This will also be fun:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...al-bill-brexit
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This will also be fun:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...al-bill-brexit
Thomson Reuters to transfer forex derivatives business to Dublin:
https://amp.ft.com/content/5b04d32e-...-f6677d2e1ce8?
What a load of codswallop. If Trump wants to fix the broken American healthcare system he should look domestically and not overseas, the notion of increasing drug prices overseas (which wouldn't reduce domestic ones anyway) succeeding is about as likely as the Mexicans paying for his wall. The end of the article says it bestQuote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
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Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust, an independent health think tank, disputed that British patients were freeloading at the expense of their American counterparts.
“There is no reason to suppose that more expensive prices for drugs in Europe would translate into cheaper prices in the US.
“USA healthcare prices are generally higher than in Europe and the absence of the sort of large-scale negotiation by the US government does not help.
“This is more likely to be the cause of high drugs pricing, rather than one side of the Atlantic subsidising the other. "
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Originally Posted by Aimless
So they're slapping a badge on it that says Ireland while the real work continues in London? Fascinating.Quote:
However, Thomson Reuters will keep its spot trading market, which trades about $100bn a day, in London because this is outside the scope of Mifid II, Europe’s main markets rules. The technology for matching deals, and processing and settling them will also remain in London.
It has no plans to move any employees from London or elsewhere to Dublin but was hiring new staff to meet local laws, it added.
No its totally irrelevant posturing. The Supreme Court has already ruled that Brexit is the preserve of Westminster and that the Scottish Parliament doesn't get a veto in the Gina Miller case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
You don't really understand that roflstomping a state into the ground is not exactly good for the long-term survival of the union? Of course you have the right to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Whether it's a good idea to piss off the Scots even more, that's a completely different issue. It's the difference between "You can do that" and "You should do that". If you're confused by the difference between those two words I'll happily explain your own language to you once more.
Afaict the profits from this part of the business will no longer be taxed in the UK and the decision is based on their expectation that the UK will lose passporting privileges. Other banks will likely arrive at the same conclusion.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
What do you call a Brexit which doesn't even reach the level of BINO?
Pointless?
Par for the course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
Soft Brexit Fudge coming to a store near you but not any time soon?
This whole Brexit thing is too bloody funny.
Hmm, who called that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
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Originally Posted by RandBlade
Only problem is that your extremists are calling the shots.
Our extremists are neutered and back in their box.
We have an extremist as PM but not in the way you mean.
Riight. Keep telling yourself that. In the meantime, we're still waiting for a realistic proposal for the Irish border issue and not those pie-in-the-sky-solutions you keep coming up with.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ia-brexit-deal
The EU isn't fudging. Ultimately the UK is attempting to solve its problems by fudging. But there is no room for fudging.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Posturing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
By your government? Certainly.
We're not the ones saying there'll be no deal if we don't get the perfect deal, that's the Irish.
One defeat after another:
https://www.ft.com/content/17fbad8c-...2-d6ceb45fa9d0
Brexiters are slowly learning that reality wins.
The Irish don't say anything about a "perfect" deal. They say something about upholding the previous agreement.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
You know, the one which put an end to those carbombs and all. You obviously are hungering for spilled blood once again.
What defeat? That is exactly what I proposed as the logical solution:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
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Originally Posted by RandBlade
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
You will be willing to extend the transition? You do realize that the transition is something we'll be deciding on? That there will be no transition of any kind if there is no exit-agreement. Which also means that you will confirm legally binding first that there will be no hard border on the island of Ireland. Lacking such a hard guarantee, there will only be the cliff edge for you lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Thread with summaries of various aspects of new comprehensive report on future US-UK trade relationship:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmporersN...58402666778625
Putting the lie to Brexiters' pre-referendum suggestions/promises.
No just repeating ad nauseum the same points that were made and rejected before the referendum.
With the benefit of hindsight the lies were all on the Remain side. We haven't had the immediate recession, punishment budget, million more unemployed, stock market crash, car factories closing down, City relocating to Frankfurt, refugee camps in Dover and shops empty of food which you Remainers so loudly predicted.
All we get now is whiny bleats that its a disaster without giving any details as to what this disaster is.
So nice of you to see what your government is doing currently.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
And, dude, we always told you that " immediate recession, punishment budget, million more unemployed, stock market crash, car factories closing down, City relocating to Frankfurt, refugee camps in Dover and shops empty of food" would happen after you crash out.
Stop fucking lying, will you? Again, stop with the lies.
We are remainers now? Don't flatter yourself buddy, I'm counting down the days.
Why are you lying?Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
We were told it would happen after the vote, then that it was already happening because of the vote, then it wasn't happening yet only because Article 50 wasn't triggered yet. Then months and months of "but you haven't triggered Article 50" yet. Now its "was always going to be after exit". Lies, lies, lies. Do you think I'd forget all your prior posts?
He hasn't read the thread and wasn't paying attention to the debate during the referendum. That's why every single defeat for the Brexiters is being recast as an expected victory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
You were told? Certainly not by us.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Oh really?
You don't remember months of harping on about how the only reason the projections weren't coming true yet was that we hadn't triggered Article 50 for instance?
No, we said that nothing has happened because you hadn't even taken the first step yet (i.e. Article 50). You then promptly interpreted that as "everything must happen instantly after Article 50".Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Let me run that by you because you'll promptly fail to comprehend the distinction yet again:
A: "Nothing happened yet!"
B: "Yes, because you haven't even jumped off the roof."
A: "Well, I just jumped and I'm still in one piece!"
Ah right so Article 50 was irrelevant despite all the attention you gave it? Sort of like I said at the time.
Called it: Rand didn't comprehend in the slightest what I actually said.
Yes, Rand, it's completely irrelevant. Just like lighting a fuse is completely irrelevant for the following explosion.
Except there's not been an explosion - and people are intelligent enough to react to inevitabilities which is why the recession, banks moving etc was supposed to have happened by now.
No, incorrect. We know that major businesses such as banks, auto manufacturers etc were expecting the softest of soft Brexits until fairly recently, with free movement of labor, goods and services, passporting privileges etc. There has been little time to determine and act on high likelihood of losing these things. Even so, Brexit has already cost the the UK many hundreds of millions of pounds and reduced supply of workers in sectors with a high demand for workers. Many smaller businesses that depend on trade with the EU have little scope for moving anyway.
What hundreds of millions of pounds?
Supply of workers is at a record high.
You'll have to look at estimates from businesses, BoE & govt, think tanks. Numerous reports & articles but I'm on my phone and can't easily get you the links. Availability of workers falls far short of demand in eg. healthcare, agri, hospitality etc.
You said "reduced supply". Supply is at a record high. Never in our entire history has supply ever been higher.
We do have record employment you are absolutely right despite a fast growing supply, not sure that makes Brexit a disaster.