Cross posting this, aaron banks has been referred for a criminal investigation for laundering russian money for the brexit campaign.
Cross posting this, aaron banks has been referred for a criminal investigation for laundering russian money for the brexit campaign.
Utter tosh.
Is the EU really relevant to anyone anymore? Certainly not the UK, Portugal seems to think they are a shower of shit too.
Portugal prepares to SIDELINE Barnier and negotiate OWN deal with Britain.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...os-Silva-trade
European unity? What EU unity.
And as I swap my winter holiday from Portugal or the Canaries to Barbados he is right to be concerned about his tourist industry. It is not just the UK that is leaving the EU, it's my £5k annual winter holiday too. Imagine if 17 million brexiteer Brits did exactly the same...Portuguese foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva accused the EU of leaving his country in limbo because negotiators have failed to secure a timely Brexit deal. The foreign minister believes his country’s tourism, textile and automotive sectors will be heavily affected unless a sufficient Brexit deal is negotiated.
13/11/2022 Sir Keir Starmer. "Brexit is safe in my hands, Let me be really clear about Brexit. There is no case for going back into the EU and no case for going into the single market or customs union. Freedom of movement is over"
I love the tacit admission that the Euro is boosting Germany's export by devaluing its currency, but the refusal to admit the opposite that Italy and other Southern Europe economies don't have its export sector hampered by the Euro.
A system that benefits countries with strong economies and punish those that have weak ones. I love it.
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Yeah no, you misread his post.
Germany kept the value of its currency strong and constant for decades and still got its economy to grow into one of the strongest worldwide.
Devaluation is not necessary to be able to export.
Just compare with Japan which constantly devaluated and thereby created crisis after crisis for itself.
Or with Italy, with its banking problems.
Devaluation is not a healthy way to increase exports, it is basically stealing from the workers and rentiees so the CEOs can make more money.
That is why Slant listed "leaving the Euro", "returning to the DM", and "increasing the value of DM".
All three would be necessary to destroy Germany's economy.
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Competent assessment, as having the DM for 50+ years destroyed our economy year after year after year. No wait, it didn't.
Going back from the € garbage to a respectable currency might indeed terminate one or two million jobs in businesses depending on export. Even if we are generous and say, it would be three million new jobless (that would rival record unemployment) and another five million family members affected by those job cuts, that would still leave a country with 80+ million inhabitants with roughly a 90:10 winner:loser ratio going from a weaker to a stronger currency.
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This is utter nonsense. From 1975 till today the Yen value (measured in $) almost tripled. Also Japan didn't have 'crisis after crisis'.
I do not think that the system is necessarily designed for this as much as it simply is not made to have weak economies in it in the first place. I stand by my opinion that Italy, Greeze, and others should have never joined the Euro in the first place. They were not ready for it. On the flip-side, I am not sure if the Euro was, economically speaking, all that good for Germany, either. Let me rephrase that. Germany benefits from it, but a not having had it would have been better. It still constrains Germany. Maybe not as much as Bretton-Woods did, but still. Anyone would have been happier, economically speaking, if the Euro never happened - or had been more exclusive. Sadly, that was all politically motivated, because certain people wanted to make that push at a unique point in time where it was actually possible.
Let me help you understand then. Here is an easy to follow fact as reported today...
ONS data on UK population reveals there were 1.6 million EU nationals in 2007
A decade later in 2017 there were 3.8 million EU nationals living in Britain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ED-decade.html
The only non understandable bit about it is if the EU is some kind of paradise why have millions and millions of EU refugees chosen to flee the Brussels dictators and take sanctuary in the freedom loving UK?
You know the UK, that place full of terrible brexiteers like me. The reality is eurochums you adore people like me and all want to live next to me and my views as my neighbour!
There has to come a time when enough of you is enough though, don't you agree? My love for all of you is getting spread a little thin.
Not long to go now, tick tock.
13/11/2022 Sir Keir Starmer. "Brexit is safe in my hands, Let me be really clear about Brexit. There is no case for going back into the EU and no case for going into the single market or customs union. Freedom of movement is over"
Those guys trying to hug you - those are Romanian plumbers.
Btw Brits applying for Irish and German passports are at a record high, vast majority of them young and well educated.
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Why even repeat shit that contradicts every statistic? Yen and Swiss Franc were the two strongest major currencies of the last 50 years.
https://www.vdcresearch.com/News-eve...-currency.html
I dunno, second hit on Google. It wasn't that hard to find.
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Oh yes I fully accept Bob from Bromwich went to Ireland and Carl from Clacton went to Germany, poor miss guided souls, but they in no way mitigate the effects of millions of EU caravan refugees flooding the UK. I'm sure someone in the US today, with the Mexico equivalence, likened it to an invasion....
Let's hope Bob and Carl are ready to serve in the new EU army as the price they must pay for retained EU citizenship rights.
Good riddance if you ask me, the UK doesn't take conscripts any more.
13/11/2022 Sir Keir Starmer. "Brexit is safe in my hands, Let me be really clear about Brexit. There is no case for going back into the EU and no case for going into the single market or customs union. Freedom of movement is over"
The third Google hit about 'alien abductions' is how Betty and Barney Hill from the New Hampshire Mountains were snatched in 1961. Finally proof. And, it wasn't that hard to find.
There never was 'crisis after crisis' as a result of Yen depreciation. It never happened. The claim is about as clueless and absurd as complaining about regular blizzards in Kongo.
I mean, dude... don't ask for sources if you haven't checked before that there aren't any. Don't get all pissy because I destroyed your argument with a truckload of fact. Make a better argument next time and don't tempt people like me to invest like 2s on Google to debunk what you said. Yeah, 2s. That's all it took me to fulfill your challenge.
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This may surprise you, but the UK office for national statistics actually record and publish the figures for migration to the UK from EU/non-EU sources, and also migration from the UK.
I.E in 2015 ~178,000 EU workers migrated to the UK (that's the amount in, there were also 85,000 EU citizens leaving the UK in that year). During this same period 123,000 British citizens migrated from the UK.