[Merged]Brexit stuff (part 2)

[SueEllen]

Given the accuracy of polls recently (Brexit, Trump, Richmond, they've usually been exactly the opposite of what happened) you should be worried.

The pollsters only ask a subset of people.

The bookmakers are better guessers.

[OwlHoot]

Apparently, some Eurocrats playing silly buggers. ...

with sas also being a silly bugger as usual and taking everything at face value

[BlasterBates]

More "U-Turny" statements:

UK government minister suggests the UK could stay in the Customs Union

[sasguru]

with sas also being a silly bugger as usual and taking everything at face value

Eh? Try to stop being thick as mince for once.

[shaunbhoy]

Maybe the French will lend us some gun boats so we can park them in Calais?

Or we could just TELL the French we have some more gun boats. That should be enough to keep their navy firmly in port, if history tells us anything.

[original PM]

A fair and concise summary of Brexit I think:

Normally I am polite but do fu<k off you ignorant tw@

[DodgyAgent]

Or we could just TELL the French we have some more gun boats. That should be enough to keep their navy firmly in port, if history tells us anything.

Churchill’s Sinking of the French Fleet (July 3, 1940)

id it look bad for Churchill to stab his former ally in the back? Of course it did. But then again, you have to look at other variables. The French did everything they could think of to drag England down with them from Sabotaging army counter-attacks to withholding modern aircraft in order to get the RAF to bleed its self dry defending France. So, at the time of the Mers El Kabir attack (1940) the French couldn't be trusted even if they were proven right at Toulon 1942. Second, the gambit worked---FDR crossed over to actively support the British, short of a declaration of war.

And the useful idiots want to trust an incompetent French/German dominated undemocratic European Union ?

[sasguru]

Normally I am polite but do fu<k off you ignorant tw@

Why? Seems a pretty accurate summary

[The_Equalizer]

I suspect all this political irrelevance will be overtaken by economic events.
Prices were already rising due to the weak pound and now with the spike in oil (non-Brexit related) they'll rise even faster.
Even without a dramatic negative economic event on the the level of the national economy (which is a possibility given the huge debt overhang) , people - particularly the Brexit demographic - are soon going to notice the squeeze.
Let's see what happens then ...

Although you fail to note that Sterling has bounced back by about 6% against the Euro. Where is ScooterScot? Wasn't he predicating parity by Christmas?

[eek]

Why? Seems a pretty accurate summary

It doesn't really help when we are in a phony war with no one revealing anything.

In actual news, the important bit is probably Italy's referendum on Sunday. Looks like No will win, and with that it will be a general election.

And if that goes the way most people expect it to, another referendum will follow to replace the Euro with the Lira...