Off Topic Political Debate

Very few Irish are aware of the present Brussels plot to interfere with their government's right to decide on tax policies. When it happens and their current advantages are wiped away they will react.

 

Will happen, maybe might happen, the population might wish to throw away the advantages that a small economy has by being associated with a big one. You really do not understand the EU at all, and have this strange idea that the UK is more in touch than 450 million people from the outside

 

I understand the misery the EU has caused in many Southern European countries and how you accept high unemployment is the norm for many member countries including your adopted, France.

Investment from Europe into the UK has more than doubled since the Brexit vote. European Investors clearly have faith in the UK's long- term prospects.

 

Might I suggest that having devalued your currency, there are a load of cheap bargains to be picked up, which after they have been asset stripped will be returned with thanks.

 

These smart investors realise sterling is well under value. They join worldwide investors that know business friendly UK is a far better option than most in the EU. The weekly riots, attacks on company executives, and restrictive practices in France ensure it remains well down the table for investors.

More than one top exec has described France as a "basket case" when considering places to invest in.

 

Man arrested today for throwing an egg at Corbyn, the suspect is said to closely resemble Deputy Tom Watson.

 

Oh dear, with companies withdrawing investment and taking it abroad, trillions of pounds being moved out of the UK to keep it in the EU, you still think that Mogg and Redwood were telling investors to get their money into the UK rather than get it out pronto.

 

Your fantasy story is, of course, not supported by reality. You should be talking to those European investors that prefer to invest in the UK rather than in Europe. They know Germany and France are nearing recession and EU growth will follow the pattern of previous years in being much poorer than the UK.

 

The actual advice was to spread risk and invest in high growth areas such as the Far East. They would have advised clients to avoid the low growth EU area.

 

Wherever they suggested that investors should put their money, their clear advice was to not put it in the UK.

 

Not true. They advised their clients to spread the risk and avoid the short term negativity caused by rabid remoaners throughout the Brexit process. Most knowledgeable investors have full confidence in the UK once Brexit has been completed.

 

A veteran, Brexit-supporting Conservative MP has told investors to withdraw their money from the UK and instead invest in the EU.

John Redwood, who served as a cabinet minister in the 1990s, said the European Central Bank (ECB) was “promoting faster growth” at a time when, he claimed, Bank of England policies are having the opposite effect.

His column, published in the Financial Times, was headlined: “Look further afield as the UK hits brakes”.

According to your previous comments, none of the investors are taking any notice of him.

 

Your story is old, the EU has deteriorated dramatically since then. He praised the Americans and Japanese for policies conducive to economic growth. his confidence in the ECB was misplaced as growth has dropped like a stone.

The facts are investors from Europe have ploughed twice as much money into the UK since the Brexit vote. Germany, France and now Spain are all in danger of falling into recession.

 

Last year the UK attracted 6% more foreign direct investment (FDI) projects that the previous year, according to figures compiled by EY in a survey of 450 global investors, but fell behind France, which grew by 31%, and the European average growth rate of 10%.

EY said the UK’s market share fell for the second successive year, and was likely to suffer a further decline as investors said they favoured Germany for the future. France was in second place, supported by the “Macron effect”, and the UK came third.

 

I don't care about what you think the sensible option is. You have said repeatedly that nobody said Ireland should be part of the UK and when you're told someone said it you ignore it.
I could go into the historical and cultural reasons for why Ireland will never tie it's flag to the British mast but you have no clue.

 

Project fear

 

Ill take a ban for this - you are a....

 

No you won't

 

What was that about? You go on a visit to the cave, and come back to find our supreme moderator has joined in.

 

Can I finish your sentence? "a sensible Watford supporting Tory"