Gransnet forums

News & politics

I predict.....

(466 Posts)
Anja Fri 07-Dec-18 13:04:07

Theresa May will lose the vote on Tuesday.

Do you agree?

And then what will happen next........let’s see whose prediction is the closest. Perhaps let this thread run about 2 weeks and see who got it right, or nearly right.

Declare a winner just before Christmas.

Over to you ?

Jalima1108 Fri 14-Dec-18 17:42:13

or Gabriella
(fight it out between you!)

Jalima1108 Fri 14-Dec-18 17:39:42

Anya lemongrove
In order to please both competition organiser and winner:

The Queen's grocer Fortnum & Mason has launched "Proper Beans", gourmet beans available in six flavours. (Funnily enough, it was to Fortnum & Mason, back in 1886, that Henry J Heinz first sold seven varieties of his infamous baked bean).

Saetana Fri 14-Dec-18 16:40:54

I think something most of us could agree with - whether leaver or remainer - our current crop of politicians are, for the most part, political pygmies at a time when we need them to be giants. I find these days its a case of voting for the party I think to be the least worst rather than the best, and I am sick of the idiotic posturing that goes on in the House of Commons involving politicians from all parties.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 14-Dec-18 16:18:56

lemongrove- you should patent the "Brexit diet plan" I could definitely benefit from losing some pounds!!!

lemongrove Fri 14-Dec-18 16:12:51

All the ‘what will we eat’ have given me a laugh today on GN, if nothing else.
As a nation we could all do with shifting some weight.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 14-Dec-18 16:02:10

Labaik, I would hope that any responsible government (and I do use this term tongue in cheek with regard to all members of the H of P at this present time) would be advising its various departments and civil servants to have contingency plans for all eventualities of "Brexit".

Anja Fri 14-Dec-18 16:01:34

Buy a ferret?

Labaik Fri 14-Dec-18 15:56:26

'MaizieD well who knew shock horror we are not going to starve that's for sure, project Fear ? will soon be project Hysteria soon with silly people running around like headless chickens.'...are we talking about the government departments that are actually making contingency plans for a no deal Brexit....strange that they should be doing so if it is all hysteria from the remainers.

crystaltipps Fri 14-Dec-18 14:56:31

No must be the fault of the EU and that pesky foreign weather.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 14-Dec-18 14:52:18

It is rather cold in SE Essex today, must be because of "Brexit" ??❄️❄️

Fennel Fri 14-Dec-18 14:19:16

Or go back to WW2 methods - all spare land used for growing veg. Chickens and rabbits in our backyards.
And what about our pet cats and dogs? Many of them were 'pts' during the war, people couldn't afford to feed them.

Nicenanny3 Fri 14-Dec-18 13:26:12

MaizieD well who knew shock horror we are not going to starve that's for sure, project Fear ? will soon be project Hysteria soon with silly people running around like headless chickens.

oldbatty Fri 14-Dec-18 13:10:14

They have got movement from Africa...ooh the irony.

crystaltipps Fri 14-Dec-18 12:37:58

Its amazing how many Leavers say immigrantion was nothing to do with their vote. They won’t mind keeping freedom of movement then?

oldbatty Fri 14-Dec-18 12:23:20

I was in hospital the other day and the staff were ringing round their mates trying to get them to do a shift

MaizieD Fri 14-Dec-18 11:52:20

Start stockpiling, Jane10 grin

Jane10 Fri 14-Dec-18 11:47:51

You said it for me Maizie. God knows what we'll be able to find or afford to eat.
?

MaizieD Fri 14-Dec-18 11:38:17

Buy British and eat the seasons.

When is it going to sink in that we do not produce enough food to feed our population? We won't be able to 'buy British' if there's no 'British' to buy.

I know that we import food from other countries but our trade agreements with them are made through the EU and if we leave with no deal the agreements lapse and we have to go onto WTO tariffs, which will make imported food very expensive. If we start letting it in with no tariffs, under 'Most Favoured Nation' we have to let it all in regardless of standards (because standards are part of trade deals and we won't have any trade deals).

So no food standards. Lovely...

And our farmers go out of business because they can't compete with cheap imports.

Of course, all you clued up Leavers calling for 'no deal' knew that this would happen, didn't you?

trisher Fri 14-Dec-18 11:21:05

Annie that's because the Tories cleverly sold their policies of austerity on the basis that it wasn't their fault that there is a crisis in all of those things, but the fault of immigrants. That is where the real racism is.

Labaik Fri 14-Dec-18 10:49:13

I spoke to someone a couple of weeks ago whose daughter is an A&E doctor and he said the NHS is in crisis due to the lack of EU staff. And this can only get worse.

Nicenanny3 Fri 14-Dec-18 09:46:33

Common sense ?
Buy British and eat the seasons.

loopyloo Fri 14-Dec-18 09:17:31

Looks like we are going for no deal now. What should I stockpile?

Anniebach Fri 14-Dec-18 09:13:03

I telephone canvassed for the referendum, England and Wales, the majority who said the reason they were going to vote leave was immigration, they were not rscist but fearful of loss of jobs, housing and NHS

Anja Fri 14-Dec-18 08:23:47

I think you will find that the main reason given by leave voters was immigration as confirmed by many surveys including THIS ONE

Please do not take this personally those who had other reasons for voting leave.

Anja Fri 14-Dec-18 08:15:07

I know many who voted for just that reason. However many does not mean most or all, as I’ve already posted. It might be that the demograph of the average GNetter means they had other reasons for voting leave.