The EU after Brexit
Nov 22nd 2018, 6:04 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
It's just unlikely. Look at it this way, the immediate projects you will be working on will continue - and all the Spaniards in the team will get fired. More for you.
Real question is will the government be able to come up with a decent infrastructure and investment policy to keep you employed while they are busy infighting.
Real question is will the government be able to come up with a decent infrastructure and investment policy to keep you employed while they are busy infighting.
Nov 22nd 2018, 6:24 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
It's just unlikely. Look at it this way, the immediate projects you will be working on will continue - and all the Spaniards in the team will get fired. More for you.
Real question is will the government be able to come up with a decent infrastructure and investment policy to keep you employed while they are busy.
Real question is will the government be able to come up with a decent infrastructure and investment policy to keep you employed while they are busy.
If it all goes belly up there's enough dosh in the piggy bank to buy a cafe in New Zealand and spend the rest of my life dishing out avocado and toast. How hard can it be?
Nov 22nd 2018, 7:27 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
One would think so but British politics in my lifetime has hardly been intelligent. We haven't had a decent PM since Thatcher, just a series of cut-price politicos of inferior intellect enforcing their myopic egos on the country.
If it all goes belly up there's enough dosh in the piggy bank to buy a cafe in New Zealand and spend the rest of my life dishing out avocado and toast. How hard can it be?
If it all goes belly up there's enough dosh in the piggy bank to buy a cafe in New Zealand and spend the rest of my life dishing out avocado and toast. How hard can it be?
Nov 22nd 2018, 7:47 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
I'll never forgive him for Maastrict. He should have stopped it in its track by refusing to sign it and we wouldn't be in the mess we are today.
Other than that he was decent and kept a very firm lid on immigration. Did an excellent job getting the UK out of the early 1990s recession. Mind you, he was partially responsible for it but the country was still buggered regardless of who was in power.
Other than that he was decent and kept a very firm lid on immigration. Did an excellent job getting the UK out of the early 1990s recession. Mind you, he was partially responsible for it but the country was still buggered regardless of who was in power.
Nov 22nd 2018, 8:07 am
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Nov 22nd 2018, 8:08 am
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Nov 22nd 2018, 8:13 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
DXB and the rest can lecture the world about "Democracy" while demonstrating the value of the House of Lords.
Nov 22nd 2018, 9:04 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
....and we'd have remained a bunch of independent states trying to work better together and in closer proximity but without the commitment to doing so.
Nov 22nd 2018, 9:30 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
Italy wouldn't be stuck in the purgatory that is the Euro. Nor would have Greece been given access to German loans based on the value of the Euro and went berserk with borrowing.
Nov 22nd 2018, 10:22 am
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Re: The EU after Brexit
Once we had signed Maastricht we were always heading towards the exit door. It was a question of when rather than if.