Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

I might as well claim that Cardiff City's best start to a season in my life time is due to us triggering Article 50 this year.

T May is trying to find a large enough basket!

George.

Don't worry we will be able to take back the colonies and the rest of the world in a few years time.

Only about 15% of UK car production is sold domestically. Only 2 days ago, the DT was reporting UK manufacturing growth at a 30 year high based on exports. That can't be bad, can it?
With regards to the Forbes piece, I assume that companies planning to invest in the UK in 2018 have already heard about Brexit and are planning on staying in business more than a couple of years. Some 10K banking jobs may be transferred to Europe but I wonder how many nationals from mainland Europe work in London banking firms? A lot more than 10k, I would guess. Returning some of them home may ease housing a tad and have nil affect on the economy. The concern fades into significance compared to the hundreds of thousands of Brits that lost their jobs in the mining and steel industries, most from villages and towns that had no alternative employment. Now that was a human disaster.

Earlier this year figures showed that London was the 7th biggest French city, whether that has changed I don't know.

One reason for the prices on some houses in London are dropping.

Management of "Maggie's" destruction of heavy industry was a disaster which many are paying the bill for.

T M is leading a country down a similar pathway.

London house prices dropping , that would be a good thing ,i wish house prices would fall by 50% all over ,so that average young folk could buy one and stop these ridiculous rent prices .

Fred really is a champagne socialist .

If house prices fell by that much the speculators would buy them up for rent and push prices back up. It's the market.

I thought they would buy them up and export them.

Cap rents (as they should be) that would put an end to speculators .

Three cheers !!!!

UK to get traditional navy blue passports back after Brexit in bid to 'restore our national identity'

Navy blue passports will be issued once more after Britain leaves the EU in 2019, the Home Office has confirmed.

Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis described the return to the traditional blue passport as a “unique opportunity to restore our national identity”.

The burgundy shade, which was introduced in 1988 under EU requirements, will be gradually phased out from October 2019 onwards.

Demands for a return to the blue passport were a major part of the Leave campaign ahead of the EU referendum in June 2016.

Mr Lewis said: "One of the most iconic things about being British is having a British passport.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/22/british-passports-will-return-iconic-blue-cover-brexit-confirmed/

If you want to curb property speculation, the government would probably need to tear up the 1988 Housing Act, and completely ditch Assured Shorthold Tenancies.

Who was in power in 1988, and allowed local authorities to dispose of their social housing stock without reinvestment in new stock, because that's what fuelled the btl boom throughout the nineties and noughties?

It seems to me to be quite a statement with the Passport change , a knock back to remoaners i would think , you just don't make that sort of thing up do you . British yes .

Oh look it's one of those EU criminals with an EU passport Mr O'Farrell that are allowed to roam Europe freely , do we still have to let him in or can we now tell him to feck off home where he came from ?

The UK already has the right to refuse entry to any EU national who poses a security risk, Dil. Whether they choose to exercise that right, or not, is something you need to take up with the Home Office.

I'm not sure that either leaving the EU or changing the colour of a UK passport will affect the flow of EU criminals into and out of the UK.

"€uropean Onion" at the top of the old passports is gone :-)

Hilary,

Stop being sensible.

You will worry Dil and cronies.

jimmy - capping rents is a short term fix that merely creates ever larger problems of various kinds into the future ....... the portuguese have experience of exactly this