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Re:Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22% by jon-wood on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:51AM (#12786294)
Seriously? The people pointing out how the country is heading down a massively idiotic path because Rupert Murdoch would like us to are the UK's biggest problem?

I'm going to list a few other candidates for the UK's biggest problem:

* The pound plummeting like a rock.

* Xenophobia, bordering on fascism, being advocated by the press.

* The gradual, quiet, handing of the NHS to private companies.

* Ever growing demand for food banks, most notably by people working jobs that don't pay enough to fulfil basic needs.

* The only vaguely viable opposition to the government self-destructing right when they're needed most.

But sure, its definitely people complaining that are the problem.

Re:Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22% by karmacoda on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:09AM (#12786398)
* The pound plummeting like a rock. - Expected period of adjustment.

* Xenophobia, bordering on fascism, being advocated by the press. - BBC is nothing but a continuous charity appeal.

* The gradual, quiet, handing of the NHS to private companies. - Precedes Brexit.

* Ever growing demand for food banks, most notably by people working jobs that don't pay enough to fulfil basic needs. - Precedes Brexit.

* The only vaguely viable opposition to the government self-destructing right when they're needed most. - Precedes Brexit.

Completely off-topic.

Re:Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22% by crottypeter on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:35AM (#12786508)
Yes, the conservatives were in before Brexit.

These things are still:

>"candidates for the UK's biggest problem"

Re:Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22% by imdsm on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:45AM (#12786548)
So much focus on all the potential problems, ignoring all the potential benefits. This is why the world is the way it is.
Re:Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22% by tremon on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:01AM (#12786599)
How much of the potential benefits were discussed during the Brexit campaign? I thought the campaign mainly focused on the (perceived) negatives of the current arrangement?
Re:Microsoft hikes U.K. prices by 22% by DanBC on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:49AM (#12786772)
All the potential benefits are blatant lies.

Brexit doesn't give £350m to the NHS. Brexit doesn't get us out of ECHR (and that wouldn't be a benefit anyway, since ECHR agrees with UK on over 99% of cases). Brexit doesn't give us control over our spending. Brexit doesn't give us control over immigration.