UK Votes to Leave EU

[Pickman's model]

Foxtons issued a profit warning

Good

 

[phildwyer]

I see you've been privy to johnson's plan

It doesn't take Machiavelli see what he's up to.

I've got ten quid says a year from now the UK will still be in the EU, and Boris will be in Number 10.

 

[mauvais]

Ah, of course. They're talking it up to scare people aren't they?

Maybe. Or maybe it's because the actual outcome looks more and more like a conservative one. It's also only an aggregate/average measure. That can be calm but losing a third of your share price is something more to crow about.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

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Boris Johnson February 2016

I'm sure he would not deny any of that now but I'm sure he believes all that is a price worth paying to be prime minister.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Most of the big financials would aim to be well square in the build up to the referendum and wait it out.the volatility is uncertainty and uncertainty generates throughput business for them.

 

[Pickman's model]

It doesn't take Machiavelli see what he's up to.

I've got ten quid says a year from now the UK will still be in the EU, and Boris will be in Number 10.

Yeh but that's pretty much a certainty: a tenner that article 50 not invoked, that'd be more interesting

 

[not-bono-ever]

I wouldn't put money on Art 50 being invoked myself - Germany is playing the long game here ( as ever) - how that in but out scenario would be sold to the electorate would be a *challenging* task for whatever sleek young double firster takes it on board

 

[butchersapron]

Notice the way that germany is just standing in for the EU now.

 

[Idris2002]

Mutti has decided that a finger of fudge is just enough to give her kids a treat:

Germany to offer UK 'associate membership' in EU

 

[steeplejack]

Mass redundancies coming very quick to the City as big banks take the opportunity to cut costs by re-locating to other cities in the EU

I suspect that, wherever Johnson and Gove are currently, the talk is revolving around the question "How do we get out of this awful mess?" Reneging will be top of the agenda.

David Lammy has called for parliament to set aside the referendum result and remain in the EU; "stop the madness".

Utter, utter disarray.

 

[butchersapron]

Mutti has decided that a finger of fudge is just enough to give her kids a treat:

Germany to offer UK 'associate membership' in EU

Thanks Germany, i mean EU.

 

[Idris2002]

Thanks Germany, i mean EU.

Frieden, fudge-heit und einigkeit.

 

[phildwyer]

Mass redundancies coming very quick to the City

Best news I've heard all year.

David Lammy has called for parliament to set aside the referendum result and remain in the EU

Bastard should be charged with treason. The sheer contempt these people have for those they claim to represent is mind-boggling.

 

[mk12]

Thanks Germany, i mean EU.

Later in his diary (25 October 1977) Benn wrote that he "loathed" the EEC; he claimed it was "bureaucratic and centralised" and "of course it is really dominated by Germany."

 

[steeplejack]

I'm not sure what will provoke bigger rage.

either a) the referendum result being set aside by metropolitan, well educated liberals like Lammy and Heseltine in parliament or b) going ahead with pressing the Article 50 button and it slowly dawning on the far-right sections of the Leave campaign that all that's happened is that we are still firmly in the EU's orbit, only on worse terms, that no one is being sent home, that immigration will not stop, the effects of globalisation cannot be opted out of, the NHS will get the EU money is demagoghic bullshit, and there is no time machine invented yet that will take us all back to 1954.

 

[Idris2002]

I'm not sure what will provoke bigger rage.

either a) the referendum result being set aside by metropolitan, well educated liberals like Lammy and Heseltine in parliament or b) going ahead with pressing the Article 50 button and it slowly dawning on the far-right sections of the Leave campaign that all that's happened is that we are still firmly in the EU's orbit, only on worse terms, that no one is being sent home, that immigration will not stop, the effects of globalisation cannot be opted out of, and there is no time machine invented yet that will take us all back to 1954.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

 

[phildwyer]

Predictable response from L. Penny. Anything these people hate is alright by me. I mean, Jesus:

"a day when prejudice, propaganda, naked xenophobia and callous fear-mongering have won out over the common sense we British like to pride ourselves on."

I want my country back

 

[DotCommunist]

Predictable response from L. Penny. Anything these people hate is alright by me. I mean, Jesus:

"a day when prejudice, propaganda, naked xenophobia and callous fear-mongering have won out over the common sense we British like to pride ourselves on."

I want my country back

Sinn Fein was making secession noises

no they weren't. Re unification not secession.

 

[The Pale King]

Predictable response from L. Penny. Anything these people hate is alright by me. I mean, Jesus:

"a day when prejudice, propaganda, naked xenophobia and callous fear-mongering have won out over the common sense we British like to pride ourselves on."

I want my country back

"we British" indeed

 

[Artaxerxes]

Highlights from Wiki

Another 1985 internal memo released in December 2015 showed Letwin's response to the Broadwater Farm riot, which blamed the violence on the "bad moral attitudes" of the predominantly Afro-Caribbean rioters, claiming that "lower-class, unemployed white people lived for years without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale".

Speaking to consultancy firm KPMG on 27 July 2011, Letwin caused controversy after stating that you cannot have "innovation and excellence" without "real discipline and some fear on the part of the providers" in the public sector. This was widely reported, with The Guardian headline stating Letwin says 'public sector workers need "discipline and fear"'.[30]

In October 2011 the Daily Mirror reported a story that Letwin had thrown away more than 100 secret government documents in public bins in St. James's Park, with no real care to dispose of them properly.[31][32] Enquiries made by the Information Commissioner's Office found that Letwin did not dispose of any government documents; they were in fact his constituents' personal and confidential letters to him and did breach data protection rules.[33] Letwin later apologised for his actions.

 

[mwgdrwg]

 

[mwgdrwg]

 

[mwgdrwg]

If I keep making Star Wars memes maybe it will all go away.

 

[phildwyer]

no they weren't. Re unification not secession.

That post was not from me.

 

[Pickman's model]

That post was not from me.

It's a quote from your link

 

[DotCommunist]

That post was not from me.

I know, it was just the first objectionable line in the article

 

[hot air baboon]

I've got ten quid says a year from now the UK will still be in the EU

...the withdrawal process takes 2 years so I'd say that was a racing certainty yes...

 

[butchersapron]

...the withdrawal process takes 2 years so I'd say that was a racing certainty yes...

It can take up to two years (and be extended by agreement). It doesn't have to though.

 

[phildwyer]

I know, it was just the first objectionable line in the article

Hardly. It comes after this for a start: " I woke up in a country I do not recognize."

She also went to bed in a country that she doesn't recognize. She wouldn't recognize the country if it bit her in the bum.

 

[phildwyer]

It can take up to two years (and be extended by agreement). It doesn't have to though.

It will though.