The real Brexit thread

[yoda]

I wonder if May is going to chin the wailing banshee today (politically that is) when they meet

 

[biddy]

Qatar going to invest 5bn in the UK as it is optimistic over the UK future.

 

[AllRoverAsia]

5 BILLION. That's a hell of a lot of mosques and Blackburns already got 45ish!

 

[Drog]

5 BILLION. That's a hell of a lot of mosques and Blackburns already got 45ish!

Think again. There were 48 ten years ago and I haven't noticed any being pulled down.

 

[ABBEY]

Its done ...

 

[Drog]

And still the cry babies whimper quietly amongst themselves elsewhere.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

I have a browse of the BBC comments sections sometimes and the ones in response to the Brexit articles today are the most upset I've seen Remain voters in a while. Presumably up until this point there's been an assumption that it won't actually happen.

Trying to sympathise with Remain voters for a second, I really don't think it's the apocalypse as some are making out. I fully expect at the end of the negotiating process for us to have very close political, economic, diplomatic, military and migration ties to the EU. Ones we ultimately have control over is the only difference.

 

[Majiball]

Bye bye EU!

 

[Drog]

I have a browse of the BBC comments sections sometimes and the ones in response to the Brexit articles today are the most upset I've seen Remain voters in a while. Presumably up until this point there's been an assumption that it won't actually happen.

Since June 24th at a guess.

 

[yoda]

Denial set in on the other place lol

 

[yoda]

Will the weather revert back to Farenheit in 2 years, will lb's and ounces be acceptable again ? Will inches make a return?

 

[biddy]

surely all a cert after Brexit. We are already getting a 12 sided pound coin which must be an omen somehow.

 

[yoda]

And gallons instead of litres, that would really highlight the questionable price rises

 

[Majiball]

The metric system is here to stay, get used to it

 

[yoda]

We still have pints and miles

 

[biddy]

The metric system is here to stay, get used to it

We don't have to like it and it is our democratic right to object!

 

[yoda]

We don't have to like it and it is our democratic right to object!

Absolutely

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

As someone with a physics degree (or maths with pictures), decrying the metric system is like blasphemy to me. Rule Britannia and all that but the imperial measuring system is daft and impractical.

 

[yoda]

As someone with a physics degree (or maths with pictures), decrying the metric system is like blasphemy to me. Rule Britannia and all that but the imperial measuring system is daft and impractical.

Is that why the USA use it ?

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Is that why the USA use it ?

Touche! Doubt anyone at NASA uses it, let's put it that way. It's a hurdle kids can surmount but I really don't think we should be putting it in their way.