Vorpal wrote:Thank cod! at long last, this thread has descended into puns.
Call yourself a Moderator? You're too moderate by half. I want you to be tough on silliness and tough on the causes of silliness. We're heading for Soft Moderation, I tell you, when we all voted overwhelmingly for Hard Moderation and all the many benefits that it brings. About time we brought silliness home after years of Euro silliness if you ask me. I'm not having those Euro-peans telling me how to be silly.
Indeed! A sharkish eye for problems is required. Though I might say I think you've been a whale of a moderator. Though trawling thought the whole thread your catch seems rather meagre.
Perhaps you not been using EU regulation net mesh?
Not normally, it's worse than the mail. The mail at least is fairly rational in the perspective of its agenda. The express just comes across as rather demented.
Anyway, isn't that just the minford/EFT analysis again? He's a bit of a lone voice and relies on outdated models (his classic Liverpool trade model for example does not take account of proximity).
Minford/EFT are very much in the ultra libertarian camp when it comes to economic policy and support the kind of singapore model that will lead to vastly increased inequality and relies on an any fin goes attitude to immigration.
Edit: Shoehorned a fish pun in there..
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Vorpal wrote:Thank cod! at long last, this thread has descended into puns.
+1 but: Should one not write "ascended into puns"? Could soon be a pun-net problem at Wombledon cos there will be no-one to pick the strawberries Let them eat parsnips!
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Hi, Getting back on track...................will the discussion of Brexit ever go away.............probably not even in 50 years time. IIRC but it was Juncker or another high ranking EU, actually used the word fear, not to describe the UK but their own situation. Makes we wonder if all the EU rhetoric has finally come home. Well when I woke that morning after counting and was surprised at the result, the hatred started, no one could deny that there was a switch in the way the UK was described by the EU from that day.................
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote:Hi, Getting back on track...................will the discussion of Brexit ever go away.............probably not even in 50 years time. IIRC but it was Juncker or another high ranking EU, actually used the word fear, not to describe the UK but their own situation. Makes we wonder if all the EU rhetoric has finally come home. Well when I woke that morning after counting and was surprised at the result, the hatred started, no one could deny that there was a switch in the way the UK was described by the EU from that day.................
Except they also realise that giving the UK a sweetheart deal is worse for them than maintaining their rules and regs
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/19/europe-wake-up-drastic-financial-consequences-hard-brexit-netherlands-uk wrote:The Netherlands knows what it will lose if the UK crashes out. It is less than the price of giving Britain a sweet deal ... On Thursday the Dutch government published a report drawn up by the consultancy firm KPMG analysing the consequences of a “no-deal” Brexit in which the UK leaves the EU without an agreement on 29 March 2019. Here are the practical implications and cold numbers behind the hot-headed rhetoric about no deal with the EU being “better than a bad deal” for Britain ...
They say Britain will gain £433 billion in tariffs on goods imported from the EU. The tariffs will be added onto the price of the goods and will be paid by British consumers as is normal with customs duties. All that would happen is £433 billion would be transferred from our pockets to the government. This new "tax" would be highly regressive as the same rate would apply to both both rich and poor. Probably enable the Tories to reduce income tax for the wealthy though.
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote:Hi, Getting back on track...................will the discussion of Brexit ever go away.............probably not even in 50 years time. IIRC but it was Juncker or another high ranking EU, actually used the word fear, not to describe the UK but their own situation. Makes we wonder if all the EU rhetoric has finally come home. Well when I woke that morning after counting and was surprised at the result, the hatred started, no one could deny that there was a switch in the way the UK was described by the EU from that day.................
It would have been forgotten by now if it had gone the other way But I fear it will be remembered in 500 years
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Macron has admitted to Andrew Marr in an interview the other day that France would vote out if they had a referendum. *If* that's the case, why doesn't he submit to the will of the people, have a vote and let them decide? Its ironic considering how hard DeGaulle worked to keep Britain from joining the EEC.
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