kuro68k wrote: » The British government is going to take it right to the cliff edge and hope that someone else compromises. Of course they have their excuses already lined up if no-one does, only real question is who they will blame.
Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: » Bob Geldof protesting against Brexit is the equivalent of Farage coming over to Ireland and advocating for a no vote on an EU Treaty. It is simply going to force a certain percentage to immediately take the opposing view.
theguzman wrote: » The same rules and monetary policy for Greece and Finland is a grotesque example of how the EU is totally flawed. Two different economies with different cultures.
cryptocurrency wrote: » EU is communist but still has the thin veil of just socialism for now but these speed of its march to communism isn’t fast enough for Corbyn. Corbyn wants Brexit so he can seize assets, land and start re-education on day one. They are all dangerous nutters.
Zubeneschamali wrote: » I think it is pretty clear that the voters expected Brexit to lose the referendum, they expected to be able to give two fingers to Cameron and Westminster without anything actually changing as a result.
Theresa May has renewed her efforts to sell her draft Brexit withdrawal agreement - arguing it will stop EU migrants "jumping the queue". She said migration would become skills-based, with Europeans no longer prioritised over "engineers from Sydney or software developers from Delhi".
LeinsterDub wrote: » Economies don't have cultures. Both countries volunteered to join the single currency. In fact one of those wanted to join it so bad they cheated to join it.
cryptocurrency wrote: » A Greek government joined the currency and another wanted to leave but was blocked. The people didn’t volunteer anything.
theguzman wrote: » The problem with communism is it stifles development and eventually they run out of other peoples money to spend. Look at the utterly disgraceful way Greece was treated by the EU during the sovereign debt crisis.
theguzman wrote: » Basically there should be another referendum until the democratic will of the people is overwritten. That is not democracy that is a diktat from a Dictatorship.
Donald Trump wrote: » Well given that the British electorate voted in the 1970's to stay as part of the European Project, would you then argue that the more recent vote was undemocratic on the basis that people had already decided?
sameoldname wrote: » That's a lie. The Greeks wanted to stay in the Euro. They also wanted an end to austerity, seemingly by getting the rest of the eurozone to pay for it. Honestly, if the British government had been paying any attention to the way the EU handled the Greek negotiations they might have saved themselves some bother. The EU doesn't blink first.
LeinsterDub wrote: » https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1064623688899796993 Very interesting development. I wonder who wrote the comparisons?
Calina wrote: » They didn't even have to do that. I do not have much or any time for Yanis Varoufakis but he wrote a cheat sheet or 2 for the Brits highlighting that the EU negotiators did not mess around. Also iirc he thought Brexit was unwise.
cryptocurrency wrote: » She is a self proclaimed hard leftist
Water John wrote: » Doubt Varioufakis agrees with the two of you. Most would say Greece was hauled into line at the behest of the banks. Goldman Sachs are the ones who profited from the Greek economic collapse. You are so far removed from the reality of what is going on, I won't be engaging further with either Currency or Guz.
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » And then there's the voters who voted against immigration. And then there's the voters who voted against immigration from the EU in order to get more immigration from third countries. You could probably swing a new referendum by pointing out that Brexit won't change the amount of immigration, just where people come from. Has any major UK employer recommended May's deal over remain ?
Anthracite wrote: » She is a he. FFS.
cryptocurrency wrote: » LeinsterDub wrote: » https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1064623688899796993 Very interesting development. I wonder who wrote the comparisons? Remainers of course.
joe40 wrote: » Probably experts. You know how people are fed up listening to experts!!
Infini wrote: » In one regard though you'd think that they'd haul the people who fiddled the books to get Greece into the Euro before the courts for messing up so many peoples lives.
ArmaniJeanss wrote: » I'd say for any criminal case that it would be an internal Greek matter. And in a general sense it's not a good idea for any current government to be bringing criminal cases against the previous government, especially in an unstable or fledgling democracy. It tends to lead to tit-for-tat from the subsequent government and eventually someone decides they'd be as well to hang onto power and scrap the democracy.
cryptocurrency wrote: » CBI like it. It’s previous record on various events...... In the 1930s it supported appeasement. In the 1940s it supported nationalisation. In the 1950s it supported state planning. In the 1960s it supported tripartite industrial relations. In the 1970s it supported price controls. In the 1980s it opposed getting tough with the USSR. In the 1990s it supported the ERM. In the 2000s it supported joining the Euro. In the 2010s it supported Remain… … and now it has declared its support for May’s draft withdrawal agreement.
Abbreviation CBI Formation 1965
cryptocurrency wrote: » joe40 wrote: » Probably experts. You know how people are fed up listening to experts!! You mean the experts who get cited on the bbc and are always wrong but never pulled up on it
cryptocurrency wrote: » You mean the experts who get cited on the bbc and are always wrong but never pulled up on it
