Brexit negotiations

Natasha Whittam wrote:I've just read it. It wasn't interesting.

I feel cheated.

Like 48% of those who voted.

There is a slight tie-in with the article and Brexit, but bloody hell Nat, you know EVERYTHING is connected to Brexit nowadays, especially on this thread. 

Nice touch from the People's Vote campaign - a video of every post-war conservative PM; Churchill, Eden, MacMillan, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Cameron and May all giving speeches on the importance of being a member of the EU. 

Circulating on Facebook Here.

Finally some good news about Brexit - Unilever have scrapped their plans to relocate their headquarters to the Netherlands after shareholders didn't get behind the plan. Story here.

The company has a massive connection to Bolton where the original Lever Brothers company was founded (Leverhulme Park, Darcy Lever etc)

You mean that a lot of companies are now backtracking as project fear hasn’t worked.

karlypants wrote:You mean that a lot of companies are now backtracking as project fear hasn’t worked.

No - I mean that an international company with a majority of British shareholders has been voted down by those British shareholders who are shitting themselves that there will be no industry left in Britain.

wanderlust wrote:Finally some good news about Brexit

I never thought I'd see you type those words. Are you ok? Has someone stolen your armchair?

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote:Finally some good news about Brexit

I never thought I'd see you type those words. Are you ok? Has someone stolen your armchair?

Don't get overexcited - they are just one company and lots of other majors have already started to leave including (ironically) Lloyds of London (plus Microsoft, Diageo, Barclay's, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Easyjet (they can f*** off anyway ) and a bunch of others.

Many companies are setting up additional companies in the EU or moving their headquarters to an EU country in a bid to minimise the negative fall-out they expect Brexit to have on their businesses. 

The number of companies leaving the UK because of Brexit is growing and with no deal now a distinct possibility, more are expected to follow.
Last week, Japanese electronics’ manufacturer Panasonic announced that it’s moving its European HQ from the UK to The Netherlands. This move is reportedly designed to limit tax issues linked to Brexit. Panasonic Europe’s chief executive Laurent Abadie told the Nikkei Asian Review that if the UK lowers corporation tax after Brexit in a bid to attract business, the UK could be viewed as a tax haven. While tax havens are designed to be attractive to business, companies operating within one risk being hit with much larger tax bills in their home country; this fear, as well as freedom of movement of staff and goods, is what is thought to be largely responsible for Panasonic Europe’s move to Amsterdam.
Japanese retailer Muji is also rumoured to be moving its European HQ from the UK to Germany, and Japanese banks Nomura and Daiwa are already setting up EU operations in Germany.
At the start of the summer, the EY (formerly known as Ernst & Young) Financial Services Brexit Tracker revealed that, as of June 2018, 34%, or 75 out of 222 of the companies they monitored, had “publicly confirmed, or stated their intentions, to move some of their operations and/or staff from the UK to Europe. This is a 2% point rise since March, building on the 1% point rise the previous quarter (December 2017).”
Insurance and reinsurance market Lloyds of London announced in May that it had received regulatory approval from the National Bank of Belgium to establish an insurance company in Brussels. The company said in a statement: “This milestone moves us closer to our objective of being fully operational in Brussels by 1 January 2019 to ensure we can continue to work closely with our EU27 partners post-Brexit.”
It’s not just large multinationals that are relocating or branching out into the EU either as a result of Brexit. SMEs, particularly those that trade within the EU, are making plans to create European outposts and warehouses to minimise Brexit red tape and stock delays at borders. Online giftware retailer Rex London is setting up a Dutch base and The Grown Up Chocolate Company is considering relocating its business to Slovakia, for example.

Not sure what the problem is with the Irish border as the government haven't published their proposal but it seems like it's a sticking point that might push us towards a no-deal scenario. Here.

Genuinely, has anyone on here got a possible solution to the 'Island of Ireland' situation?

If the Irish and UK Governments and the EU can't manage it then i think we on here may struggle 

You forget, we have LPP, Wander, and Sluffy, although they will probably be talking come next March 

gloswhite wrote:You forget, we have LPP, Wander, and Sluffy, although they will probably be talking come next March 

Just next March?

Sluffy now posts on Wanderers Ways.

KP is in charge.

2 years on and the leavers still haven’t got an answer to the Ireland question, I was anti second referendum at first but it cannot he denied that this is an absolute shambles and too many were unaware of the full consequences of voting leave. Time for change.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Sluffy now posts on Wanderers Ways.

KP is in charge.

Has Sluffy kept the organ?

T.R.O.Y wrote:2 years on and the leavers still haven’t got an answer to the Ireland question, I was anti second referendum at first but it cannot he denied that this is an absolute shambles and too many were unaware of the full consequences of voting leave. Time for change.

Actually, I don't think anyone, leavers or remainers, have the answer that will satisfy all parties.