I've much to catch up on ITT, but I must comment on how strange it is that the euro politician I most respect is a bundesbank banker. You find surprises every day! Also rather interesting is that Philip Hammond has fallen afoul of the Brexit minded Tory party after Theresa May accused him of undermining the Brexit negotiations, insinuating that he is the one who leaked the Brexit negotiation/planning papers
Rather saddening that, Phillip Hammond and Theresa May are both people I very much respect as professionals, to see them in conflict is a great waste of resources. Essentially Phillip Hammond is arguing for what he terms 'soft brexit,' which is a formal withdrawal from the European Union that remains within EU institutions like the single market, whereas Theresa May is arguing for what Philip calls 'hard brexit,' which is withdrawal from all EU institutions. Again, rather surprisingly, I agree with Donald Tusk that there is no distinction between 'soft brexit' and 'hard brexit,' only 'membership' and 'brexit.' Reason being if we stay in the common market then our external trade with the rest of the world would be controlled by the EU, which just wouldn't make sense since our world trade is the majority of our trade, and we would have to sacrifice migration & security controls in order to keep that. Sans being one of the negotiators of course, so it would be the worse end of everything for everyone who's not a banker lol
Speaking of bankers, and german bankers for that, rather intriguing this stuff about the EU's plans for
capital union. The EU bankers figured fiscal union is still a very long way off and impossible to achieve in the short term, yet they reckon the EU still needs to integrate further or else the Euro glue will crumble and the Union will shatter. So: Capital Union. Not fiscal union, but a very big step towards it.
Naturally Brexit throws a spanner in the works, so it is interesting to see what occurs half a decade hence
Impossible! We all know the UK has no racial issues.
Lmao you still salty people asked you for sources
I don't begrudge Leavers for trying every tactic they can to hold off even the faintest of challenges to their wishes. There's up to 38% of people who can see defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory. (Also why it appears the words "overwhelming majority" have been retasked to describe "barely scraped past those bothered to vote otherwise", because they really want it to be so, and like "Crooked Hillary" or any other soundbite meme you could mention it just aims to transcends reality.)
If Leave had lost 35% to 38% they'd be pursuing a rematch at the next opportunistic moment, at least as quickly as the Scindependencers have with their wider margin of 38% to 47% loss.
Aye, Brexit campaign was very maligned when it didn't control government and had to deal with Remain in control, now the gov is in Brexit hands the winner takes all mentality has switched over to Brex camp
There isn't much need though to quell opposition, as there is no realistic opposition; this is due to the implosion of labour. Currently the biggest schism is Philip Hammond vs Theresa May, which is the final battle between neoliberalism and conservatism for at least a few decades
A safe space? :p
In other news, falling sterling cause marmite and Ben&Jerry shortage. Well, not exactly shortage: the produce wants to raise price to reflect higher price of imported inputs and supermarkets don't want that.
I gotta get the LES Marmite piece up here, if I can find the newspaper lying around somewhere, it's hilarious
Ahah, LW you're so funny, continually quoting random think-tank and presenting that as European policy.
Haha you must be joking Sheb, the ESI's advice being sought after by European policy makers and in turn being implemented as European policy does European policy a make!
You must be rather silly to deny the Merkel Samson plan as implemented by the European Union does not represent European Union policyNext you'll tell me European Union law has nothing to do with European Union law, that German banks have nothing to do with European monetary policy, that European Nations have nothing to do with the European Union
“As soon as mid-September, ESI had already proposed a solution to the refugee crisis, which in large part has now been adopted by the European Commission. At the core of ESI’s proposal is the idea that the German government should take the lead and commit to resettling 500,000 Syrian refugees directly from Turkey to Germany … In return, Ankara should immediately readmit all migrants reaching Greece via the Aegean or the Turkish-Greek land border in Thracia. Substantial elements of this idea apparently are part of a plan that the EU Commission says it has negotiated with Turkey, but there is no official confirmation from Ankara about the existence of such an agreement. Before Turkish President Recap Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels this Monday, ESI continued to advocate for a “package deal”: readmission of a number of refugees to be determined in return for the immediate application of the readmission agreement between the EU and Turkey.”
7 October: Angela Merkel on German TV (Anne Will) where she explains her plan:“We must better protect our external borders, but this is only possible if we reach agreements with our neighbours, for example with Turkey, on how to better share the task of dealing with the refugees. And this will mean more money for Turkey, which has many expenses because of the refugees. This will mean that we will accept a set number of refugees, in a way so that the human traffickers and smugglers in the Aegean will not earn money, but in an orderly way …
random think tank
You try to dig deeper and provide interesting information about behind the scenes political sausage making and yuros plug the sausage in their ears xD
Also seems I caught up with everything ITT