Branson - I will block Brexit !!

Branson - I will block Brexit !!

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Yipper

5,964 posts

90 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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dazwalsh said:
Yipper said:
Is this the same Branson who lives in a low-tax island on the other side of the world...

To be fair, though, with Theresa Mayhem going all-out for Daily Mail hard Brexit and thousands of jobs already starting to flee the City of London (Britain's last remaining great industry), beardy Branson is right to be concerned.
Who has fled? There has been threats and thats all they will amount to if the UK is still a good place to do business so lets not get too ahead of ourselves, the broad brexit plan has been laid out but no specifics yet.

Branson should shut his mouth.
The drumbeat of City job losses is getting louder and louder.

HSBC 1,000 going to Paris.
Goldman Sachs 3,000 going to Frankfurt and NY.
UBS 1,000 going to Frankfurt and Madrid.
Lloyds 100 going to Frankfurt.

And that is just in the past week...

The phrase "leaving the single market" has put the cat among the pigeons.

A trickle is on the verge of becoming a flood. When London goes down, the rest of UK will be dragged down with it.

CoolHands

18,627 posts

195 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Oh dear

grumbledoak

31,532 posts

233 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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New member? check
Empty profile? check
Tidings of woe due to Brexit? check

So who do we think Yipper is the reincarnation of?

juice

8,533 posts

282 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Westy Pre-Lit said:
He'd be best to keep his nose out and go back to making pickle.
hehe

jonnyb

2,590 posts

252 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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crankedup said:
Dail Mail article today Richard Branson is planning, along with a group of top business people to block the Brexit plan. He is putting in a pot of cash as a fighting fund and determined to win through. Apparently the great British public do not understand the implications attached to Brexit and with the fighting fund he and his followers will, presumebly, educate us to the disasters we face unless we change our minds.
Its the usual 'we know better than you' routine.

Man of the people?
Excellent!

Someone with some money doing the right thing.

Countdown

39,864 posts

196 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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crankedup said:
Dail Mail article today Richard Branson is planning, along with a group of top business people to block the Brexit plan. He is putting in a pot of cash as a fighting fund and determined to win through. Apparently the great British public do not understand the implications attached to Brexit and with the fighting fund he and his followers will, presumebly, educate us to the disasters we face unless we change our minds.
Its the usual 'we know better than you' routine.

Man of the people?
It's their money. It's a democracy. They can do what they like.

Not sure why all the panic tbh.....

jonnyb

2,590 posts

252 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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don4l said:
Lunar Tick said:
Moonhawk said:
Democracy is fine..........as long as you vote the 'correct' way!
Yep. And if you don't it's called 'populism'
"Populism" is the name that lefty losers give to "democracy".
Yep!

glazbagun

14,279 posts

197 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Countdown said:
crankedup said:
Dail Mail article today Richard Branson is planning, along with a group of top business people to block the Brexit plan. He is putting in a pot of cash as a fighting fund and determined to win through. Apparently the great British public do not understand the implications attached to Brexit and with the fighting fund he and his followers will, presumebly, educate us to the disasters we face unless we change our minds.
Its the usual 'we know better than you' routine.

Man of the people?
It's their money. It's a democracy. They can do what they like.

Not sure why all the panic tbh.....
In bold in case you missed it.

AC43

11,484 posts

208 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Yipper said:
dazwalsh said:
Yipper said:
Is this the same Branson who lives in a low-tax island on the other side of the world...

To be fair, though, with Theresa Mayhem going all-out for Daily Mail hard Brexit and thousands of jobs already starting to flee the City of London (Britain's last remaining great industry), beardy Branson is right to be concerned.
Who has fled? There has been threats and thats all they will amount to if the UK is still a good place to do business so lets not get too ahead of ourselves, the broad brexit plan has been laid out but no specifics yet.

Branson should shut his mouth.
The drumbeat of City job losses is getting louder and louder.

HSBC 1,000 going to Paris.
Goldman Sachs 3,000 going to Frankfurt and NY.
UBS 1,000 going to Frankfurt and Madrid.
Lloyds 100 going to Frankfurt.

And that is just in the past week...

The phrase "leaving the single market" has put the cat among the pigeons.

A trickle is on the verge of becoming a flood. When London goes down, the rest of UK will be dragged down with it.
No no no.

Magic jobs are popping up in Stoke right now. Proper jobs for proper people*

  • oh yes

Countdown

39,864 posts

196 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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glazbagun said:
In bold in case you missed it.
biggrin

Hainey

4,381 posts

200 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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grumbledoak said:
New member? check
Empty profile? check
Tidings of woe due to Brexit? check

So who do we think Yipper is the reincarnation of?
Years ago I knew someone who claimed to have been a paid shill at one point in his life on certain motor racing forums. I did not doubt him in the least.

I would not be surprised if pistonheads, being the largest mass male forum in the UK, has the same infiltration.

don4l

10,058 posts

176 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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glazbagun said:
Countdown said:
crankedup said:
Dail Mail article today Richard Branson is planning, along with a group of top business people to block the Brexit plan. He is putting in a pot of cash as a fighting fund and determined to win through. Apparently the great British public do not understand the implications attached to Brexit and with the fighting fund he and his followers will, presumebly, educate us to the disasters we face unless we change our minds.
Its the usual 'we know better than you' routine.

Man of the people?
It's their money. It's a democracy. They can do what they like.

Not sure why all the panic tbh.....
In bold in case you missed it.
Unlike Countdown, I'm not gullible enough to believe everything that I read in the Daily Mail.

B'stard Child

28,395 posts

246 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Yipper said:
A trickle is on the verge of becoming a flood. When London goes down, the rest of UK will be dragged down with it.
I agree the Thames barrier was built to stop water rising - it wasn't built to stop people leaving

House prices in London will fall

The government will have to look to invest in the country to create wealth rather than riding on the back of a one trick pony

Yep absolutely no downsides




Countdown

39,864 posts

196 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Hainey said:
Years ago I knew someone who claimed to have been a paid shill at one point in his life on certain motor racing forums. I did not doubt him in the least.

I would not be surprised if pistonheads, being the largest mass male forum in the UK, has the same infiltration.
Wasn't called Milo was he?

0a

23,900 posts

194 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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He appears to have missed that the referendum was in 2016, not 2017.

Oakey

27,565 posts

216 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Hainey said:
Years ago I knew someone who claimed to have been a paid shill at one point in his life on certain motor racing forums. I did not doubt him in the least.

I would not be surprised if pistonheads, being the largest mass male forum in the UK, has the same infiltration.
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

Glenn Greenwald said:
Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums.
Edited by Oakey on Saturday 21st January 21:09

powerstroke

10,283 posts

160 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Yipper said:
Is this the same Branson who lives in a low-tax island on the other side of the world...

To be fair, though, with Theresa Mayhem going all-out for Daily Mail hard Brexit and thousands of jobs already starting to flee the City of London (Britain's last remaining great industry), beardy Branson is right to be concerned.
Why are they fleeing ?? High rail fares Perhaps !!! or is it a delayed reaction from the clusterfk they caused in 2008, perhaps they have realised the tax payer won't come good this time ??? and Branson can FRO face Prick...

powerstroke

10,283 posts

160 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Yipper said:
The drumbeat of City job losses is getting louder and louder.

HSBC 1,000 going to Paris.
Goldman Sachs 3,000 going to Frankfurt and NY.
UBS 1,000 going to Frankfurt and Madrid.
Lloyds 100 going to Frankfurt.

And that is just in the past week...

The phrase "leaving the single market" has put the cat among the pigeons.

A trickle is on the verge of becoming a flood. When London goes down, the rest of UK will be dragged down with it.
No we will just build a wall round the sthole say just inside the M25 and let you rot !!!

minimoog

6,892 posts

219 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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I think powerstrokeoff is feeling a little triggered this evening.

Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

105 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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Na, read the internet (USA server) tomorrow, we will know soon whatever the judge says.