UK General Election 8th June: Shake it all about?

[Junkenstein]

I'm not sure on that, I can see a lot getting sold and burnt in Scotland, Ireland, France, the eu.....

Well, if we split with Scotland it will be back to the cross of St George.

True, but this is already an established market with sports and twats. We need to be watching the new markets which at the moment seems to be pushing for everyone. The story either way on the refugee is a mark of something quite special happening over here. And it's far from good to say the least.

I think the bandwidth thing will be really serious, between wasting time on Gibraltar, Scotland and NI, that's time that should be focused on trade deals, and offhand comments about going to war is not going to sweeten any of those trade deals.

Moving away from investment plans with obvious merit, there's this point.

I think you may be quite amazed at how every remaining scrap of UK territory will get drawn into this in some way or other. Things like  the Falklands will become issues of GREAT IMPORTANCE in due course. Let's not even start looking at the tax havens will get dragged into that. The chances of any kind of meaningful "deal" within 2 years in laughable, let alone any kind of good deal. It's as likely as Israel becoming cool with Palestinians in the next two years.

Add to that extremist views not feeling like they're being considered into the mix and I can see a few bombs or nasty events being more than likely. Which then stunts progress further into a lovely spiral of shite.

[Junkenstein]

That could also result in opportunistic bills being introduced in a hope that they will get through without much scrutiny as well, the US just passed a bill effectively killing net neutrality, and that was high profile, imagine what can get passed when no one is looking closely.

This is pretty much a certainty. Any change in the law over the next few years will not be to your benefit and you probably won't even know about half of them, at best. Where gets extra funding is going to be comical too. Public services are just waiting to be fucked everywhere and there will be plenty of cash for a showy defence project soon enough to show the UK still is a" powerful and serious county, honestly, Look at how much we're throwing at the military... "

[Vanadium Gryllz]

And all we can do is strap in and wait to get fucked?

[Junkenstein]

And invest in Flagco Ltd.

Buy now!

[The Wizard Joseph]

And invest in Flagco Ltd.

Buy now!

Buy Swiss francs with your new dirty flag money and start shorting both the pound and the euro as both will likely hyperinflate to "pay" for all this and everyone else will be fleeing to the Swiss as a stable currency. Australian dollars could be a good base too. They crank out a significant amount of gold there IIRC.*

*the above statement is wild speculation only and does not constitute advice of any sort the reader of the above by reading it retains sole liability for their financial and all other decisions.

[Junkenstein]

Look, I'm totally not the owner of flagco Ltd so stop any further accusations of a stock scam now.

Wait, what?

[The Wizard Joseph]

Look, I'm totally not the owner of flagco Ltd so stop any further accusations of a stock scam now.

Wait, what?

 

[Cain]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39498647

May's already trying to manage expectations.  We're off to a good start.

[Junkenstein]

Another 6 months of spin and we'll be being told a bad deal is better than a good deal.

[Faust]

I thought the freedom of movement was the whole reason for this thing?

[P3nT4gR4m]

I thought the freedom of movement was the whole reason for this thing?

Nope, dumb fucks reading the Daily Fail and listening to Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage and then being allowed to vote as opposed to being marched into a gas chamber was the reason for this whole thing 

[Vanadium Gryllz]

One dehydrated toad on May not making it to the end of this whole ordeal.
As Prime Minister I mean. She might manage to live through it.

[Cain]

Another 6 months of spin and we'll be being told a bad deal is better than a good deal.

Or indeed no deal at all.  The EU is refusing to discuss trade at all until the UK has left the EU.

Which means we will have to revert to WTO rules until we have a trade deal in place.  Remember all those people saying "WTO deals are OK"?  Those people are fucking insane.  We would have to put tariffs on EU trade until we could negotiate one and the EU doesn't need our trade as badly as we need theirs.  If the EU wanted to play hardball, all they'd need to do is stall negotiations until we got fed up with everything going up massively in price and came to them, hand in cap, for whatever deal they were willing to offer.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Another 6 months of spin and we'll be being told a bad deal is better than a good deal.

Or indeed no deal at all.  The EU is refusing to discuss trade at all until the UK has left the EU.

Which means we will have to revert to WTO rules until we have a trade deal in place.  Remember all those people saying "WTO deals are OK"?  Those people are fucking insane.  We would have to put tariffs on EU trade until we could negotiate one and the EU doesn't need our trade as badly as we need theirs.  If the EU wanted to play hardball, all they'd need to do is stall negotiations until we got fed up with everything going up massively in price and came to them, hand in cap, for whatever deal they were willing to offer.

But of course that will be painted as the EU's fault right? Holy fucking shit.

[Faust]

That's insane, I was expecting a hard-line stance, but that's the worst-case scenarios.
Tax on all import/export, cheap holiday travel, booze, food, shit... Energy, the UK is entering the worst energy deficit its had, it's going to be buying energy daily until the new nuclear plant is up and running which they are saying five years, realistically could be another ten.

My company builds our equipment here for distribution in the UK, I'm hoping not but am pessimistic that this won't mean we will have to pay standard tariff as if moving outside the Eurozone.