that just makes me sad.

Are you sad because you don't think Little Mix will make it in there?

 

[chuckbert]

The truth is the EU is neither as bad as I imagine nor as good as you imagine, and Brexit is neither as damaging as you think it is or as good as I think it is.

Then why on earth do you argue a position that you truly think is wrong? The EU is not as bad as you imagine? Brexit is not as good as you think it is?

I think the truth is that the EU was better than no EU. That’s all, no rainbows and unicorns.

You find my obsession with identity politics and worries about socialism weird, I find your obsession with Brexit weird. We're all different.

I don’t have an obsession with brexit. Obsessions aren’t a great position to argue rationally from.

To those of you who can tolerate people having a different opinion but are nonetheless a huge remainer, fair play.

To those of you who like to try and exert their moral superiority and talk down to people who voted to leave, get f*cked.

I’m only one person, so not quite sure how to respond here.

Maybe just to comment that you might heed your own words about tolerance and moral superiority.

 

[m]

"Brexit - everything's just a tiny bit worse"

 

[Oslernorth]

Why do we have to keep signing up to these harmful free trade deals?!! Why aren’t the Government strong enough to put tariff protects in for British sheep farmers?

UK agrees free trade deal with New Zealand

The government says consumers and businesses will benefit from deal, but it is unlikely to boost growth.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[SteMerritt]

Why do we have to keep signing up to these harmful free trade deals?!! Why aren’t the Government strong enough to put tariff protects in for British sheep farmers?

UK agrees free trade deal with New Zealand

The government says consumers and businesses will benefit from deal, but it is unlikely to boost growth.

www.bbc.co.uk

At least there won't be any disruption to my supply of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, so I'm all for it. Now if we can just get the Creme de Cassis situation sorted...

 

[Sheik djibouti]

Why do we have to keep signing up to these harmful free trade deals?!! Why aren’t the Government strong enough to put tariff protects in for British sheep farmers?

UK agrees free trade deal with New Zealand

The government says consumers and businesses will benefit from deal, but it is unlikely to boost growth.

www.bbc.co.uk

Clearly a sacrificial Lamb worth sacrificing....

 

[Osei Yaw]

Are you sad because you don't think Little Mix will make it in there?

They'll never be the same now Jesy has left.

I'm surprised there isn't a Jesexit thread on the forum covering it.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

They'll never be the same now Jesy has left.

I'm surprised there isn't a Jesexit thread on the forum covering it.

Maybe because it just sounds wrong

 

[SteMerritt]

The Guardian: British leavers and remainers as polarised as ever, survey finds.

 

[m]

The Guardian: British leavers and remainers as polarised as ever, survey finds.

Well there's a surprise...

 

[QR]

The Guardian: British leavers and remainers as polarised as ever, survey finds.

Was it a survey of this forum?

 

[Sheik djibouti]

As ever, or more than ever?

Not sure I've ever told a Leaver to "get f#cked"