If expats did not have the sense to allow for currency fluctuations then they only have themselves to blame.
I've met loads of daft dreaming expats without much common sense. You need more than cheap property and cheap vegetables to survive.
Listening to Leo Varadkar after his meeting with TM today you start to get a sense of the way that things are moving. Talking about Ireland he was saying that some form of single market and customs union arrangement could be the way forward. Business leaders have been telling the government that to leave these two arrangements would lead to the cliff edge. The Labour party is talking about similar arrangements I think, and at least half the cabinet seem to be of the same opinion. TM was asking for something like that in her Florence speech, and take note she placed no time limit on it. This has nothing to do with the EU being awkward, but the reality of the desperate situation the UK government has talked itself into.
I think that people are starting to realise that the idea that we were a 'victim of the EU' was the big lie which lay behind all others - it is gradually dawning on many that we were beneficiaries of it. That in fact even the city of London would not be the financial hub it has become without the EU.
Brexit in a nutshell that...... The financially cushioned or completely disengaged, not giving a monkeys about the economic repercussions of us cutting ties with our closest 27 markets.....
You are welcome. I have been following this debate on and off and generally preferred not to get involved, but I just got frustrated. I have nothing against the Court of Justice other than it should have no juristriction in the UK once we leave.
Thanks, have a great trip. We need to keep supporting our European friends, particularly the Greeks. I doubt many Germans dare go there.
I've got an early flight from Luton so should be ready to listen to John Marks with a drink by the pool.
I'm not being picky but you have mis-represented things somewhat. First 37% of the registered voting population voted 'Leave' not 52%. Second , the registered voting population is 46 million. The actual population is 64 million. Irrespective of their eligibility (age etc) your assumption that 52% of the population voted to leave is profoundly wrong. It is now accepted in poll after poll that the actual number of remain. Iteds exceeds the. Under of leave voters-but we don't have that as a fact. Third . The EU doesn't have to agree to anything. The UK caused all this hassle, not them. So far the EU have been specific precise and unequivocal-as they can easily do, because they have this position by doing nothing. The UK has been vague imprecise and vacillatory because that is all we have got to offer. Our own negotiators are stuck with decision makers riven by dissent and indecision. The EU could hardly have made things plainer. The UK had suggested a transition- not the EU. Why? The UK has no idea what the outcome might be. I could go on, but that will do.
I think that the government already know that they will have to create a deal no matter what. Where are the plans to buy up land at all the ports, or the adverts for the thousands of new civil servants they will have to employ? Oliver Letwin who had been looking into these matters when in government suggested this weekend that these plans were not in place and if we were to leave in 2019 we would not be ready.
Desperate stuff to try to include those that did not vote in the referendum to include them in the remain camp. There was a clear majority in those that bothered to vote for leave the EU, that is why we are leaving. The EU have set terms with the intention of humiliating the UK, I hope it backfires and we tell them to get stuffed.
Macron's diminishing popularity leads to electoral defeat in the French Senate. His plans for an EU superstate might be halted before it even starts. Senate blow for Macron as he pushes through unpopular reforms ...
I doubt that he will be too worried. The public do not vote for the Senate, and he can get his measures through as the lower house where he has a majority have the final say.
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