The Brexit thread

[chris123]

The EU thinks in decades and centuries. Not in short economic cycles.

Further to my earlier post, perhaps the EES will be working by then.

 

[georgenorman]

The EU thinks in decades and centuries. Not in short economic cycles.

What’s that supposed to mean! How can any government plan centuries ahead? Didn’t Hitler plan a 1,000 year Reich.

 

[cryrst]

The EU thinks in decades and centuries. Not in short economic cycles.

Thinking might be hard for it let alone long term !

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

An education then, I must have missed that quality.

Still not for me now, or the next century.

Fine. You have a vote. Just like everyone else.

Vote for a government that would keep us out. I won’t be joining you.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Thinking might be hard for it let alone long term !

Whenever I travel anywhere in Europe these days I am inevitably struck by how much better off and contented the average person seems. If that’s the result of not thinking then perhaps we ought to reinstall some of those who have let us down in the past.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Whenever I travel anywhere in Europe these days I am inevitably struck by how much better off and contented the average person seems. If that’s the result of not thinking then perhaps we ought to reinstall some of those who have let us down in the past.

Good for them but being in the EU didn't help a lot in 70s & 80s when we had mass unemployment and galloping inflation.

 

[Spiderman]

Whenever I travel anywhere in Europe these days I am inevitably struck by how much better off and contented the average person seems. If that’s the result of not thinking then perhaps we ought to reinstall some of those who have let us down in the past.

Have you visited anywhere that have just suffered a terrorist attack? How can you possibly tell how well off and contented people are, unless you spend a lot of time with them going about their everyday lives? What areas have you recently visited?

 

[Spiderman]

Good for them but being in the EU didn't help a lot in 70s & 80s when we had mass unemployment and galloping inflation.

Europe’s economies don’t appear to be doing well atm

 

[Stirlingsays]

Europe’s economies don’t appear to be doing well atm

France would be totally fecked if it wasn't for nuclear energy.

Germany have been spending way beyond their means and the Ukraine war has hit them really really hard economically....but like us they decided on these policies.

 

[steeleye20]

Good for them but being in the EU didn't help a lot in 70s & 80s when we had mass unemployment and galloping inflation.

By a distance my favourite 'leave' comment:-

'By 24th June 2025 Paris, Frankfurt and Milan will have stagnated, but Leeds and Birmingham will be important financial centres'.

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

 

[Teddy Eagle]

By a distance my favourite 'leave' comment:-

'By 24th June 2025 Paris, Frankfurt and Milan will have stagnated, but Leeds and Birmingham will be important financial centres'.

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

That prediction might only be 1 digit out. Perhaps they meant 3025.

 

[Matov]

By a distance my favourite 'leave' comment:-

'By 24th June 2025 Paris, Frankfurt and Milan will have stagnated, but Leeds and Birmingham will be important financial centres'.

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Birmingham, then yes, that place is deserving of all your contempt although I could make an arguement that it represents, in many ways, the UK you champion in terms of diversity and all that shitty jazz.

But my understanding is that Leeds is actually doing very well, and has increasingly done so since Brexit.

 

[chris123]

By a distance my favourite 'leave' comment:-

'By 24th June 2025 Paris, Frankfurt and Milan will have stagnated, but Leeds and Birmingham will be important financial centres'.

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

And all far more right wing politically, who'd have guessed?

 

[ASCPFC]

EU Says Social Media Crackdown Needed to Curb Migrant Crisis - Gript

The EU is claiming that tighter controls on information spread via social media are needed to curb the Ceuta migrant crisis

gript.ie

You could have had this. Completely true that's the reason.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Have you visited anywhere that have just suffered a terrorist attack? How can you possibly tell how well off and contented people are, unless you spend a lot of time with them going about their everyday lives? What areas have you recently visited?

I was in Israel just before the Hamas attack and was aware of how certain segments of the Israeli people behaved poorly towards their Muslim citizens, whilst others got along very well. I am quite sure any attack changes perceptions though, at least for a while.

This year I have only been in Spain, but in recent years I have been in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Gibraltar, Slovinia, Montenegro and Greece. All since I was in Israel.

 

[georgenorman]

I was in Israel just before the Hamas attack and was aware of how certain segments of the Israeli people behaved poorly towards their Muslim citizens, whilst others got along very well. I am quite sure any attack changes perceptions though, at least for a while.

This year I have only been in Spain, but in recent years I have been in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Gibraltar, Slovinia, Montenegro and Greece. All since I was in Israel.

Haven't you left La-la Land off the list?