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"Brexit’s slow-burning fuse will reach a powder keg this year" |
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"Brexit’s slow-burning fuse will reach a powder keg this year"
Interesting opinion piece from William Keegan https://www.theguardian.com/business...er-keg-in-2017 Quote:
The absurdity, indeed perils, of Brexit become more obvious by the month. Business is nervous; so is the City, which constitutes far more hundreds of thousands of employees than the small, avaricious band of bankers who made their notorious contribution to the financial crisis. It would be good if the majority of members of parliament could recall and act upon Edmund Burke’s 1774 address to the electors of Bristol: they should summon up the courage to act as representatives, not delegates of constituencies where they fear the threat from the xenophobic forces conjured up by the likes of Nigel Farage (who shamelessly continues to draw a handsome salary from an EU institution he affects to abhor). Quote:
The personal attacks by parliamentary Brexiters on our ambassador to the European Union, Sir Ivan Rogers, were indicative of panic in the victorious ranks. The occasion was the leaking of advice given to Theresa May, in which Rogers suggested trade renegotiations with the EU could last 10 years. It is interesting that a lot of Brexiteers only seem capable of personal attacks rather than dealing with the issues.
This revelation provoked an unpleasant ad hominem attack on a distinguished civil servant who, in the best traditions of Whitehall, “tells it like it is” to the occupant of No 10, whether that be David Cameron or Theresa May. |
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Presumably it will be around November 5th.
Good to see the OP is continuing their daily repetitious Brexit doom and gloom thread into 2017. |
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Interesting opinion piece from William Keegan
https://www.theguardian.com/business...er-keg-in-2017 It is interesting that a lot of Brexiteers only seem capable of personal attacks rather than dealing with the issues. |
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So the slow-burning fuse will reach *a* powder keg, not *the* powder keg? Sort of diminishes the urgency of the imminent powder keg, if we know there's more to come then we can make sure we only have to weather this one and use it as preparation for the next one. Then again, that sounds like it's going to be a useful dry-run and we can get some practice in.
Is the next powder keg the big one or is there another one after that? [ p.s. yes I started a post with 'so' ]
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Funny how the stock market ended 2016 at a record high.
There are just people from the losing side trying to talk this country down into a self fulfilling prophesy now. |
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There are just people from the losing side trying to talk this country down into a self fulfilling prophesy now.
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Funny how the stock market ended 2016 at a record high.
There are just people from the losing side trying to talk this country down into a self fulfilling prophesy now. Is this what the Brexiteers will use if (and note I do say if) it all goes pear shaped - "It is all the fault of people talking the country down"? |
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Presumably it will be around November 5th.
Good to see the OP is continuing their daily repetitious Brexit doom and gloom thread into 2017. |
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Or trying to talk the country down from a precipitous leap from a high cliff that it really doesn't need to take.
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It's never been clearer that brexit is not in the national interest, and MP's have a duty to block it.
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So the slow-burning fuse will reach *a* powder keg, not *the* powder keg? Sort of diminishes the urgency of the imminent powder keg, if we know there's more to come then we can make sure we only have to weather this one and use it as preparation for the next one. Then again, that sounds like it's going to be a useful dry-run and we can get some practice in.
Is the next powder keg the big one or is there another one after that? [ p.s. yes I started a post with 'so' ]Or maybe it's the one massive powder keg that really needs to be avoided being set off. |
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There are just people from the losing side trying to talk this country down into a self fulfilling prophesy now.
Contrast that with the rump of forum Brexiteers who are not hiding the fact that they will accept being worse off as a key feature of their Cult like intransigence There is stubborn. And then there is stubborn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLW5jzHsW7c |
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The sooner Theresa May tells voters that the UK is going to leave the Single Market, the less painful it will be. Preparation time will be ueseful for all concerned.
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Funny how the stock market ended 2016 at a record high.
There are just people from the losing side trying to talk this country down into a self fulfilling prophesy now. 1. The losing side is the side leaving the EU. 2. Using "talking down the country" is pretty much in the realm of "it said so in my horoscope", "my clairvoyant told me", "a ghostly apparition appeared at the end of my bed and told me to vote leave" etc. Time for Brexiteers to take responsibility for their actions and stop hiding by blaming everyone else. |
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That's so 2016!
1. The losing side is the side leaving the EU. 2. Using "talking down the country" is pretty much in the realm of "it said so in my horoscope", "my clairvoyant told me", "a ghostly apparition appeared at the end of my bed and told me to vote leave" etc. Time for Brexiteers to take responsibility for their actions and stop hiding by blaming everyone else. |
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Interesting opinion piece from William Keegan
https://www.theguardian.com/business...er-keg-in-2017 It is interesting that a lot of Brexiteers only seem capable of personal attacks rather than dealing with the issues.
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It's never been clearer that brexit is not in the national interest, and MP's have a duty to block it.
Oh sorry I forgot that you are a troll. |
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Didn't you say that we should accept the result and move forward?
Oh sorry I forgot that you are a troll. |
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But she presumably already issued a copper bottomed guaran-damn-tee to Nissan that that won't happen.
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Didn't you say that we should accept the result and move forward?
Oh sorry I forgot that you are a troll. Fortunately - as long as the Supreme Court does its job this month then it doesn't really matter what you or I think, parliament will see its powers upheld and they will be able to block brexit. |
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He did, but that would only have applied if Remain won.
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As has been pointed out in other threads, the FTSE100 is mainly made up of companies that operate globally and so their earnings have been boosted by the fall in Sterling.
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In US$ terms the FTSE100 is down on the year.
Whoopee. What's it like in RMB terms? Or Euro terms? And why would it be at all relevant?
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Is William Keegan a troll too?
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Fortunately - as long as the Supreme Court does its job this month then it doesn't really matter what you or I think, parliament will see its powers upheld and they will be able to block brexit.
You really think that's a good thing?
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Is William Keegan a troll too? Oh sorry you just like to dismiss anyone with an intelligent opinion different to yours as trolling.
Fortunately - as long as the Supreme Court does its job this month then it doesn't really matter what you or I think, parliament will see its powers upheld and they will be able to block brexit. |
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Nope, just a journalist.
You really think that's a good thing? |
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