For Barry it will be a KKK cloak and a small African boy.
Oh aye
French Bulldogs are actually quite expensive to buy, Bear - but most of the people I know that have them wouldnāt be termed bourgeoisie.
Coming over here, taking walks off homebred dogsā¦
So a mobile phone maker have confirmed that the cost of the phone will be increasing in the UK due to the, suddenly, weak Pound. So rather than weather out the storm and see what happens they raise the cost of their phone.
Pure opportunism or something else.?
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no, entirely predictable - along with roaming charges.
Itās what the country asked for.
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Exactly. As a country we voted for less money in our pockets in trade for removing workers rightsā¦
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With the weakening pound, itās got to and other companies will have to follow suit. So be it. Lucky I bought my new phone last weekā¦
Donāt worry BT, it will only be a problem to poor people.
So the OnePlus X is $250 in the US, so that should be Ā£167 in the UK using a GBP->USD rate of 1.5 (what it was pre-Brexit), yet in the UK it costs around Ā£200, still more expensive than if the current 1.3 rate is used!
I say again, pure opportunism!
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So, 10 years ago I went to Seattle, I seem to remember the rate then was about 1.15 USD to the pound. Since then itās hit a high of 1.7 USD to the pound, have we seen US goods get cheaper? Only recently has petrol dropped in price and that was blamed on the weak dollar not the strong pound!!
Weāve always paid just less in Ā£s for the equivalent US goods, e.g PS4, around $450 when released (I think) yet around Ā£400 here.
In all the fluctuation of the currency market we donāt see prices change on a weekly or monthly basis!
I say again, pure opportunism using the Brexit result as a reason to hike the price.
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The most striking thing about Britainās break with the EU is this: itās the poor wot done it. Council-estate dwellers, Sun readers, people who didnāt get good GCSE results (which is primarily an indicator of class, not stupidity): they rose up, they tramped to the polling station, and they said no to the EU.
It was like a second peasantsā revolt, though no pitchforks this time. The statistics are extraordinary. The well-to-do voted Remain, the down-at-heel demanded to Leave. The Brexiteer/Remainer divide splits almost perfectly, and beautifully, along class lines
That is just like I predictioned pap. It wasnāt vote Remain or vote Leave. It was vote Satisfied, or vote Dissatisfied. Check this Sage political insight which was Sotonians exclusive before the Vote:
Originally posted by @Bearsy
I can feel in my balls that it will be vote LEAVE. I mix in low circles, and down in the gutters thereās a lot of talk about voting LEAVE. Normally i discount that, cos my ppl, the scum, the benefit cheats, the detrius of society, we donāt come out to vote. We stay at home smoking rothmans and beating our wives, but we have real numbers, we are legion, and the opportunity to stick it to The Man, and the Albanian family at number 23, is massive inducement.
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I think you remember wrong, as itās now the lowest for 31 years versus the dollar. Itās got been less than 1.36 since 1990. Either that or you got screwed by where you got your currency from.
Itās fine though, if not itās purely elasticity of demand. An increase in price will see a fall in sales. They obviously see the new pricepoint is a better way to maximise profit than shifting more units, as theyāre well aware that there product is not price inelastic.
Yes it looks like the poorest in society voted to be downtrodden for a generation.
That may be why some are branded as thick, because they didnāt vote as quoted there, screw the EU - they voted screw me.
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Originally posted by @Rallyboy
Yes it looks like the poorest in society voted to be downtrodden for a generation.
That may be why some are branded as thick, because they didnāt vote as quoted there, screw the EU - they voted screw me.
Outside of London, the number voting for Brexit was even higher.
57%
As the great Bobby Ball said London is great for the day out but they are a shower of cunts who live there, up their arses wankers who only think about themselves, choose life fuck Londoncentric politics.
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have you got a link for that Bobby ball quote?
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does seem a slight departure from his normal patter.
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There is a delicious irony to watch the UK argue itself to death based on Political issues arguing points presented by Politicians or those with a Political opinion, on the day that British Politicians have been shown to use āSpinā for their own ends by Chilcot.
(Iād like to have said when they were shown to have Lied but then legal counsel advises us all not to make the same mistake as the moron who deserves to rot in hell)
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