Brexit or Britin

[bobo the clown]

Its good to see you've finally accepted that widespread corruption and patronage of financial institutions by poor regulation, and indeed cronyism, caused the most vulnerable in society to be hit hardest by austerity. And for taxpayers to foot the massive bills created by the idiocy of said financial institutions and their employees, who benefited most but paid the lowest price for their incompetence.

I hope you continue to shine a light on the darkest recesses of our poorly regulated and mismanaged international finance sector in future.

So you finally agree that, from errors by whomsoever, the € is a waste of space. It's inevitably doomed and we should strangle it now before it does more damage.

Good lad.

[LeverEnd]

I love a nice consensus. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside!

[Lord Kangana]

Its good to see you've finally accepted that widespread corruption and patronage of financial institutions by poor regulation, and indeed cronyism, caused the most vulnerable in society to be hit hardest by austerity. And for taxpayers to foot the massive bills created by the idiocy of said financial institutions and their employees, who benefited most but paid the lowest price for their incompetence.

I hope you continue to shine a light on the darkest recesses of our poorly regulated and mismanaged international finance sector in future.

So you finally agree that, from errors by whomsoever, the € is a waste of space. It's inevitably doomed and we should strangle it now before it does more damage.

Good lad.

I thought we were discussing what the article said, not what you wished it had said?

What a pity. I too thought we had reached a consensus.

[boltonboris]

Its good to see you've finally accepted that widespread corruption and patronage of financial institutions by poor regulation, and indeed cronyism, caused the most vulnerable in society to be hit hardest by austerity. And for taxpayers to foot the massive bills created by the idiocy of said financial institutions and their employees, who benefited most but paid the lowest price for their incompetence.

I hope you continue to shine a light on the darkest recesses of our poorly regulated and mismanaged international finance sector in future.

So you finally agree that, from errors by whomsoever, the € is a waste of space. It's inevitably doomed and we should strangle it now before it does more damage.

Good lad.

I thought we were discussing what the article said, not what you wished it had said?

What a pity. I too thought we had reached a consensus.

Nicely dodged

[bobo the clown]

Its good to see you've finally accepted that widespread corruption and patronage of financial institutions by poor regulation, and indeed cronyism, caused the most vulnerable in society to be hit hardest by austerity. And for taxpayers to foot the massive bills created by the idiocy of said financial institutions and their employees, who benefited most but paid the lowest price for their incompetence.

I hope you continue to shine a light on the darkest recesses of our poorly regulated and mismanaged international finance sector in future.

So you finally agree that, from errors by whomsoever, the € is a waste of space. It's inevitably doomed and we should strangle it now before it does more damage.

Good lad.

I thought we were discussing what the article said, not what you wished it had said?

What a pity. I too thought we had reached a consensus.

Nicely dodged

.... & not answered. Not too surprising.

[Hoboh]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... s-the-euro" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BWFC_Insane]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... s-the-euro

Be interesting to see how many who are staunch Thatcher supporters (given plenty of Brexit voters are) agree with that article....I suspect quite a few do, and yet won't see the irony that it is a massive critique of the very market fundamentalism Thatcher so vehemently believed in, and aggresively tried to encourage.

[thebish]

Them poor brexit snowflakes have been culturally bullied, it seems... poor lambs!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08 ... g-at-work/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Hoboh]

Them poor brexit snowflakes have been culturally bullied, it seems... poor lambs!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08 ... g-at-work/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a crock of!

Some leeches in the legal profession will stop at nothing to drum up business.

Marriage counselling? Now that falls right into snowflake territory.

FFS Lord help us when something really serious happens.

[thebish]

Them poor brexit snowflakes have been culturally bullied, it seems... poor lambs!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08 ... g-at-work/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a crock of!

Some leeches in the legal profession will stop at nothing to drum up business.

Marriage counselling? Now that falls right into snowflake territory.

FFS Lord help us when something really serious happens.

it's why we've been going easy on you Hobes... we know how easily these snowflake brexit-types can get upset and seek legal redress... cultural bullying - it's a serious business..

[Bijou Bob]

Them poor brexit snowflakes have been culturally bullied, it seems... poor lambs!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08 ... g-at-work/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I suspect the article is probably the Torygraph trying to have a go at the Daily Heil and their journos. The Telegraph didn't take a side in the Euro referendum until very, very late in the process, whereas the Heil did. It'll be interesting to see if Private Eye have the inside story on this next week.

[boltonboris]

I'm not sure if that article is a pisstake or not?!

[Hoboh]

Next time anyone bangs on about safety and security lost because of Brexit, look how much some of our so-called partners value their own security!

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

So a bunch of countries with far less money spend less than countries with far more money. I see Russia aren't taking it very seriously too.

[Lord Kangana]

Where is the threat to these countries coming from Hoboh, that they should be worried about their military expenditure so much?

[Worthy4England]

So a bunch of countries with far less money spend less than countries with far more money. I see Russia aren't taking it very seriously too.

There's that of course, then there's the point that if our defence budget can afford 100 pointy sticks and Bulgaria''s 50 pointy sticks between you, you have 150 pointy sticks, against the alleged common enemy whose pointy sticks are limited to their budget.

[Lord Kangana]

Yeah, but where's the historical precedent for us having continental allies?

[Worthy4England]

I also recall WW2 going swimmingly on a very similar principle to "we'very all got our own, so what'should there to be worried about"

[Worthy4England]

Yeah, but where's the historical precedent for us having continental allies?

Quite.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

So a bunch of countries with far less money spend less than countries with far more money. I see Russia aren't taking it very seriously too.

There's that of course, then there's the point that if our defence budget can afford 100 pointy sticks and Bulgaria''s 50 pointy sticks between you, you have 150 pointy sticks, against the alleged common enemy whose pointy sticks are limited to their budget.

Our defence budget seems to be based upon an arbitrary 2% rather than what we actually need. Anyway, Bulgaria's pointy sticks are probably inferior ones, so only equivalent to 5 of ours