On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:48:02PM +0100, Richard Barbrook wrote:
>The City boys in the pub last night said that the banks are warning
>their employees that their jobs will be relocated to Frankfurt or
>Dublin if Brexit ever happens for real ...
http://jackofkent.com/2016/06/why-the-article-50-no
Hiya,
> The Tory party has been in bed with the City for a century. Expect
> Cameron to be rewarded lavishly for delivering the goods. Many in
> the remain camp claim that Downing Street curbed their efforts during
> the campaign, preventing them from attacking Gove and Johnson directly.
> They th
On 06/25/2016 03:56 AM, Keith Hart wrote:
For some time now Europe's political leaders and financial cities have
threatened to abolish the City's immunity. That was the issue. The City
wanted out, but didn't wish to make it obvious. See Nicholas Shaxson's
Treausure Islands for the gruesome story
Most of what is written here on the situation in the UK awaking from the
morning after Brexit, applies mutatis mutandis to the rest of the
Europe. The powers that be in the EU can now take the momentous English
that became British vote as the golden opportunity to come to their
senses and start
In a self-celebratory tone, the so-called radical left that has peddled
anti-EU rhetoric as its best card to gather a movement of its own at a
transnational level, is now claiming some credit for the result of the
UK referendum. The financiers have lost. The EU bureaucrats have lost.
The s
> On 25 Jun 2016, at 03:43, Michael H. Goldhaber wrote:
>
> But what about the fact that those under 50 voted to stay by sizable margins?
this is a fundamental point.
It really looks likes an intergenerational fracture, where aged people
nostalgic of a past world order (based on imperialistic
"It's about time, Brian"
But time for what? The political agenda that counts in Britain now is
decentralisation, the break up of the United Kingdom and of London's
dominance, led by the Scots of course, but with the reunification of
Ireland now a distinct possibility. There are plen
