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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    If memory serves however - we Won that one.
    We... as in Russia and US, the British just held on to the jumping off point for D day

    I used to have a flatmate who sang " One World Cup and Two World Wars Do dah Do dah"

    Did England think they were playing the staff of the High St shop with the same name?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    Probably, last time they were this isolated was lets see....oh 1940.

    Thats when the called on the cannon fodder Colonies to come and bail them out.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...e-new-zealand/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    We... as in Russia and US, the British just held on to the jumping off point for D day

    I used to have a flatmate who sang " One World Cup and Two World Wars Do dah Do dah"

    Did England think they were playing the staff of the High St shop with the same name?
    Well, When I say we won it - it was Us, and Hitlers' vanity that won the war (changing the Luftwaffes focus from the RAF fields to the Cities and deciding to try and invade Russia)

    But as your flatmate sings - so shall I - 1 World Cup and 2 World Wars!
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    My Cousin who owns the family 'farm' ( 40 acres) in the backblocks of Co Galway doesn't actually do farming, and some years ago he bought another 'farm' down the road so as he could be paid for not growing stuff.

    Nice to know the lovely Ruth Richardson has found a cushy job somewhere....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    My Cousin who owns the family 'farm' ( 40 acres) in the backblocks of Co Galway doesn't actually do farming, and some years ago he bought another 'farm' down the road so as he could be paid for not growing stuff.

    Nice to know the lovely Ruth Richardson has found a cushy job somewhere....
    May not be actual independent analysis, but it's nice to see something other than Stupid World paranoia and John Key Derangement Syndrome generated echo chamber reinforced vacuous twaddle for a change.

    I see now that trade deals (with the UK) are politically attractive again Labour's opinion on free trade deals has more or less completely reversed, (again) since the uninterrupted spittle laden diatribe about the TPPA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    My Cousin who owns the family 'farm' ( 40 acres) in the backblocks of Co Galway doesn't actually do farming, and some years ago he bought another 'farm' down the road so as he could be paid for not growing stuff.

    Nice to know the lovely Ruth Richardson has found a cushy job somewhere....
    Also, when I lived in London, shortly after the UK joined the EU NZ lamb was landed in the UK for approximately 25% less cost than the local product. Once all of the duty and tax had been added the price to the local butcher was 25% higher.

    Un-free trade is always a great idea, if you happen to produce shite and can't find anyone to buy it.
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    What does England make that we would buy these days?
    does it mean the Triumph Thruxton that I have on my wish list will be 8% cheaper? or is that related to the Thai Baht?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    What does England make that we would buy these days?
    does it mean the Triumph Thruxton that I have on my wish list will be 8% cheaper? or is that related to the Thai Baht?
    Aston Martins,
    Triumphs,
    JCBs,
    Beer,
    Ariel Atoms,
    Bespoke SuperCars made in someone's garage that cost a fortune,
    Other Stuff (probably)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    What does England make that we would buy these days?
    Welfare dependencies?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    Aston Martins,
    Triumphs,
    JCBs,
    Beer,
    Ariel Atoms,
    Bespoke SuperCars made in someone's garage that cost a fortune,
    Other Stuff (probably)
    OK, welfare dependencies and that shit.

    Which, to be fair, (just for the exercise) is a growing industry right here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    What does England make that we would buy these days?
    does it mean the Triumph Thruxton that I have on my wish list will be 8% cheaper? or is that related to the Thai Baht?
    You're not getting this - lol

    The UK is a buyer, not a seller, and every exporter's best friend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    We... as in Russia and US, the British just held on to the jumping off point for D day

    I used to have a flatmate who sang " One World Cup and Two World Wars Do dah Do dah"

    Did England think they were playing the staff of the High St shop with the same name?
    You mean the Americans who just waited until England had crippled itself before getting involved and then kept charging England for the privilege?
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    That's the 3rd article I've read in 48 hours which has given me new reasons to pause for thought.

    The complexity and myriad of consequences before and after the vote has my head fried. I'm mentally holding my breath.
    Manopausal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by george formby View Post
    That's the 3rd article I've read in 48 hours which has given me new reasons to pause for thought.

    The complexity and myriad of consequences before and after the vote has my head fried. I'm mentally holding my breath.
    Given that the UK's initial involvement with the EU was based on a comprehensive free trade agreement it's instructive to note that probably the one valid reason they've given in cutting themselves free of it is the ingrained protectionism Brussels has engineered since then.

    It's just an editorial, but it's becoming increasingly hard to see how NZ is doing through the smoke of polarised and extreme rhetoric from everyone with an internet connection, and such pieces are at least less fraught with bullshit than local sources.

    Isn't it likely that they've got the same problem? That any perspective on pretty much anything let alone something as complex as Brexit is completely buried under terabytes of both heavily spun political statements and unadulterated ignorance?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    If memory serves however - we Won that one.
    Really? - - I wish it was that simple but I believe that there were very few winners and none of them were participants! (yeah I know rave on rave on!)

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