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Been in my new job 4 months now, loving it, loving not being at the old one more.
Although CP is blocked as a message board.
On my first day a Frenchman who had been doing this job was sent back where he came from.
A month ago a Dutchman was sent back across the channel.
And at the end of the week a Serbian gets dispatched from these shores.
That leaves an all British team of, erm, me.
I am Brexit, hear me roar.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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So Brexit is a 75% reduction in employment.  Yeah that won't have any knockon effects on the rest of the economy; and who's to say they're not just downsizing on the slow and next month'll be your turn to go on gardening leave. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Um, it just means that British people will be hired instead?
Um, temporary reduction in force?
Somehow, I don't know how, but the British people have managed for many, many years on planet earth without the EU. I think they will do just fine, if not better than before, in the long run.
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Slacker007 wrote: Somehow, I don't know how, but the British people have managed for many, many years on planet earth without the EU
Massive empire with huge trade surplus caused by the attendant cheap raw materials and virtual export monopoly?
Just taking a guess there.
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Something like that. 
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I remember how the stock markets plunged with the Brexit vote - and now they're hitting new record highs. They, in fact, recovered in just a few days.
There will likely be a relocation of some industrial populations for a bit - but more likely they come to an agreement. UK will be a de facto part of the EU, with their local government have more umph when calling the shots.
You'll see: "The more things change the more they remain the same"
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W∴ Balboos wrote: "The more things change the more they remain the same"
I didn't realise the Brexit vote meant we had to translate all the common foreign words and phrases we use back into English. I guess it's just a reflection of the time spirit[^]. 
And if someone else has already posted this, I guess you'll get a sense of already seen[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Some things are up, some things are down, some things are up and then down and repeat.
Immediate fluctuation was inevitable, and largely irrelevant to the longer term future.
5 or 10 years down the line should we ever actually leave the EU things might be good or they might be bad.
However as no-one that I know of is running a parallel non Brexit world it will be impossible to tell if those good or bad things are better or worse than they would have been with a different result.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm coming from the point of view that the driving force pre/post/never Brexit is the same. Money. The big money (such as corporate and venture capital) will still use the same parameters to make the same considerations: stability, feasibility, and profitability. Not necessarily in that order.
chriselst wrote: I know of is running a parallel non Brexit world
That is, Until Now!
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Well sure, those with the money will continue to have the money.
Those workout will continue to be subjugated.
In the bigger picture the effects will be negligible.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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There is kind of a parallel already, Norway. They're doing quite fine. If my memory serves me correctly they estimated the extra overhead due to regulation mismatch costs them perhaps 2%, which would be the price to pay for extra control. If that's what you choose for, nothing wrong with that.
Wout
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Norway is an entirely different economy to the UK though. They have large energy reserves, both renewable and fossil, that gives them a large increase in gdp over the UK, the UK is very reliant on banking and services, losing the banking passport thing would be disastrous, and Norway's population is about a thirteenth that of the UK.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Norway pay the same into the EU per capita as the UK does, has to abide by EU laws, but with no say in them. Can't say that that deal would go down well with the UK Brexit voters.
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I was hired as a permanent employee so they could get rid of the contractors. They nationality of the contractors merely represents a lack of certain skills in the UK (although there is also a lack of demand), my nationality is also irrelevant I just happened to be in the right pave at the right time, and to actually respond to a recruiter fishing on LinkedIn for once.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: I am Brexit, hear me roar.
Bet you won't be so noisy when they turn the lights out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In a weird display of synchronicity (that's a fart-@rsey word for "coincidence" -- I'd never use it myself, unless it were to take the p1ss out of people who use it sincerely), your response fits as a response to this[^] like a glove.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Considering the complete lack of any legal action on Bresit, I think you may be misinterpreting the reduction in staff. Get your CV updated and ready.
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Supported red spoons maybe (9)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Aha! Finally an "I could solve it" one from pkfox. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Sponsored
Supported and anagram of red spoons
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yep 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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What's the maybe doing in there though? I suck at anagrams.
Wout
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wout de zeeuw wrote: What's the maybe doing in there though?
It's what's known as an an anagrind (anagram indicator) - it's basically there to say that there's an anagram in there.
Some examples would be (with anagrind in bold and anagram material in italic):
Deity confused dog (3) = God
Reduce changing tide (4) = Edit
Origin disputed course (6) = Source
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Ah, I guess there are known patterns. But for someone who never does anagrams like me it's total jibberish.
Wout
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