Brisket or Brexit?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The European Central Bank is in Brussels but The City of London is where all the business is currently being done. If there is a shift away from London to, say, Frankfurt, that's when the Brits will come to realize the magnitude of their mistake.

Reports from the UK indicate a fairly large number of people voted for Brexit as a protest vote, hoping that the overall effort would lose. They just wanted to make some noise. Think of them as Tom Joad's with worse teeth.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by icenine

So you don't want anyone moving anywhere.

If they move and move in large numbers so as to significantly affect living conditions and labor rates in the places they move to, then I would like governments to respond to the concerns of their citizens and such governments not to dilly dally and talk out of two sides of their mouths.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

And they will now be punished severely, with a sick economy and a Tory gvt. that will love to have it as an excuse to slash benefits and worker protections, with no EU to say them nay.

So Portugal, Greece, Spain were non EU?

[finnbow]

LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—Across the United Kingdom on Friday, Britons mourned their long-cherished right to claim that Americans were significantly dumber than they are.

Luxuriating in the superiority of their intellect over Americans’ has long been a favorite pastime in Britain, surpassing in popularity such games as cricket, darts, and snooker.

But, according to Alistair Dorrinson, a pub owner in North London, British voters have done irreparable damage to the “most enjoyable sport this nation has ever known: namely, treating Americans like idiots.”

“When our countrymen cast their votes yesterday, they didn’t realize they were destroying the most precious leisure activity this nation has ever known,” he said. “Wankers.”

In the face of this startling display of national idiocy, Dorrinson still mustered some of the resilience for which the British people are known. “This is a dark day,” he said. “But I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.”

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Reports from the UK indicate a fairly large number of people voted for Brexit as a protest vote, hoping that the overall effort would lose. They just wanted to make some noise. Think of them as Tom Joad's with worse teeth.

Some reports...more bullshit argument designed to down play the real concern of a significant section of the Brits with this EU conglomerate.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by finnbow

LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—Across the United Kingdom on Friday, Britons mourned their long-cherished right to claim that Americans were significantly dumber than they are.

Luxuriating in the superiority of their intellect over Americans’ has long been a favorite pastime in Britain, surpassing in popularity such games as cricket, darts, and snooker.

But, according to Alistair Dorrinson, a pub owner in North London, British voters have done irreparable damage to the “most enjoyable sport this nation has ever known: namely, treating Americans like idiots.”

“When our countrymen cast their votes yesterday, they didn’t realize they were destroying the most precious leisure activity this nation has ever known,” he said. “Wankers.”



In the face of this startling display of national idiocy, Dorrinson still mustered some of the resilience for which the British people are known. “This is a dark day,” he said. “But I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.”

More bullshit especially from the pub. So he thought London was all of England.

The American president went to England lectured and threatened the Brits.
This surprised me given the Netanyahu experience.

[barbara]

And of course, Trump weighs in on the issue.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/24/483353...tion-to-brexit

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by barbara

And of course, Trump weighs in on the issue.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/24/483353...tion-to-brexit

It takes a special kind of stupid/arrogant to say that it Scotland where Brexit was soundly defeated.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Some reports...more bullshit argument designed to down play the real concern of a significant section of the Brits with this EU conglomerate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...g-to-leave-it/

And although leaders of the campaign to exit Europe are crowing over their victory, it seems many Britons may not even know what they had actually voted for...

"Even though I voted to leave, this morning I woke up and I just — the reality did actually hit me," one woman told the news channel ITV News. "If I'd had the opportunity to vote again, it would be to stay."

...That confusion over what Brexit might mean for the country's economy appears to have been reflected across the United Kingdom on Thursday. Google reported sharp upticks in searches not only related to the ballot measure but also about basic questions concerning the implications of the vote. At about 1 a.m. Eastern time, about eight hours after the polls closed, Google reported that searches for "what happens if we leave the EU" had more than tripled.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by mpholland

Never realized we had so much in common with them. At least we drive on the correct side of the road.

And we can cook......