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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Ciaran, Apr 20, 2020.

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  1. pompeymeowth

    pompeymeowth Prepare for trouble x
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    Tubby Johnson thinks, that to catch up your child's education, will only cost 98p a week.

    Good old Tubby! (You'll probably have to pay it back though)
     
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    Imagine how the Queen feels?!!

    https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/02/trav...eens-front-garden-at-windsor-castle-14694169/

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    Pikey c.unts think it is ok to rock up in Windsor Park. Expect more of this sh.it as they all flock to the mainland for the racing season. Local councils near me are on high alert as we are on the run up to the Derby at Epsom, the thieving diddicoys will set up on any bit of green they can find, will do "house clearances" for cash in hand and dump it all when they move on to their next camp. Oh, and don't forget the human excrement left behind too. Why take a dump in your caravan when you can sh.it all over the local park?

    I'd rather live on a commune with Nigerians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Somalians, Syrians and the French than have to live next door to gypsies.
     
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    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Disgusting people. There were piles of their rubbish and ****e all over. The police did nothing even though it would be called fly tipping if someone else did it.
     
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    If Hitler had concentrated on Gypsies instead of Jews WW2 would have ended differently
     
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    Keep boycotting EU goods folks <applause>

    This year, EU imports had fallen significantly, to £18.9billion (a drop of 29.4 percent), while non-EU imports stood at £19.3billion (up 2.1 percent) - meaning the latter outstripped the former for the first time since records began.

    The report also indicates a year-on-year drop in the value of imports from the EU27.
     
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  6. Easter Road 1980

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    Fly Tipping by JR Hartley.
     
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    Saf Not606 Godfather+NOT606 Poster of the year 2023

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    Anne Boleyn

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    He looks **** all like Robert Powell.

    Interesting that some assume he was 'black' yet are happy with the Arabs claiming that bit of Africa as their homeland.
     
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    Woke ****ers <ok>
     
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    Also that Jesus would be a Rastafarian with dreadlocks even though that "religion" only started in the 1930s.

    Amazing that a black actress playing a prominent white historical figure is ok but having a honky playing anyone of ethnicity is racist or cultural appropriation.

    While we are at it why not re-write history altogether? Apparently maths and science are racist and because gravity wasn't invented by someone black it isn't true. Tell someone black that they are wrong because of actual facts and you will be met with a mouthful of abuse because those facts were only produced by colonialists and by systematically racist institutions.

    Take the knee for Saint George of Minnesota, the patron saint of Fentanyl and counterfeit dollars.
     
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    So essentially what your figures show is effectively a decrease in trade as the increase in non EU imports is only a tiny fraction of the decrease in EU imports. What makes you think that it's a boycott of EU goods rather than merely a frustration of trade? I can't really see anybody saying they won't buy a Mercedes or a BMW and choosing a Datsun or Toyota instead. The increase is almost certainly due to Chinese products. On the good news side Amsterdam has overtaken London as a trading centre.
     
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    London is Europe’s major financial centre and one of the world’s two leading financial hubs. This is unlikely to change following Brexit. Its main competition is with New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and other centres like Shanghai that will emerge in the coming years.

    However, the headline of today’s main story in the Financial Times proclaimed, 'Amsterdam ousts London as Europe’s top share trading hub'. The article correctly reported that more shares were traded last month on 'Euronext, Amsterdam and the Dutch arms of CBOE Europe and Turquoise in January' than 'in London'.

    While the data in this story is naturally correct, it needs to be put within context in order to draw the right conclusions. There are probably seventeen exchanges in western Europe. Euronext is third in size, the Deutsche Borse second and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) first. But London is not just captured in the LSE.

    In fact, the bulk of trading never makes it onto these exchanges. The vast bulk of trading is carried out on what are called 'systematic internalisers' within large trading firms based in London. This is where banks and other financial firms match up trades internally between clients, such as people and institutions. Then there are block trades and 'dark pools'. The latter are private trading exchanges or forums where users have some degree of anonymity. They can be popular with institutional investors wanting to execute large orders without it becoming public and thus unduly affecting prices. So, the vast bulk of such trading, which is centred in London, is not captured on those exchanges.

    Moreover, what is reported in the FT is EU trading. Naturally, this is important but it is a subset of the international trading that takes place in London. In fact, the London ecosystem is vast.

    What the article doesn't make clear is that this activity does not mean that business is moving to Amsterdam. More trades are being booked within the EU because EU regulators now demand it. More importantly, though, the value in the trade for an economy remains in London — in the sense that activities such as settlement, clearing and risk management are still carried out here.

    Amsterdam makes a natural choice as it was, even pre-Brexit, the centre of European options trading and has been for a long time. Of course, the City must not be complacent. It was always likely that there would be some relative increase in business in regional centres like Amsterdam.

    As I and others have pointed out, firms will need to make changes post-Brexit depending upon their business model. For some, this will mean basing some staff or doing more business in the likes of Dublin, Luxembourg, Paris, Frankfurt as well as Amsterdam. That is in order to serve EU based clients within the EU. Again, this was well recognised before Brexit.

    For others, though, it will mean doing more business in London. Notwithstanding Covid’s impact on London as a place to live, work and visit, the City’s position is still very strong. UK regulators, in the face of uncertainty, have granted a temporary permissions regime for three years to firms who want to carry out business here. The large number of firms that have sought to take advantage of this, reported to be 1,500, is testimony to the City’s pulling power and that many firms, given their business models, need to have access to London. This successful take-up is another positive for the UK.
     
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    Dream on Saff Lad.
     
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    Scotland does not want independence.

    The UK is flourishing after leaving the EU.

    Guaranteed Tory rule for at least another decade.

    What a time to be alive :1980_boogie_down:
     
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    Has Dame Stormer stopped crying yet?
     
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