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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

POGS Wed 29-Jun-16 13:32:50

And it can effect the indigenous population badly.

Tegan Thu 30-Jun-16 00:01:36

Said on News night tonight that, because of growth slowing down we will, by next year be losing 350 million every 2-3 days.

Joelsnan Thu 30-Jun-16 00:21:57

Worth a read
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/29/was-brexit-fear-a-giant-hoax-or-is-this-the-calm-before-the-next/

whitewave Thu 30-Jun-16 09:20:19

6th behind France now in world economic stakes

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 30-Jun-16 09:28:16

Err... It's seven days since the vote. Things are still too much up in the air for markets to settle. Don't panic!

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 30-Jun-16 09:32:24

None of the people likely to succeed Cameron are idiots. Neither will the advisors who will work on future plans, be lacking in brain power. This could work out perfectly well given time.

suzied Thu 30-Jun-16 09:35:52

The word is could here- could also end in a complete mess

Tegan Thu 30-Jun-16 09:40:51

This was a long term forecast, not based on any recent knee jerk reactions. As for the new leader not being an idiot, Gove is the worst education minister in history,Crabbe says homosexuality can be cured; Gove says Johnson isn't up to the job.

POGS Thu 30-Jun-16 09:58:23

Joelsnan

I agree with John Kerry and I have been banging on all along saying there needs progressive thinking now more than ever by our political elite.

' US Secretary of State John Kerry warned in stark terms on his post-Brexit swoop into Europe that nobody should lose their head, or go off half-cocked, or "start ginning up scatter-brained or revengeful premises."

Nobody seemed to heed his words at the EU's imperial summit in Brussels, an exercise in righteous anger but not much else. The markets may yet speak in harsher language.

It is a sensible article. The problem facing all 28 countries is the attitude of the political elite who so far have not only disappointed but been downright petty, self serving and to be honest could well destroy the economies of the 28 European Union countries.

Why? to bludgeon the point home THEY, not the people they should be serving, THEY, insist on the free movement of people as their number one position in negotiating terms for brexit. They are putting the economy, trade and commerce to the back of their minds and that will be not only costly but destructive too.

I voted to remain in the referendum. It was a case of head over heart and a very close call which way I would vote. Seeing the puerile goings on I am thinking maybe my dislike of the EU and my perception of the way the EU functions for the political elite not the people I am thinking I should have voted leave because the ineptitude by the EU elite is striking.

obieone Thu 30-Jun-16 10:16:34

I have been astonished that those who shout loudest against the elite, are the very ones who endorsed them the most.

obieone Thu 30-Jun-16 10:17:31

Very fishy.

daphnedill Thu 30-Jun-16 10:26:43

What about our own political elite, POGS? They're hardly showering themselves with honours. People voted to hand control to them.

daphnedill Thu 30-Jun-16 10:27:53

I wish Shakespeare were alive today. This would make a perfect plot for a play.

POGS Thu 30-Jun-16 10:32:04

Daphnedil

Please read my posts before asking a question and picking up on a word/term/phrase you nit pick on.

"there needs progressive thinking now more than ever by 'OUR' political elite.

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 30-Jun-16 10:34:08

suzied I'm just trying to be my usual chipper little self. grin

MargaretX Thu 30-Jun-16 10:38:55

Every day say to myself I'm going to give it up. I can't solve anything, I don't even live there although I love England and have shed a some tears.etc etc

Then when I'm on the computer I have to have a look at GN and I'm off again.

There was a cartoon in todays paper, a giant ISIS man pressing his thumb down on a man sitting on a sofa(portly, bald, German) and nearby a few people argueing about Brexit.
It made me sit up a bit.

daphnedill Thu 30-Jun-16 10:48:44

POGS,

Please stop truing to run the show and being so rude!

Maybe you should have made it clearer that you were referring to the individual political elites of 28 countries rather than the EU elite.

By the way, who do you suggest runs the country? 'Elite' seems to have become a dirty word, along with 'expert'.

Going back to my previous post about Tocqueville...he wrote about the French Revolution, its consequences and why order could only be restored by Napoleon.

daphnedill Thu 30-Jun-16 10:49:03

truing = trying

POGS Thu 30-Jun-16 10:56:39

?

Gracesgran Thu 30-Jun-16 13:57:28

"How many Brexiters does it take to change a light bulb"?
" I never said there was any lightbulb"

Beammeupscottie Thu 30-Jun-16 14:36:04

This is brilliant

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a6HNXtdvVQ&feature=youtu.be

GandTea Thu 30-Jun-16 14:47:35

That film clip has been used in quite a few spoofs,it works with every one, hilarious. There is even one about ukuleles.

Tegan Thu 30-Jun-16 14:50:52

My daughter sent me that last night; probably the first time I've laughed in a week.The last bit in particular is brilliant.

Gracesgran Thu 30-Jun-16 14:50:53

That's brilliant Beammeup but sadly close to reality.

Gracesgran Thu 30-Jun-16 14:52:08

Does anyone else get the feeling that those who voted to remain will be the ones picking up the pieces.

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