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  Marti Llazo

  Massive (and growing) unemployment in Spain, huge deficits, can't even properly form a government, and the better regions that actually produce something -- and don't even want to speak Spanish -- also don't want to have anything to do with Madrid. But oh well, they have a big cruise ship.
  
  Spain takes in the equivalent of over a billion in euros each year from UK residents and tourists. Tell me how they are going to give up any of that.

  Jun 27th, 2016 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  ChrisR

  All the whining remainers in London could always go over to Spain, they could take The Hag of Scotland too.
  
  One 'millionaire' musician playing at Glastonbury who was a prominent remainer was bleating how 'they had been let down by democracy'.
  
  This is the typical level of the whiners by the look of it. A democratically held election which the remainers LOST. I wonder if this 'millionaire' even voted, I bet not.

  Jun 27th, 2016 - 05:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Pete Bog

  @2 Chris R
  
  'they had been let down by democracy'
  
  They will claim the leavers are xenophobic racists-but it boils down to this-the EU has unelected leaders who are far from 'democratic' and they can't even get their accounts audited. They have certainly not supported Greece. When given the chance to persuade the UK to stay, the EU's attitude was if you don't like it, you can f*** off, rather than see the changes that the UK sought, might actually prevent other countries from seeking in/out referendums.
  
  It is their snotty, stuck up their own arse, deaf, arrogance that has caused the leave vote, and the UK will no doubt suffer some turmoil, but which cash cow are the EU going to recruit to replace the money that came from the UK into their coffers?
  
  If this musician wanted the UK to stay in the EU, he should have campaigned for remain and put forward good reasons why the UK should remain in the EU.
  
  Is this not a parallel with the Argies? They dictate terms to the Falkland Islanders as the EU did to the UK, with supreme disregard to British psychology and with complete ignorance to what the UK/Falkland Islanders request.
  
  With predictable rejections of demands from EU/Argentina.
  
  And Obamy did well didn't he?
  
  You have helped us more than any of our European leaders have but you go to the back of the queue if you leave the EU.
  
  Well perhaps he should get the USA off Ascension Island and Diego Garcia.
  
  Whatever people think of Trump and some of his ideas are disturbing, he made it quite clear that he supported the UK and appreciated the way the UK had helped the USA in the past, and that if he became president, the UK would (rightly) be at the front of the queue.
  
  And strangely, you would have thought the EU would be delighted that Gibraltar and Scotland wished to remain in the EU, to enact some comeback on the UK for 'the affrontery of holding a referendum-how dare we? '
  Even that opportunity to 'make the UK pay' is overlooked as the toys leave the pram.

  Jun 29th, 2016 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  ChrisR

  @ 3 Pete Bog
  
  Excellent post. :o)

  Jun 29th, 2016 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Marti Llazo

  Even the BBC concedes that the UK paid the EU over 29 billion euros in 2014. Some of that came back, but with strings attached, to be spent only in ways that Brussels considered appropriate.
  
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  “And Obamy did well didn't he?”
  
  It was likely Obama's predictably arrogant public meddling in UK's affairs that strongly motivated a large number of Leave voters.

  Jun 29th, 2016 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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