Remain would win Brexit referendum if held now, poll claims

[northernladyuk]

We'll it's one or the other, unless you've found your British/Irish thing to be going down well with the natives.

I don't know what that is. I just get along with people - seems to work fine.

[The_Equalizer]

I don't know what that is. I just get along with people - seems to work fine.

Oddly so do I given the wife is Irish.

[BrilloPad]

I just get along with people

[northernladyuk]

I try not to mix with cretins IRL, so I'm a much more pleasant person.

[scooterscot]

Hopefully those who have left the UK will have their citizenship revoked and you won't be allowed back.

I think Spain will insist you repatriate them ailing pensioners.

[BrilloPad]

I think Spain will insist you repatriate them ailing pensioners.

As long as its not Portugal....

[sasguru]

As long as its not Portugal....

Renovations, including installation of a small pool, are just finishing on my farmhouse in the Douro.
Should be ready for a lovely August break

[BrilloPad]

Renovations, including installation of a small pool, are just finishing on my farmhouse in the Douro.
Should be ready for a lovely August break

So we will get a break from your cretinous rants.

Oppss. I mean oh dear. Your intellectual input to CUK and Brexit debate will be sorely missed.....

[Mordac]

I think Spain will insist you repatriate them ailing pensioners.

I doubt it, they're just about the only people in Spain with any money.

[scooterscot]

I doubt it, they're just about the only people in Spain with any money.

Keep laughing...

Spain's economy grows faster than the UK in 2016



A European economic miracle?

A couple of years ago, the eurozone – about one-sixth of the world economy – appeared to be in serious trouble. Beginning in 2010, an unexpected sovereign debt crisis contributed to and was compounded by serious weaknesses in major banks. Fiscal austerity, in Greece and other relatively weak countries, helped fuel an overall economic downturn. In the absence of generous mutual support, there was an aura of last-ditch desperation when, in March 2015, the European Central Bank announced an ambitious program of purchasing government debt.

Just over two years later, the situation looks much more positive. The latest International Monetary Fund forecast projects 1.7 percent growth for the eurozone as a whole in 2017, and 1.6 percent growth in 2018 – a remarkable improvement from a few years ago, when the region struggled to break 1 percent.

Recent solvency concerns for some smaller banks in Italy and Spain were handled without causing any significant disruption. And, at a just-concluded ECB conference that I attended, there was even some discussion of when the ECB could scale back its interventions and perhaps begin to raise interest rates. (All the sessions were on the record and live webcast.)

The immediate macroeconomic picture remains somewhat murky. On the morning of June 27, financial markets thought ECB president Mario Draghi spoke more positively on growth than in the recent past, and the value of the euro strengthened significantly. By the next morning, senior ECB officials were quoted as saying that Draghi’s remarks had been overinterpreted – and the euro fell.