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[k38] 19/12/2019 12:42

LATEST..AFTER THE QUEEN SPEECH BORIS JOHNSON WILL BECOME THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER IN UK TO BE IMPEACHED BY JEREMY CORBYN AND LABOUR PARTY.

[mr.elbee] 19/12/2019 12:37

K38 Allison Pearson in the torygraph today has just destroyed the beeb completely.

They will never recover..Check it out.

[1carus] 19/12/2019 12:23

Listening to the opening of parliament, if Boris delivers half of what he is promising and maintains fiscal control we will all be in a better place. People need to get real on what is possible. My worries are that he is over promising and running up to much borrowing. In the mean time I am goin to join the Labour party and vote for Emily. She's priceless.

[mitchy] 19/12/2019 12:10

ps,and just to reiterate...I am pro Europe but anti the EU monolith.

[mitchy] 19/12/2019 12:08

smartypantz - did I miss ,in your rant, answering the points about Greece...you know that inconvenient economic basket case caused by forcing it to accept the Euro.
Or the point about Italy being bailed out in 2012 and currently defying EU directive over it's fiscal policies which have brought it to just under the same % debt mountain to GDP that Greece has. Again because of the Euro?

The Euro is 'under pressure' due to Germany' 11 months of retraction.

...and don't get me started on EU projects like airports and housing estates in Spain that have never been used or lived in.

Germany are failing YET AGAIN to take over Europe.

The EU is like a BMW that ,on the surface , looks and drives great but as any mechanic will tell you it's fundamentally flawed on so many levels. It's time to send it to the knackers yard.

[smartypants] 19/12/2019 11:36

gaffer73
Great post...even a Great British post
You must be very proud
I am sure Great Britain is proud to have you.

[smartypants] 19/12/2019 11:18

Idiots
Try typing in to your commodore 64 "Is Germany in recession?"

Germany narrowly avoids recession despite trade war hit.

Germany has one of the lowest unemployment rates on the planet at 3.1%. It has also seen the number of people with jobs continue to grow this year, although more slowly than in the recent past.

It is also the case that in terms of the recovery from the financial crisis Germany is a relatively strong performer.

Among the G7 group of leading developed economies, Germany comes out best compared with pre-crisis levels in terms of GDP per capita.

No??
Well try: is the UK in recesion?
Nov 11, 2019
The UK has dodged a recession despite seeing the biggest year-on-year slowdown in nearly a decade.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the 0.3% growth for the third quarter signalled the economy "slowing". ...
Prior to the 2016 Brexit referendum, the economy had typically grown at more than 2% a year.

Inconvenient facts!

itchy..try this one if you have nothing better to do, and then try explaining it to itchy elbow
"Has the euro currency been a success?"
The euro project has had a difficult second decade but it is worth remembering its successes.
The ECB has successfully achieved its primary goal of price stability and the common currency is popular among the euro area's citizens.
The euro has proved to be remarkably resilient due to its popularity with citizens.

The euro has become the second most important currency in the world. It accounts for 36 per cent of global payments and 20 per cent of all central banks’ foreign reserves, second only to the dollar.

The euro is used by 340m people in 19 countries. Another 175m people outside the eurozone either use it or peg their own currency to it.

About 38 per cent of the eurozone population has not known any other currency in their adult life. The process of mentally converting to a country’s former currency is a thing of the past.

After 20 years, the euro has been a successful project measured by its adoption and support. Three-quarters of people in the eurozone are in favour of the euro, the highest since 2004 — seemingly dispelling the impression of rising anti-euro sentiment in many countries.

[willoicc] 19/12/2019 10:41

Hopefully, they are cutting down on buying imports from the EU.

[pierre oreilly] 19/12/2019 10:38

I'm more a realist than an optimist, but having said that, just about everything has gone my way the last several weeks and months. No danger of realist/optimist topping themselves, unlike those pessimists who only see very dark grey clouds everywhere they look. Alp, remember to give the french sally army a ring before putting that knife to your wrists - things aren't that bad you know.

[pierre oreilly] 19/12/2019 10:33

Great Alp, seems like people are coming to their senses, and those with no money deciding not to spend a grand on junk for their kids this christmas by borrowing from the doorstep lender at 1300%pa.

[alphorn] 19/12/2019 10:24

For the raving optimists:

Retail sales in the UK fell by 0.6 percent from the previous month in November 2019, missing market consensus of a 0.3 percent rise and marking the fourth consecutive month of no growth in trade, the longest such run since at least 1996. All sectors contributed negatively...…………;...

[sentimentrules] 19/12/2019 09:57

Some interesting uk sector moves this week by the funds for 2020

[maxk] 19/12/2019 09:48

The €U loves ugly ducklings.

[mikemichael2] 19/12/2019 09:47

UK population, around 67 million.

Scotland around 5 Million.

Midges around 100 billion

Dry days.......None.


Crazy to try independence, EU probably won't have them anyway.