The greatest flag in the world flutters proudly once again!

Northampton, England
December 16, 2017 10:14am CST
Britain is leaving the European Union (or trying to) in just over a year’s time. Rebel politicians on both sides of the house are trying to slow it down but the country voted 52/48 to leave in a referendum and so democracy must happen on March 19th, 2019. Most of the country accepts there should be another two year interim period after March 19th to enact the separation as its very complex and so 2021 when we are fully out. It’s fair to say most people who voted LEAVE voted on immigration. We have an unlimited immigration system at the moment were 55 million Europeans could effectively pitch up tomorrow, if they so chose, to look for work in the U.K. 3 million have come over the last 13 years and the strain on housing has been huge, as it has on our healthcare and pay and conditions in employment. More works means lower wages through supply and demand, simple as. More families and workers coming over means more housing needed but with not enough social housing being built to care for them rents are being forced up as those wages are being forced down. It’s almost impossible for a young family to afford a deposit for their own house. Although most Eastern Europeans want to work here and can’t claim out of work welfare payments for up to one year on arrival, and have not be taking welfare as much as other immigrant groups after one year ( what we like most about them), there is a lot of them. Our towns and cities are changing quickly. Liberals say that we need all of them as British workers are not prepared to take the boring and crap low paid jobs like cleaning and crop picking work. But with low unemployment there simply isn’t enough people able to do those jobs to suggest they are turning them down and with ten strapping Polish lads dodging their national service here to graft and just two British lads going for the same manual jobs it’s a numbers game and the Poles more likely to get the jobs. The Poles and Eastern Europeans are easier to sack and more likely to work harder in the fear of that. Productivity is falling fast as workers of all nationalities lose their wage rates and rights. Working in the farming fields, of course, is seasonal work, and traditionally done by students. But the students who voted to remain in the European Union also don’t want to do those jobs anymore and somewhat hypocritical. I voted LEAVE to get rid of the ruling Conservative Party and Prime Minister Cameron with a close vote. I was shocked when we won but not worried about leaving the EU. The currency speculators quickly attacked the currency after the 2016 vote and it lost 16% of its value over the year, which has started to push up inflation. But this week they tell us that the financial markets are now ‘supporting’ the pound against the EURO currency now that we are leaving? Economics are confusing. I do expect the pound to recover against The Euro now as we prepare to leave and the attack on the pound was indeed mostly speculation. I expect Britain to be strong outside of the EU, mainly because just 5 of the 27 countries in it are net contributors, so now just four countries are when the U.K leaves and they can’t keep writing cheques to loan to the smaller countries to keep them going and so buying BMWs from Germany and wine from France. They will come to Great Britain to save them when the EU collapses. I’m proud of my flag once again.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
16 Dec 17
Immigration is a huge problem in a lot of countries @thedevilinme . Even in the US, the illegal Mexican population has become a huge problem 'again'; especially in Texas. Jobs are being snatched; not to mention all the 'freebees' that they get. Free housing, medical, utilities, etc.
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• Northampton, England
16 Dec 17
we need some immigration but our government is now working against the people to give big business more profits by driving down wages through labor over-supply of workers babe.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
16 Dec 17
@thedevilinme It's kinda like "Danged if you do and danged if you don't". It's tough trying to balance governmental situations.
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@jstory07 (148771)
• Roseburg, Oregon
17 Dec 17
It sounds like the best thing for Britain to do.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Dec 17
I see that you claim to have the same mind reading abilities that many REMAIN voters claimed immediately after the referendum.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Dec 17
@thedevilinme I have had enough of the European Union after 25 years, but my reason for voting LEAVE was not restricted to immigration.
• Northampton, England
17 Dec 17
I have to be positive and back . 1O more years of Europe i not going to work for me
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
17 Dec 17
There is problems both ways. The slave labor stuff just needs to stop, thats what kill all of our countries beside automation.
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
22 Dec 17
When did the people really understand, at a macro level, what is good for the economy? There have been so many outright lies told to keep forging ahead with Brexit, that I really wonder who is hiding behind whom: the politicians behind the will of the people, or the people behind the front-men and women working to make the most (not the best, note!) out of the situation in which the countries that make up the UK find themselves...
• Dallas, Texas
17 Dec 17
just 5 of the 27 are actually contributors to the economy sounds very unbalanced.