BREXIT! BREXIT! BREXIT!

[JimC]

One day you'll tell us what you really think of the Tories, Brian...

[Svartalf]

that they are filthy swine fulla shit and that they should be burned alive on a pyre made from every book ever written by tory politicians?

[pErvinalia]

I like the cut of your jib, son.

[NineBerry]

[Seabass]

[Brian Peacock]

[pErvinalia]

[rainbow]

But the UK's proposals are seen as vague, insufficient and - according to one official - "like last night's mac and cheese with fresh parsley scattered on top".

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49709430

[Brian Peacock]

We don't do Mac and Cheese. We do macaroni cheese. Therefore #FAKENEWS #PROJECTFEAR!!

[rainbow]

We don't do Mac and Cheese. We do macaroni cheese. Therefore #FAKENEWS #PROJECTFEAR!!

Wait till the Marines land on the beaches of Dorset.

[Brian Peacock]

In the late 80s I used to do standup at a Soho club called Raging Bull, run by the young Eddie Izzard. At half-time we shared our dressing room with male strippers from The Paul Raymond Carnival of Erotica. They would sit naked in their chairs, casually chatting and masturbating, but not for pleasure, merely to keep their members at the maximum tumescence for public display, the legal definition of an erection being 45 degrees.

I for one feel this definition is too exacting, and hope that one of the benefits of leaving the European Union will be a relaxation in the erection rules. In fact, I wonder if, secretly, it is a desire to set our own standards on what level of tumescence constitutes an erection that has made Mark Francois, for example, such a zealous Brexiteer...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... _clipboard

[Brian Peacock]

no-deal Brexit will slice almost 3% from Britain’s economic growth over the next three years compared with just 0.6% from the rest of the EU, according to the OECD’s latest health check of the global economy.

Amid concerns that all developed countries will see their growth slow next year, the Paris-based club for the world’s 35 richest nations warned that the UK would take the biggest hit if the government failed to secure an agreement with the EU.

OECD analysis estimates that losing unfettered access to EU markets after 31 October will likely plunge the UK into a recession next year. The loss of trade, investment and technical knowledge plus a further fall in the pound will prolong Britain’s low rate of growth until at least 2022.

Laurence Boone, the OECD’s chief economist, said an agreement to smooth Britain’s exit was important to protect businesses and the economy. “The best thing is to avoid a no-deal Brexit and to stay closely aligned to the EU as possible,” she said.

Boone said she was concerned that after two years of heightened uncertainty created by tit-for-tat tariff wars and the Brexit negotiations, the depressed state of the global economy risked becoming permanent. “The concern is that with high levels of uncertainty going on for so long that we run the risk of low levels of trade and investment becoming entrenched. And that would leave countries even more exposed to a financial shock,” she said...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -recession

So, the international finance system is worried that "the depressed state of the global economy risks becoming permanent". Well, I don't think the failings of the global economy can be laid at the foot of Brexit - it's Capitalism that slayed the beast.

[rainbow]

So, the international finance system is worried that "the depressed state of the global economy risks becoming permanent". Well, I don't think the failings of the global economy can be laid at the foot of Brexit - it's Capitalism that slayed the beast.

Correct, as Frankenfurter said: "I'll remove the cause, but not the symptom"

[Alan B]

No-deal could remove the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance and Anti-Money Laundering Directives control of the psychopathically greedy who steal from the Public Purse.
This could include the British Protectorates & Dependencies Tax Havens.

[rainbow]

One day you'll tell us what you really think of the Tories, Brian...