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ncutler wrote:What I think is:

http://nickpix.org.uk/brexit-blues/

Thanks for that
There's a few familiar Lancashire scenes that I know so well in there

Well at least The City now knows where it stands an I'd expect they will be putting the "Plan B" into effect to get established in the EU a.s.a.p

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/04/theresa-may-rules-out-city-firms-passporting-after-brexit (quote from part way through the article) wrote:...
Her call to President Trump came after she made clear that signing up to “passporting” for the City of London after Brexit would leave the UK as “just a rule-taker”, insisting that financial services would instead be covered through a free trade deal.
...

Given that the banks MUST act in the interests of their shareholders, would it be "responsible" of them to wait around just in case the Conservatives fantasyland might give them a small part of what they already have (and can keep by relocating those parts of their business to the EU).

Ian

One significant sentence in May's recent speech was "The UK has responsibility for the financial stability of the world's most significant financial centre, and our taxpayers bear the risk". He we have a Tory Prime Minister admitting that while those businesses working in the city there take vast profits it's the taxpayer that bears the risk. That being so teh taxpayer ought to take most of the profit.

thirdcrank wrote:Another lurking issue is the unwinding of quantitative easing with more Monopoly money in the system than Waddingtons could have printed in a million years.

I knew it! I've been wondering for ages when and how I'll be able to cash these in...

661-Pete wrote:

thirdcrank wrote:Another lurking issue is the unwinding of quantitative easing with more Monopoly money in the system than Waddingtons could have printed in a million years.

I knew it! I've been wondering for ages when and how I'll be able to cash these in...
Monopoly005.jpg

That should put the chicken among the foxes

I see our 'special relationship' is paying dividends.

https://www.ft.com/content/9461157c-1f97-11e8-9efc-0cd3483b8b80

I sometimes suspect that most brexiters don't really comprehend the huge numbers of areas it impacts on.

kwackers wrote:I sometimes suspect that most brexiters don't really comprehend the huge numbers of areas it impacts on.

I expect that is true of Remain voters too. Perhaps the matter was a little complex to be settled by a referendum.

mr bajokoses wrote:I expect that is true of Remain voters too. Perhaps the matter was a little complex to be settled by a referendum.

Indeed.
I pointed out several times up thread that I decided that life was too short and I'm too stupid to make an informed decision. So I simply read what the experts said and went with their majority view.

kwackers wrote:

mr bajokoses wrote:I expect that is true of Remain voters too. Perhaps the matter was a little complex to be settled by a referendum.

Indeed.
I pointed out several times up thread that I decided that life was too short and I'm too stupid to make an informed decision. So I simply read what the experts said and went with their majority view.

Lacking intricate knowledge of the EU, I relied on the ****-o-meter, and placed the prominent campaigners and experts along the scale as appropriate.

If there is one nugget of good that could come out of the whole sorry process, it's that there is much more debate and knowledge of the EU, and of our own successive governments' efforts to deflect their policy failures onto it.

mr bajokoses wrote:If there is one nugget of good that could come out of the whole sorry process, it's that there is much more debate and knowledge of the EU, and of our own successive governments' efforts to deflect their policy failures onto it.

Yes, but this has all come too late.

Or has it?

mr bajokoses wrote:If there is one nugget of good that could come out of the whole sorry process, it's that there is much more debate and knowledge of the EU, and of our own successive governments' efforts to deflect their policy failures onto it.

I dunno, there've been some cracking political cartoons, as well.

mr bajokoses wrote:

kwackers wrote:I sometimes suspect that most brexiters don't really comprehend the huge numbers of areas it impacts on.

I expect that is true of Remain voters too. Perhaps the matter was a little complex to be settled by a referendum.

Can't recall if I've posted this here before but always amusing:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 74311.html

Stevek76 wrote:

mr bajokoses wrote:

kwackers wrote:I sometimes suspect that most brexiters don't really comprehend the huge numbers of areas it impacts on.

I expect that is true of Remain voters too. Perhaps the matter was a little complex to be settled by a referendum.

Can't recall if I've posted this here before but always amusing:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 74311.html

Hadn't seen that before, thanks. Strange how so many people now claim they knew exactly what they were voting for.

BTW I never thought of a leave vote as a vote for anything, it was nothing but a vote against, a 'none of the above' at best.


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mr bajokoses wrote:

kwackers wrote:I sometimes suspect that most brexiters don't really comprehend the huge numbers of areas it impacts on.

I expect that is true of Remain voters too. Perhaps the matter was a little complex to be settled by a referendum.

I didn't and still don't know or understand all the issues, however I knew that leaving the EU was pretty much and undefined process with no agreed objectives. A surefire recipe for unfolding ****-ups. The risk/reward ratio was too high for me to stomach.

Cat,pigeons.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43364331