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whitewave Fri 24-Jun-16 18:54:04

I think it will be interesting to track what the result of the vote brings us. Good or bad.

Friday 24 th June

Result out.

France wants to renegotiate the Le Touquet agreement

£ has the biggest drop since 1985

Mark Carney moved to try to steady the markets

Scottish first minister suggested that they are highly likely to go for a second referendum

durhamjen Mon 27-Jun-16 11:13:52

voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/06/27/the-ignorance-that-means-wales-will-lose-billions-of-pounds-in-eu-funding/

whitewave Mon 27-Jun-16 11:21:41

£ fallen even further.

Markets need assurance that austerity will not continue, that Q/E will be on the table and a budget for growth

UK govt bonds at lowest level ever

whitewave Mon 27-Jun-16 11:25:10

One in five companies considering moving out of the UK

Elegran Mon 27-Jun-16 11:26:09

Osbourne has just said "the UK is ready to face the future "from a position of strength" "

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 11:28:34

Err! Really?

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 11:29:47

He also said he wants to build bridges. He's been listening to your horticultural puns. I hope he doesn't mean more of those garden bridges.

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 11:31:17

Good news! My daughter has a Euro bank account and has just informed me she made just over 1000 Euro profit last week!

durhamjen Mon 27-Jun-16 11:32:10

That's Boris's bridge. I don't think Osborne would want to claim that. Or maybe he is talking about bridges between himself and Boris, him on one side of the Thames, and Boris on the other.

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 11:34:08

Ah! Should have made myself clear. I meant Boris has been talking about building bridges.

Maybe they could borrow some of Farage's fishing boats and have a water fight.

whitewave Mon 27-Jun-16 11:35:08

If we accept that the result of the referendum was to a large extent driven by the disaffected working class. Then does the government have to think very seriously about imposing more austerity and cuts in the months and years ahead?

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 11:37:09

Osborne's a **. Moody's has cut the UK's credit outlook. We're not in a position of strength. The economy is weaker than when he took over.

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 11:41:50

Yes, it does, whitewave, but we never had proper austerity anyway. Austerity involves tax rises, but Osborne did the opposite for the better off.

He's in a hole and the only solution the B o E has come up with is further quantitative easing, which will increase the government's debt. Unfortunately, the bleak credit outlook means that borrowing will be more expensive, which will lead to further falls in the pound.

Tegan Mon 27-Jun-16 11:47:14

But Osbourne's budget comment was another thing that drove people to vote out.Now he says everything is ok.

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 11:52:55

@Tegan I know. Ironic, isn't it? It really isn't any wonder people didn't know how to vote. I honestly think Cameron and Osborne should have been sent on gardening leave for the campaign.

Mamie Mon 27-Jun-16 13:02:49

So as far as I can see:
The plan (as much as there is a plan) is to stay in the EEA.
This will include free movement of people and cost as much as EU membership.
An army of civil servants (or faceless bureaucrats as some on here prefer to label them) will be needed to carry out all the work involved in treaty change, which will take many years to complete.
Businesses are putting into place their contingency plans to move staff from the UK.
The economy is crashing.
There is a rise in racist abuse and intergenerational conflict.
Going well so far, then.

daphnedill Mon 27-Jun-16 13:10:17

Meanwhile, hedge fund managers have made a fortune from BREXIT bets. It's not all bad (for some)! angry

whitewave Mon 27-Jun-16 13:11:06

Anyone there???

Feels like we are huddled on this boat with the waves crashing around us without anyone on the bridge. They are all in the hold deciding who is going to be captain. Sod the rough seas, apparently markets go up and markets go down. Well that statement will calm everything then.

varian Mon 27-Jun-16 13:20:34

Bank shares down more than 30% in three days. The £ at a thirty-one year low against the $ but Boris tells us "the markets are stable"

Beammeupscottie Mon 27-Jun-16 14:04:31

I Bet Westminster is like the boiler-room of the Titanic.

When the stocks are low enough the Chinese and the Russians will buy. So much for an independent little england.

"Lord forgive them for they know not what they do" says Britain as it is nailed to the Cross.

whitewave Mon 27-Jun-16 14:19:06

Tax payers stakes in banks has long 6 bn. This was meant to go towards paying the debt off.

durhamjen Mon 27-Jun-16 14:21:33

£6.5 billion wiped off the shares of RBS and Lloyds, the shares that are still owned by the public.
Very stable. Hope they stop the sale until the price rises, otherwise we'll be the one paying the price again.
Boris said pensions were okay as well this morning. How does he know? He probably means pensions for MPs and money men.

Beammeupscottie Mon 27-Jun-16 14:24:30

Angela Eagles has just said that very nasty forces have been unleased in the country.

durhamjen Mon 27-Jun-16 14:28:22

She's right.

durhamjen Mon 27-Jun-16 14:29:13

X posts whitewave.

whitewave Mon 27-Jun-16 14:32:03

They are all very quiet. Not that I want to know really but fascist Farage is quiet.

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