[davidjay]

All this "Brexit was never done properly" guff. What does it mean and what else did they want? We left the EU, we weren't in the Customs Union, we had no trade deals when we left. What more, apart from yuman rites, did they want?

[Tubby Isaacs]

His argument seems to be "Singapore on Thames". Which would have been quite the bait and switch from the Leave campaign.

I don't know about Singapore on Thames, but the financial journalist Christopher Fildes once described the City of London (semi-seriously) as "Hong Kong West". Making the Durham coalfield into the new Docklands might have been a bit of a challenge, even for Paul Marshall's "brave" politicians.

[Bones McCoy]

His argument seems to be "Singapore on Thames". Which would have been quite the bait and switch from the Leave campaign.

I don't know about Singapore on Thames, but the financial journalist Christopher Fildes once described the City of London (semi-seriously) as "Hong Kong West". Making the Durham coalfield into the new Docklands might have been a bit of a challenge, even for Paul Marshall's "brave" politicians.

Singapore on Thames implies the rest of the UK as Malaysia.

It's unlikely to be the good aspects of Malaysia.
Malaysia through the eyes of the on Thames brigade.
A place to go to gamble, taste exotic foods, decompress.
A big and cheap tourist service economy.

[Andy McDandy]

Their vision is entirely the fag end of the empire. FILTHs and old coasters getting wrecked on gin while watching the money roll in from the plantations as they sell produce back to those who farmed it, and threaten the staff with a good sjambokking.